Friday, November 17, 2006
does anyone actually use this? can i be removed please.?
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
suburban show
hey bags,
the proposal for the suburban show is due in a week, so perhaps it's almost time to write something up?
looking at it again, it seems like the show is supposed to be about the suburbs and the city centre reversing roles somehow, as urban areas get gentrified and the poor folks have to move outward.
Is our plan to just make some suburban-type buildings out of felt?
or will the felt version reimagine the suburbs in some way other than miniaturizing and making soft?
Both seem like ok approaches. If we're just doing a soft suburb that looks pretty much like a reguar suburb, only maybe with weirder colours, then we probably should come up with some deep-sounding explanation of how making it soft and small is somehow a comment on gentrification.
any ideas?
On the practical side, I've made a bunch of Pittsburgh-looking houses, in the scale of about an inch to an inch and a half tall, per floor. And I made the house next door to my house. So conceivably, I could work on making an entire street of Minto (the developer that made the neighbourhood I grew up in, and many more like it) cookie cutter homes, as well as a streetful of Pittsburgh-style houses (tall rectangular boxes in pastel colours). Although we should aim not to get too freaky with scale, one way to negotiate the issue of us all working in different styles and scales might be if we each made a street. But on the other hand, the only way of reimagining the suburbs that I can think of would be if all the houses didn't look identical. So we could do something where the streets are laid out in crescents and cul-de-sacs and weird round shapes, like they typically are in the suburbs, but then not have all the houses on a street look identical. A bunch of different styles could coexist on a single street, as though people tore down their cookie-cutter houses and built something else on their plot, or if people embelished their houses with crazy additions. just an idea...
c-bag
the proposal for the suburban show is due in a week, so perhaps it's almost time to write something up?
looking at it again, it seems like the show is supposed to be about the suburbs and the city centre reversing roles somehow, as urban areas get gentrified and the poor folks have to move outward.
Is our plan to just make some suburban-type buildings out of felt?
or will the felt version reimagine the suburbs in some way other than miniaturizing and making soft?
Both seem like ok approaches. If we're just doing a soft suburb that looks pretty much like a reguar suburb, only maybe with weirder colours, then we probably should come up with some deep-sounding explanation of how making it soft and small is somehow a comment on gentrification.
any ideas?
On the practical side, I've made a bunch of Pittsburgh-looking houses, in the scale of about an inch to an inch and a half tall, per floor. And I made the house next door to my house. So conceivably, I could work on making an entire street of Minto (the developer that made the neighbourhood I grew up in, and many more like it) cookie cutter homes, as well as a streetful of Pittsburgh-style houses (tall rectangular boxes in pastel colours). Although we should aim not to get too freaky with scale, one way to negotiate the issue of us all working in different styles and scales might be if we each made a street. But on the other hand, the only way of reimagining the suburbs that I can think of would be if all the houses didn't look identical. So we could do something where the streets are laid out in crescents and cul-de-sacs and weird round shapes, like they typically are in the suburbs, but then not have all the houses on a street look identical. A bunch of different styles could coexist on a single street, as though people tore down their cookie-cutter houses and built something else on their plot, or if people embelished their houses with crazy additions. just an idea...
c-bag
Friday, November 11, 2005
another soft city
our friend cindy sent this link to Y-bag and I. a jello replica of san francisco. it's awesome. and it uses a bunch of the ideas that we'd been thinking of, like mini christmas lights, lighting effects, smoke...
http://www.lizhickok.com/assets/portfolio/pages/01city.html
http://www.lizhickok.com/assets/portfolio/pages/01city.html
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
diplomatic immunities @ canzine
I posted some canzine pics on flickr. same url as before...
www.flickr.com/photos/deadpan
there are more, but it won't let me upload them, dammit.
www.flickr.com/photos/deadpan
there are more, but it won't let me upload them, dammit.
Saturday, October 15, 2005
delayed reaction
i finally posted my alley jaunt pictures on flickr...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadpan/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadpan/
Monday, August 22, 2005
telegram from PA
hey baggies,
maybe this is just a dumb excuse for a visit to toronto, but what would you think about doing an "art hotel room" at the gladstone for canzine? it could be pretty much the same as what we did on the garage floor, except we could use the hotel bed, dresser, chair, etc as city surfaces instead of the floor. soft city + levels. or we could even go off in some other direction. that's just the most basic idea.
i'm going to e-mail canzine to ask about it. they're apparently looking for ideas.
all those pictures are great! i'll upload mine sometime soon.
maybe this is just a dumb excuse for a visit to toronto, but what would you think about doing an "art hotel room" at the gladstone for canzine? it could be pretty much the same as what we did on the garage floor, except we could use the hotel bed, dresser, chair, etc as city surfaces instead of the floor. soft city + levels. or we could even go off in some other direction. that's just the most basic idea.
i'm going to e-mail canzine to ask about it. they're apparently looking for ideas.
all those pictures are great! i'll upload mine sometime soon.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
emergency baggin'
for those of you who weren't there on tuesday, and for those who were, just to confirm, we're meeting at the Bloor Street sauna (aka my apartment) again tomorrow (Friday) night to work some more on the city grid and whatever else needs to get done. Let's say around 8ish. It's going to be a boozerific Friday night sort of affair (assuming y'all bring beverages), and I promise not to start any fights with Jason, so hopefully it will be fun AND we'll get lots done.
in other matters, Y and I were talking yesterday about how we like the name UPBAG better than BAG and both better that what they stand for, so we were thinking it might be an idea to phase out the long version of the name and just be known from now on as UPBAG. What it once stood for could become a curious historical fact that our biographers have to dig up from blog archives. how does that sound?
in other matters, Y and I were talking yesterday about how we like the name UPBAG better than BAG and both better that what they stand for, so we were thinking it might be an idea to phase out the long version of the name and just be known from now on as UPBAG. What it once stood for could become a curious historical fact that our biographers have to dig up from blog archives. how does that sound?
