Aporia Blog

Back in February (yes I’m tardy about this) I participated in Art on Ice, which was a one day art show on the Rideau Canal on the opening day of Winterlude, which is a 3 week festival celebrating winter. Anyway, the show went really well for me, an it was a great day overall. I did, of course, freeze my ass off. I dressed as warmly as I could, and although the temperature was only -8C, with a wind chill of -15C or so, I apparently have defective feet. The long johns and wool sweaters all worked great, but even...

December’s here and it’s finally cold. Soon, I won’t just be making paintings about outdoor hockey, I’ll be playing it. Woohoo! There’s nothing like a good game of shinny on a sunny day in January. Anyway, speaking of hockey paintings, the Great Big Smalls Show II opened last Friday at the cube gallery The opening was a good party, as always. I was worried about there being too many people there, but fortunately the weather was crappy with the first winter storm of the season and it was only pleasantly crowded, as opposed to its-way-too-hot-and-sweaty-and-I-cant-see-the-freakin-art crowded. Actually, who am I...

(This is the same as an email sent out to the Aporia Press mailing list. If you’d like to sign up for the list go to the Aporia web site ) Holy Shamoly! The perpetually unfiinished Aporia Press website update is actually finally finished. Well, at least for now. I started it in the summer and have only just now managed to finish it, and then only with help from my very patient spouse,Vicky. First, we’ve moved the mini-posters, mini-comics and shirts over to the Aporia Shopify site. Shopify is a very good build-your-own-online-shop web site developed by some good...

I thought it would be easy to sneak in some blog writing while at work. I suppose it might be possible if I worked at a fun and interesting place, but I don’t. It’s kind of the opposite. So, it turns out that I have no motivation to write anything at all while I’m at work. I tried, but I only got as far as thinking ‘I should write a blog now’. That thought died when the rest of me said ‘No way, that’s way too hard and you’re screwed if you get caught.’ When my brain is in survive-at-work...

The new t-shirt desings are now posted! New colours and designs to go with the earlier designs from the more arty period.