PLAYING TAG

First Fridays-February 3

2012-01-15T22:33:00.001-06:00

Still wrestling the eggnog from my hand-looking to FF Feb. 3

First Fridays-January 6

2012-01-03T10:56:00.001-06:00

Putting down the eggnog and preparing for First Friday- January 6, 5-9 pm

http://www.firstfridayswinnipeg.org

2008-11-15T20:09:00.026-06:00

So...

PLAYING TAG:

The carrying out of this idea didn't always feel comfortable but it did feel right.

Please start at the beginning-
1st entry/Sunday, October 19, 2008

Grill

2008-11-08T11:29:00.002-06:00

Becoming one with the original.

You say Good-bye I say Hello

2008-10-30T19:19:00.009-05:00

Hello Hello -

The best part about blogs is that there is input everyday.

So sorry.

Need some time to collect thoughts.

Staples beat paper every time

2008-10-26T19:32:00.007-05:00

Tambourine Head emerges victorious!

Smokes

2008-10-26T19:27:00.001-05:00

Beginning to look like some crumpled up dried up big old leaf.

Princess Grill

2008-10-26T19:21:00.002-05:00

Blending into the neighbourhood.

The Last Roundup

2008-10-26T19:13:00.002-05:00

Sunday after noon, after rain, after traffic.

gone gone gone gone gone

2008-10-25T23:51:00.004-05:00

Half gone

2008-10-25T23:47:00.003-05:00

Second chance

2008-10-25T23:38:00.003-05:00

Tambourine head might just emerge again.

Disappearing

2008-10-25T23:33:00.002-05:00

Edged out by Santa.

Saved

2008-10-25T23:30:00.002-05:00

And the smokes were moved out of the rain.

Tagged

2008-10-25T22:57:00.009-05:00

Couple of great surprises tonight.

Someone tagged the alley poster. Real tag on the pretend one.

After I did my rounds and headed home I just had to come back and take this one down for myself.

2008-10-25T12:57:00.003-05:00

Video still from Thursday afternoon.

Fading Out

2008-10-25T11:19:00.004-05:00

The last posters went up yesterday.

I'll check on them today and tomorrow will decide how to end.

Still there

2008-10-25T00:27:00.002-05:00

Jazz

2008-10-24T22:23:00.004-05:00

Well.

They obviously belong there.

Reunion

2008-10-24T22:05:00.009-05:00

Adelaide Accident

2008-10-24T21:29:00.011-05:00

Just laying the musical staff on this image wasn't working and made me see a wider potential for applying other graphics (graffiti) onto a photo.

Wanted this to be a bigger image so got two 89¢ posters and taped them together.

Frugality and creativity working together in harmony.

City Hall

2008-10-24T21:21:00.012-05:00

Exquisite fall day down in the Exchange and no doubt everywhere else in this fine city.

Feeling good.

Got that image onto that wall.

Tambourine Head Staple Man Poster

2008-10-24T00:15:00.005-05:00

It got stapled -alas.

Tomorrow I take on City Hall!

New

2008-10-24T00:12:00.001-05:00

Geese #2

2008-10-24T00:07:00.003-05:00

Not much left of the image-

Staples#2

2008-10-24T00:00:00.003-05:00

Not much open space here-the poster is at the bottom.

Princess Grill 2

2008-10-23T23:55:00.004-05:00

Hello follower #2

2008-10-23T23:37:00.000-05:00

Redux

2008-10-23T23:30:00.004-05:00

I had an assistant tonight and all went even better than skulking around by myself.

After considering replacing the missing posters I decided to recycle them instead -so got posters made of the photos of the original posters of the initial photos.

You know, I'm sitting here thinking I should have written on them "this poster is missing" or "Have you seen this missing poster"

" This poster was last seen" etc.

Having quite a lot of fun with this.

An Invitation

2008-10-23T20:51:00.005-05:00

Tonight I'll put out only one new image (above) and four reminders of the posters that have disappeared.

By the way-any thoughtful embellishment that might appear on these posters could be interesting.

Bird Watching

2008-10-23T12:52:00.003-05:00

Report

2008-10-23T12:07:00.001-05:00

A component of this project could be spying. Did a bit of that this morning.

The Jazz posters still up. The blinds were closed though so I thought-hmmmm.. their office probably doesn't open until 11 so I'll go to the Fyxx across the street, watch from the window and maybe witness a reaction.

This is what I imagine bird watching might be like. Long stretches of nothing and then...nothing.

