tmi
May 19, 2012
Wyandotte Street window reflections and writing. Somebody apparently felt the need to tell the whole neighbourhood about their bad gas.
Taken with the Harinezumi digital.
Posted by jodi on May 19, 2012 at 9.45am
photos
May 4, 2012
Wyandotte Street storefront diamonds, Windsor, Ontario.
Posted by jodi on May 4, 2012 at 9.15am
we got the herbs
April 23, 2012
Masking tape typography.
Wyandotte Street, April 21 2012.
Posted by jodi on April 23, 2012 at 10.11am
broken city lab, two tales of a city
April 18, 2012
Here’s an installation shot of the Broken City Lab project Two Tales of a City at Hamilton Artists Inc., for which I sewed all of those many, many giant letters and metres upon metres of bunting a few months ago.
Photo courtesy of Broken City Lab
Click this link to read about the installation process and the accompanying public workshops Broken City Lab members conducted in Hamilton as part of the project.
Posted by jodi on April 18, 2012 at 3.16pm
in which we are twelve years old
March 8, 2012
This has sat outside a business in my neighbourhood, unfixed, for I don’t even know how long.
I did not do this. If I had, I would not have passed up the opportunity to make it say “69″. OBVIOUSLY.
Posted by jodi on March 8, 2012 at 6.51pm
daragh sankey in store trailer
March 1, 2012
Check out this trailer for a series of documentary shorts by Daragh Sankey about the artists and projects that made up Broken City Lab‘s Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation series in summer 2010. During this residency I gave my Sweater Factory project a trial run (and learned some important things: the sweaters I was making were such a pain to put together that they’re still not finished, a problem that needs a solution before I can take this project on the road).
In Store Trailer from Daragh Sankey on Vimeo.
Posted by jodi on March 1, 2012 at 8.35am
helvetica
February 28, 2012
Still plugging away at this big production commission for Broken City Lab. We’re in the thick of the tedious part, making letters and making letters and making letters and yet there are still more letters to make. Deadline is the end of this week.
Posted by jodi on February 28, 2012 at 7.06pm
ambassador bridge, winter 2011
February 25, 2012
Shot with the Holga and Lomography CN 100 film.
Posted by jodi on February 25, 2012 at 7.24pm
first shots with the voltron starshooter camera
February 19, 2012
I’ve finally gotten around to scanning a backlog of film negatives, with photos taken as far back as October 2010. I’m only halfway through scanning the images from the first roll of expired Fuji 110 film with the Voltron Starshooter, and so far it’s proving to be much more than just a silly novelty camera that transforms into a robot.
The Ambassador Bridge, which is the first thing I photograph with almost every new camera. Sorry about the spots; I cleaned up some but not all, and I think most of it is actually coming from inside the slide scanner I’m using (if anyone has tips on how to clean dust out of a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 without opening it up, I’m all ears) (it doesn’t belong to me).
Here are a few taken during our October 2010 visit with friends in Milwaukee:
Lake Michigan, photographed right behind the Milwaukee Art Museum, which, incidentally, was a shooting location for the Transformers movie. Which I’m guessing probably had Voltron in it, although I haven’t seen it.
Our friend Michael, the Coolest Guy in the World, behind the Frank Lloyd Wright house he took us to see. Only half the house was completed before the original owner ran out of money in 1956, and Michael is standing in the area that was supposed to be/will someday become the bedrooms wing. If his friend who owns the house can afford to finish building it, that is. It’s already a million dollar half a house (and pretty amazing as-is). Anyway that’s why the outside wall is all insulation and tin or whatever, because it’s an unfinished wall.
Discount Liquor, a favourite place to visit when we’re in Milwaukee:
BONUS: a couple of shots of the Voltron camera hanging out in front of the Milwaukee Art Museum (which have been published here before, but whatever), the first taken with the Maxim camera and Lomography Redscale 200 film, the second with the boring old point and shoot digital. I don’t know why I didn’t take a photo of the museum WITH the Voltron; it feels like the nerdy meta-ness only came 3/4 circle.
Posted by jodi on February 19, 2012 at 9.32pm
more sewing for the broken city lab commission
February 15, 2012
Giant letters that will make up a sign that fills the side of a building; they’ll be changing the text periodically so we’re doing a set of letters similar to the letter distribution in a Scrabble set. Plus accents, as the text will be both English and French.
I already made a large black fabric backdrop, fabric squares that the letters will be pinned to, plus the bunting flags. Only the letters are left; this is where it gets tedious!
The letters are black fabric backed with various scrap decorating sateen fabrics with a layer of double sided iron-on adhesive in the middle. It’s more work than it looks, as I first have to break the letters into pieces, cut them from the adhesive, iron them onto the black, cut them out, iron them onto the backing fabrics, cut them out again, then sew around the edges with the serger (knife disengaged!).
That’s a whole lot of cutting with both rotary cutter and scissors, so I’ve been taping up various parts of my fingers to try and prevent blisters. With only moderate success.
Posted by jodi on February 15, 2012 at 1.59pm
