tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88892415340268663242024-03-28T23:30:02.392-04:00The Wardens TodayFor glorious is the fruit of good labour: and the root of wisdom shall never fall away
Wisdom of Solomon 3:15
MISSION
To celebrate the beautiful, interesting, and dynamic people, places, ideas and objects we encounter in our daily lives.
VALUES
Good craftsmanship
Respect for wisdom
Fearless innovation
Reverence for beauty
Balanced living
Achieving potential
The Wardens are Naomi Yasui and Heather Goodchild. They both live and work in Toronto, CanadaNaomi Yasuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880171978774952098noreply@blogger.comBlogger673125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8889241534026866324.post-73323700810503785622016-06-27T09:00:00.000-04:002016-06-27T09:00:38.641-04:00CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN FLOWERS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had stopped buying from antique stores and junk markets; that is, until this beauty stopped me in my tracks. Rarely have I seen such a fine example of sculpted porcelain flowers, and I've poked around the ceramic museums of Stoke on Trent, Meissen and Sevres. And so, with the help of a kind and careful driver I rescued this oversized decantor (?) from it's precarious perch amid lesser objects <a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Inglewood+Antique+Market/@43.8154916,-79.9462531,14.01z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xf945a17cf1e8bfe9!8m2!3d43.8147892!4d-79.9333447" target="_blank">somewhere on Highway 10.</a></div>
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Although the mark looks a bit like the Meissen crossed swords it is actually a Crown Derby mark from the mid 1800's. One of England's oldest porcelain manufacturers (around 1750) Crown Derby has gone through many ups and downs. Most recently, after being amalgamated with Royal Doulton in the 1960's, the firm decided to revert to their own name in 2000, continuing production in England and employing over 300 people.</div>
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Major upheaval at the company was happening when this piece was made. After a quick succession of different owners, the Crown Derby factory was closed in 1844. An enterprising group of former employees got together, pooled their resources and bought the molds, patterns and some equipment, setting up their own small factory on King street in the town of Derby. This inspired group carried on the tradition of high quality porcelain dinnerware, figurines and objects until one of the members, Sampson Hancock, took the helm and steered Crown Derby towards Queen Victoria's "Royal" mark of approval, giving the brand todays name of Royal Crown Derby.</div>
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Here is a more colourful example found in the V&A collection:<br />
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http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O334837/bottle-and-stopper-derby-porcelain-factory/The Wardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131180421525252692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8889241534026866324.post-83448984627149118162016-05-16T09:00:00.000-04:002016-05-16T23:13:30.263-04:00GETTY SUCCULENTS <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was an unseasonably warm Los Angeles day in early March, at least compared to the chill rainy week since I had arrived. Phèdre and I cruised aimlessly in the tour van, our day off full of possibilities as long as they were free and outdoors. We settled on the Getty Center after deliberating on a $15 parking fee that would cut into our budget for beer and tacos later that night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phèdre - my longtime pals Lee Paradise and Apey Oh - had visited the eccentric hilltop museum before. From the parking lot, we boarded a <span style="color: #252525;">three-car, cable-pulled </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovertrain&source=gmail&ust=1463538636050000&usg=AFQjCNFeZz8bQ5gniwDyoJbTcPBYVMdR7w" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovertrain" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Hovertrain">hovertrain</a><span style="color: #252525;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular&source=gmail&ust=1463538636050000&usg=AFQjCNHMxeu7lrMUZTYzu7yYNXqz-JwvCA" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Funicular">funicu<wbr></wbr>lar</a> that transported us up to the campus designed by architect George Meier. We were dropped off at a plaza and strolled through a photography exhibit together before wandering off on our own exploratory meditations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emerging into a sprawling courtyard, I headed towards a twisting garden path and found myself drawn through the large central garden designed by Robert Irwin, filled with an incredible assortment of succulents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I could spot a separate garden of cactus jutting out from the side of one of the buildings, and it took some investigating to find the way. They were contained within an incredible coned pedestal with a south facing view. I had no idea that most cactus are classified as succulents, simply defined as having <span style="color: #252525;">thickened, fleshy parts adapted to store water. As the plants and I soaked in the same California sun, I gazed towards the hazy horizon and ruminated on this strange temple of human achievement in visual splendour. </span></span></div>
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Many years ago, while exploring American highways, I stumbled on a Shaker heritage site that sparked my interest in the organization. Shakers, also known as the<i> </i>United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, are an offshoot sect of the Quakers, and are famous for their gender equality, communal and celibate lifestyle, and spare yet beautiful architecture and furniture design. While touring the grounds, I was taken with the immaculate interiors, demonstrations of baking and handicrafts by museum interpreters, and the "living farm" atmosphere created by gardens and livestock. </div>
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Last fall, when I took a trip to Pennsylvania, I detoured to visit another Shaker site: the Watervliet Shaker Community Historic Site near Albany. I was hoping to once again step back into the gracefully austere lifestyle of the Shakers, but instead, my visit left me depressed at the state of the place.</div>
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Watervliet is America's first Shaker settlement, established in 1776, with the movement's most famous founder, Mother Ann Lee, resting in their graveyard. The site is unfortunately derelict and has only one building open to the public. Although I appreciated the industry of the Christmas craft fair being held in this building, the goods on offer were out of step with this Shaker maxim:</div>
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Watervliet has an illustrious history as the source of inventions such as flat brooms and vacuum-sealed cans. They also originated the packaged seed industry. At its peak in 1850, the community supported 230 of the 6,000 Shakers across the US, living almost entirely self sufficiently and producing goods for sale across the country.</div>
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I appreciate that funding issues can prevent restoration and that just the fact that the site still stands is impressive, considering the adjacent airport and the encroachment of Albany. I was also there in the off-season and it seems that the <a href="http://shakerheritage.org/" target="_blank">The Shaker Heritage Society</a> is making a valiant effort with educational outreach, virtual tours on their website and summer agricultural demonstrations. However, it will take a strong leader to sweep away the caution tape and reverse the effects of time's decay on this once-prosperous community. Perhaps Mother Ann has rested long enough.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fall is a magical time for the Toronto maze
enthusiast, as every year a bountiful crop of corn mazes arises around the GTA.
