Bogota | May 2007
if you are a flickr user, you can now connect with me there:
>> Steven Goetz Photography @ Flickr
i have had a flickr account since my first year at university but had neglected it in the years following my travels. i cleaned it up this week and am ready to post some great photos and connect with new photog friends!
Foam Magazine #20 | Talent | Simone Bergantini
Foam Magazine has just released an issue highlighting 18 emerging photographers. It is worth a look.
I especially enjoyed the subdued work of Amira Fritz. Lately I have been thinking about the kind of prints one would want to hang in their house and almost exclusively think black and white is the way to go. Not to suggest her work is simply ornamentation, but this type of colour work is generous to the eye on multiple viewings and without tackiness.
Foam Magazine #20 | Talent | Amira Fritz
Also impressive is the work of the new magnum nominee, Peter van Agtmael, who has covered the Three Gorges Dam project in China, AIDs in South Africa, and the modern American wars.
Foam Magazine #20 | Talent | Peter van Agtmael
second round of polaroids. starting to run out of film and it has all expired now.
Spent the august long weekend at my grandfather’s trailer in Ipperwash, Ontario.
>> check out all the polaroids from the trip here
flowers in the early morning outside my granfather’s trailer. my family has had a lot in this park since 1968.
Josh and I built an epic sandcastle and earned ourselves epic sunburns.
then we let some little shits destroy it.
they are kind of cute.
Jaci turned Dawn into a sand mermaid!
mike gingrich
lake huron sunset
finally made it into the chair at the sugar shack in kincardine to get my sleeve done. really incredible work by Jarkko, who provided a great collaboration. he really pulled off my plan to have the image done in line work - almost as though done by a wood print. the tattoo shows moby dick jumping out of the water and has a yin/yang effect on the other side where the clouds and wave meet.
i will post some photos of the healed-up work as soon as i get down to it.
ladies and gentleman.
at the end of the month, the oxford hotel will be closing its doors as its humble residents head out in different directions and new frontiers of domesticity.
to bring it all to a decisive conclusion, we are throwing a four day music and film festival for friends and guests starting this thursday, august 13th to sunday, august 16th.
please come and lets have some good times.
article about the end of the oxford hotel now on blogTO
>> the last waltz of the oxford hotel | blogTO | robin sharp
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thursday, august 13th
the music
7.00 - 72 south 1st street
7.30 - miwa gemini
8.00 - griffin and the true believers
8.30 - dee addario
9.00 - fullspeed velocipede
the films
11.00 - la jetee, d. chris marker (1962)
a short science fiction film that served as the basis for terry gilliam’s 12 monkeys, this is a beautiful poem of love and time travel told in startling still shots.
11.30 - night of the hunter, d. charles laughton (1955)
the only film actor charles laughton ever directed, is a nightmarish mix of the gothic southern and the surreal. the film contains one of the most memorable (and menacing) performances by robert mitchum.
the original tagline - The wedding night, the anticipation, the kiss, the knife, BUT ABOVE ALL… THE SUSPENSE!
friday, august 14th
kegs will be tapped! $10 all you can drink beer.
the music
8.00 - diamond rings
8.30 - cigarettes
9.00 - fashion tips
9.45 - evening hymns
the film
11.00 - house party, d. reginald hudlin (1990)
the classic 90s hip hop party flic follows kid (christopher martin) as he tries to make it to his friend play’s (christopher martin) house party. will his dad find out he snuck out of the house? will the jocks he pissed off at school catch up with him? will racial prejudice in the local police force kill his buzz? yee-haw!
saturday, august 15th
the music
5.30 - antler
6.00 - dead elms society
6.30 - maggie cross
7.00 - the owle bird
7.30 - hamilton trading company
8.00 - basket of figs
8.30 - jordaan mason
9.00 - sarah ayton
9.30 - okay guard and the whatever jailer choir
10.00 - matt sajn
the film
11:00 - tba
sunday, august 16th
the food
6.00 - potluck
the game
8:00 - the village
the film
10.00 - woodstock, d. michael wadleigh (1970)
well shit. it just happens that the woodstock festival took place exactly 40 years ago today. the single most important reason that event is still cited as a touchstone of that earlier generation is this film. shot over the three days of the festival using more than 16 cameras and exposing some 120 miles of film, the doc has a strange power, successfully melting together footage of the preparations by the festival organizers, the reactions of the local townfolk, the swarming crowd of 400,000 transient hippies, along with unique (for the time) concert footage into a seamless (and unforgettable) experience. if you haven’t seen this film, you will be surprised. if you have, you will remember how good it really is.
interesting fact - martin scorsese was one of the cameramen (he later made the unforgettable concert film the last waltz) and the film editing was lead by the fiercely talented thelma schoonmaker (later the editor of every scorsese film of note and one of the few editors considered an auteur in their own right).
fashion tips is getting ready to release an new album. we shot these pics as part of their promo efforts. these are the initial edits but i thought i would share! they are working on updating their mySpace and getting a website launched in the next week so stay tuned for links featuring photography from this photo shoot.
oxford hotel | june 09
jordaan mason and the horse museum exorcise some demons at the music gallery show launching their new cd - divorce lawyers i shaved my head
hot damn. what a great show.
a strange collection of friends, family and the curious filled the music gallery on saturday night for jordaan mason and the horse museum’s cd release show at the music gallery.
in my philistine knowledge of music, i would say that the band sounded like a cross between the epic melting pot of the arcade fire, mixed with the ambitious conceptualness of the who’s tommy, and the personal exorcism and sexual obsession of nan goldin’s photography. if you got any of that, you have a shadowy, perhaps dingey, view of what jordaan and his horse museum sound like.
the band played through the entire album, a conceptual story about two gender confused people getting divorced. a certain tension filled the room as jordaan explained the songs were about some of the people in the room, including his parents. that detail, added upon the intimate feel the music gallery provides, and the songs personal and sexually explicit nature, created an awesome power in the room.
despite the hundreds in attendance, the officiousness of a public show and the thirteen member band, the performance maintained the feel and intimacy of a late night smoking session in jordaan’s room.
congratulations to the horse museum.
NOTE: THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED SOON WITH A LIVE RECORDING OF THE SHOW
>> jordaan mason and the horse museum | myspace
>> hamilton trading company | myspace
the music gallery!
k-rock, dan g, tara fillion, and cory latkovitch making sure people pay in hard, legitimate cash to get in
brad casey arrives in style
eric boshart | cousin | co-founder rap club | classy son-of-a-b*%#ch
escape from toronto | dan scarfone
megan
john stockman | immediately after i took this photo, he looked at it and said: “It’s just like me, only in a photo!”
cory latkovitch’s stupid face
getting nervous? jason wants to know if all his hard work will pay off. will people show up? and where in the hell is nich worby?!?
jordaan | man of the hour
nich worby
hamilton trading co.
simon at peace
jordaan mason and the horse museum | lighting it up
jordaan mason and the horse museum | lighting it up
my good friends jo and alex - couple extraordinaire - held an exhibit at the special projects gallery at york university. both were showing new works and i was very happy to have had the pleasure to attend. the event ran from may 25th to 29th.
as always, the show was well put together and the opening reception showcased jo’s vegan offerings. i literally gorged myself and fell asleep on the subway in a heap of sweat, clutching a take home container of jo’s girlguide cookies. i came to somewhere between wellesley and eglinton.
anyways. if you have not seen these two great peoples’ work, you should begin frequenting their websites so you will not miss your next chance. while you are there, you can see some of my handy photography of their paintings!
