Our friends Benjamin Bolling Schütze (Writer /Director / Actor) and Lyvia Cohen (Producer) are working on a film that, based on this prequel, is going to be amazing! Watch, and if you have a few spare $$, please consider making a donation to their crew to help them finish the film.
Donate here: http://www.parisquintet.com/
Our good friend Jeff Hamada over at Booooooom has come up with yet another fun interactive event happening this Saturday, July 24, called Little Drifters.. It’s all about building yourself a little boat using all natural materials and meeting up Saturday to float them, snap some pics and hang out. He’ll post all the photos he gets before the 26th on the website.
This event is happening elsewhere outside of Vancouver as well, so where ever you are, get some friends, make something small and pretty and float it on a body of water! Then send the pics to Jeff before the 26th.
In Vancouver, meet Jeff and everyone at Trout Lake Park (map), at the North end on the big dock at 1pm. Learn more here.
ps. Congrats to Booooooom for their recent article in the Vancouver Sun!
Our friend’s over at Cargoh launched their website a few weeks back. Cargoh is a place where artists, musicians, designers, and other miscellaneous creative types can be seen, heard, and collected in one community driven marketplace. It’s great to see new ways for emerging artists to sell their work, it’s what The Cheaper Show is all about.
They’ve made it easy to do, and if you sign-up before August 1st, it’s free for LIFE. Pretty amazing offer, we suggest you jump on it! Get over to www.cargoh.com and check it out.
OCW Magazine, formerly one cool word magazine, is currently accepting submissions for their relaunch issue, coming out in July 2010. Please submit black-and-white or colour artwork — in any genre or medium — to submissions@onecoolword.com by Friday, June 11, 2010. For more information, see their interim website at www.ocwmagazine.ca.
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Here’s summer reading recommendations from some friends of The Cheaper Show.
1| ADAM MAITLAND: Graduate Student UBC Architecture
Violence by Slavoj Zizek
2| ZOE PELED: Associate Producer | Volunteer Coordinator for The Cheaper Show
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
3| RUTH SKINNER: Photography Student at Emily Carr University
The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
4| JULIANA MOORE: Writer (Hobo Magazine)
Sailor and Lula by Barry Gifford
5| ALEX GRANT: Cheaper Show Volunteer
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
6| GRAEME BERGLUND: Founder | Creative Director of The Cheaper Show
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
7| ANDY DIXON: Artist (Participating in Cheaper No.9)
Mist by Miguel De Unamuno
8| FANNY BOSTROM: Artist (Participating in Cheaper No.9)
The World According to Garp By John Irving
9| OWEN ELLIS: Photographer (Participating in Cheaper No. 9)
2001 Space Odessy by Arthur C. Clarke
The Cheaper Show is excited to have Dustin Cole contribute some of his writings to our blog. This is the second in a series of three poems.
1.
“A close, angled script
does well to render
the imperceptible
Heroic
But your face
baffles
and a neat hand
does nothing for it:
The slight twitch
of lily-pond green
of pupils
of physical impossibilities
-Unknowns
2.
There will be
An Unfolding
Now
We are alien, though,
like orchids
Everything
that pleases
will fly away
in the midst
(and with the transcription)
of Your magnitude”
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Dustin Cole writes songs, poems and fiction while studying History and Art History. He also publishes Paradise Literary Journal from time to…soon another will appear.
All is good in Bohemia, he claims.
cmrtyz is Carlos M. Ruiz and Ty Ziskis with help of Amy Tisdale. I had the extreme pleasure of meeting this crew over this past weekend. Kyle Scully was shooting the look book for their shredded clothing line to be sold at OAK and I tagged along. Beyond their art based clothing, they make beautiful bizarre screen-prints and have a position of collaboration and support within the emerging rock and pysch music scene. Seattle based, they affirmed that people are doing awesome things everywhere.
The Cheaper Show is excited to have Dustin Cole contribute some of his writings to our blog. This is the first in a series of three poems.
Two men go for a walk
at dusk
Both are painters
One is a Landscape-Surrealist
One is a Superrealist
They both get along
Talk about women
Suddenly,
A slash of sunlight plunges down (in a red dusk)
From a froth of violet clouds
It warms the face
And shins (both are wearing shorts)
Of each man
The Superrealist, alarmed, says
What’s going on? it’s dusk.
The Landscape-Surrealist, pleased, smiles broadly,
Replies :
Dusk with sun
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Dustin Cole writes songs, poems and fiction while studying History and Art History. He also publishes Paradise Literary Journal from time to…soon another will appear.
All is good in Bohemia, he claims.