Matthew Lyons
Matthew Lyons is a 21 year old illustrator from Loughborough, England. His work makes me want to get a tablet and start illustrating again!
The Afterlife by Yacht
Are you kidding me?! I posted a song from Yacht’s See Mystery Lights a few weeks ago, but I didn’t actually listen to the rest of the album until last night. Turns out IT IS AMAZING. The Afterlife is the second track.
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IRM by Charlotte Gainsbourg
In 2007, Charlotte Gainsbourg suffered a brain hemorrhage following a water-skiing accident. While recovering, she spent a lot of time in an MRI machine, which inspired the title track off her new album: “Every time I was in that tube I was thinking it would make great music.” IRM is produced, mixed and co-written by Beck, and his penitent for ramshackle psychedelia shows through – but doesn’t overpower Gainsbourg’s dead-pan vocals. This song is great.
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Art Matters and Material Applied
Art Matters is a city-wide festival organized by Concordia Fine Arts every year: Student-curated exhibitions are put on in commercial galleries across the city for three weeks. Art Matters 2010 has seventeen shows, spread between March 1-19:
This year I’m in the design show Material Applied, curated by my friend Sean Yendrys. The theme of the show was a call to create functional objects from found materials — I worked with Emily Paris to create screen-printed wallpaper from spreads of the Montreal Gazette (more about that later). Also exhibiting work in the show: Gaia Orain, Evans Adrian, David Abraham, Peter Fortune, Brian Li, Kyosuke Nishida, Dominic Liu, Aria Campbell-Kelly and Catherine Wakim.
Material Applied is on at Les Territoires and opened last thursday, but the vernissage is next Thursday, March 11 from 6-8pm.
