Archive for category: Photos

Woody Eagle    (2007.02.14)

Corrugations    (2007.01.31)

Memories of Canberra    (2007.01.26)

I first visited Australia, almost on a whim, in 1995. Disaster! However, I did get to write it off by visiting the Australian Institute of Sport and submitting a piece and a sidebar to the Globe.

I came across a cache of old photos, including several of the combined national, Olympic, and Paralympic swim teams (who train together). But the only pictures of note were these two of guy wires (not “guide” wires) that secure angled stadium support members in place.

Even when I shot on film, living creatures were never of much interest. Seen one, seen ’em all.

Reddest possible truck    (2007.01.23)

TTC redesign    (2007.01.16)

Souris, station de métro Boisvert, janvier 2007

Garish bus wrap    (2007.01.14)

Sometime in the mists of the ’90s, I wrote an article for Publish on large-format printing. I became something of an expert, and I really wanted to see bus wraps used for some kind of artistique purpose, particularly if applied to a postmodernist vehicle like an Orion II. It never happened. Babs Kruger’s bus wrap (1997; later co-opted) was a disaster: Never send a polemical feminist artist to do a typographer’s job.

Nonetheless:

In order, I would use the current lexicon to describe these colours as violetred3, yellow3, lightslateblue, and sandybrown.

Rows o’ soup    (2007.01.11)

The velvet rope    (2007.01.09)

My wipers match my leg warmers    (2007.01.08)