Tag: canada
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I Use My Surreal Balloon Photography To Transport People To Another World
In 2015, I was approached to take part in a celebratory project for the 375th anniversary of Montreal. The commission was to develop a postcard that creatively depicted the future, which would be stored in a vault and sent in 25 years. I dreamt a scenario around a gathering of flying balloons; a concept which…
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The Vancouver Police Canine Unit Just Released Their 2019 Charity Calendar And It’s Amazing!
Looking for a 2019 calendar? Look no further than the Vancouver Police Canine Unit who have just released their 2019 calendar. And it's bloody amazing. “The calendar was started in 2009 by retired Vancouver Police Sergeant Mike Anfield in honour of his wife, VPD Constable Candy Anfield who lost her battle with breast cancer in…
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Banksy’s Ex Dealer Creates ‘Fake’ Theft of Banksy Painting At Show, And Media Are Dumb Enough to Believe It’s Real
It’s nearly the kind of fake stunt that Banksy himself would be proud of. Need free publicity and exposure for a show with slow ticket sales? Why not stage a fake theft of a Banksy painting, produce the staged robbery on video, and trust the media to run the story despite the dodgy cover-up? This…
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Hands Down the Most Amazing Kids Costumes We’ve Ever Seen
Sometimes we come across something that stops us in our tracks. A piece of art, a song, a performance. But this set of Transformers kids costumes – which were made by transformerkids and displayed by his kids at the Ottawa ComicCon 2018 – absolutely blew us away. We think they will blow you away too……
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Photographer Turns Her Small Attic Into Stunning Fairytale Garden Scenes
Daniela Majic is a portrait photographer from Canada who uses her small attic to create fairytale garden scenes for her latest series called The Secret Garden. In her blog, she mentions that she treats the set as an art installation. The set began with a small wall which she covered in flowers. As she produces…
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Keisha Collins – A New Found Talent in Newfoundland
Keisha Collins was one of the youngest artists to enter our North American Artist Showcase. At 17, she still lives at home in a small community on the Eastern coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Showing an interest in art from an early age, Keisha soon gained the support of her whole community and now works tirelessly…
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Ai Weiwei’s ‘Forever Bicycles’ Installation in Toronto
On display from October 6 – 27 at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Canada, is renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei‘s Forever Bicycles installation. The 3,144 interconnected bicycles served as the centerpiece for last weekend’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche art festival, a dusk til dawn celebration with installation and performance artworks located around the city. Having just…
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Distorted Skies Made from Hundreds of Stacked Photographs by Matt Molloy
Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been taking photographs of for over three years. One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy…