Weekend Project 5: Wet-on-Wet Painting

It all began with sonaluna pointing me in the direction of an artist named Michele Banks whose science paintings were beautiful, and a little heartbreaking. We’ve been looking for things to do on the weekend that don’t involve (merely) stuffing our faces or staring at some sort of screen feeding us words or moving pictures. Painting seemed like a fun idea. Painting... Read More

Cover No. 1: Bhaag DK Bose from Delhi Belly

The song Bhaag DK Bose from the film Delhi Belly is a superhit or, in Bollywood parlance, “souprhit”. Say it fast and as if it were one word – “souprhit, souprhit!!!” Yup that’s kind of the excitement that surrounds this massive song, and after it was stuck in my head in a constant loop, I just had to cover it. Elvis was excited enough by my version to make a very... Read More

Weekend Project 04

For several days last week, I was using spare time (or time on the phone) to draw these flowers on single sheets of a notepad that is used for anything other than actual note-taking. When I had a few of these filled-out drawings I wondered what a pattern of these drawings–coloured with sketch pens that were free with a pack of cheese slices (I think)–would look like.... Read More

Weekend Project 03

I am a big advocate of Vimeo – the video hosting website – primarily because their video presentation is aesthetically most pleasant to me. Also because they do cool things like hosting ‘Weekend Projects’ that challenge their filmmaking community to go out and make films based on fun themes. As any honest filmmaker will readily admit – actually finding... Read More

Weekend Project 02

I’ve been working very hard recently and though this isn’t exactly a free weekend, it has still been a day where I felt obligated to ‘do something to expand my skill-set’. Most recently, that has meant taking photographs. Staged shots with lights, experimenting with shadows, a video light and even the on-camera flash. A couple of days ago it occurred to... Read More

Weekend Project 01

The objective was to work with a series of burnt out images, fire off a series of stills and see what happens as the subject ties her hair. What do you think?  Read More