Crazy artistic all-nighter (with waffles)
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secondlina This weekend was good! I went to Montréal with the art group for our Exhibit during Montréal 6pm to 6 am event, Nuit Blanche (french for all-nighter). The exhibit was awesome. I stayed after with Link to celebrate his birthday. Came for the art, stayed for the snuggles. But talk is cheap, here are the pictures!
Before the all nighter, we started off in bed, with our beloved collective project, the quilt! It's a pretty functional quilt, it's got a backing and filling and everything. Very comfty. There's everyone under it. We were missing two artists. One could not be among us for personal reasons. The other was coming in a bit later the next day during the actual event.
We had to walk in the snow carrying all the pieces of the exhibit (a bed, an inflatable matress, misc. things and of course, the quilt, snug in my old hockey bag)
Then setup! Everyone looked so pretty too! Especially the Other Isabelle, who was muy sexy! Our exhibit space was in the train station at the end of an underground tunnel line. This year's Nuit Blanche was a little weird. I think they were trying to avoid last's year's giant traffic jams, but this year they ended up putting artists in these weird dead ends. We were kindoff in a dead end and a bit hard to find, but the quilt was super popular in our sector (sector 7).
We so official with out "Artists" Badges. (No, the badges did not give us free cookies at random spots. I am disapointed. But proud! lol) Thank you Other Isa for this photo.
Oh quilt! YOU AS SO BEAUTIFAAAAAL!
In sector 7, there was also carboard boxes with water and water flowers (REAL water), a strange Noah's ark, some Dj's in high places and awesome spray paint artists doing their stuff live!
The boxes were everywhere and looked so eerie and poetic.
I ended up spending most of the night with Georgia, another artist in the group. We had 2-hour shifts in which we looked over the quilt in groups of two. In between our shifts, Georgia and I visited the contemporary art gallery ( that was free), got cosmos (ooooh, yummy), sugar, felt like dancing, tried out random massage chairs and I bought a pillow hat! (IT IS AWESOME! also, money goes to charity. That's why I bought it... no it's not...)
Link had a birthday thing going on. Though I was sad he wasn't at Nuit blanche and he seemd to want me at his thing, we both had a lot of fun with our friends on our own side. He would not have enjoyed Nuit Blanche as much as me, and I don't really know his friends, so it all worked out great.
Georgia squeals because of the massage chair. She found it weird. XD
PILLOWHAT! Actually really useful later in the night and during the bus ride home.
Georgia with pillowhat
GOOD JOB TO THE WHOLE ART GROUP! WE ROCK!
And now i'm back in Ottawa for Job. Ah, montréal, how you are fun sometimes!
-Isa
Before the all nighter, we started off in bed, with our beloved collective project, the quilt! It's a pretty functional quilt, it's got a backing and filling and everything. Very comfty. There's everyone under it. We were missing two artists. One could not be among us for personal reasons. The other was coming in a bit later the next day during the actual event.
We had to walk in the snow carrying all the pieces of the exhibit (a bed, an inflatable matress, misc. things and of course, the quilt, snug in my old hockey bag)
Then setup! Everyone looked so pretty too! Especially the Other Isabelle, who was muy sexy! Our exhibit space was in the train station at the end of an underground tunnel line. This year's Nuit Blanche was a little weird. I think they were trying to avoid last's year's giant traffic jams, but this year they ended up putting artists in these weird dead ends. We were kindoff in a dead end and a bit hard to find, but the quilt was super popular in our sector (sector 7).
We so official with out "Artists" Badges. (No, the badges did not give us free cookies at random spots. I am disapointed. But proud! lol) Thank you Other Isa for this photo.
Oh quilt! YOU AS SO BEAUTIFAAAAAL!
In sector 7, there was also carboard boxes with water and water flowers (REAL water), a strange Noah's ark, some Dj's in high places and awesome spray paint artists doing their stuff live!
The boxes were everywhere and looked so eerie and poetic.
I ended up spending most of the night with Georgia, another artist in the group. We had 2-hour shifts in which we looked over the quilt in groups of two. In between our shifts, Georgia and I visited the contemporary art gallery ( that was free), got cosmos (ooooh, yummy), sugar, felt like dancing, tried out random massage chairs and I bought a pillow hat! (IT IS AWESOME! also, money goes to charity. That's why I bought it... no it's not...)
Link had a birthday thing going on. Though I was sad he wasn't at Nuit blanche and he seemd to want me at his thing, we both had a lot of fun with our friends on our own side. He would not have enjoyed Nuit Blanche as much as me, and I don't really know his friends, so it all worked out great.
Georgia squeals because of the massage chair. She found it weird. XD
PILLOWHAT! Actually really useful later in the night and during the bus ride home.
Georgia with pillowhat
GOOD JOB TO THE WHOLE ART GROUP! WE ROCK!
And now i'm back in Ottawa for Job. Ah, montréal, how you are fun sometimes!
-Isa
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-04 04:28 pm (UTC)That reminds me of that Calvin and Hobbes comic with the alive blanket.
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-04 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-04 05:33 am (UTC)I haven't seen massage chairs since I was in Vancouver, B.C.! I actually got a picture of a friend and one of her friends in them. They are weird, but they do feel sort of good...in a weird way..
The pillow hat looks pretty cool!
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:30 pm (UTC)And pillow hats are ALWAYS cool.
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Date: 2009-03-04 02:15 pm (UTC)And I got to say, the boxes with the waterflowers was a neat idea. It catches your attention.
The pillowhat would be useful for car rides. I want one! XD
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-04 04:20 pm (UTC)That quilt also looks like it devours unsuspecting artists.
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:31 pm (UTC)That's where the two missing artists are, we just don't want to tell you.
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-05 03:05 am (UTC)That hat look so fun! I could've use one like it on vacation last year when we were traveling by car.
And you look so cute!
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Date: 2009-03-05 03:35 am (UTC)And sooooo much fun! I had no odea where to go to the contemporary gallery, had i known i would have gone there with grant, it would have probably been better then walking 3kn to see like 6 art pieces (i'm exagerating, but as you said ,the art was waaaaay too far apart).
But yay us on being awesome!