The Book of Toby and Annie Fails

When I was in San Francisco printing my book, Annie made me a really shitty mock up book binding to show me the ways. I took the shitty book and drew some shitty pictures in it overusing sharpie metallic markers (they feel amazing) of our misadventures printing books in San Francisco. This is my favorite page.

Art Shows

While I'm slaving away planting trees, my art is going to be hanging out in a couple of art shows in Vancouver! 

Art Waste is part of this Music Waste festival. The Book of Tree Planting Suicides will be up there. Should be a cool show. June 6th at Gallery Gachet.

The grant I got to make my book got me into this show. It's May 29th-June 9th at The Culch. I'll have a couple of paintings up.

Spring Time in Vancouver

The Book of Tree Planting Suicides is finally finished! 3 weeks of binding! Turns out there are 36 copies for now and then there will be 14 more in the Fall. I have 25 potential copies claimed so get it while it's hot off my 4 brick press.

The Book of Tree Planting Suicides (the trailer)

After much anticipation and waiting, finally The Book of Tree Planting Suicides is close to publication! This has been my little baby project for almost two years. It got a real kick start when along with a grant, I got a fancy little deadline from the DTES Small Arts Grant in Vancouver. Thank you. It is inspired by The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley. They were hand printed in San Francisco by me and The Most Magical Annie. One million thank yous to her.

The book is comprised of 16 hand drawn screen printed drawings depicting a variety of creative ways to end the suffering when feeling particularly hard-done-by on the block tree planting. I will have 35 copies available for sale before the tree planting season this year (just in case you need inspiration out there, please view with caution), and another 15 copies for the zine fair in Montreal this November. If you are interested in purchasing a copy (very limited supply as you can see) let me know and I'll put you on a list. Books are $25 each. Let me tell you, they are A LOT of work. Holy. Book making is hard.

The Book. (6.25 x 5'')

Baby books in the making. So many to go. 

Along with the cover (how will that girl do it?), here is a teaser of what is inside. We've all thought of this one. But I'm pretty sure there's some in there you haven't thought of. I was totally bush crazy when I came up with them so...

PS: This is what I've been up to and in great part why my blog is pretty inactive this days.

Vessels

Some more drawings from The HAG show. On a bit of a self portrait stint at the moment.

A Fork in the Road

I'm going to do a slow bleed post of the drawings I've been working on the last little while for The HAG show that we put on last night. Here's the first. The format of this blog doesn't do it justice but I included some close ups. It's 30 inches long.

The HAG presents...

On March 9th a bunch of us are turning 869 East Pender in Vancouver into a temporary art gallery. The idea is to showcase art by artists that usually don't exhibit either a particular medium or at all. This is my poster for the event: 

Here is a blog that we made in hopes The HAG will be an ongoing thig. 

Golden Wedding was screened at the King Street Alternative Film Festival last Friday and apparently it was a hit. The festival was reviewed in Toronto's Broken Pencil Blog here and my film was mentioned with a still! Also, it was the ''Programmer's Pick''. Cool!

Golden Wedding from shouldercat on Vimeo.