border town life
May 31, 2011
Here is a little illustration of how well we can hear the Detroit Movement electronic music festival from our front porch (for those not playing along, our front porch is in Canada). We’re fairly close to the river and the festival plaza, about 1.5km as the crow flies (if only there was a footbridge!). Being right across the river from Detroit, we tend to take it for granted and thus rarely visit, because it’s right there! and we can go any time! which always translates into some other time. We’ve never attended this festival but every Memorial Day weekend we love to sit out on our porch at night and soak up wave after wave of beats that the summer breeze carries over across the river.
On a related note, last night I noticed for the first time, thanks to the hideous bands of blue light newly installed around the tops of the buildings, that we can see the Renaissance Center* from our bedroom window. So, yes, I CAN see the United States from my house, which I will be sure to mention often during my campaign for Vice President of Canada.
*it seriously took me 5 tries to type the word “center” instead of “centre”. Because my fingers just kept doing what they do.
Posted by jodi on May 31, 2011 at 1.48pm
more things i love about windsor
May 13, 2011
A hookah place has opened up right next door to Hot Box pizza. It’s so perfect.
Posted by jodi on May 13, 2011 at 7.48am
why so quiet
April 29, 2011
A deadline coming up means the usual scramble to finish some new work. These newly woodblock-printed fabrics are currently hanging up in the studio, waiting to become skirts:
Which I will be bringing, along with books and other wonderful and amazing things, to the Made in Windsor spring show on Sunday, May 1. If you’re down this way, you should come! I’m hoping to make a little bit of scratch so I can buy more tattoos, but don’t tell my mom.
Bonus: it’s happening in the God Loves Students church. Aw yeah.
Posted by jodi on April 29, 2011 at 1.21pm
photo
January 23, 2011
Phog Lounge washroom stall door, January 22 2011.
Posted by jodi on January 23, 2011 at 9.27am
cold
January 16, 2011
Shot with the Maxim MF-1 camera, Lomography Redscale 50-200 film. December 2010, Windsor Ontario.
Posted by jodi on January 16, 2011 at 6.33pm
pelissier street at night with snowfall
January 14, 2011
Shot from the second level of the city owned carpark.
Those new decorative blue light standards all up and down Pelissier Street (not shown) are mighty ugly, but they do cast a charming blue glow on things.
Posted by jodi on January 14, 2011 at 8.24pm
happy thursday
November 25, 2010
Today I’m puttering around the house waiting on the arrival of two of our favourite Americans, who are coming to spend Americanthanksgiving with us. Of course, it’s an ordinary cold and rainy November day here, as we celebrate our Thanksgiving a month earlier (I suppose because the height of our harvest is a month earlier). Honestly I don’t really understand why my dear neighbours to the south* would want to cram two turkey-eating holidays so close together when the leftovers, which although I don’t eat turkey myself I’m given to believe are the best part of it all, could be spread out over so many more months. Let’s just add it to the long list of stuff I still don’t understand about all y’all’s culture even after having lived there for the better part of three years.
BUT! I just used “all y’all’s” in a sentence! Can I get a hell yeah?
Thanksgiving weekend, October 2010: all photos taken with the Double Shot camera, Fuji S-200 film.
The customary post-meal walk to the park: my cousin Jon and his son, Jon.
Some shots of the barn in my gramma’s backyard, which is full of holes and falling-down bits and is being lived in by wild kitties and will probably have to come down soon.
That’s okay though, everybody loves tearing down a barn. Somebody call Adrienne Clarkson!
*I feel obliged to point out that my dear neighbours to the south are actually to the north due to our living in the little finger Ontario extends beneath Michigan’s mitten to give it a little tickle on the wrist. I can stand in the middle of my street in Canada and look north and see the United States and that is just weird, y’all. But I’m waving! Have a nice holiday! And please stay off the highway between Chicago and Detroit so our friends can get here fast.
Posted by jodi on November 25, 2010 at 1.29pm
photo: ambassador bridge, fall 2010
November 22, 2010
This is why I keep shooting film even though I’m no good at it and can’t afford it: dumb luck gave me perfect alignment with two adjacent frames on the Double Shot camera. A small, unexpected delight for a hack with an expensive hobby. Fuji S-200.
Posted by jodi on November 22, 2010 at 12.16pm
peter and me
November 10, 2010
At a fancy wine drinking party put on by the casino for the high rollers. At which we were part of the ambiance (ie artists showing artwork), not part of the casino high rollers. We did get to eat and drink for free, though, which is usually the reason artists go to events, amirite?
Posted by jodi on November 10, 2010 at 12.03pm
wfcu atm installation
October 10, 2010
In the automated teller kiosk at the Windsor Family Credit Union main branch (Drouillard Rd. and Tecumseh Rd.), there’s a plexiglas covered display board in which someone installs collages of photocopied news articles and ephemera. We don’t use the bank machine much so I’m not sure how often the installation changes, but it’s different every time we visit.
Posted by jodi on October 10, 2010 at 10.17am
