art’s birthday
Yesterday was Art’s Birthday. Not the guy, the concept. There were a few events around town to mark the annual occasion, including one at the Winnipeg Art Gallery which was out of our price range. So my pals and I celebrated at the Royal Albert Arms for VideoPool’s blowout.
First we had to make costumes.
Chantal designed this number that reads “Art Is a Man’s Name” with some puffy rosettes at the hem.
Here’s me in the zebra and Ruth in the blue leopard. I made us our awesome masks. I think from now on I’m going to be adding feathers to everything. The zebra print dress is actually just a fabric tube that I picked up at the Bay garage sale (yes, that again!). I made the obi-style belt and naturally the teal tights were already in my everyday wardrobe.
As for the event itself, I’ll just leave you with some photo montages. My photography was not particularly stellar but hopefully you can get some of the idea of the wonderment.
1. Woah, 2. Amazing, 3. Cam’s Duct-Tape Suit, 4. Vilar & Co-Op
1. Cam as “Liberal Guilt”, 2. Where’s Rob Vilar?, 3. Tim Hoover & Freya Olafson, 4. Characters
Tags: art, costumes, parties, the royal albert, winnipeg
August 8th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
[...] My tolerance level for clutter is high; in fact, I prefer and even require a good amount of visual stimulation to stoke my creativity, so I have a lot of art and tchotchkes around me. But a combination of factors has led to a level beyond even my capability to handle, so it’s time to take care of business. And I have done — last weekend, I came home from a friend’s cottage early and spent Sunday evening and the Monday of the long weekend emptying my main storage closet and sorting out some stuff to get rid of. The key problem here is craft supplies. Some would say I have “too many”; I say I have what I need. I need to have a collection of supplies that includes a wide variety of things, including the following: feathers, beads, glue guns, leatherworking supplies (you never know), paper, hole punches, glitter paint, regular paint, lace, ribbon, and more, in addition to the essentials of yarn and fabrics. So I’m not giving up my assortment of miscellany (it allows me to host costume preparation parties like the one I had on the occasion of Art’s Birthday back in January). [...]