Salia Nakashak sews up holes in a sealskin before stretching it over a wooden frame to dry, which takes about a day. Photograph by André François.
For the complete photo essay, check out “Portraits of Women in Nunavut” at TheWalrus.ca.
Wallpaper printing.
YOU GUYS. YOU GUYS. YOU GUYS. I NEED MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS IMAGE/THIS PROCESS. THIS IS BLOWING MY MIND.
Hand Printing Operation at the de Angeli Frua Plant, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt (MILAN, ITALY - JANUARY 01 1947)
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Lucy photographed by Bruce Osborn
Lucy is a photo story about a girl working in a clothing factory. Look at the world through Lucy’s eyes as she fantasizes about her future and dreams of becoming a star.
holy shit i want to be friends with lucy.
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aaaaaaaand this is what i was working on:
If the first image that comes to mind when you think of Quebec fashion in art history is that of a trapper or Maria Chapdelaine, you’re in store for a big surprise.
The Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec’s is all dolled up for its first exhibition of the year. “Fashion and Appearance in Quebec Art, 1880 to 1945” takes a look at what Quebecers’ fashion statements over the decades have said about who we are.
The exhibition also paired eight of Quebec’s most reknown designers with works of art. Based on those paintings, they created a one of a kind garment to display alongside the works that inspired them.
Quebec AM’s Julia Caron got to take a sneak peek.
i got this print from friend prices at the milwaukee zine fest (mine is printed on red instead of grey though) i am putting it above my work area as inspiration and admonishment.
SO GOOD. (i also love that there is a mixer, because cooking is work! and is not often enough recognized as such)
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okay, so when you take something off the internet and it’s not directly from an artist’s site, you still should credit it.
flowchart by jenna brager, for share or die.
you guys, jbee is so fancy, this piece was totally used in a NYT article.
CREDIT IS AWESOME! and so is j. bee, and so is this depressingly accurate flowchart.
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not gonna lie, this is my favourite… namely because it features one of my favourite people.
title: laisser-faire
artist: stéphane dionne
model: sarah
project: artistique avenue pour exmuro arts publics
so hey tumblr
i never do these personal/work related posts but today is a big special day and one of my last so hey why not. i’m going to post a link or two and a few photos of the big project we are officially inaugurating today. most of the content is in french but you can get the general idea! i’m not one of the artists, but i did the design, layout, and behind the scenes planning for this big awesome project so i’m pretty proud/excited.
off to the press conference!
i am in love with this project and hope to do something similar in québec city one day:
ARTUNG! TURNS 200 MONTREAL ADS INTO WORKS OF ART
Montreal, May 31st, 2011 – 100 ad pillars and billboards across Montreal, owned by Pattison, CBS Outdoor and Astral Media were replaced today with community artwork. Artwork was created by 200 Canadian and International artists and installed by fifty public space activists operating under the name Artung!.
“Today, we transformed Montreal’s outdoor ads into public works of art to send a message to advertising giants: to stop threatening residents of the Plateau with an unnecessary legal battle and immediately remove their visual pollution from the whole of Montreal’s cityscape,” said Vanessa Moraless, an Artung! campaigner.
Artung!’s action comes in response to threats made by Montreal’s advertising giants to take the democratically elected Plateau Mont-Royal council to court for a November 2010 decision to ban 45 billboards in the borough. Jeannot Lefebvre, the industry spokesperson, argues the ban goes against the advertising companies’ right to freedom of expression and they’ll legally pursue it until it is reversed.
According to Projet Montreal, each billboard only generates $1,000 in taxes for the city, an insignificant amount of revenue compared to profits made by these multi-national outdoor advertisers. Artung! supports the borough’s decision to take action against billboards and the 78% of residents of the Plateau who favoured the ban.
“Everyday we are forced to face advertising eyesores and the reminder that our streets have become more of a corporate canvass than a community space. A billboard-free environment will set a more human rhythm for Montreal’s urban landscape,” said Pascale Brunet, an Artung! campaigner.
Artung! encourages all Montreal boroughs to take the same steps to ban billboards and make Montreal the first Canadian city to be billboard-free. Maine, Vermont and Sao Paolo are just a few other cities and states have already banned billboards globally.
not so secret secret: i use photo booth at my office to check what my hair looks like.
also not so secret secret: i am totally sick of my long hair.
