Sara here is painting a stump, the last step in the “Ruelle Verte” project happening behind my apartment on rue de Rouen. “La Ruelita” is the name of the project, I guess. “The little alley.” “Thanks to the Sainte-Marie Eco-Quartier!” (the neighbourhood recycling and ecological org. responsible for the project) A spiral – traditional symbol […]
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The Staue of Maisonneuve was coming down (or going back up! – I don’t know) at Place d’Armes in Montreal. I was zipping by on my bike, back from a meeting, when I saw these statues being wrapped up and ported around. Interesting! (I hope!) Anyhow, here they are for your delectation. More in the […]
More done on the back alley garden, behind my place (okay, it’s rue de Rouen between rues Shepherd and Chapleau). Art stuff, and decoration this time. I got roped in to help. My neighbour, pictured up above, got into trying to fasten his tableau to a brick wall. Me, I would have tried to drill […]
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The local Eco Quartier (a little neighbourhood org. that does recycling, gardening, and ecologically-oriented projects) visited the lane behind my apartment, which was generally a down at the heels place, full of burdock and junk. They instigated a project of planting a garden back there. It’s part of an initiative called ruelle verte. Notice these […]
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I’m only getting around to this now (I have a lot of blog posts — mainly stories and photos, backed up. Well, at least one more!) Above is yours truly, along with Sradj Mohamed, a true gentleman. He was the most recent owner of the Laundromat I’ve been going to for 20 years, down the […]
Wish I was there, actually. Maybe not at the moment, because it’s the rainy season. But my friends over there tell me I have a place to stay if I want to drop in. Can also pick up my sketchbook full of Bangkok drawings I left over there. But I was going through old disks, […]
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He’s supposed to be a cheery little guy with a twinkle in his eye. Meanwhile, Walter Matthau is being uncharacteristically menacing (and cryptic): And this is just an old sketch, made in the lobby of the Musée des Beaux Arts:
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It was a nice day, finally, last Sunday, so I went to rue Ste. Catherine East between Papineau and Berri to take in the FIMA, or Festival Montreal des Arts. Basically, the street is blocked off, and a lot of artists set up there in tents, to display and hawk their wares. I myself did […]
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Sounds kind of bluesy, and I am out of sorts. But I put the living-room “tree” outside to rinse off the dust in the rain. Sure, like I want it to get bigger, and overwhelm the apartment, like Washington at the end of Logan’s Run. Don’t worry, the cats don’t nibble on it. Thought I […]
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Shots from last night’s Monthly Montreal Comic Jam. This time at a new location: the L’Escalier bar (actually, former site of l’Utopik, where there had been a few jams before). R. Gagnon (in saffron here, like the walls) did a great job of setting it up. Thanks, Rick! I didn’t get everyone’s name, so I’m […]
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For Saint Jean’s this year, I went out to Mile End. It’s a more English neighbourhood in Montreal than where I live, but that’s where my friends were. In past years there was this big party on rue Saint Viateur, but that’s a thing of the past now. There was just a little pocket of […]
People go by, things go by… Ugly dog who is well-loved by someone. My fat guys weren’t fat enough.
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Even though it’s a Monday (lots happening on the weekend, so this post got pushed back), I’m very happy that R. Gagnon and I had a chance last Friday afternoon to meet at a bar again, for drinks and drawing. He did very serious, illustrator-y treatments of my drawings, as with the above. The drawing […]
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They had set up right on the street below my place, so after a little trepidation, and listening to the noise, I came down and joined in. You can see more photos if you click on one: Nice stance. Cardboard couture was in, but I don’t think it would last in the rain. Polar Bear […]
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