At the Vancouver Art Museum on Sunday, I came across this Stan Douglas installation, Klatsassin. It’s a mixed media (does that sound like 1991 calling to your ears, too?) sort of thing and I found the portraits before the video.
The portraits are fantastic (Constable, Prisoner, Thief, Deputy — there are 8[?] more in the museum) and quite large, which suits me just fine. I like to get eye-crossing-close to photographs to see what’s within the plane of focus and to let them overwhelm my field of vision.
Klatsassin Portraits (Constable) 2006
I found my way into the video presentation smack in the middle of the Prisoner speaking Tsîlhqot’in to the Frenchman who’s translating it to French for the Constable whose Scottish brogue relays it all to us. Then they reverse the process, all the while looking at the camera — though at one point, the Prisoner is clearly irritated and turns as best he can in his chair to speak directly to the Frenchman.
Turns out there are, get this, 890 variations of the 5-minute film. !! …I watched just the 1. (:
I think what I like so well about the whole thing is that Douglas pulled an historical event from local history, but one that’s not been done to death (e.g., Custer’s Last Stand) and thus has ground to give in the way of interpretations. I dug it (and spent the bulk of my art museum time there).
Vancouver Art Museum, clandestinely.
We changed our style several years ago on plurals like this. Here’s what the current “plurals” entry in The Times’s stylebook says:
But do not use apostrophes for plurals of abbreviations without periods, or for plurals formed from figures: TVs, PCs, DVDs; 1990s, 747s, size 7s.
A year ago, John sent this and there was much rejoicing. There’s something very…cruising up PCH about that opening guitar. I’m pretty sure I was the only person in the theater who clapped (quietly! to myself!) when it popped up in (500) Days of Summer.
Lunch of champions! (Yesterday in Vancouver. No poutine. ): )
Rocking my HBC toque. (: (yes, I’m a dork.)
Lunch with Oscar.
Snapped— captured? the Emigre homepage for the blockiness and the colour combination. Also: Mr Eaves is aces! Look at that Q!
(It’s a Britishism to drop the period after Mr, Ms, Mrs, etc. right? Anyway, I like it.)
I’ve been on a bit of a roll with the Polaroid 330 this last week and I’m enjoying every frame of it. 2 packs of colour film gone with 3 more en route for my trip to Vancouver.
This morning, post-daily chai acquisition, I stood next to my car trying to line up a shot of just one of the lovely golden trees fluttering all over Bellevue. nb: rangefinder focusing on leaves is tricky!
(Should I really be calling these Polaroids? Sure they’re made in a Polaroid camera, but the film is Fuji. Hm. Calling them “instant pictures” isn’t right, either, or anyway it sounds silly. “Polaroids” gets the point across; I’ll stick with it. [Final answer.])
Miller is my favourite (current) Steeler: he’s a quiet guy who does his job and does it incredibly well (he’s certainly one of the top tight-ends in the league right now).
…we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.
American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson
That is totally out of context (hello: “quote”), but it’s great. (It comes at the end of a quick description of his son playing in Little League.)
![I’ve been on a bit of a roll with the Polaroid 330 this last week and I’m enjoying every frame of it. 2 packs of colour film gone with 3 more en route for my trip to Vancouver.
This morning, post-daily chai acquisition, I stood next to my car trying to line up a shot of just one of the lovely golden trees fluttering all over Bellevue. nb: rangefinder focusing on leaves is tricky!
(Should I really be calling these Polaroids? Sure they’re made in a Polaroid camera, but the film is Fuji. Hm. Calling them “instant pictures” isn’t right, either, or anyway it sounds silly. “Polaroids” gets the point across; I’ll stick with it. [Final answer.])](http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_krtp6cpXb71qz6thlo1_500.jpg)
