Sloane's Pictoral Week In Review

Naked toddler trampoline-o-fest!

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She Said, He Said

Me:         Okay Sloane, that's it. (Taking bowl, standing up)
Sloane:    Nooooooo! Noooooooo!
Me:         Yes, that's it. I'm sorry. (Moving to sink, emptying bowl)
Sloane:    Nooooooo!
Me:         Yes. Yes. I'm sorry lovie. That's it. (Wiping hands)
Turner:    (Coming into kitchen) ...What's going on...?
Sloane:    No! Mama! (Crying. Screaming. Throwing spoon.)
Me:         (Turning to Sloane) No, lovey. You may not throw your bowl while blowing milk through the whole wheat ...shedded wheat ...bran squares. (Looking at Turner. Grinning at the idiocy of the statement.)
Turner:    ..."Living With A Two-Year-Old In Fifty Words Or Less"
Me:         ...Too true.
Sloane:    Mama, I'm done!

Categories: Dad-ness | Mom-ness | Sloane

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Aha, have I given you the impression that I am a photographer? Yes? Well! Suddenly, and minus the majority of the usual qualifications (I own not even a single cravat), I am also the curator of a gallery in a most hip and chic part of town.

Since last year I've been working with an aesthetics salon called Chic Studios down at Mount Royal Village. The owner, Amy Nicole, and I barter our services and generally cross-promote our businesses. I love working with them. All the people who come through are awesome, and everyone has good ideas and the energy to back them up.

The studio is on the lower level of a fabulous location on 16th Ave SW, facing the park on 17th Ave. The other businesses in the area include an Asian furniture importer, an art supply house, fancy clothing and shoes and flowers for the ladies who lunch in the area, a bunch of coffee and teahouses, and hip bars and restaurants. It's at the western end of what's known as "The Red Mile" when the Calgary Flames hockey team is doing well in the playoffs. In any case, it's a great location.

And so back in June, Amy and I started talking about turning the very wide and empty hallway space just outside the studio into a sort of gallery that I would curate. Eventually the arthouse-appropriate track lighting I bought will be installed in the ceiling, and the wall will be painted white (with the tops and end being the hot pink of Chic Studios), and we'll have gallery postcards and some signage. But before I left for out east in early July, I did the real jumping-through of the hoops, which was getting the art framed and hung on the damn wall, for starters.

This first show includes my two neon sign pieces that showed at the Vertigo space in early June with the Mob Hit festival, and three pieces from Erin Pasternak's winter oil rig series. Erin did the nameplates on her old-timey typewriter and there's a price list for the works behind the Chic Studios front desk. The next show will likely be two local painters, and then I'm looking to bring in some drawings from Tara Lowen Ault Chowdhry, an artist based in Mumbai. Later on I'd like to bring in a graffiti artist to paint the walls themselves. But first, we're going to have an opening show/gala in September. The date isn't set but will likely be mid-month.

Categories: Ash | Calgary | Work work work

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