Weather Spice II: Weather Spice Goes on Vacaciones

On our vacaciones in Mexico in Jan, we filmed the sequel to Weather Spice, Weather Spice goes on Vacaciones, in Mazunte with Jacqueline, Lydia, and Brad. If you want to be an informed viewer, you can watch the original Weather Spice here. 


Weather Spice Goes on Vacaciones from Toby Pikelin on Vimeo.
The long awaited sequel to Weather Spice picks back up with our hero in Mexico on vacation. Confident as always with her weather predictory abilities, she is faced with some unexpected challenges in an unfamiliar tropical environment.

BIG small

Finally, another short comedy by Jacqueline and I. You could say this is the prequel to 'Golden Wedding'.

BIG small from Toby Pikelin on Vimeo.

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.

Golden Wedding

Golden Wedding. My newest short film starring Jacqueline Boily. It was part of a short film festival last night in Vancouver. It's been a year and half in the making so I am very happy it is finally done! Most of it was filmed in about an hour and a half in May 2011 at the beginning of the tree planting season at a ranch we stayed at. You'll see what I mean: Golden Wedding from shouldercat on Vimeo.

This was the other video in the festival: Senyoretes. I'm going to post the updated version of it soon.

  https://vimeo.com/21220157

The Adventures of Mashed Potato

The onslaught of birthday presents continues with this last installment: a comic book for my friend Annah. Now I retire.

Open publication - Free publishing - More comic

Click here to read my first comic book. It's less cute and more funny.

See Annah as a real mashed potato here.