everybody's favourite bridge

pissing in public in vancouver

hello gentleman, i know a few of you have enjoyed the rush of public urination. it feels great, doesn't it???? well, i'm here to tell you about pissing in public .... in vancouver

you will need to compromise on an "ideal pissing location" as even in industrial areas, everything is well lit and surrounded by cameras. i had that frustration this evening. however, i found a construction pit and pissed there. it was grand.

dumpsters, an oft used obstruction are pretty cool. lots well lit, but the unlit ones have hobos. so many hobos in vancouver you have to be careful or they might grab yo dick!

previously this week i was frustrated, lights everywhere, no good options. given that i had the compulsion (every man knows the feeling) to mark my territory i figure, hey, if i'm already lowering my standards for "optimal urban pissing location" by pissing in a well lit alley, may as well piss in a well lit car dealership. on a FORD TRUCK.

Compared to edmonton where pissing seemed like an obvious response to environment, pissing in vancouver is entirely unique. There's an exhiliration, a thrill to pissing behind a million dollar home in an overpriced residential area, to wondering "will i find any privacy before i can't hold it in any longer???" , to "whoops the cambie st. bridge is directly above cop car city."

visit me, july 4th and onwards, we'll piss together with pride.

MICHAEL CANN REPORTING

First of all, I lol'd at the title. Second of all, I just got a camera. Third of all, I don't have a mamory card just yet, I'm getting one this saturday. Since I can't draw, nor paint, I think my addition to this will be photographs, so expect beauty. I will re report when I have the Wu documents. Over.

http://www.woostercollective.com/2009/04/new_york_street_advertising_takeover_bri.html

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105898501434375357815.0004651a78f1a7f208624&z=13

EXCELLENT. i bet vancouver has a tonne of unregistered billboards.

SQUARES

AA

BB

CC

DD

THE ROBBERS WERE IN SPACE

RIDDLE THIS RIDDLE THAT RIDDLE RIDDLE RIDDLE

Sexless marriages between racists who eschew cinema and rock music empower circumstance to generate conscious physics text-books


Pleasureless profit done to the exclusion of activity for pleasure causes the subject to become a boring and uninteresting agent.

TWO THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT, FIGURE OUT THE CATCHPHRASE FOR A SPECIAL PRIZE YOUR HINT IS GHOSTS

greenville

hey devon! do you get it? do you see what is happening here?

phace

I'm not actually very pleased with how this turned out, but i do think that's a really cool wall. It's just jammed in a really weird spot, that fortunately is with some good bricks instead of a jamboree of parking instructions.

Hey this one is a collaboration from D.J.Z. and me using conf. I like the pretty colors. =)

nalc gnat-uw

i had a vision of the future

Doolb & Ecitsuj

I bought a Wu-tang shirt yesterday. Pics to follow.

-Michael C

my old journal

I used to keep a regular journal. I still do, in a way, but not of the physical sort. That is, I meta journal, with computer machines and sketchbooks that mash images and words together, but they're mostly meaningless mashups, stream of consciousness etcetera. I think, this is a bit regretful, the loss of the trusted five-star class companion, so I'm resolving to keep an actual, physical journal from now on because finding this in my parent's house feels like...well, finding a treasure, but the treasure is me!

I couldn't find a decent indicator of date in this, but it should be from sometime between 2002 and 2003, because one entry references Adrian Giddings, but I failed to provide any context that could be used to solve the puzzle. There are some funny entries.

I can always rely on the TV to turn on, and being able to find shitty commercials. I can rely on horror movies mostly sucking, and being depressed about some girl. If I was to lose this security, I would feel married.

In the journal, there are also about half a dozen pages filled up with "All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy." - I have no idea why I changed it from "Jack" to "Johnny" - after all, I had seen the shining. One of the most amusing entries was a stick figure diagram I drew of myself, probably in some effort to seek identity. I drew a line to my head indicating "affinity for shakespeare" and a line to my gut labeled "insatiable cola greed."

The weirdest entry, (ironically, the only dated one, but with no indicator of year) duplicated below, makes no sense to me whatsoever. I hadn't done any hard drugs at this point in my life, so I really can't offer any explanation for it.

October 22nd,

Dear kids,

my name is david; my father's name was edward and my mother's was never told to me. If what I learned can be trusted (and I admit I have my concerns) I was born 28 years ago on the island to the west of V. My mother is consumed by a certain degree of inconclusivity, and is of no consequence; a tale of no hope.

