RST is scout­ing for females of Asian descent, to com­pete in the 2010 ATV Miss Asia Pageant Finals

** all expenses paid (air­fare & accommodations)

Require­ments:

• Ages 16–25
• No Mar­i­tal Status
• No Kids
• No Crim­i­nal Record
• Abil­ity to Travel

females inter­ested must come into RST Stu­dios for an assess­ment. for more detailed infor­ma­tion con­tact Tony at (416) 292‑3292 ext. 102

One thing was for sure, it was bloody cold last night.. and of all nights in recent days, I didn’t equip the long-johns and decided to wear a k-way pullover instead of my goose.

Freez­ing cold.  Ugh

I orig­i­nally had plans to attend quite a few dif­fer­ent exhibits around the city, but when you real­ize how far apart each one is and have to decide on a few to visit at most.  So given that, my good friend Joe was already plan­ning to head down there to check out his friend’s live project.. so I asked him if it was cool if I just tagged along.

We got down to the spot (Bloor and Lands­downe) and there was a few things going on that were inter­est­ing.. and me, a big fan of graf­fiti art was instantly drawn to some live graf­fiti work going on across the street

After watch­ing them do their thing out­side for a bit, we headed inside to see what was going on in there.  From when you see a 19+ sign on the door that warns you that some of the stuff you’re about to see may be offen­sive, you know you’re in for some dif­fer­ent art

Just imag­ine some of your child­hood toys, stripped of all their inno­cence and com­pletely revamped to cre­ate the most offen­sive dis­play of art.

Just the begin­ning

And a very inter­est­ing col­lage of toys on the wall in the corner

And that con­cluded Funk­tion Gallery — aka one sadis­tic toys r us.  Across the street there was some more graf­fiti going on, with 3 artists all work­ing on one piece

Wish I could have stayed or returned later in the night to see the final piece, cause it was look­ing real good.  And not too far from there, Joe’s buddy Joel Richard­son and a few of his peo­ple were set­ting up their spot, and I was curi­ous to see exactly how it was going to pan out

Basi­cally he was tak­ing people’s pho­tos as they passed through, and then would print them out and place them on this wall.  After plac­ing your face on the wall, he would draw his sig­na­ture halo around your head and con­tinue his mon­tage.  By the time we left him the first time he had maybe no more than 10 peo­ple up, so I again am curi­ous to see how this piece turns out.

We did go and check out The Dis­tillery, and there was a good bunch of things going on over there.  So after a $30 park­ing ticket and a few ‘dif­fer­ent’ per­for­mances, we decided it was time to just head home.

From sun­set at 6:55 pm on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 3, to sun­rise on Sun­day, Octo­ber 4, 2009, Toronto’s play­ful overnight cel­e­bra­tion of con­tem­po­rary art once again takes over the streets for ONE NIGHT ONLY.

http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/

Almost ashamed to admit that I have never even heard of this event before, but am sure glad that some­body invited me to see their work for this year’s gig.  I even like how they have the option to down­load the ‘Night Nav­i­ga­tor App’ for either your iPhone or Black­berry.  Link below:

http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/navigatorApp.shtml

Last night I went over to show my sup­port and see some work from artists around the city that have donated their tal­ents towards a silent auc­tion.  It was a 19+ event, which I’m guess­ing was the case because they had juice (liquor) tick­ets, and a PWYC (Pay What You Can) jar as you walk in  to the place.. which I felt com­pelled to drop a $5, thanks to one of the witty secu­rity peo­ples out­side who asked “What?  You don’t even have a toonie?”

The event took place in a home of some sort, and they artis­ti­cally dis­played works of art from var­i­ous artists all through­out the house on all 3 floors.  The house was packed, with all dif­fer­ent types of peo­ple who came out to either show love to those that cre­ated the art or the actual art itself.. but it was great to see such a great turnout for such great tal­ent.  I started on Floor 2, where they had a very open con­cept and a lot of the art itself was plas­tered all over the walls

Ran into a few famil­iar faces that I haven’t seen for quite some time, all there for the same rea­sons.  Didn’t spend too too long on the sec­ond floor before head­ing down­stairs to check out the real rea­son why I actu­ally made the effort to come last night

The first floor (main floor when you walk in) had more indi­vid­ual pieces strate­gi­cally placed about on the walls, all dif­fer­ent types of medi­ums and sub­ject mat­ter.  The box­ing paint­ing was one of my favorite pieces that I came across, and the type of piece I would hang up in my hallway.

A lot of acrylic paint­ings (which was actu­ally my favorite medium when I was doing art in high school) which quickly caught my atten­tion, so I had to make sure I got a few snaps of those.  The top right photo was my most favorite piece in the whole place, just because I love that style of art with its bold col­ors and close crop­ping.  I can’t recall the artist’s name, but I think it started with D.. mad sick tho.

And then the real rea­son for me com­ing in the first was to see Louise’s work all done up for the show.  I ran­domly met Louise Hard­ing ear­lier in the year and was instantly drawn to her work, just the way she mixes and blends all these dif­fer­ent ele­ments into each piece.  As you could clearly see, she was all shy and stuff (as most artists seem to be), but atleast I was able to catch her beside her cre­ation.  Def­i­nitely expect to hear more about her in the near future, very very talented.

Inspir­ing is the best way to describe the event.  Makes you want to just cre­ate some­thing worth shar­ing with other artists and art enthusiasts.

If you haven’t had a chance to check it out last night, but I do believe it’s going on all week­end, so make sure to get out there and show some love

Show your city and these artists some love, expe­ri­ence tal­ent this week­end

themanifesto.ca for more info*