I try to do at least one annually, and this year we decided to visit the <a href="http://www.hanescornmaze.com/" target="_blank">Hanes Corn Maze</a> in Dundas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Hanes family has been creating corn
mazes for at least 15 years. Their maze, among the largest in Ontario, covers
20 acres and has a <a href="http://www.hanescornmaze.com/pictures.htm" target="_blank">different theme each year</a>. This year’s theme was bees. We
paid our admission and were handed a map of the maze, showing how the paths had been designed to represent a sun, honeycomb, bees, flowers and a butterfly. Off
we set and before long we were chasing one another down the long, branching
corridors of corn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As with most corn mazes, the goal of the
Hanes Corn Maze is not just to find your way through from entrance to exit —
this task was almost trivial due to the layout — but to locate checkpoints throughout
the maze. These checkpoints have codes to help you solve a puzzle on your map, as
well as symbols to check off and factoids about bees and honey. Ten of the
seventeen checkpoints were marked on the map, and seven were hidden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This was all very cute and fun but what you
realize once you enter the Hanes corn maze, and indeed any corn maze, is that
it is fundamentally terrifying to be in a mature cornfield. Part of it is that
it feels like you might really get lost and not be able to find your way out.
It happens — only last year a little girl wandered into the cornfield on her
family farm, and wasn’t found until the next day. (<a href="http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/2-year-old-girl-found-after-being-lost-in-cornfield-overnight-1.1957678" target="_blank">She was fine</a>, but what a
night she must have spent.) At Hanes, you can use a few landmarks to help you
orient yourself, including the wooden bridge that lets you see the maze from a
higher vantage point, where it just looks like an enormous, gently waving sea
of gold. But often you feel hopelessly turned around and confused, unsure if
you’ve seen this fork or that curve before. It's the sameness and endlessness of the rows and rows of looming stalks. This is spooky enough during the day;
I can only imagine how this feeling must be magnified if you try the maze at
night. (“Bring your own flashlight,” says the website. I think I'd need a hip flask and a large, unflappable friend, as well.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quality of a dream in which you run and run but never get anywhere, or in which
you keep coming back to the same place no matter where you turn. (We
intentionally enhanced this feeling of randomness and futility by letting the five-year-old
make the decisions instead of trying to read the map.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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once you’re inside, the maze is so large that you rarely encounter anyone, and
mostly all you hear is the cornstalks rustling as the wind blows through them,
which really does sound like whispering. You can get where Stephen King was
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<span lang="EN-US">While we were decoding the riddle, we talked with the young man helping to run the maze. Turns out he’s Hanes the younger and he filled us in on how the maze was made. Although we had read that these days, many people use GPS to plan and execute their designs — even hiring <a href="http://thecornmazeguy.com/about-us/tips/" target="_blank">companies</a> to do this for them — Hanes farm does things the old-fashioned way. Dad plants the corn, sowing in both directions so that when the corn is grown it will form opaque walls between the pathways. Next, Mom draws a design on graph paper so that each division on the paper corresponds to a row of corn. Once the corn starts to grow, they go out into the field with little flags and mark out the maze. The final step is to take a lawnmower to the growing corn to make the paths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I learned about gun blue while working in the wardrobe department. We used it to tone down the shine of metal buttons and buckles so that they would not glint and gleam on camera. Metals containing iron will turn blue-black when they comes in contact with the gun blue as magnetite (Fe<sub style="line-height: 1;">3</sub>O<sub style="line-height: 1;">4</sub>), the black oxide of iron, forms, also creating protection against corrosion and rust. This is a wonderful trick to use if you're trying to age or dull down hardware. Be sure to wear gloves and eye protection as this is a toxic product.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I used gun blue recently to tone down the shine of the above links for an installation at Fort York in Toronto. In retrospect, my labours were probably not necessary as the links were high in the air and not very visible. However, I always enjoy seeing the instant transformation from bright-shine to ancient-artifact.</span><br />
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<span class="s1"><a href="http://www.tonyho.ca/">Tony Ho</a> is not one man, but three: Miguel Rivas, Roger Bainbridge and Adam Niebergall. I met them all during the workshopping phase of my Feint of Hart series, as their nuanced acting and bizarre styles emerged in different ways that truly made them stand out in the Toronto comedy scene. They have been working together as a sketch group for five years. Henri Fabergé met to chat with them about their upcoming comedy album The People Stuff (available for preorder now on iTunes) in Dufferin Grove Park, sandwiched in between a Swiss LARPing picnic and a Walmart.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HENRI FABERGÉ - What’s your collective vibe?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MIGUEL RIVAS - I think we mine our material from sadness and anxiety, and the comedy that’s in that. Gallows humour. The old saying, you know, the easiest place to make a joke is at a funeral. In a simple way, our work can be described as making the most tense, sad moments, and then you can cut in really deep with humour.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">ROGER BAINBRIDGE - As a counterpoint. We started doing things the way we did as a reaction, even if it wasn’t conscious. We just saw a lot of stuff that didn’t have a focus on acting, everything was very fast and very tim and ericy, which is great, but there were enough people doing that, and we wanted to try things a little different, a little slower, maybe a bit more theatrical. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - There’s just a different dynamic or chemistry when you bring in someone else. Not that it gets stagnant or anything, but we’ve already been a troupe for five years. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - Shit. We’ve already been a collective…group…</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - Part of it is commitment to the think tank. The people we bring in, we want to work with them and they want to work with us, but it’s not their thing specifically, and they don’t have to be beholden to growing the brand, or changing it, or what’s next for this thing, whereas with the three of us, that is our focus.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - I know for myself, a big thing I wanted when we started, if you saw the name Tony Ho anywhere, I wanted people to think more about a style of comedy rather than three dudes. How many dude sketch groups are there already? You know the tone of comedy you’re going to get, rather than just: this person, this person and this person. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - That’s why we called it Tone-y Ho. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"> HF - I have seen shows where one of you is missing. Which surprised me at first, because you wouldn't see a band that just swaps out the bass player. How did this initial configuration come about, that you three were going to work together?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - Happenstance.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - A long time ago, before Tony Ho started, I had overbooked myself to show up on a lot of shows. And I didn’t really have anyone to perform with. I was in another sketch group Frenzy at the time, and it had dissolved at that point, everyone was doing their own thing. But I had booked a million shows and I asked these guys if they would come and do them with me, we didn’t really have a name or anything. We started performing regularly, and thought, “we should name this and be a thing now, because we’re doing it all the time.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - Initially we were just called Frenzy.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - That’s what I had booked the shows for.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - I had stopped doing comedy for a while. Miguel was always getting on me about getting back into comedy.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - We actually started doing improv shows. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - And Adam I knew from high school, he had just moved to Toronto. We were actually going to start a band. We were going to do music, but Miguel was like, let’s do comedy…</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I was like, “your band sucks.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - I honestly forgot about that.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - That’s for the best.