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What a day. It kind of seems unreal and I’m having trouble grasping that it’s actually happened — that Bush is out of the White House and a man with such incredible potential is in.

In order to mark this day, I thought I’d post some of the amazing artwork that Obama’s campaign and victory has inspired. I think the plethora of vibrant images speaks very strongly to the inspiration Obama has been able to provide to Americans, specifically youth and the creative.

Congratulations, America!

“obama talks to u.s.” wall art

Obama Car Art

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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

I wanted to have this post up sooner but was thwarted by my attempts to embed video on WordPress (still have not solved, despite the use of several plugins).

Here’s what I wanted to say: on Saturday past, Art City and Send + Receive cohosted a workshop led by U.S. art collective Dearraindrop.

We covered a huge piece of white paper with paint, crayons, markers and sticker vinyl. Then we took Dearraindrop’s colour readers, recorded samples of voice, toy accordion, recorders, or anything really, into them and then waved the devices over the colours. The devices read the colours and translated them as sounds, versions of the samples we had inputted, varying pitch and speed depending on the colour. (For instance, we found that waving the sensor over dark blue rendered a sound that was truest to the original sample recording; other colours made it squeak or bellow.)

1. The Dearraindrop Gang 2. Devon & Aaron 3. Mark 4. My part of the mural

Everyone collaborated. Also fun was playing with Dearraindrop’s musical instruments, where you can input sound into the microphone and then mess around with the playback, like on the riotously painted guitar you see my brother playing at the end of the video. (Click to watch.)

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