Happy collage time.

Hi I made this quick collage out of pictures and text from the book "Super Cute" by Kate Woods to inspire my daily making [and living]. I thought you might enjoy it also.

February 17th Show

HI I AM PLAYING MUSIC at the Dominion on Queen (500 Queen St. East) at 8pm on Friday, February 17th for the What Are You Doing Back There? 2012 Festival. It's going to be fun and I am even making demo EPs that will be for sale for Pay-What-You-Can for the occasion.

Laying track.

And also, does anybody remember the railroad I stenciled on the wall in the yellow staircase at OCAD? The project was to print something on the wall.

Well this year, a student printed little trains and unicycling people over it and it pretty much looks amazing.

Ideas are like this.

I said, "ideas are alive". And Maddy said, "or at least, they are perishable". She said, "they're like bread. If you leave them too long, sometimes they grow mould. Or sometimes they just go stale.

"Either way, you'd better use them quick."

Some new things including a horse.

Oh hi, how are you?  I haven't seen you in a while.

While you were out I made this Etsy shop.  My new hobby -- one that is surely to get lost amidst the myriad of other hobbies in which I partake -- is to search out semi-valuable vintage items at thrift stores and flea markets and then sell them to collectors.  That way I get to collect them myself but I don't spend much money in the process, and the objects get to be appreciated properly, instead of being forgotten in a heap in the back of an old truck.  I've found some awesome things so far!  There's more to follow.

What else?  Looks like I will play some music in public again on Friday, February 17th.  I've been kindly asked to play the What Are You Doing There? Festival once more.  It's a lovely basement show; always intimate and fun.  I will post details as soon as I know!

I've been all-consumed by my thesis lately.  It is large and all-encompassing and paralyzing.  So I am reading  "How to Be an Explorer of the World" by Keri Smith to get my brain going and myself out of my little comfort zones.  There is life outside our comfort zones.  (Please see INSPIRATION for more on this topic.)

Also I drew a horse: