ZINE DREAM 2

ZINE DREAM 2
SUNDAY AUGUST 30th 2009 @ TRANZAC (292 Brunswick Ave.)
12 - 6 PM, PWYC

Zine Dream is a small press art fair with over 50 vendors of hand made arts and crafts, zines, prints, and more!

It will also feature:

Toronto Zine Library Open House/Collaborative Zine Making Workshop!

A Bake Sale!!

performances by

Nick Flanagan (www.toromagazine.com/popculture)
Anna May Henry
Zeesy Powers (http://www.zeesypowers.com/)

Music by

Carl Didur (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfh0eQxa4mM)
Andre Charles Theriault (http://www.myspace.com/andretheriault)
James Anderson
Braintrust (electronic duo of Peter Thompson and James Kirkpatrick!!)

&

Wes Allen (http://doingittodeath.wordpress.com/)
Boner Dragon (http://offwhiteto.blogspot.com/)
and DJ Body Beautiful (http://robertdayton.blogspot.com/) will be DJing in the main hall all day!

YOU DON'T LOVE ME YET

My band WET DIRT is playing this. I really love this Roky Erickson song from the 80s, hard to believe that it is from the 80s, so timeless. Something about this song, so direct yet with an opening line "Lightning never strikes anymore..." Pure emotion.
Anyways, it's free, it's this Saturday at 3 PM at Mercer union (1286 Bloor Street west) and it's the last day to catch Sarah Gregg Millman's art show as well.
Info:
Toronto-based musicians and artists will perform an evening of Johanna Billing’s ongoing project, You Don’t Love Me Yet. Fascinated by the ritualized potential inherent in performing cover versions of pop songs, Billing conceived a concert format based on one song only, to be interpreted by lo cal artists, bands, and groups. Taking its cue from Texas psychedelic rock legend Roky Erickson’s original 1984 version of the song, Billing has reinterpreted the logic of longing and longevity and decentralized the ideal of a single performance or solo performer, creating instead a rolling series of performances based on localized aesthetic sensibilities.

Each performance is videotaped and subsequently becomes the backbone to an archival instal lation of a “neverending tour” of You Don’t Love Me Yet. Beginning as a concert tour in multiple Scandinavian art institutes around 2002, Billing’s reformatting of the song has since been per formed over a hundred times in locations worldwide ranging from museums, galleries, music clubs and art fairs.

CANADIAN VANITY TREASURES

Broken Pencil Magazine asked me to write an article for them on four of my favourite Canadian Vanity Pressing LPs.
The article is here:
http://www.brokenpencil.com/features/feature.php?featureid=122

And, yes, I am looking for any info on the people who made some of these albums.....I mean, look at the pic here, who could have designed that?

JURY

Photo still by Jessica Eaton from the upcoming feature "Leslie My Name Is Evil."

MALE MODELS NEEDED...

...say the signs all over town and I cry because I am tooo old....tooo old...too pudgy....too bald.

But I really do need only two more male artists for the project that I have posted details of in a recent post. I have found more than enough female artists but I guess the boys are shy. And, no, one doesn't have to be nude for the shots, this work is not trying to do empty NYC skater-infused photo art circa 2001, that ain't the crux. The photos are for research purposes only.
I am still trying to determine if I should render these large drawings in pencil as a more 'fine art' thing to go with the theme of the show or in my usual pen-and-ink with possibility of watercolor. Feedback? thoughts? Since I am blogging i may as well get more intimate and interactive and ask you guys...
And if you know of any male artists let me know ASAP!

Once More For FEELINGS

Last one...sighhh...press release below...

FINAL SUNDAY AUGUST 2nd
THE OSSINGTON (61 OSSINGTON STREET)
NO COVER! 9 PM-Late
With D.J. Body Beautiful and a midnight candlelight night recitation by Robert Dayton, Junior

We have been given a mild reprieve of one week before the Ossington shuts its’ doors on Sundays entirely for the rest of the month of August. Yes, this is the last Sunday. Will we be back? It’s not up to us. Allow us to put it thusly, we believe in The Multiverse so, even if we don’t come back in this universe, we will return in other universes. In another universe we are a multi-coloured Princess indulging in bon bons while whistling- no mean feat.
Speaking of segues, for this final Sunday we are going to get rather self-indulgent by playing a plethora of whistle music! That’s right, platters of music with whistling. We don’t know how to whistle ourselves so we have records that do it for us. Those who can’t, deejay. We implore you to come!
We will also be selling the latest edition of our self-help booklet Y2K Compatible for just 2 dollars. It is the bleakest edition yet: to suit the times.
Many people who have not previously attended have wondered what a Recitation is? It is a classic form that we have torn asunder with a fervor most Biblical, and all the subtlety of a cascading butterfly, to render spontaneous, going against its’ very name. It is a unique mix of eleven herbs and spices that remain a pathetic secret through unlabeled flavour packets. It is your Mother’s beckoning teat. Powerful.

Bask in them....
FEELINGS is a special night where we spin music that you probably won’t normally hear. A boutique mix of :
ELUSIVE DREAMINGS/PRIVATE PRESSINGS/BALD HEADED BALLADEERS/FREE FORMS/CAN CON CONCRETE/B SIDE EXCURSIONS/ELECTRONIC PRIMITIVA/EMOTIONS/EURO HORRORS/INTENSELY PERSONAL VISIONS/DEEP PSYCH/UN-EASY LISTENINGS AND BALLADS/PRISON SOUNDTRACKS/FANTASTIC JOURNEYS OF WONDER/ACTOR AS SINGER/
ORGAN-ISMS/NEO-BAROQUE
With a midnight candlelight night recitation by Robert Dayton, Junior
This will be ...special.

Male and female artists with studio spaces needed as research for project.

Needed: male and female artists with relatively conventional studio spaces in the GTA to volunteer for photo documentation to be used as source material for 6 large pen and ink works on paper entitled "STUDIO VISITS." Yes, this is art about art.
These drawings will depict the artist naked but the artist will not need to pose naked for the photo source material if they don't want to. Yes, clothing can be worn so long as it's not in the ultra-baggy skater/hippy/pigeonholing etc style. I prefer to depict 3 males and 3 females. Whether the artists themselves will be exactly represented is, as yet, to be determined. Their works will NOT be depicted. In fact, any materials will be rendered completely blank as this series will be more about the give-and-take relationship between artist and dealer/gallery owner/curator/intruder/patron.
Note: by conventional, I mean that the completed pieces have to convey to the viewer that it is definitely a studio space without any of the artists' work represented.
Feel free to forward this note.
E mail: Robert Dayton at moustachedpainless@yahoo.com if you are interested and have any questions.