Tomorrow night, Team Willow, and Gallery Deluxe Gallery present:
Dream With The Fishes:
Small, illuminated photographs by Keeley McLean.
The opening will take place Monday night, from 7-10pm,
and the show will then continue to hang until August 26th.
Everyone is welcome! Come support local art! Eat food! See photographs!
Gallery Deluxe Gallery is located directly above 6015 Willow Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Gallery hours (apart from opening reception) are Sundays from 12-5pm, and by appointment during the week.
Email gallerydeluxegallery@gmail.com, or call 425-0600.
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It's not every day that you find a 6" plastic likeness of James Hetfield waiting anxiously on your doorstep when you get home. It's even less frequent that this happens with absolutely no warning, not to mention wherefor, or whatfor.
James Hetfield, if you can hear us: Yes. Yes, we will.
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Seth. I did it.
Maybe you thought I wouldn't, but I did. I went to Utility today, and I got a swirly, cloudy, watery ball of awesomeness tattooed on my forearm.
I forgot what it feels like to have a tiny needle poked at you rapidly for hours at a time. (It kind of sucks, but is kind of amazing all at the same time.) It was actually really nice, because it mostly just felt like I was hanging out with Andy for two hours, though normally hanging out doesn't involve bleeding. But I've always thought he was a nice guy, and this visit totally confirmed it. We had a really nice conversation. And now I have this thing on my arm.
Seth: Go for it. Yo Rodeo tattoos, all the way!
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The Hammond child-reunion has officially come to a close. After four days of walking, eating, watching brazilian bands, witnessing a fiddle festival, eating some more, laughing, and yes, watching too much television, (thank you Freaks And Geeks) the aircab arrived at 8am this morning to whisk my (younger) sister Laura away to the airport, and back to sunny London Ontario. Meanwhile, we didn't want to say anything, but.. well, it's kind of our (my) birthday. (this whole editor's plural thing gets pretty confusing.)
Up since 7:30am on my 25th birthday. I have no plans for the day. I have no commitments that can't be held over til tomorrow, and frankly, that's all I can ask for. Oh wait. I'm at work. Right. Ok, so after 3:30 today, I will have no plans to speak of, and considering that I got to hang out with my sister all weekend, I can't really complain about one day of work.
So far, my birthday has brought me these things:
- a radical weekend visit from my favourite sister.
- a bizarre board game that looks like a lot of fun.
- a dvd copy of The Wrong Guy, starring canadian funnyman David Foley.
- a charming little potted spider plant. (warning: i'm terrible with plants)
- a delicious, hand-made coconut cream pie.
- a whopping internet scandal.
Life is a pretty sweet fruit.
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Photo by Claudette Germain
It feels like we've been playing a lot of shows lately. Maybe that's because we played three in three days. (or rather, two in one day, and one two days later.) It's tiring. But we're going to have to get used to it, and a lot more, as the tour is drawing ever-closer. Dates are being confirmed one by one, plans made, and I really need to get us some posters cooked up. Oh, and did I say dates?
Just dates?
Because what I should have said is that we're playing in New York City.
At the Knitting Factory.
August 20th, jerks. Holy shit!
The show at One World Cafe was super short, super sweaty, and super fun. Be Bad, and the USSSSSR played as well. After the show, we all offered Kenova a chunk of the door money, which is something he never takes from bands. He was so gracious about it, and seemed genuinely touched, which was pretty nice. That guy does so much, and I don't even think he knows how much he's actually doing for us all. We love him.
Claudette was in town, and took photos of our set, above. I took photos of Be Bad and the USSSSSR. You can see them here.
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Kenneth Doren takes in the tiny exhibition at Gallery Deluxe Gallery
Though the invitations were circulated only two days in advance, and the show itself hung the day of the event, the grand opening of Team Willow's latest venture, Gallery Deluxe Gallery (Tuesday, June 7th, 2005) was by all accounts, an enormous success. Upwards of 50+ art-appreciators passed through Willow Street Manor, and ascended the ladder into the miniature gallery, where they were treated to a display of works by members of Team Willow past and present.
Guests enjoyed four varieties of cookies (three of which were baked by the Team's own Michael Catano, with vegan gingersnaps by local singer/songwriter Laura Peek.) and a variety of soda, including the ever-popular underdog soda 'generic grape'.
The show itself, entitled "Team Willow Art Factory" was generally well received. Highlights included Jon Knowles' conceptual, untitled piece consisting of a single page from a local newspaper, giving equal attention to a Palestinian car-bombing, and to an ad for an S.U.V. proclaiming "Take no prisoners.", as well as a small, polaroid self-portrait by Elliot the cat.
The show will remain on display until July 1st, and will be available for viewing by appointment. Gallery Deluxe Gallery is located directly above 6015 Willow Street, in Halifax Nova Scotia. (tel: 902-425-0600) The Gallery will be displaying new shows every month. July promises an exhibit by local photographer Keeley McLean, and August will have a video installation by Elizabeth Grant.
More photographs of the opening can be found here.
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