Never know how to start these things. Here goes. What a week! An impromptu trip to Black Diamond, Alberta was a superfun adventure starring Beccy Feather and various glass blowers. It was great to meet Tyler and Julia and check out their hot shop and studio. After a great BBQ Beccy and I hit the town in true booze hag fashion and went to the (only) bar in Black Diamond and immediately made ourselves unpopular with our juke box selections. Who doesn't like a little Tom Petty with their Jack and Coke?
The next day was a gong show in Calgary... I am never letting the museum send me anywhere again. NEXT!
So then a Bacon day on Saturday followed by an early evening flight to Van-cougar with Julianna. Fun times indeed! All the favorite Etown expats were there (Nutting, DCole, KO, etc) including a few surprises like Brad Payne. It was a great weekend. Saturday night we cruised to Main with Kristine and met Dustin and Joel at Habit. Delicious! Dustin was our gracious host Saturday night, we were even treated to a private show of some new stuff he's working on. Fantastic.
Then it's kind of a blur of coffee shopping coffee eating bagels from Solly's shopping coffee eating. Which brings us to Sunday. Sunday night was the most fantastic epicurean experience I have ever had. Meat Cheese and Wine. Seriously amazing. When next you find yourself in Vancouver, eat at Salt Tasting Room http://www.salttastingroom.com/ then thank me later. We finished the meal with a salty chocolate dessert and the chef brought us some sherry and I swear to God I saw visions of nature when I drank it. Like trees and deer and shit. fuct up.
Monday's highlight was seeing a totally inspiring show at the VAG (Vancouver Art Gallery, but they actually stamp your hand with a big blue 'VAG'. it's awesome.) with Julianna and D. House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective. I can't even tell you how genius this chap is, the show blew me away. Here's a picture of Bat Project 2, a full-scale model of the cockpit of an American spy plane, filled with taxodermically preserved bats. There were so many great things about this show, I'm so glad we made the time to see it. Shout out to all the suckas who were milling around on the first floor lookin' at Picasso.
Alright, that's enough bloggin for one day. I will try to post some images if I can find the camera... hmmm...
The next day was a gong show in Calgary... I am never letting the museum send me anywhere again. NEXT!
So then a Bacon day on Saturday followed by an early evening flight to Van-cougar with Julianna. Fun times indeed! All the favorite Etown expats were there (Nutting, DCole, KO, etc) including a few surprises like Brad Payne. It was a great weekend. Saturday night we cruised to Main with Kristine and met Dustin and Joel at Habit. Delicious! Dustin was our gracious host Saturday night, we were even treated to a private show of some new stuff he's working on. Fantastic.
Then it's kind of a blur of coffee shopping coffee eating bagels from Solly's shopping coffee eating. Which brings us to Sunday. Sunday night was the most fantastic epicurean experience I have ever had. Meat Cheese and Wine. Seriously amazing. When next you find yourself in Vancouver, eat at Salt Tasting Room http://www.salttastingroom.com/ then thank me later. We finished the meal with a salty chocolate dessert and the chef brought us some sherry and I swear to God I saw visions of nature when I drank it. Like trees and deer and shit. fuct up.
Monday's highlight was seeing a totally inspiring show at the VAG (Vancouver Art Gallery, but they actually stamp your hand with a big blue 'VAG'. it's awesome.) with Julianna and D. House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective. I can't even tell you how genius this chap is, the show blew me away. Here's a picture of Bat Project 2, a full-scale model of the cockpit of an American spy plane, filled with taxodermically preserved bats. There were so many great things about this show, I'm so glad we made the time to see it. Shout out to all the suckas who were milling around on the first floor lookin' at Picasso.
Alright, that's enough bloggin for one day. I will try to post some images if I can find the camera... hmmm...
2 comments:
aw, now I'm disappointed I didn't see the vag show. the stamp and the plane! when I was there last week, they just took down herzog and the monet hadn't been up yet. one show for the price of three? never.
well, I guess I went the non-fun weekend, which figures, but this meat and cheese and wine business has me think I should go and visit ko or something in the enxt little while . . . oh wait, she's a veg again. damn these people. next time you and julie go, ring me in.
Yeah it wasn't the same without you, man. I was so disapointed to find out that you went the previous week - curses!
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