Aha! I’ve officially proven that this blog lives up to its name! So this is what’s new with me:
My mo' as of Movember 6th
I have decided to join a global movement that is bringing much needed attention to prostate cancer. I’m doing this by growing a Moustache this Movember, the month formerly known as November. My commitment is to grow a moustache all November and I am hoping that you will support my efforts by making a donation. The funds raised go directly to Prostate Cancer Canada.
What many people don’t know is that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer to afflict Canadian men with 25,500 diagnosed and 4,400 dying from the disease each year.
Facts like these have convinced me I should get involved.
To make a donation, you can either:
• Go to benlariviere.com/mospace and donate online using your credit card or PayPal account , or
• Write a cheque payable to ‘Prostate Cancer Canada’, referencing my Registration Number 10174 and mailing it to: Prostate Cancer Canada, 145 Front Street East, Ste. 306, Toronto, ON M5A 1E3, Canada.
All donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Prostate Cancer Canada will use the money raised by Movember for the development of programs related to awareness, public education, advocacy, support of those affected, and research into the prevention, detection, treatment and cure of prostate cancer.
Okay, so it’s been a long time since I’ve updated, but there’s a good reason. You see, I’m in full-time university and working. Plus, you can’t be too mad. The name of my blog is “expect neglect”. You had to expect I’d pay little attention to updating this at some point.
I figure, as a photography student I should probably show you what I’ve been up to.
When you first see the above photo, you may first think you’re looking at a tilt-shift photo of a city or maybe a 3D model of a city. It may not register until later that what you’re looking at is towers of staples at different sizes. Peter Root’s ‘Low-Rise‘ is an amazing piece, arranged, painstakingly, on a glass mirror, as pictured below.
Nowadays, all we hear is “go green!” and “reduce, reuse and recycle!” but what if we reused old family photographs to create a new kind of art? Normally, we think of photographs as being a way of perfectly documenting a moment in time, but as an adult, looking at pictures from your childhood, things seem different from how you remember. Maybe less perfect? Less exciting? Duller? Maybe it’s because children have huge imaginations and as a kid, magic is everywhere and anything is possible. Relleno De Mono’s images seem to fill in the parts of each moment the camera can’t document and the adults can’t see, but are surely there.
For more, click any of the above images. Found via ffffound.com.
I made a video in which I asked people to tell me the most random words and phrases they can come up with:
and then I made another video to list the things people came up with:
I was going to pick my favourite response and make it into a video, however I couldn’t pick a favourite and stupidly decided to make a video for EVERY RESPONSE I got. So in case you decided not to watch the video immediately above this block of text, here is the list of videos I have to make: [Note: Text titles are incomplete. Image titles are complete. Click the images to watch the complete videos.]
matches, whiteout, shampoo, crystal light energy drink stuff, clear little rubber bands, thread and a needle, a stoned dog, coffee, stupid medicene I haveta take, car wax and glass cleaner stuff, hello kitty bandaids, and a lint roller
Several weeks ago, I posted a video to YouTube called venting… wherein I did a dramatic reading of the lyrics to Limp Bizkit’s song, Nookie. I thought it would be funny because people wouldn’t recognize the first couple lines of lyrics but then once they started to recognize them, realize what I was doing and find it funny. And I figured that for anyone not familiar with the song, that they would figure out what was going on, once they realized that I was rhyming and heard lines like:
Hey I think about the day
My girlie ran away with my pay
When fella’s came to play
now she’s stuck with my homeez that she fucked
And, “I did it all for the nookie [(come on) the nookie (come on)] so you can take that cookie and stick it up your (yeah)”. How can you take that seriously?!
A couple people had the intended reaction, however I guess the song isn’t as well-known as I thought it was and apparently I’m a better actor than I thought I was.
In other words, I got comments and messages like this one:
Youtube is not the place to post vids like your venting video.
If you need someone to talk to, its me bro.
I felt like the only way to clear up this mess I made was to make another video. So I did…and here it is:
Above, is my most recent upload to my deviantART gallery. It hasn’t had many views or comments, so if you have a deviantart account, click the image above to see it on dA and comment away!
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In other news…
deviantART recently launched dAportfolios, which allows users to create an professional online portfolio, where prospective clients & employers can view each artist’s work, without all the clutter of a deviantart gallery. They even included spiffy, custom domains. For example, my portfolio’s domain is simply:
If you’re familiar with downtown Toronto, then you’re probably familiar with the man who frequents the north-west corner of Dundas & Yonge streets, holding a bible. The worn man stands inconspicuously, until there is a large group of people passing by. If you’re his lucky target, he will wait until you’re about to walk directly in front of him, take a step towards you (that is if your path doesn’t doesn’t require you to at some point stand immediately in front of him), take a deep breath and in a deep, thundering voice, pronounce “JESUS!”, “BELIEVE IN THE LORD” or some other, similar combination of those phrases.
Original photo stolen from mike.tan on flickr, click image to see original.
Once your heart starts beating again, and you pick the holy spit out of your ringing ear, you’ll likely not forget this infamous man, shouting Christian propaganda at a scramble intersection near you.