I was going to be famous. Then my parents found out. I had the perfect wife, but then she got influenza, and died of horrible...

-Worldwide Fame

-Ruling the Universe

-Cosplaying Bunchies

- Japanese Newspapers

- Adrian Gidding's being elected President

- Candles for november 4th.

The disparity between myself and others caused by what is most easily identified as my religious beliefs prevents me from pursing... (scratched out, i clearly never wanted to remember what i wrote here)... that's all I can come up with. She seems to have something of a permanent existence inside my head for which I have no explanation. Choke it down, choke it down. I dreamt I lived in a semi truck with mark, he had bunk beds and a swimming pool.

[ Give Up ] (there was a box drawn around this)

- Lid

- Door

- Mud

- Black Paint

- White Out



And that's probably the most entertaining part. Except for some Dimmu Borgir fan art I drew, which I'll upload later.

French artist Jean Dubuffet was particularly struck by Bildnerei der Geisteskranken and began his own collection of such art, which he called art brut or raw art. In 1948 he formed the Compagnie de l'Art Brut along with other artists, including André Breton. The collection he established became known as the Collection de l'Art Brut. It contains thousands of works and is now permanently housed in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dubuffet characterized art brut as:

Those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses - where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere - are, because of these very facts, more precious than the productions of professionals. After a certain familiarity with these flourishings of an exalted feverishness, lived so fully and so intensely by their authors, we cannot avoid the feeling that in relation to these works, cultural art in its entirety appears to be the game of a futile society, a fallacious parade." - Jean Dubuffet. Place à l'incivisme (Make way for Incivism). Art and Text no.27 (December 1987 - February 1988). p.36

Dubuffet argued that 'culture', that is mainstream culture, managed to assimilate every new development in art, and by doing so took away whatever power it might have had. The result was to asphyxiate genuine expression. Art brut was his solution to this problem - only art brut was immune to the influences of culture, immune to being absorbed and assimilated, because the artists themselves were not willing or able to be assimilated.

a living hell from another world

i am teaching the dot matrix printer to sing

also here is a picture painted in BLOOD AND JUSTICE

stealing pegoopz camera

3 eXpOsUREz COMbYnEd FoUr *thee* al-tu-moot In DYNAMIK RAYNGE

i went outside for a walk, and to drink my gin
i see the block is festering with everybody's sin
by the curb hoods are kickin' it; they're up to no good
on the corner heads is pickin' up girls who dress lewd
there's no surprise in my eyes. i see it every day
but there's a pie in the sky saying find a better way
is it impossible now? have the ways run too deep?
to turn around how the people here all fell asleep
like lost sheep now forgotten their moral decline
was on a steep slope so rotten it abhorred the divine
i can't look at myself because i know i'm no better
than their debt or their lead or the dead trend setter
who killed heads in their beds and then wrote a letter
before he killed himself too sayin that he'd get their
hides again in hell, not locked up in a cell
so sound the church bell cus it's time to say farewell
to michelle, miguel, darnell, and isabelle

blood and justice it just is what is
called for when shit gets too fucked up this
world constructed a court inducted
to service our love for blood and justice

if we say the streets are dirty we're obliged to look up
at the heights of floor thirty where they're cookin up
plans to wipe their hands of the blood that we shed
to save their cred and name brands like lovers unwed
face the dread of some discovering their baby now dead
we all know they're the mothers of the plots to our end
they pay the bills that they give us and pretend to be our friends
but they kill the ones who live up to higher ideals
who reveal that our meals are wriggling with eels
there to shock us if we trigger any thoughts of escape
hounds on our heels as we run for freedom and fate
i gotta get out of here before my soul gets raped

blood and justice it just is what is
called for when shit gets too fucked up this
world constructed a court inducted
to service our love for blood and justice

isn't this nice

look it's a really convenient way to work with colours that i put together sorry guys if i'm boring you i know dillon will like it at least he will want to know that i set the SmoothingMode member of e.Graphics.SmoothingMode to SmoothingMode.AntiAliasMotherFuckers

I'm sure Matthew's response to Michael Cann losing his virginity to an ex-suicide girl would be this:

dzPen

someday you will be able to connect to this and you and all your friends can draw together. that other thing is a rogue like that is very boring right now. maybe they should be combined......for profit etc. by the way did everyone here that michael cann lost his virginity to an ex suicide girl?