tom and doug.

last night after work, instead of going home and getting all tarted-up, i decided to go directly downtown and see what the line-up was like outside the VAG for the We:Vancouver show. and it wasn't bad. so after a short wait for them to open the doors - which i passed playing angry birds - i went in and waited for the garbs and mishi to show-up (which was only a few minutes). i quickly found byron dauncey - who has a piece in the show - who was looking sharp in an electric orange shirt and then tobe from propellor who's always cute as a button and pam who was looking awesome in a full black number. i couldn't find nic but i'm sure he looked dashing.

i hate to say it but i found very little that i was stoked by but i think that's often the case with large group shows. oh well. and after we viewed the we:vancouver action, we went upstairs to see the ken lum show that was also opening the same night....i think...i'm a fan of graphics based art but have to admit the lum pieces left me kinda cold. i've sen his work here and there for years and maybe it's the...oh, nevermind. what do i know...(well, i do know i can go get a sign made at galaxy signs in burnaby pretty fast ....)

and i do know that i love the 'east van' sign all lit-up at clarke and great northern way but, he just took something that already was and made it bigger. is that art? or is that just making a big sign out of something someone else made? i dunno.
anyway....

it was nice to go but as the crowd got larger i had to/we had to get the hell out of there...mishi had someone tell her that she couldn't leave yet because tom cruise and douglas coupland were going to be there soon...to which mishi said, 'i don't care if they're going to be here. i'm going home.'
awesome.
i felt the same way.

and really, i needed to get my beauty sleep. this week during dinner at ailsa's place, fiona told me i looked like i was in my twenties since i shaved off my beard - which had a lot of grey in it. and that i 'looked like time had passed me by'....huh? and then she explained that time had kept going but i looked young still...nice. thanks fiona. so the more sleep i get the more i can keep my boyish looks...maybe.
have a great saturday.

g. xo