Howling at the Moon - Revamped

I'm going to be in the East End Culture Crawl again this weekend at the China Cloud. I was assigned making a poster advertising us so I tried to make my life easy for once by using an old drawing. But naturally I made things way harder by redrawing the whole thing. Took me all day. I'm really glad I did it though cuz it looks way better than the original.

 The poster.
(Culture Crawl locations are indicated by a yellow balloon, hence the balloon)

The original (revised)

The original original post.

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

In Media Res: Short Film Festival!

I'm going to be in my first film festival tomorrow night! 

It's a short film festival for artists living or working in the Mount Pleasant area in Vancouver. 

Two of my videos will be screened:

Golden Wedding - My newest video that I just finished last week starring me and the wonderful Jacqueline Boily. I haven't ''officially'' released it on the internet so if you're in Vancouver you should come see it! (Otherwise I'm going to post it here Sat. )
Senyoretes - A short documentary shot on a regionally special day of Carnival where I ask cross dressing Catalan boys what their favorite part is about dressing like a woman.

Carbon Colosseum

The best abandoned house explorer/scavenger I know, took me to the burned down motel in Williams Lake this past June. It was unreal. Sort of like a time capsule, like the people covered in pyroclastic flows from Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii. But instead of casts of melted people there were perfectly preserved burned stereo systems and a fridge with identifiable food still inside. Part of it looked like the Colosseum. The motel had burned down sometime last February I believe. It was subsidized housing. Apparently the only one who died was a cat. I scavenged a helmet for biking. It had weird moldy ash covering the foam inside in a thin film. Amongst all the finds there were computer speakers, a jean jacket and a crazy Navaho print leather jacket. The back of the truck smelled like burned motel.

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Within a few minutes of entering we heard voices and things crashing about, the source: this very drunk man. He was one of the former inhabitants of the motel. I'd probably be drunk too if my life could be represented by a burned skeleton (ok probably not). He stumbled around the motel falling on shattered glass and giving us a free historical tour. He took us to his uncle's room, where apparently the fire had started.

 

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This is the shoulder cat that started it all.
This kid was walking around the St. Laurent street festival in Montreal at the end of August a million years ago (actually maybe 9 years ago), and impressed the hell out of me. His cat was just hanging out on his shoulder and he would feed it from there. Look how bad ass that cat looks! I've wanted one ever since.
Shoulder cat.

Yay! More gifs!

Planting Group Shots

 

In the year 1988...Toyota.

 Annah and Jenny in William's Lake. Gorgeous.

 

BFFs F  

Band photo.

Before. The after never was never captured but it happened.

 Evarino and Roxanne looking out the Fraser River.

 

 Matching sister birthmarks.

 

Taiga Ad.

Byron's last day double exposed with The Rock Block.

Planting Portraits

I'm at a weird point in my planting-photography career where I can't tell what a good/cool tree planting photo is anymore. I've seen it all, taken them all, but at the same time, don't they all kind of look cool?, but also who cares?, they're not that special. As a consequence, I had a really hard time choosing what to post, so I just posted a bunch. Tree planting 2012, year 10. Here it is. 

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Annah Tierney Mackay 

aka Rookieannah (in a Russian accent)

Here comes the excavator.

 Annah's first bad day.

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Jenny

Bad ass Jenny in the shittiest land I've ever had. This was our piece.

 

Dandylion babies.

Let's never start planting again.

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Others

 

Byron never looks like a tree planter.

 

Happy retirement. Yeah right.

Williams Lake. Gorgeous.

Self portrait at the Chinese restaurant payphone in Willies.

 

Evarino in Molly and Criole's flower field.

Stevarino and his Delica. Just picture him in a business suit and this is exactly what he will look like in 5 years but with a parliament building in the background.

The Wall

It came up and then it came down.

Garrett and his crew of fine looking fellows built us a lovely jam space/screen printing studio. A wall was built in front of the garage door with a window in order to insulate the space properly. All this would probably have been fine if our neighbor wasn't rebuilding his house and having tea with inspectors all the time. Turns out it's illegal to block a garage door without wasting all your hard earned money on permits. 

So down came the wall.

This is my first gif!
 Now they can put and up and take down the wall forever again and again.

Elliott and The Bear