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johnnytomorrow:

May 15, 1967

Vancouver artist George Norris displays his winning entry, The Crab, in contest to choose $40,000 showpiece for Planetarium.

Photograph by: Ken Oakes, Vancouver Sun

-I’d submit this with a “places I’ve been drunk at” tag, but I think we can just go ahead and get the forms printed with that one already filled in. (Fun party, though.)

danforth:

Sean Morris

They seem like fun!

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madeupmemories:

GPOYW

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randygrskovic:

Good Luck Art Gallery is an artist-run commercial outlet for presentation and experimentation located on the edge of Chinatown in Vancouver, British Columbia.

It is our goal to provide an exciting retail space to connect young artists with new collectors and appreciators.  Rather than seeking donations from the public, we promise to provide quality artwork at a reasonable price. Consider it a ‘mom and pop shop’ for art in Vancouver.

Foregoing the traditional models of an art gallery, Good Luck will change the art on the walls daily, while keeping stock of everything we show. In the case you want to see previously shown art again, we will bring it back out for you to see.  We also take requests.   

Good Luck is a short-term experiment and will only exist in this space for 3 months. September-November 2012. Our grand opening celebration will take place on the evening of SWARM13, Chinatown edition, Friday September 7^th, 8pm.  Please refer to our twitter account for our hours of operation and daily events: @goodluckart

Please come and join the conversation located at 243 Union St.

Featured artists include but are not limited to:

• Randy Grskovic
• Andy Dixon
• Zoe Pawlak
• Christian Nicolay
• Chris Von Zsombathy
• Jessica Bell
• Sarah Gee
• Ben Frey
• David Semeniuk
• Ben Skinner
• Ed Spence
• David Zilber 

Choose Your Poison:

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@goodluckart

Yay Randy! Reblogging for signal boost.

Love this pic of me and former Attorney General Wally Oppal from an event last week. We met back when I was editing Terminal City… such a sweet guy.

[pic: Danica Jeffery/Notable.ca]

exhibitionmaker:

Stan Douglas 

Club Versailles, 1974

2012

Digital C-print mounted on Dibond aluminum

59 1/2 x 89 1/4 inches (151.1 x 226.7 cm)

Edition of 5

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Jockstrap dude is readier than you are to stick his dick in any mashed potatoes that should happen to become available.

We toasted his 90th birthday with rum and cokes, because that’s how my gramps and I roll. 

The Burmese Mountain Dog quotient at the Hendricks Gin party I attended earlier this week was appealingly high.

This big fella’s name was Huxley, and he was an utter delight.

With my aforementioned Booze Brother Jonesy (Canada’s top bartender FOREALZ), at the glamorous Tales of the Cocktail opening night “1930s Hollywood”-themed party, wearing my pal Erin’s granny’s vintage velvet dress, and my own granny’s vintage gloves.

(Pic: Albert Yee)

At last night’s aforementioned unforgettable Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Dinner (at MARKET by Jean-Georges at the Shangri-La Hotel), hosted by my Booze Brother Jay Jones (voted Best Bartender IN CANADA by EnRoute magazine and you all need to come here and find out why - ask HugeInJapan - he knows!), featuring BOLS Genever cocktails and some incredible dishes including celeriac panna cotta and butter-poached squab. 

Besides the sublime food and cocktail pairings, it was also a lovely evening of conversation with my seat mates Al, Erin, Zuck and the local newscaster Sophie Lui. 

PS: The aforementioned Superman logo shirt was a HUGE hit all evening, especially when I was at the front of a conga line.

(Pic: Charles Zuckermann)

Happy Valentine’s Day errybody*!

*The box in this picture does not belong to yours truly… I discovered it at a bus stop as I walked home last night. I grabbed it because of the awesomely hilarious photo tableau I knew it would make when paired with the roses I got to take home from the fancy Hendrick’s Gin party I was at last night. (I haven’t even mentioned the unforgettable dinner I had before that. E.GAD.)

And now I’m sipping classic Colonial punch, including a Stone Fence (so named because you’ll feel like you hit one after a few drinks) and a Pineapple Syllabub that were part of the cocktail seminar I just attended. Biding my time because there’s yet another party later… called - appropriately for today - the “Bitter Bash”, sponsored by Campari. 

Tales of the Cocktail has completely cured my distaste for Valentine’s Day.

My hand-delivered VIP invitation to Tales of the Cocktail’s Hendrick’s Gin party on Monday night included a bottle of gin, a rose and a cucumber!

YES, I MADE THEM DELIVER IT TO ME AT A BAR, BECAUSE I AM THAT AWESOME.