under pressure

There's something going on in Winnipeg.
The Weakerthans.
Marcel Dzama.
And now this: a Steamroller Print Festival.

Yes. Printmaking meets heavy machinery.

Photo by Perfectbound

For the past two years Martha Street Studio has hosted ‘Under Pressure’, Winnipeg’s only Steamroller Print Festival. High school students, community groups, and artists from across Winnipeg create large linoleum carvings leading up to the festival. On the day of the festival the carvings are inked and printed with the aid of a real steamroller.

Simply brilliant.

You can see a few photos of the hot and heavy art action over on Perfectbound's flickr as well as a set from Art from the Heart.

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if you love dancing and typography...

Three reasons this video is so very rad:

1. Huge, almost Sesame Street style letters.
2. Dancing like mad, while staying in pretty much one spot.
3. Singing in French.


Yelle - "A Cause des Garçons" Remix Tepr Video Tecktonik


You can listen to more Yelle on their MySpace (but be warned your head may explode if you look at that page for more than two seconds.)

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the sock monkey building

Ever wonder where sock monkeys work?

I mean, you see them lying around and looking cute, but they've got to earn a living, too. One career path that many sock monkeys choose in Vancouver is to work at Fletchers Fabricare dry cleaners.

The reason is pretty obvious.







This is one of my favourite buildings in Vancouver. It makes me happy just to see it.

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how to cook a crafty meal in under 2 minutes

Western Spaghetti is a new (and utterly adorable) stop-motion film made by the fine folks at PES. Rubix cubes, tin foil, rubber bands, post-it notes and candy corns all go into making this delicious meal/movie.



Also check out their other films, most of which also employ household objects and toys. My faves are Game Over (where cupcakes are used in old-school arcade games like Space Invaders, Frogger and Pac-Man), Moth (where a tape dispenser is a frog that eats bulldog-clip moths), and KaBoom! (where war is a mixture of toys, popcorn and circuit boards).

Also be sure to watch the "Making of KaBoom!" video.

"I used yellow gift bows, first and foremost, because they look exactly like real explosions."

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