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - We were doing a show called the Short Notice Show run by Kayla Lorette, Matt Folliot, Alana Johnston, Mae Martin, Alex Tindal…one day we were going out to do skits and thought, “we can't keep calling ourselves Frenzy.” That’s when we changed the name, and all of a sudden we were a group. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - And…why Tony Ho?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - (laughs) Real answer, or fun answer?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Tell me both, but don’t tell me which is which.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - Short form for Anthony Hopkins.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - And we started reading a lot of newspaper articles and saw that name show up when really bad things were happening. If you search Tony Ho, there are articles like “man thrown out window,” just horrible stuff.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Wait, why did you initially google Tony Ho?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - I think someone made the joke about it being the short form for Anthony Hopkins.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - I think it was (frequent collaborator) Tim Moore. It sounds like a Tim Moore joke.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - These guys also made a character in NHL ‘08 called Tony Ho before the troupe was named that.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Initially you had a weird caricature of Anthony Hopkins as your avatar, but you moved away from that aesthetic. At a certain point you disassociated yourselves from that reference, because it was irrelevant?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - It made sense at the time. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - Everyone was always like, “where does that name come from?” And when you told them, they would always get the most profound look of disappointment. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - But I like to think, imagine Anthony Hopkins as a sketch group, that’s sort of what we’re like. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - The name would be so much better if people would stop trying to ask for an answer about it. Because it’s just nice and confusing and stupid. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - We’d be lying, though, if we didn’t say that part of us wanted, every time you saw the name you thought “oh, it’s going to be an Asian dude doing standup.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - You’re billing it like it’s a type of comedy, but when you look at the name, it seems like you are specifically just going to see one guy up there.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - Another name we thought of was Two and a Half Whites.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Which is accurate. How did this evolve from filling space on comedy shows, to high-concept-high-production-value-exhausting-to-make short films, to a comedy album?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I always wanted to make movies. I love live comedy, it’s my life, but what I’ve always wanted to do is write movies, direct movies, be in movies. Even before Tony Ho, I was always dreaming of turning comedy into film somehow. I think that was something we agreed on early on. As soon as we had a little bevy of material, we wanted to turn it into films.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - Again, it was a reaction to what was happening at the time. Now, it seems like a really popular thing to have high production value, but back then it wasn’t really the case. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - And it didn’t really need to be. We weren’t saying “this is how it needs to be done!” People were focusing on the funny, they didn’t care so much about whether or not it’s the glossiest cameras. And I love that do-it-yourself aesthetic. But we thought, what would it be like if the Coen Brothers shot a sketch? We took that on as a personal challenge. Not as some great “fire a shot” kind of thing. As far as the album, we just lucked into it. Ben Miner at SiriusXM, awesome champion of all things Canadian comedy, he set up a thing with the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, whoever wins this thing gets to record an album with them. And we had been wanting to do an album. We had organized stuff that had fallen through, and they took on the nuts and bolts of organizing that. Every medium we look at, we try to embrace and play to that particular medium, whether it’s film, a live audience, and we like the challenges that each of those brings.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Just going back to your film work, how do you feel about your canon or work so far? Where are you taking it from here?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I think it’s really impressive, actually. (They all laugh) Let me finish, let me finish! The amount of material we’ve made at that level, with no money. If you go to our website, it’s over 75 minutes of material, it’s basically a feature length film in terms of running time. With high production value, made for no money. I think that’s a great accomplishment. Andrew Bush from Picnicface, a long time ago he gave a talk about comedy, he said “if you’re not putting at least half your effort into sustainable media, you’re wasting your time.” Comedy is great, be funny, but you have to leave proof and expand yourself. With live stuff, it just disappears. The Tony Ho movies are a record of us existing. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - It’s addictive. Once you’ve made one, you just want to go and make another one. Even if it’s kicks your ass making it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Which movie most nails the Tony Ho tone?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - ‘Time’ is really good. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - I really really like ‘Valentine.’</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - ‘Valentine’ is the best executed movie we made, but it’s intentionally the least funny. Not that it’s not funny, it’s just different, it’s a really sad movie. That’s probably the best execution we’ve done from start to finish.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - If I were to sit people down and say “these are the ones you need to watch”, I’d say ‘Time, ‘Valentine’ and ‘Japan.’ And they’re successful for different reasons. With ‘Valentine’ people are like, “I’m laughing at this, and holy shit maybe I’m tearing up a little bit here.” I’ve had people watch it tell me, “I’ve gone through this exact situation and it devastated me.” Not to pat myself on the back. No, they’ve said “I felt alone in this, I thought I was alone in this, and now we’re not alone in this.” And ‘Japan’ is good because we were trying to make a fast-paced, joke-a-minute thing, because we felt like people were saying “yeah yeah, they’re artsy, but can they make jokes?”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - With ‘Time’, I sat down and wrote it in one go. And Miguel knew exactly how to shoot it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - It’s all about location (laughs).</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - Near Miguel’s house. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - Looking out the window, “yeah, right there looks good.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - That was a great sketch too, I saw it live. You produce so much content, I saw quite a few shows in a row without seeing much repeated, you were trying a lot of material. Actually, in the coffee shop while we were waiting, the barista told Miguel “I loved that sketch about baseball, like eight years ago,” and Miguel was like “how could I possibly remember that?” But she remembered it, which was interesting. How do you parse through your live sketches and decide, “yes, this one needs to live on as sustainable media”?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - I think you can tell pretty quickly. We’ll do something live once, and when we come off stage and check in with each other, you can just sense it. Some things, you can tell “this is meant to be theatrical, but it doesn’t lend itself to film. We felt that with ‘Time.’</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - Yeah, some ideas just lend themselves to the medium of film.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - Usually those were the ones with a good story. Not just joke joke joke.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - And after we made a movie were like “let’s pick a sketch and start making a new movie now” (laughs). We would just pick the most ready one. Most of the sketches we chose were doing well for us already. We actually have never really written to film.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - Well, I think we did get to a point where were doing sketches live to vet them, to get them to a point where we could film them. I definitely started thinking about them in those terms. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"> MR - For a time I always thought of film as the end product. We’re writing them, to rehearse them, to make them into movies.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Have you had any sketches that you pored a lot of energy into, that you wanted to make into movies, that just didn’t pan out?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - ‘Library’ we’ve tried to make a few times, but it just didn’t happen. That’s just because it’s hard to get a library.