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...