After 11 I phoned to see if they were open-a person did answer-but I refrained from asking why the blinds were closed when EVERY OTHER TIME I GO BY THERE THEY ARE WIDE OPEN.

The Geese/Artspace one is gone but now I'm thinking -did it peel off? I'll check the ground later.

Got a better on site shot of Into the Music.

2008-10-23T03:00:00.000-05:00

Jazz

2008-10-23T02:49:00.001-05:00

And the last for tonight.

Fretted about putting these on their window. Should I ask permission, is it rude etc.

Hope they have a sense of humour and leave them up long enough for me to get a daytime shot.

2008-10-23T02:37:00.001-05:00

Borrowed George Crumb's Spiral Galaxy for this one.growabrain.typepad.com/.../ julieta_venegas.html

Geese

2008-10-23T01:57:00.000-05:00

Did get one of geese flying high over Artspace. The page of stickers from Dollarama has been useful.

I don't see songbirds in the district-no telephone wires.

Missing

2008-10-23T01:34:00.004-05:00

Two more are gone. The cigarette butts and staple guy. I was looking forward to seeing how the cigarette one survived the rain but it's completely gone, no tape left even. I put up another staple guy in a different place-this one has a mad face and a tambourine sticker on what passes for his head.

After midnight

2008-10-23T00:47:00.002-05:00

A beautiful night in the Exchange District. Groups of people hanging out on the corner, chatting on and on into the night.

People! Go home to your beds! I have posters to put up.

Put up 2 of the Pop Can Lady.

2008-10-22T19:36:00.000-05:00

OK. Off to Canadian Tire for more tape.

A lot about Art, I see, is knowing the materials for eg. Which tape works best on each particular surface-brick wall, cold glass.

Now, I don't intend to vandalize.

I am only playing at tag after all.

Welcome

2008-10-22T18:08:00.000-05:00

Hey, I have a follower and they're not friends or family.

Sent & Received

2008-10-22T17:00:00.000-05:00

Great reaction so far to my mass e-mailing yesterday. Thank you.

Will venture out tonight to check water and other damage and put up 3 or 4 new images.

One Down

2008-10-21T21:28:00.002-05:00

There has been activity.

The Princess Grill is gone-just a few downy bird feathers stuck to the remains of carpet tape. I checked the street and gutters but saw nothing familiar.

Vandals, Sanitation workers? No telling.

Got all rainy tonight as I was plotting my next recon.

Will put more up tomorrow including the image above -the Lady of the Pop Cans.

Playing Tag

2008-10-20T20:44:00.001-05:00

A typical autumn scene (above) reminded me of practicing scales on the piano and was the inspiration for this project. Soon there were musical notes everywhere- broken glass,cigarettes and raindrops.

A few months ago I received a very welcomed grant from the Winnipeg Arts Council to create a series of prints using images of the Exchange District and, by superimposing the musical staff on them like a Graffiti tag, evoke playable and imagined sound and music. These prints are near completion.

This subject of this blog is a parallel project.

I wanted to reunite these images with their places of origin-literally take them back to the streets in the form of altered, inexpensive posters. This is the work in progress.

More images

2008-10-20T20:14:00.000-05:00

Over the next few days I will be putting up more posters around the Exchange.

Checked on the ones I put out Sunday and they are intact. The Princess Grill poster was encased in a nest of leaves. Watched as 3 foot patrol officers walked past and one glanced down at it -nothing more.

Next post I will describe the project.

Rain tomorrow

2008-10-20T09:42:00.000-05:00

As this is ultimately an ephemeral exhibition, I expect the weather will play a part in the physical breakdown of the posters.

They look tough though-89 cents each from Industry Images on McDermot.

# 5 Princess Grill

2008-10-20T02:40:00.000-05:00

2008-10-20T02:35:00.001-05:00

Found a great sticker to put in with the "notes".

2008-10-20T02:31:00.002-05:00

Stapled it right beside the S&R poster.

The posters are so thick it creates a pillowy effect

2008-10-20T01:55:00.001-05:00

This is the second poster I put out tonight (Sunday, October 19).

I put indoor/outdoor carpet tape on the back of the poster and stuck it directly onto the sidewalk after giving it a good sweep. I see now that a better colour match would make the image more camouflaged.

In front of the Fleet Gallery as long as it lasts.

2008-10-19T13:27:00.002-05:00

Bits of broken glass collected on the stencil that I sprayed in an alleyway last year.

A couple of leaves got close. The stencil wore off over the months.

The poster is between Albert & Arthur Streets near the location of the original stencil.

Photo taken around September 22, 2007