The band is called Single Mothers (London, ON) and the song is called “Baby.”
Interview below the video.
Brittany is from London, ON, currently residing in Toronto, ON.
I’m just gonna record this conversation by the way, if you don’t mind
Oh that’s cool.
I almost wanted to tell you to repeat what you said but it’s not going to be the same.
(laughs) Yeah I don’t even know what I just said.
It’s good when it’s in the moment, right? What were you thinking when you were editing?
Honestly like it just kind of, that everything that I told you before. The way that it panned out was me sitting down and editing it was just… it wasn’t a plan whatsoever. It was just kind of the way that I was feeling towards it and the fact that I was really excited about this. The band that I was working with, just like the memory of actually being there shooting and just like how positive I felt and how happy I was to be there and to be a part of that scene and the energy. I was a part of it, like I was a person that was at that show watching it and like the end product was exactly that. Like it was just like the moments that I was there, like it was just so high energy. And that motivated me to keep pushing the project to be the best that I could be: to be able to share with everybody else how exactly I felt while I was there.
I felt like I was in the concert while I was watching it.
Yeah it was so special – that night. It was fucking awesome. They moved me like, say if somebody wants to hire me to do a project, like hey can you come out, we want you to do our music video, and I’m like trying to get into the band, like it’s hard. That’s how work is gonna be like, you’re not always going to do things you always want to do but you always try to make it the best that you can, like I actually cared about it and I was kind of me approaching them and wanted to do something for them… just give it my all and be able to share to the world or all their fans exactly what the band meant and just the feeling they gave to me as a fan… just share to everybody… and just the raw, the raw-ness of their actual show and how fucking awesome it was. I didn’t have to fabricate it at all. The band originally, we kinda sat down and talked about it because they inquired to me that they wanted to make a music video and it was so fun. I was like, I loved their music anyway and I was really excited about the idea and I kinda wanted to hear what they have to say, like what they wanted. I was planning on kinda getting that and so I went out and shot this show and that’s all that I needed. I was feeling confident that I had everything that I need, but it’s just from my point of view.
When you were watching the show, you really felt… you really felt like you were in the moment, right?
Yeah exactly.
You were feeling it.
I was totally feeling it. Honestly, like looking back at it now, I don’t remember the camera in my hand. It was just kind of, I don’t remember… I don’t even remember what lens I use. I don’t even remember pressing record. I had a couple of friends come with me and we had a production meeting beforehand, but honestly they gave full control to me. So there’s my little crew and we’re like “Okay, so what are we gonna get?” I told them straight up, “We’re going to the show.” It’s fucking awesome that we had 4 cameras and we had a lot of gear and we didn’t necessarily have to have it. I could’ve probably sat there with my own camera and got that exact quality. But why not, I had all these people to help me and we tried the best that we could. I didn’t really have to give them direction, at the end of the night, everybody was like, “That was a fucking amazing show. Thank you for bringing us out.”
I think the one time was that song was under two and a half minutes. It was awesome. We got to go there and enjoy the show and make the video.
Where was it?
It was downtown London, Ontario. It was kinda like a dive bar, but now it’s where the shows are happening now, it’s called Alex P. Keaton. There’s a lot of personal things with the end product of it. I did put my own personal touch to it. It was me that went out and captured exactly what happened. I was emotionally invested into it. I wanted to put my own spin on creativity. I still kinda wanted to make it my own.
It spoke for itself. It just gained life on its own, right? Like it just kinda happened and you went with it, right?
Yeah.
It’s awesome. I love that! I don’t even think about it, I just look at it and go, “Woah, that’s awesome!” Then I look at the interviews and I see it just kinda happens. You can’t really plan it.
I liked how you were telling me about the feedback, about how it was raw and like how you said nowadays people are just looking for more quality with the cameras that people use and stuff. It’s ironic because we did bring out, collectively, the gear that we had was worth quite a bit of money. My first rough cut was super clean and it looked really polished. It was funny because it looked great, but I knew that I had to down-res it to be able to portray exactly that…
To get the feel of it…
To get the feel of it and like you were saying, certain percentage of people now are looking into special effects and just really fabricating their work and stuff like that… in a way, I kinda had to, to be able to bring it down to the level to like being there. Because I felt like the cameras that we did bring were almost too… almost killed the feeling of being there… Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah.
