Merry Christmas!

No...wait! Before we go, just stand in front of the tree so I can take your picture...Brendan move a little to the right, okay, then Eleanor, just here. There, perfect. (Merry Christmas and lots of love!)

X-Mas in NY: Take Two (The Visitors)

The best part of the holidays is here- visiting time. First a weekend with my old roommate and close bud- Meaghan. Now Brendan's sister, Eleanor, is here for the Christmas week. Lots of outings, shopping and dinners with friends to come. Below some pictures and video...

Heading home- we all rock out together:

The entire subway was asleep (and all of us apparently dreaming of above man).

Going to our first Christmas party of the week, so we break out our best fake tattoos. Here's Brendan's:

And mine:

And best of all, Eleanors: Cat Bride and Groom.

(Merry Christmas)

X-Mas in New York...Take One

Well, christmas is in full force here in the city. There's been a little bit of snow and some cold days but altogether bearable.

Garity's two sisters and mother were in town for a visit full of shopping, good food and a crazy dance/circus/stunt show at Streb dance space. It was full of crazy moves where people throw themselves onto small mats from really high places. You can see some videos here.

Last weekend we went to see our dear friend Kurt's choir perform a christmas show at a really gorgeous church in the upper west side. It was really wonderful. I only wish we got a picture of Kurt before he changed out of his suite because he was so handsome.

In the next couple of weeks we are expecting a couple of visitors and it looks like I might have landed some design work so it will be a pretty busy last few weeks. Here's hoping I finish sewing my pants.

Coats get bigger. Subways get cramped.

These things light up and dance to a crazy song but only after the people inside get off work.

Kind of creepy huh?Giants like X-Mas too.

Rockafeller Center.

People make do.Our friend Kurt's choir. He's the blur in the middle.

Garity at Strub enjoying some cotton candy.Cold and steamy city.
Tacky stuff galore.

A little massage from Kurt's choir.

Boston and Back.

Last weekend we took a bus trip to Boston to see the city. We took a chinatown bus and stayed for two nights at a hostel in the south end. The city was really beautiful but seemed a little quiet from what we have grown accustomed to here in New York.

While scanning the local alt weekly we found a listing for Halifax's favorite band, Dog Day, playing at a bar in a suburb across the river from Boston. We went to the show and found out that they would also be playing three shows in New York over the fallowing few days. I was able to see them once more in Manhattan before they left town to finish their big North American tour.

Here are some of the pictures that we took while in Boston. Our main day there was pretty rainy so the camera didn't get much use.

Stay tuned for some fashion shots of my almost complete warm up jacket and the pants that I will be making next.

It begins.

So, in America, Thanksgiving is the Official start of the Holiday Season. The day after("Black Friday") is the day that all American's get like 99% of their X-Mas shopping done. The stores all open at like 6AM and have big sales and it basically sounds like the scariest thing ever.

Before that though there is a big parade here in NY with giant floating monsters that roam the streets devouring children. It's pretty great. You can go and watch it all happen on the street and freeze your ass off and get pushed around by a million young parents with SUV strollers, or you can watch it all go down on T.V. with a perfect view and really funny commentary, while eating bacon and eggs, which is the option we chose.

Although we didn't see the parade first hand we did follow rumors of up-close viewings of all of the monsters the night before the parade and found them to be true, but also a really badly kept secret.

See if you can identify all of the beasts in the pictures bellow...

As the days grow colder...

Things have been quiet lately as the temperatures have dropped, we both got sick, and I've buckled down to some extent. But one thing we have been doing is sewing away like Canadian beavers (thanks to the lovely studio space of Feral Childe). Some of our treasures include pins, warm up jackets, winter hats and shirts.

To supplement our sewing, we have also started to watch Project Runway (thanks to a single addictive day of illness induced t.v. watching).

Other than that, we been looking at art, making art, and finding surprise art. Pictures to follow...

A postcard from an up-coming installation I am doing for a show at Cooper Union. (This is also a picture of some of the pins that I've sewn). Make art? Like art? Fill in the blank....

Brendan wearing his brand new hat (sewn last week), bravely venturing into unknown fashion territory.

Found art on our walk to get aloe juice (blurry shot)

A close-up.

And here's the first segment of a video I'm working on. It will be in the feminist collective show at NSCAD (Dec. 3rd, called "What Would the Community Think?)...

Two posts, one day, oh my!

Right now there is a Biennale of performance art taking place in New York called Perfroma 07. There are tons of amazing performances that I plan on going to see by some of my favorite artists.

Today I was able to take part in one of the performances organized by a Canadian artist named Darren O’Donnell. Darren wrote one of my favorite books ever (your secrets sleep with me) and started this great organization called Mammalian Diving Reflex. The performance is called Haircuts by Children and is basically just that. For more info just check out the links and to see how great it was check out the pictures below.

P.S. The haircut is as good as it looks in the pictures.

Halloween: Take Two

Well...on Halloween in New York they have this really big Parade that marches up 6th Ave from Downtown. It's kind of like a mix of Gay Pride and...... well...... Halloween. Anyone is welcome to come out and join the Parade so at the starting point it ends up being a giant mash of floats and people in crazy costumes just hanging out and being crazy.

I went down to check out the festivities and to take some pictures. I have to say that I was a little disappointed with the lack of homemade costumes but overall it was pretty great. I wasn't in the biggest party mood so after an hour or so of jamming myself through the crowd to look at some spectacle or another I got tired and went home.

Here are some of my favorite costumes of the night. Note that the Dragon totally breathed huge sparks out its mouth and there was not one, but two different versions of Daft Punk walking around.

Enjoy...