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - Libraries in Toronto are nervous of any sort of commentary that could be politicized, I guess.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - It was back in the middle of that Ford brothers bullshit, like “fuck Margaret Atwood!” and all that jazz. So the libraries had their backs up.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - On the record, we don’t like the Ford brothers.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - But you love libraries.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - On the record as well, fuck Margaret Atwood. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - No, no. That was Adam’s view only.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - That was a weird Norwegian guy walking past. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Are you releasing anything else soon?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - We just finished our most recent short, which has been in the works for about a year. We had to rescue some of the audio.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - We also had to get some music scored, done by the amazing Dan Miller. It added a whole other level. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - It’s the ‘Dissection’ sketch. We are all standing around a table ready to dissect a body, and the professor played by Miguel is explaining that we all have to share a secret with the body out of respect. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Where did you film it?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - At U of T, in one of the lecture halls. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - If you want to get into one of those places, just say you’re a film student. We showed up and they were like, “film students, huh?”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - We’re continuing education students! (Laughs)</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Over five years, you’ve made the equivalent of a feature film on your own. Some artists would look at that process, taking a live sketch, evolving it, shooting it over almost a year, as an insane investment of time. But in this landscape of comedy, so many people so hungry for so few resources…you recently got money to work on a more conventional series, which seems like things are progressing. Can you talk about that?</span></div>
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<span class="s1"> MR - It’s a little bit under wraps, because it’s nothing specific yet.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - There’s a lot of people got deals like we got going, and most of them come to nothing. We’re optimistic, we’d love to make something happen, but…</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - Our film canon, I think, is a huge reason why we’ve been trusted with that kind of deal. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - Even if we do get a chance to do something else, which would be a million to one shot, that’s the stuff that speaks for itself. We got to control everything, warts and all, we made all those decisions. Anything that goes a level beyond that, there’s going to be interference, there’s going to be compromise. It’s not going to be unadulterated. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - But it is about growing it. That’s something we’ve tried to do with our films, we’ve tried to big it up each time. Bigger production value, learning…</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - (laughs) How do you move a camera?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - How do you move a camera around, efficiently, is a real thing. It’s about expanding into TV eventually, for sure. If nothing else, the films were a great way to learn.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - You think about so many actors who are sitting around for months at a time doing nothing, auditioning maybe, waiting for a role, waiting for a role, then when they book a gig and get on set, they haven’t acted in half of a year! They’re not ready to go.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - A lot of people say, “well I can’t make a short film, I haven’t gotten a grant yet!” It’s like, who the fuck says you should be getting money? Just do your thing! You’ll get paid when someone decides you should get paid. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - There is a kind of “no excuse” thing today with technology, where you can easily make something.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - Just hustle, go out of pocket, and if you stick around, and you’re making something worthwhile, you’ll get money. All these people applying for money before they even know what project they’re doing, that just makes me gag. It’s like, you don’t actually like doing this, then.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - You can definitely sense that you care about the work. Obviously you care about money, but you’re going to make your work regardless.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - We’ve always said this, people who want to do things are going to do them. People who want to talk about doing things, talk.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - We’re a gang. We don’t like people just talkin’ that talk. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - A lot of people do that. If you have a really good idea, don’t talk about it, because you’re letting the air out of the balloon. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - And people will steal your ideas.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I talk about everything all the time. This all just sounds idealistic to me. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I’m like a cup that’s spilling all the time. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - It’s surprising in the comedy scene to see some humility in a way. (They all laugh) Hear me out…an acquiescence of ego, if you will. Tony Ho, as I understood it, was you three, featuring other people. But it’s always exciting and refreshing to see a film like ‘Valentine’, which Roger isn’t even in. You’re getting credit for directing it, but some of these films, one of you is just not involved at all…</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - Everyone is involved in some way.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - One film I’m not involved in at all, because I was in Brazil, was Giordano. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - Did it take any discussion, to be like “I understand that Dan Beirne should be the guy.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - With ‘Valentine’, I thought at the time, Dan is more sympathetic as an actor than me. He can really bring a likability to it that I hadn’t figured out yet. Also, I just straight-up wanted to focus on the directing. I don’t want to be switching hats, I cared a lot about that one. I think it’s some of the best acting that these two have done, that I’ve seen Dan do, I got to work closely with Tim Moore to make it look the way I wanted. That’s the one that is most close to how I imagined it in my head, to a finished product.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I think a big part of our comedy, particularly in sketch…we have ridiculous elements, sure, but we always want to keep it incredibly realistic, or grounded in reality, so that we can make out twist or comment out of that. We have less characters like “ ooooh, how are yoooou” (fakey British accent)…</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - (laughs) How are you going to type that one? You know, those “how are you?” characters…</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - The scenario may be ridiculous, but the characters inside of that are real and recognizable. In doing that, something like ‘Time’, that I’m not in, about a man and his dad…I can put on a moustache and put white hair in, and look kind of ridiculous, which is fine…</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - You can get away with that on stage at a sketch show, but if you’re trying to sell it as a movie, people will be like “eh, no dice, this is just silly, I can’t go along with this.” Because in the first minute of that scene…what we do, is we fill the tank with a lot of tension, a lot of awkwardness and maybe some real emotion, and then the catharsis and the laughter comes with the ridiculous thing that blows that up. It’s like, oh this guy’s dad was in jail, and he seems really broken up by this, and then it’s like, oh, maybe this is actually a Slaughterhouse Five situation. Is the guy time travelling? Or is this kid just punishing his father?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - So anyway, we cast Rob Baker in the role, because he looks more appropriate, and he’s a great actor. And I think Roger and I specifically always wanted to direct. We realized very early on that it’s hard to act and direct at the same time. It’s too split of a focus. So we take turns directing only.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - So, you had Rob Baker as a believable dad in ‘Time.’ But then, Adam as the dad in ‘Western’ was totally ridiculous.