Hello,
I won’t be adding to 60DL for a while. Until Tumblr gets faster maybe, or gets a backup system. I created a RSS feed on my personal website where I will put the new photos you can subscribe to the RSS feed. You can browse the feed directly on XXIIVV if you like.
Thanks a lot for all the nice words on here ! I will keep it online as soon as tumblr stays up, as an archive of souvenirs. I also moved all my favourite pictures from Japan onto XXIIVV.
See you on XXIIVV.
We went to see my friend Guillaume’s installation on Sainte-Catherine street, titled Contained Noise and drifted to the jazz festival. We just got home, watching the vhs version of Aliens.
My life has definitely calmed down these past couple of weeks, I can finally perceive the time that passes by (by me), as I can’t say I could before. I don’t freelance much and I can’t say I work on my things that much eighter. Not from being lazy, nor from a lack of motivation per say; but from trying really hard to be able to just do nothing for a moment without feeling the guilt of wasting hours. I think I succeeded, or I am on the right path. I feel better I think, things looks different, a beer is not 5 minutes of wasted time anymore, and a walk outside is not a waste of an hour, and skating outside taking pictures is no more a day that I will regret.
Have you looked at the gorgeous sky lately.
So like any photo hobbyist, the urge to get a second lens made his toll. I decided to go with a Tokina 12-24, it’s pretty much all I can afford right now, and I knew I could pull amazing pictures out of it. I went for a little stroll around downtown with the eye of someone who has never seen Montreal. I came back with 40 nice shots on 200. Here is a few of them.
Today, my sister came over and left us a little kitten to take care of. His/her name is Shiro(白), and Shiro will be living with us from now on. It’s the cutest thing ever, I think it got lost during the rain two days ago and lost his home.
Oh! and we made a poor person very happy today, we’ve let him sell our stock of empty bottles, he must’ve made 40$. The man is always hanging around our metro station selling magazines for 1$, he was quite happy with this offer.
Esse has been working with traditional mediums these past 2 weeks, as we are looking into new things to learn. We started shipping Erri this week, and they are disappearing fast. We are down to 30 copies or so.
There were 2 Octopi waiting for me on my desk when I got home today. We are going to start to have a few products to sell on Drownspire that are made by friends of ours like Kina’s Octopi. :)
Last night I played at a loft party for XC3N’s birthday. It was interesting, I rarely play old songs of mine, but last night it was “everything goes”, so I played some recent, some old and some unreleased works.
The joint launch of the Erri Book, MachineMachine Editions and the Vambits was a success. So many people showed up, it was heartwarming to see so much talented people in the same place.
There was a few studios attending and a lot of new faces as well, we sold more than half of all the copies of Erri we had, in that single night. We will be selling the remaining copies on Drownspire, and hopefully we can also drop a few at PlaneteBD.
We secretly had the remaining few copies of Merure 2 at the event, and they sold out. So Merure 2 is officially out of stock !! We have started the creation process of Merure 3 on June 1st. We are really looking forward to see the outcome of this 4th book from MachineMachine. You can see more pictures of the even on the forum page. Thanks to everyone who showed up last night and everyone who made this possible.
It was our friend Annie’s birthday party yesterday, so we had a sushi/soba/sake feast. It was good to distance ourselves from our desks and to have some fun.
- Soba Noodles そば,
- Tamari Sauce 溜まり醤油,
- Crushed Ice 氷,
- Wasabi Powder ワサビ,
- Black Sesame.
So we have been making sure that the print file was perfect, showed it to a few friends at the Thumbs Up & Fresh Air vernissage, everyone seems very pleased with the outcome. Erri has been a very fun adventure and got us to meet interesting people and to collaborate with distant friends. The design of the book was done by one of my online friend Jo Pacal from Czech along with Vincent and Michael, the cover was a collaboration with Joel Prittie.
It is each unbelievable day of this year that is worth the countless hours of hardworking we went through last year. The hopes we had, are swiftly transforming into a fruitful present.
Our friends at Ponoko brought our Vambits for a trip to the San Francisco MakerFaire and made the first appearance of the new Vambits a success. Pictures by Ponoko.