It’s funny when I first looked into getting my own camera, I got a DSLR and I spent a shitload of money. The fact that I’m using that footage and throwing grain on top of it and trying to make it look more rough, just shows that you don’t always need that kind of equipment (to be creative).
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Check out her site here
And her latest work, a webisode series here
… is a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. A practitioner of architecture and digital media art, he was educated in visual art at Queen’s University, in technology at Humber College, and in architecture at the University of Toronto.
RESEARCH FOCUS: Responsive and distributed architectural environments and interactive systems, flexible lightweight structures integrating kinetic functions, microprocessing, sensor and actuator systems, with particular focus on digital fabrication methods and sheet-material derivations. Comprehensive architectural design and professional practice. textile structures; material crafts and fabrication; organicism and design integrated with nature; hybrid forms of nature. Emotion, romanticism and 20th century spiritualism as alternate qualities in Modernism; alterity and dissociation; chthonian and expanded definitions of space; the archaic. Current applied projects include solar-powered high-performance housing envelopes in exterior sites and architectural-scale geotextiles in museum spaces.
Hylozoic Veil
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Philip Beesley on Hylozoic Ground:
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I took part in one of his projects, “Epiphyte Membrane“
Check out his site here
Dina’s goal is to express the divinity of woman’s character.
from Moscow, Russia currently based in Mississauga, ON
In Reflection – Dina Shubin
“Dina’s women evoke serenity, inner power and beauty that shines from their faces and poses. They are full of thoughts and emotions. Changed proportions give them the divine look of Muses or Spirits. Abstract surrounding takes us away from reality and brings a dreamy, fairy-tale feeling. The contrast of smooth skin and rough background underlines woman’s tender nature. Dina’s women are romantic, not earthy, and they are surrounded by things meant for Goddesses. Her paintings are filled with music and flowers’ fragrance. They are filled with the heat of the sun and the fresh air of the wind. They are symbols of the happiness and perfection which any of us seeks.”
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Former landlord.
Her husband was an artist as well but I took more interest in her stuff.
I sat down and had coffee with them.
We shared laughs.
Good folks.
Check her out at Crescent Hill Gallery
NYC
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Friend told me about him during my party days at goth clubs in TO.
Check out his site here
He tends to do a lot of fashion shows from what I gather.
…is an avant-garde filmmaker based in Toronto, ON
Here’s his latest film
“…For me its more like assembling a jigsaw puzzle that hasn’t been made yet. I don’t have all the pieces and I’m trying to build these pieces, and the pieces come out of some interest, or desire, or willingness to explore these particular areas.
Some people would say they never want to make a film like that. It’s like I never have a clear idea what I’m doing until I’m half way through it, and I really don’t know what my films are about until they’re pretty well half done, because they’re just collections of stories or images. It’s probably not the smoothest way to proceed, but I always like the explorative element of that. I always like the discovery element of it, because I feel like I’m not predisposed to writing an idea that I think I can work with throughout. I think I might start writing about red and end up with green, or I might start writing about wood and end up with steel. I’ve always tried to follow that. I’ve always tried to follow certain things that are important and through that I’ve tried to decipher some kind of code…”
– Steve Sanguedolce
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His films talk about really heavy stuff: depression, suicide, addiction, crime, inequality… along with the social and psychological effects and factors that play in the equation. He would interview people, get them to tell their stories and weave them together as if they were related or he would find connections. He already has a ton of footage but he randomly just shoots when it feels right type thing or sometimes he goes out to shoot for specific scenes on purpose but before the video is cut, the audio comes in first: he would weave the story together and form a composition out of it.
The weird-looking footages are processed in a really trippy way: he shoots stuff, takes the negatives, soaks them in toner and then develops it. His works are visually stunning but the way the stories unfold… are not for the faint of heart.
Having said that, he usually reveals redeeming qualities from the anguish.
I guess that quote by Carl Jung really applies to his works, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
Check out Steve’s site here
…is a festival held every January in Panay Island, Philippines in honor of Sto. Niño.
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I used to watch these as a kid. Also, some of the schools I went to had us dress up and perform tribal things. I miss it.
Gelene 