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - That was a lesson learned, because that to me was one of the jokes. Everything else was so specific, and stylistically on point. Hanna Puley did an amazing job making everything look like a sweaty, dirty Western. To me, Adam is the most ridiculous part of the scene, both in acting style and the jokes he makes, I wanted to represent that visually by making him look like a piece of shit sketch character. People fucking hate it. Everyone’s always asking, “why the fuck did you fuck up your movie by making Adam look like that?” And I say, “well, uh, it was a comment…”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - We didn’t do enough with it, though. They’re not wrong. We just needed to make it more so.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - I will say that it was deliberate, it wasn’t a mistake. I mean, how can you watch the whole thing, and go “this all looks great, but you really dropped the ball there.” Clearly it was considered, whether or not you like it is another thing.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I think, looking back…I’m sure everyone says this about their work, but I would probably change something about every movie we’ve made.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - We might cut half of that ‘Western’ movie. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - Yeah, ‘Western’ is like 70% execution. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - I’m pretty sure it’s like 17 minutes long. I remember going back and going, “oh god, what was I thinking?”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - We could just cut off the first three minutes.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - Which I think (editor) Morgan Waters wanted us to do, and we said (in jokey dumb voice) “I don’t know Morgan, we’re trying something different.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - I really like it, but I think if people discovered you through that video, they would obviously have a very different interpretation that me, who has experienced Tony Ho live, and seen your other films. But it was a pleasure to see Adam revelling in that ridiculousness. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - On set he was killing it, and I still think it’s very funny in the movie. It’s just how we visually represented it. We’d love to go back and redo it. But no, we’re moving forward.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - You don’t think it’s worth revisiting this, to make a version that will be discovered by new viewers in the way you’d like?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I think you could just do that indefinitely, forever. We could make a cut now, and in three years we’d do it again. You hear the early tapes of your favourite bands, you always enjoy that, right? </span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - You very specifically don’t put any of your live sketches online. How did you feel about releasing this comedy album, with a live audience, and as with a lot of your live shows…a lot of the comedy doesn’t result in laughter until certain points. You can sense the tension, you can sense people in the room are cringing and feeling that comedic energy even in the awkward moments. Listening to it as a comedy album, you think “wow, there are very few moments when people are laughing out loud.” </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - That’s just sort of where we live.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - But they do laugh. I don’t think it’s about people laughing out loud throughout. I think it’s about calculated moments where they will laugh, and you’ll get a big laugh here that’s a big payoff. A lot of our sketches will get laughs in the last couple minutes of the scene. We do a lot of heavy lifting at the beginning, then when we get to the end we can speed bag the jokes and then get out. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I think in a very technical way of speaking about our comedy, I think a way we differ in our approach is that our humour is narrative-based a lot of the time. The humour comes out of the narrative situation and the events that build from one to another, as opposed to wacky characters or joke-a-minute, you know, beating a premise to death. That is a conscious approach we take. We certainly do those things sometimes, and in other groups, but this has a heavy narrative focus. And that’s our payoff. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - I find it much more rewarding to do play a scene, and you don’t get a laugh for the first few minutes, but then you get a huge laugh at the three-minute mark, because we’ve kept them with us, because we’re telling them a story, and I find that those tend to be the scenes that are a lot more memorable than a game of the scene. Rather than, wacky premise, hit it, hit hit, hit it, leave. People laugh the whole time, but if you ask them the next day what their favourite sketch was, they’ll say “uh, I remember a guy yelled at one point?”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - With the album, what I think we achieved is building a nuanced world. A point of view to immerse yourself in, you know. It’s just sort of a lot of ideas and perspectives floating by you and around you, and that’s a really enjoyable experience I think. Like, if I was driving somewhere, I would love to listen to this kind of this, because you can allow yourself to stop paying attention and just pick up on ideas as you go along.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - They gave us the option to go and use their studios. But I think you can get a little insular, and fussy, if you work on it that way. I had listened to the Mitchell and Webb radio show, and they do it live with an audience. You really don’t hear that much, a sketch thing with a live audience. You want people to feel like they’re there, like they’re immersed in it, you can sense the cringe and the squirm, you can hear it. That to me was a gut feeling of the way to go.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">HF - It’s interesting to me that the only other artists that you’ve mentioned as touchstones or possible influences are the Coen Brothers, and Mitchell and Webb. They both really put themselves out there making work that didn’t really fit within the systems they were working in, and then people loved it and it caught on. That seems to be happening with you, the lives shows regularly draw solid audiences, your film work is gaining more recognition. Do you still feel like outsiders?</span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I do feel like we’ve arrived in the Toronto comedy scene. We are established in a way. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">MR - I think it’s about expanding beyond that local bubble. That’s the next step for us, it’s on our minds.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - That’s the danger, as soon as people get to know you, they are instantly getting on forgetting you. They’re like, “okay, Tony Ho, sad, dark, not a lot of jokes, got it. Who else is here now?” Before you age out, you have to find a way to keep shifting it, you gotta Bowie it. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">AN - It’s like, if you are an older gentleman and you have a young girlfriend…</span></div>
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<span class="s1">RB - (laughs) And you have to regularly swap.</span></div>
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A year ago I visited La Frette recording studio, located just outside of Paris, to visit with Tamara Lindeman (<a href="http://the-weather-station.com/">The Weather Station</a>) as she recorded her new album "Loyalty" with Afie Jurvanen and Robbie Lackritz. After much anticipation, the fruits of their labour will be released this month on May 12 by Paradise of Bachelors.<br />
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La Frette is a wonderful combination of old world luxury and forgotten technology, layered with relics from the 1980's and yesterday's cigarettes. Look to their <a href="http://www.lafrettestudios.com/">website</a> for a catalogue of the incredible gear available for artists to use while in residence - I was more interested in the sisal carpeting, bathroom tiles and majestic staircase. There certainly is a palpable magic to this place that translates into the music; listening to Tamara's etherial and haunting voice on<a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1739257/the-weather-station-way-it-is-way-it-could-be-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/"> Way it is, Way it could be</a>, brings me back to the garden of La Frette and her transluscent beauty glowing in the cold afternoon light.<br />
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The Weather Station will be playing in Toronto at the Great Hall on May 14th.<br />
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<br />The Wardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131180421525252692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8889241534026866324.post-75568512401815948002015-03-03T09:00:00.000-05:002015-03-04T12:03:52.972-05:00STEWART JONES AND REBECCA HUNT : WELLINGTON<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I met the painter <a href="http://www.stewartjones.ca/" target="_blank">Stewart Jones</a> a few years ago in Toronto; fancy finding him running an open mic night in Prince Edward County. Turns out he and his wife Rebecca Hunt sold their home on Greenlaw Ave in Toronto, decamping to Wellington's Main Street. They now run a<a href="https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/4423528?s=dROp" target="_blank"> guest house</a> and are becoming entrenched in the growing pre-retirement community.<br />
