Archive for the ‘New Things’ Category
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Holidays/ New Books/ NeWork
I’m back in Vancouver after a great month-long trip across Canada to visit family, friends, and my partner Curran. It all started off in Edmonton, where I spent a week with Curran and his family, before I flew out to Toronto for a couple of weeks to spend time with family and friends. In Toronto, I not only had the ...
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SB Publications Catalogue
I just realized I forgot to post this! We released the Winter 2011-2012 catalogue for SB Publications at the end of September. This season’s offerings include a text & photographic work from ReLit award winning poet Daniel Scott Tysdal, and a mixed media art book from Canadian culture jammer ýta. From within the art collective, we’re releasing a multimedia text ...
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Latest Project
This is Woodward. I bought him today. He is from Romania. He was handmade in Vasile Gliga’s workshop by some nice people who care about good quality violins. His friend, Juliette, is a french bow made from Brazil wood and horse hair. Together, they make beautiful music! Today, I taught myself how to play “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” and tomorrow ...
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IQ3!
I had the pleasure of designing the latest issue of the Incongruous Quarterly, straight out of Montreal. Read the science-themed poetry and prose here, and check out their blog for more content and updates.
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Congrats, Curran!
Congrats to my partner in crime and partner in life, Curran, for having his Honours BA in English Literature conferred upon him today!
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A Toronto New School of Writing Event you must attend
After my performance of Hugo Ball’s “Seepferdchen und Flugfische” at the Cameron House last year, it has been my dream to perform Kurt Schwitters’ “Ursonate” about half as well as Jaap Blonk. Thus, I am extremely excited for this event: Toronto New School is pleased to host for one night only in Toronto international sound performance artist Jaap Blonk, who ...
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Hired at MLCRC!
I’m so excited! After my interview with Dr. Irene Gammel, the Research Chair and Director of The Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, I was waiting with bated breath to hear back about whether or not they could use me at the MLCRC. Today, I was hired as a Graduate Research Assistant! I’ll be working with personal letters by DADA ...
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SB 18
WHOA! Issue 18 of Steel Bananas has hit the web hard with nostalgia, manifestos, anti-processes and a burrito odyssey unlike any other! It also features interviews with Executive Director of the Toronto Cyclists Union Yvonne Bambrick, neo-psychedelic visual artist Mars-1, Phil Klygo of Weewerk Records, Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station, character actor Doug Jones from Pan’s Labyrinth, and more! ...
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SB 17
Seventeen issues already? This one packs a punch with writings on Proust in the bathtub, post-millennium architecture, Canadian Music Week, Indie Dance in Toronto, Spiderman sleeping with his roommate, Axe Cop’s baby plans, Theatre Bassaris, and much more, including Leonard the breakdancing cat who is totally hopped up on illegal stimulants. Yes.
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hautechnic
I started a new fashion blog. Lord knows I don’t need another goddamn weblog, but I talk about fashion enough to warrant a place where I can keep my button ramblings. I also wanted to use a picture that I made of dog-headed women in design somewhere, so voila!
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New Hypertext Project
The idea of a hypertext/web art journal has been swimming around in my head since the inception of Steel Bananas, and I’ve been running it by interested parties here and there, but it hasn’t yet found its expression on the world wide web. Well, until now, that is. As a lover of internet art and hypertext poetry and prose, I’ve ...
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twenty-ten, year of the bunny
smudges and notes from the bunny, a tambourine, strangers, lsd, rolos, lomo, funk, sparkle odysseys (ies?), wet sidewalks, escape, desk chairs, gin, glam, and so many promises to rake the leaves in 2010. oh, and you, you, you.
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SB on CIUT Tonight!
Tune in to CIUT 89.5FM tonight for the DL on what STEEL BANANAS has drummed up and will be drumming up for the independent art community. Our own King Frankenstein will be representing the assemblage and chatting about events, artists, forthcoming series and ways to get invloved. WICKED!
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Whoa! Events!
Whoa! It’s been a while since I’ve sat down to pay attention to this fruity part of cyberspace. I’ve been exceedingly busy working on design for the Fall 2009 catalog for Tightrope Books, preparing GULCH for print, getting the Flying Walrus site designed, and starting the last year of my BA, during which I’m writing that thesis I like to ...
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A critique of Aarseth, Chats with Joel Plaskett & Lloyd Kaufman, Treats from a Taste of the Danforth and More!
... Aarseth set out, in his ballsy dissertation, to “describe any text according to their mode of traversal” (62), a very literal application of McLuhan’s musings on media, which explains his odd disconnect with the aspects of imagination that transcend media, that can live in story outside of the text, or game itself. This kind of jazz makes me a ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
AHH! After months of trying to get Fitzgerald, he’s finally home! He was a stray who was living outside of the old Tightrope Books office for almost three years after being abandoned by sketchy former neighbours, who just tossed him outside and split! Halli and David graciously took care of the cat – who spent most of his street days ...
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The Vagabond Trust!
After seeing Darrah Teitel and Kathleen Brown read at Scream, then meandering over to This Ain’t the Rosedale Library for their last reading, I resolved to join the Vagabond Trust – and alas, I have! I love sharing writing and talking to people about art. This should be a fun venture! I’ll make sure to post readings and updates for ...
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Thanks, Canada Council for the Arts! (Really!)
Steel Bananas has been awarded a grant through the Grants to Literary and Art Magazines program with the Canada Council for the Arts! I’m totally stoked and very happy to receive the support!
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Luminato: Toronto Festival of Arts & Creativity 2009
Luminato 2009 was fantastic! I was extremely pleased with the variety of provocative installations, shows and panels this year, as well as the to-notch organization of events and publicity. This year’s fare featured quite a bit of tech-based art and techno-social cultural critique – exploring the influence of the virtual world over the lives of post-millennium individuals, which I – ...
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GOIN’ STEADY 1950S/60S DANCE PARTY
Holy mother of Jesus Christ I am an absolute sweaty mess, my feet are in terrible pain, and I’m obscenely exhausted from the serious dance fever that struck the Gladstone Hotel. This was my first time ever seeing the Going Steady DJs, and they were a party and a half. I haven’t twisted or shouted that much in a while. ...
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Black Jack: Osamu Tezuka
Alright, I will never pretend to know anything about manga. The first manga I ever read cover-to-cover was a copy of Berserk (6, I believe) that wasn’t mine, which I picked up while totally zonked on Acid. It was actually a mind-blowing read, but then again, I was trapped in an apartment in North York in a half-bad trip, looking ...
