It's Called "Photographer's Block"...

...and I checked in awhile ago.

NEWS

I will be showing some new work and selling some yearbooks at SAW Gallery in Ottawa on June 13th for the Ottawa Explosion festival. More details when I get them! I do know that The Men, METZ and Pregnancy Scares will be playing the event. It will be fun!

The video I shot for TEENANGER is up and out and soon enough will be viewable on The Wedge over at Muchmusic on your t.v screens. Next up: HELL SHOVEL.


This is a peek of a zine I put out last week. It was for a show that Ty Segall/White Fence/ Strange Boys/ Teenanger played at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, ON. Most epic lineup of the year. Limited edition of 50, hand numbered and features candy colours and 11 band shots.

← STRANGE BOYS


PHOTOS
(it's been a month so let's play catch up!)



↑ WHITE LUNG at DUFFYS
← FRESH SNOW at SONIC BOOM for Record Store Day

↑PIERCED ARROWS/QUINTRON & MISS PUSSPYCAT at the SILVER DOLLAR
← ↓WHITE FENCE

↑w/ TY
← ↓TY SEGALL BAND!!

"hi mark!"

←1000 points.

And hey, here's something else!
The rad astrophoto in the background is by the talented Mr.Bill Snyder.

↑ T.J's Feather Bowling Birthday in Detroit!
← T.J + DANNY / ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
← PUPPET SHOW+SIERRA / TEENANGER
←NO THAW FEST
w/ LIDS. SOUPCANS. UNFINISHED BUISNESS. MEAN BLOOD.

← CINCO DE MAYO VINTAGE SALE
Chosen + Silver Falls + Penny Arcade / Swimms Phone Home


XOXO

FRIENDS ON THE SPIT+ANAGRAM+PIERCED ARROWS+PEACH KELLI POP+NATURAL CHILD

Here's what I've been up to the past couple weeks. Apart from working at the Treating Yourself expo last weekend.

← yup.

Starting the month of my birth of right, a bunch of friends and I biked out to the lighthouse on the Leslie Spit with the loose goal of watching the 6 planets align in the pre-dawn sky. While we did see the grand cosmic dance, we did not utilize the rather large telescope that Nigel biked across town with. Watching the sun rise over Lake Ontario in the cool summers morn was like a scene from a Sofia Coppola film.

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The Garage (73 Cecil) is set to be one of the best pop up venues in the city. I'd love to see Quest For Fire, Dentata, One Hundred Dollars or like Career Suicide there. Here's Anagram/Tonka&Puma/False Face ripping the place on June 3rd.

←↓ ANAGRAM


← FALSE FACE, TONKA&PUMA

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Peach Kelli Pop are a bunch of darling pop crooners from Ottawa whom I adore a whole lot. I love the new lineup too! From the show with the incroyable Sphinxs at The Shop on June 5th.

← PEACH KELLI POP
← THE SPHINXS

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Now, Natural Child ( from Nashville) ARE awesome, and they were one of my top 10's from SXSW this year, but this was a weird show. They were definitely good, but it didn't have the same pull as back in Austin. I really really like them though, that song that goes something like " Let me hit that cop/ let me smoke that rock" and the other one about not wanting to fuck someone, but doing it anyways? Pure Diamond Gold.

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And last night the best musical example of a successful marriage happened at the Silver Dollar. PIERCED ARROWS ( ex Dead Moon) my friends. Pierced Arrows. Pierced damned Arrows. In an insanely fitting move, Lullabye Arkestra and Ell V Gore opened the show up. The Ark did a North American tour with P.A last summer. It's like gazing into the mirrors of time, comparing Kat and Justin with Toody and Fred.

←ELL V GORE

←THE ARK

←↓ PIERCED ARROWS, Guns of Thunder
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XO