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I dropped in one morning, finding Stew busy preparing canvases for new paintings, Rebecca enjoying a relaxing birthday coffee and the newest edition to their family -- Kenney (a kitten) -- immediately breaking my heart. Kenney was found by the side of the road. He became an overnight phenomenon when Scott McGillivray (of the TV program <i>Income Property), </i>who was hosting a show following Stew and Rebecca's renovation of their guest house, posted a video of the kitten. You can watch it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdSJzTZcm6E&list=PLjLSjGBxFDNlf8zdacP5V-OnVpVHhmOFT" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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The lifestyle adopted by this couple serves as lure for county living. Rebecca is able to continue her work in television documentary production from a home office, where she is currently production managing a project for CBC's <i>Doc Zone.</i> Her office is central to their stunning Georgian-style house that backs onto a vast yard and pool. You can see the proximity of the house to Lake Ontario in an old postcard below. The community of Wellington is slowly changing as younger couples move in to live year 'round. With Stew planning weekly events like his open mic night -- <i><a href="http://beta.drakedevonshire.ca/whatson/listings/" target="_blank">Memphis Tuesday</a></i> -- and a Friday life drawing session at the Devonshire, he is energizing the long winter nights.</div>
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Stewart Jones will be exhibiting his paintings at <a href="http://www.loveartfair.com/toronto/" target="_blank">LoveArt, Toronto</a> this April 17-19 with<a href="http://www.canadianartcollective.com/artists/stewart-jones" target="_blank"> Canadian Art Collective</a>. You can view some of his dramatic cityscapes<a href="http://www.stewartjones.ca/" target="_blank"> here</a>. I'm excited to see the influence of the country landscape on his work.</div>
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<br />The Wardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131180421525252692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8889241534026866324.post-49200079934339541242015-03-02T09:00:00.000-05:002015-03-02T09:00:04.924-05:00LATE WINTER AUCTION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is cold and then there is the deep-freeze that sets into an unheated metal building as February rolls around. The auction fever is perhaps the only heat that can spark a body to stand for hours on end in such a place with no paycheque in sight. I didn't end up buying anything but the assembled company left memories enough and the french fries were hot and crisp.</div>
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<br />The Wardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131180421525252692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8889241534026866324.post-20337946344693530632015-03-01T09:00:00.000-05:002015-03-01T09:00:06.093-05:00ALISON BRITTON : DOUBLE VESSEL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Alison Britton vessel from 1987 is currently on display at the Gardiner Museum in the contemporary collection. I liked how the two patterns can exist independently from different vantage points. Britton pre-paints the slabs that she uses to create her vessels, thus reversing the process of making. Her work exists between art and craft and questions the relationship between the two. She holds an Order of the British Empire for her sevice to the arts.</div>
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You can see more examples of an Alison Britton's work<a href="http://www.marsdenwoo.com/britton/ab.htm" target="_blank"> here </a></div>
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<i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Intent on revealing the quirks of the computer programs that have become the ubiquitous mediators of images today, in his paintings, Flanagan plays up and tinkers with the structures that are concealed beneath virtual images. While some grids appear to lie on the surface, others seemingly rise from within the painting’s core, an effect simulating three-dimensional rendering in digital design. The result is a palpable tension between depth and flatness, illusion and abstraction, actual and virtual.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">The implausible aspect of his work is felt in a physical way making it crucial to see this visceral work in person to appreciate the full effect. Flanagan's focus surrounds </span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">cultural preoccupations with the future, and by insisting on handmade components he undermines the digital processes that "clean up"and standardize contemporary production.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Preset Mispronounced is on view at </span><a href="http://www.galeriedivision.com/toronto/exhibition/-14" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Division Gallery, Toronto</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, until February 28, 2015.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.drakedevonshire.ca/about/info/" target="_blank">The Drake Devonshire</a> opened its doors in Wellington, Prince Edward County in 2014 for an extended preview of their guest rooms, lakeside restaurant, fireside lounge and glass cube recreation room. Although the hotel has not officially opened, they are already boasting a strong local turnout for weekly events and many city visitors. I stayed in the "Stargazer" room last week and Naomi and Afie joined me for a final day of county rambling.</div>
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The property was first developed as a foundry back in 1860 and in the late 1800's it was expanded and converted into a home by W.P. Niles. Many features from his Victorian-era renovation are still present today including the oak staircase and stained glass windows. The 20th century saw the house serve as bed and breakfast, nursing home and mink breeding business. In 1974, Larry and Karen Arbuckle christened the place Devonshire Inn, a name maintained by the Drake when they purchased the property in 2012. </div>
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The renovation and expansion of this historic building has been executed with care and precision. The mandate of the Drake was to meld the city into county style and this they have accomplished while respecting and referencing original features. I was particularly taken with the variety of floor treatments, especially the wool carpeting set into the hardwood. The extensive art collection on display was curated by Mia Nielsen, and we were thrilled to see a large piece by <a href="http://www.jennifermurphystudio.com/Jennifer_Murphy/Murphy_Home.html" target="_blank">Jennifer Murphy</a> in pride of place.</div>
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<a href="http://www.drakedevonshire.ca/" target="_blank">The Drake Devonshire Hotel </a>in Wellington, Ontario has given me the opportunity to spend a week as artist in residence. I jumped at the chance and have been quite taken with the vistas, rambles and fireside luxury in what is generally thought of as a summer holiday town. </div>
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Wellington is situated at the southern edge of Prince Edward County with a view to Lake Ontario and the dunes of Sandbanks. It boasts Ontario's oldest home (pictured below), a museum housed in a Quaker Meeting house an artist studio tour and extensive winery tours adjacent (not to mention the beach). Although the town swells to three times its winter size during the summer months, the main street is still bustling in mid February and the lake really couldn't look more magnificent. </div>
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I've enjoyed walking around the town and seeing summer properties blanketed by a layer of snow and vast beaches looking quite arctic and unimaginable as hot summer sand. It's been a long time since I've dropped knee deep into a drift and the white peaks are cold enough to make a satisfying crunch.</div>
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The Drake Devonshire opens officially this April; look for an upcoming post to see what it's like inside.</div>
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Walking into Noel Middleton's <i>Order of Operations </i>at <a href="http://narwhalcontemporary.com/" target="_blank">Narwhal Gallery </a>brings me back to the hall of plaster casts at the V&A Museum in London. He has filled the modest gallery with plaster sculptures evoking Roman statuary, columns and artifacts. He is intentionally calling the viewer to think back to objects of antiquity through his presentation and yet the pieces are casts not of ancient carvings but rather the detritus from renovations that happened in the the very gallery he's situated them. On closer inspection the statues can be seen as effigies to various trades associated with building; the plumber, the electrician and the framer. Middleton even marks the passage of time through a tower of cast toilet rolls that evoke a measuring stick at an archaeological dig.</div>
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Like the previous renovations that Middleton peeled away, the work also can be viewed as many layered, referencing the demands and restraints that materials place on process, the restoration and appropriation of past cultures, and the importance of seeing the value in cast off and abandoned objects.</div>
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The show is absorbing and, like many museum displays of antiquities, overwhelming in content and volume. The individual pieces each carry their own power and battle for attention and place. The sublime texture of the plaster and majesty of the constructions contrast sharply with the textures of mundane materials found on closer inspection. I was delighted to witness Middleton's veneration of tradespeople, having prayed and cursed to their earthly counterpoints time enough.<br />
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I've known Amanda Burt for many years and her statuesque beauty and brimming energy have always cheered a room. We headed to her house on Concord for late afternoon tea as the last light of the day filtered through her new windows to talk renovations, retirement and reinvention. (Mercury is in retrograde after all)</div>
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Amanda seems poised on the precipice of a new chapter. After working as a producer at the CBC for years she's "retired" and has just launched a life coaching business. Calling herself a "Creative coach", Amanda is employing the aspects of producing she most enjoys; helping people realize their creative potential, honing in on promising directions, making vague ideas into concrete plans, and using sparse resources to achieve big goals. With an education in Art history and journalism combined with training as a yoga teacher and life coach, her CV expresses one who is more than qualified for this new endeavour. The culmination of her diverse studies and life experience is truly inspiring. Basking in her energy alone is enough to get motivated and activate that underlying ambition.</div>
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She's also recently reinvented her home to allow space for both socializing as well as reflection and repose. The cold weather has left the patio lights dreaming of the coming spring but the kitchen was warm and inviting with lavender earl grey and homemade banana bread. Baby Sheba snoozed on in the setting sun. </div>
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My Grandmother has been keeping a ledger of all her expenditures since she started to spend. Dating from 1947, these books are both fascinating and beautiful artifacts; a history of her life as illustrated through the mundane (you'll notice she likes to splurge on candies, fresh fruits and other sweets). She learned the habit from her father who saw her through both the great depression and Japanese internment camps during WWII, giving him reason to watch every penny. My Grandmother says that she doesn't know why she continues to make these documents and that perhaps her time could be spent better through other pursuits. However, a creature of habit, she likes to know where she spends her money and how much she spends. The final photo in the following series is taken from her most recent ledger book.</div>
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Interestingly my father, since I can remember, has kept his own log marking down car millage and gas prices for each stop he's ever made at the pump and with every car he's owned. This number recording gene somehow skipped my sister and I, but my husband has taken up the interest with our new car. I now find myself jotting down the date, millage and price spent on gas when we stop to fill up. A funny exercise, but perhaps if we all took a page out of my Grandmother's book we may be better poised to live comfortably, like her, well into retirement (she just celebrated her 92nd birthday).</div>
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<br />The Wardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131180421525252692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8889241534026866324.post-46040218831451121572015-01-23T09:00:00.000-05:002015-01-26T22:07:23.939-05:00PRE FALL 2015 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Samuji Pre-Fall 2015 collection (pictured above and bellow) sparked a fashion survey. Here's Wardens choice from other favourite collections including Stella McCartney, Lanvin, The Row and Vionnet.</div>
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While in LA I visited Ooga Booga no.2 at 365 S Mission Rd. The lovely <a href="http://www.hannahur.com/" target="_blank">Hanna Hur</a>, currently interning at this institution, showed us around the amazing warehouse gallery space that was previously a studio space for a single painter. At first glance the <a href="http://356mission.tumblr.com/post/102307746470/supports-surfaces-at-356-mission" target="_blank">Supports/Surfaces exhibition</a> looked to be current work but it is in fact a movement of French artists who showed from 1969-1972. The collective including André-Pierre Arnal, Pierre Buraglio, Louis Cane, Noël Dolla, Daniel Dezeuze, Christian Jaccard, Jean Michel Meurice, Bernard Pagés, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Patrick Saytour, and Claude Viallat.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the basement of the space we found a humorous and compelling selection of black and white photographs featuring corner china cabinets and other strange built-ins. A collection titled <i>Solutions to Compound Problems</i> by <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Great space and 2 solid exhibitions. Well worth a visit next time your downtown LA.</span></span></div>
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Lately I've been listening to a lot of <a href="https://librivox.org/author/24?primary_key=24&search_category=author&search_page=3&search_form=get_results" target="_blank">audiobooks by E. Nesbit </a>in which jaunty Edwardian children, down on their luck, fixate on every sixpence and shilling they can get their hands on. These British coins are from pre "decimation" and work on an enigmatic system of division. Confounded by the guinea, half crown and farthing I decided to get enlightened. </div>
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The current British coins were implemented in 1971. Before this date, the British money system dated back to the Norman Conquest of 1066. The main difference is that there are 240 rather than 100 pennies in a pound. 12 pennies make a shilling (a bob) thus there are 20 shillings per pound. The money is further divided:</div>
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halfpence= 1/2 penny</div>
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thruppence= 3 pence</div>
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sixpence= 6 pence</div>
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shilling= 12 pence</div>
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florin= 2 shilling</div>
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The guinea introduces some confusion being worth 21 shillings. It's almost a pound but slightly more. Tradespeople were paid in pounds while people like architects or writers were paid in guineas. The sovereign is a pound coin made from gold. It's about the size of a the Canadian dime and would have been worth hundreds of dollars in today's money.</div>
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In 1279 a farthing could buy a chicken but by 1900 it could only get a single candy and ceased being legal tender in 1960. However, the value of the farthing coin in 2013 currency is between 2p and 6p so perhaps we will soon see the British penny heading the way of the Canadian.<br />
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The<a href="http://uk.arken.dk/" target="_blank"> Arken Museum of Modern Art</a> sits adjacent to a man-made beach just south of Copenhagen. Designed by Søren Robert Lund, the industrial structure is designed to echo its surroundings by looking like a giant beached ship. The doors opened to visitors in 1996 with the vision that "a visit at Arken should add a new perspective to the visitor's life, making the individual wiser about himself and therefore life." With permanent installations devoted to Damien Hirst, Anselm Reyle and Ai Weiwei, the Arken strives to explore themes surrounding our place in the modern world as well as the very definition of art. </div>
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The most fun and interactive exhibition of the Arken was <i><a href="http://uk.arken.dk/udstilling/palle-nielsen/" target="_blank">The Model</a> </i>by Palle Nielsen. First mounted in 1968 at the Moderna Museum in Stolkholm, Nielsen created an environment for children to both play in and develop through painting and building. Considered well ahead of its time, <i>The Model </i>allowed children to interact on their own terms in the hallowed museum halls. Suitable for children 3-12, the child I had in tow was perhaps a bit young for the experience, but still looked charming in the foam pool.</div>
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<br />The Wardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131180421525252692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8889241534026866324.post-4631692568798082682015-01-13T09:00:00.000-05:002015-01-13T09:00:00.619-05:00WEDDING AT WATERVALE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This past September I attend the wedding of Amanda and Paul at the<a href="http://www.watervaleinn.com/resort.html" target="_blank"> Watervale Inn</a> in Michigan. Reminiscent of Kellerman's resort from the movie Dirty Dancing, Watervale has been a family meeting place since 1918. Amanda has fond memories of annual summer visits with her family, making it the perfect venue for their nuptials. </div>
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Watervale started as a logging town in the late 19th century. As industry left, the place was all but abandoned until 1917 when Oscar H. Kraft purchased the town and surrounding land to create a public resort. Oscar's niece Vera Noble took up the reigns in 1960 and ran the place until her death in 2005 when it was passed along to her children. The site offers both a main Inn and 20 cottages for rent, some dating back to the original Watervale logging days. </div>
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Everything about the venue dates it to a 1980's renovation, maintained in pristine condition. It holds a wholesome rugged vibe while at the same time providing resort luxury. Even though, at the main Inn, the bathroom facilities are shared and the elderly receptionist crotchety, the linens are beautifully pressed, light fixtures dust free, and the windows in my private corner room could be opened to let the warm fall breeze through. The waitresses in the dining room wear crisp white uniforms, bringing items from a breakfast menu without limits on how much can be ordered. The breakfast was included in the extremely affordable cost for lodgings and cream for the coffee came in mini glasses, a wonderful old-timey touch. </div>
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There was a late night walk to the beach, guided by candle lanterns leading us to a bon fire blazing in front of crashing waves. Fireworks were set off, the bar was always open, natural beauty everywhere, and love in the air. I felt so honoured to be included in such a magical weekend and to experience this very distinctly American getaway.<br />
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<br />The Wardenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16131180421525252692noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8889241534026866324.post-35824210679104332092015-01-11T09:00:00.000-05:002015-01-12T09:16:08.523-05:00PIET HEIN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My friend Trelawnie recently gutted a storefront building at Gerrard and Woodbine. The original state of the place was grim to say the least and I was amazed to see what she had accomplished in few months and with a limited budget. Once the finishing touches are complete perhaps she'll allow a full feature, but in the meantime, here's an interesting story about her dining room table. </div>
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The table came with books. Better books than bugs. The Danish designer, Piet Hein, was also an author, mathematician, and inventor (and married 4 women). Apparently the table could not be sold without these books.</div>
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At first glance this table seems typically midcentury, but on closer examination you notice the curved metal edge and the wonderful expanse of white unblemished by the central seam so often seen in similar models.</div>
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The books contain poems that Hein called Grooks (Gruk in Danish). Written during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in 1940, the short poems often offer a cryptic political or social message. They offer a glimpse into the mind of one of the 20th century's most interesting thinkers.</div>
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<i>Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved. -Piet Hein</i></div>
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Just before Christmas I joined Afie on a quick trip to LA for a taping of <a href="http://teamcoco.com/video/bahamas-12-11-14" target="_blank">Conan</a> and enjoyed a day witnessing television magic at Warner Bros. Studios. I was fully prepared for a long boring day of waiting around in a dark dressing room for the purpose of our visit to be achieved. Instead, I was completely entertained from the moment of arrival at 9am to our departure around 6pm. Spending time before the show was much more fun than the taping itself. The taping was almost too entertaining. The comedian and stage band intended to warm up the audience gave me the nervous sweats. I sat in fear of being called upon for audience participation and regretted asking for a seat when a jazz trumpet was blown in my face.</div>
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After soundcheck, and throughout the day, we could watch the rehearsals from various monitors around the studio. I enjoyed seeing the team of writers lined up on the guest couch (which was covered for protection until show time), with pads of paper and heads down rigorously preparing for that night's taping and for upcoming skits. The rehearsals were more hilarious than the taped show, being looser and more relaxed. We ate a geriatric turkey dinner and banana pudding in the cafeteria, served by a man in a tall paper hat. The meal tasted better because it was purchased with food vouchers. Loved that cafeteria experience. We then spent the afternoon walking the grounds of various exterior sets, seeing New York in the California light. Like most of my trips to America, novelty abounds and I certainly got my fill.</div>
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Henri Fabergé and his gang are at it again. They're preparing <a href="http://henri-faberge.com/UPCOMING-PERFORMANCES" target="_blank">Crisis at St. Creskins</a>, the second festive special to follow Henri's antics at Boyce Academy. Part play, part cabaret, often bawdy and never boring, the performance will be sure to kindle your holiday spirit this coming weekend. Toronto's historic Campbell House Museum has bravely agreed to host the cast of characters and during rehearsal I stopped by to see inside the elegant Georgian home incongruously situated at Queen and University.</div>
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Campbell House has been a museum since 1972 but was originally built in 1822 by Upper Canada's chief justice Sir William Campbell and his wife Hannah. It is the oldest house remaining from the Town of York and is a wonderful example of Palladian architecture. Passing from the Campbell family in 1844, the place remained a private residence until 1890. The building then became commercial office and factory space for companies selling horseshoe nail, elevators and finally Hallmark greeting cards. In 1972, with demolition looming to make way for Hallmark's parking lot, the building was offered to anyone who could move it. The Advocates Society took up the challenge and the building was moved 1.5 km from Adelaide street to its current home where the Queen Mother herself was on hand to cut the ribbon on Campbell House Museum. </div>
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The phrase "well appointed room" comes to mind while admiring the open spaces and dramatically low window casings of the house. There is no fussy Victoriana about but rather a special collection of early 19th century furniture and household articles. The portrait of Sir Campbell looked on sternly as the actors went about their antics, with wardrobe racks and coffee cups disrupting the calm repose of a by-gone era. To be sure, these old walls have never seen such sights as the weekend will bring.</div>
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Crisis at St Creskins runs December 13-15 with two shows per night at 7pm and 9:30 pm.Visit the Campbell House Museum <a href="http://www.campbellhousemuseum.ca/index.html" target="_blank">website </a>for ticket information.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"><i>Moon Room</i> is Kristin Weckworth's curatorial exploration of the moon and the layers of hidden meaning associated with our beloved night time companion. Weckworth's starting point for the show was the documentary <i>Room 237</i> (a film that attempts to unravel the many conspiracies, confessions and subtexts thought to exists in Kubrick's<i> The Shining) </i>and the 1940's children's book <i>Goodnight Moon. </i>Both the Overlook Hotel and the rabbit's quiet bedroom have captivated audiences and prompted searching for deeper meaning within the patterns and symbols presented by their respective authors. Weckworth uses the moon to epitomizes this shrouded second reality: "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Moon Room</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> acts as a holder of possibilities and hidden meanings, a physical example of the myriad faces that can exist amongst those presented and masked."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">The exhibition <i>Moon Room</i> closes today with a reception from 3-6 at <a href="http://narwhalcontemporary.com/" target="_blank">Narwhal</a>. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Naomi and I were pleased to participate along with </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Adrienne Kammerer, Alexandra Mackenzie, Alicia Nauta, Carly Waito, Eli Langer, Eunice Luk, Hanna Hur, Jennifer Murphy, Karen Azoulay, Kendra Yee, Lisa DiQunzio, Maggie Groat, Margaux Williamson, Maryanne Casasanta, Nikki Woolsey, Patrick Krzyzanowski, Rebecca Fin Simonetti, Sab Meynert and Vanessa Brown.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">Nikki Wooley, </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Aside the table</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Eunice Luk, <i>It's only five after ten</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Adrienne Kammerer, <i>The infernal eternal</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Karen Azoulay, Ancient Crater</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Hannah Hur, <i>SOS</i></span></div>
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