Art Therapy

Anders Krisar is a Swedish artist/photographer who creates work that primarily represents human psychology. He attended the University College of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm where he currently lives and works. He was recently nominated for the Best Swedish Photography Publication Award.

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Victorian Minimalist House

Architect Matt Gibson has created a lovely house named George Residence in Australia. The exterior is traditional Victorian with a surprising minimalist interior and rear. It sits on a narrow plot of land and a wooden deck runs through the home’s elongated layout, creating continuity between the indoor and outdoor living spaces. To see and read about more designs from down under go to:

http://www.designvic.com/

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Toothpick Timber Model

It took Scott Weaver over 30 years to build this toothpick model of San Francico. He started building the toothpick structure at age 17  and 3000 hours later, he completed his toothpick city. It stands 9 feet tall and 7 feet wide. Talk about obsessive dedication!

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Staff profile: Megan O’Connell

Joining our growing list of Farmhand profiles, this week, Megan’s been given our set of 60-odd questions.

What is your name? Meghan, Megs, Megatron, Morglock, Tron
What do you do at Farmboy (what’s your title)? Designer + Visual Content Editor
What does that mean in plain English? I look at pretty pictures and arrange them in nice ways.
Where are you originally from? Madison, Wisconsin
Where did you go to school? University of Wisconsin, Emily Carr University
What did you study? Agricultural Journalism, photography, and communication design (weird, I know)
What was your last job? Library Clerk at Emily Carr’s library while I was in school
What did you do there? Yelled at art students for reshelving the books in the wrong place
What is the most profound book you’ve ever read? Clive Ponting’s A New Green History of the World
What is your biggest pet peeve? Dogs wearing ANY clothes, but ESPECIALLY shoes
What is your favourite smell? Who has just one? Baking cheese, fresh bread, vanilla beans, fresh rain (called Petrichor in case you were wondering), my fiancé, dill, anise, grape koolaid.
You have one night to do anything with anyone, living or dead. Who is it and what would you do? I’d hang out with my parents when they were my age
If you could go to the airport and go absolutely anywhere right now, you’d go: New Zealand
Book you’re reading right now: Clive Ponting’s A New Green History of the World
What’s one thing about you no one would ever guess by looking at you? I’m not actually 25?
Do you have pets? Only in my heart and memories xox
What did you want to be when you were a kid? A marine mammologist (a marine biologist that studies mammals of the ocean)
What was the first concert you attended? New Kids on the Block let’s rock!
Default junk food of choice: Black licorice
The thing you’re addicted to: His name is Shaun
Trend you followed but wish you hadn’t: Rave on rave star
Musical instrument you wish you could play: Ukulele—getting better though!
First thing you notice in the opposite sex: teeth
The one thing we should never tolerate in society: Fast food
How many tattoos do you have? Describe them. Two: one was important to get at 19 and the other I needed at 24. Both are very special to me. I drew them myself and that’s all you need to know.
Three websites you visit daily: greenweddingshoes.com, cbc.ca, dailypuppy.com
Best Concert ever: Bjork in Chicago at the House of Blues, or Fleet Foxes at Richards on Richards
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Lit Up

Photo credit: Susan Gittens on Flickr

Photo credit: Tyler Ingram on Flickr

Vancouver is undeniably beautiful in the summer, but it’s even prettier when the sky is lit up like it was last night at the 20th anniversary of the Celebration of Light festival in English Bay. Don’t miss the next explosion of loveliness by Spain on Saturday, July 24th at 10pm.

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Staff Profile: Susan Hunt

Each week here on the Feedbag were profiling one Farmhand. Everyone’s been given 60-odd questions and asked to choose 20. The result is a kind of personality test of sorts and give some insight into the kinds of people you’re working with on your next project!

This week, it’s Susan Hunt! (Previous Farmhand profiles include Tim and Ariel.)

What is your name? Susan Hunt
What do you do at Farmboy (what’s your title)? Controller
What does that mean in plain English? Number Cruncher
Where are you originally from? Dublin, Ireland
Where did you go to school? A convent run by nuns in Ireland
What did you study? Art History and Accountancy
What is your biggest pet peeve? Smoking
What is your favourite smell? An Irish fry on a Sunday morning
If you could go to the airport and go absolutely anywhere right now, you’d go: The Galapagos Islands but I would probably need a boat to get there too
Book you’re reading right now: Scar Tissue
Do you have pets? A Golden Retriever called Hunter
What did you want to be when you were a kid? Fashion Designer
Favourite Artist and why? Robert Ballagh because his work is amazing and he is Irish too
Best purchase ever? My visa to Canada
The one country you would move to, or vist over and over and over: I am living in it!
The thing you’re addicted to: cheese and perezhilton.com
Trend you followed but wish you hadn’t: leggings and slouch socks
Default drink of choice: Vodka and cranberry
Drink you will never drink again: Sambuca
Musical instrument you wish you could play: Piano
Phrase, word or cliché you use way too often: Top of the mornin to ya
How many tattoos do you have? Describe them: Zero
Best bar stool in the city: Johnnie Fox’s
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(In)Human

(In)Human is a current exhibition I stumbled upon at the Living History Forum while visiting Stockholm. What caught my eye intially, was a white room filled with white furniture of all kinds. There was an interesting system utilizing cards for the site and hearing impaired. For instance, placing a card with an icon of an ear, over parts of the exhibit would provide an auditory version of the information. It deals with race biology, racial hygiene, and Swedish connections to this during early 20th century.

Together with the Living History Forum, the Ethnographic Museum aims to shed light on some of the darker sides of recent Swedish history featuring how researchers and explorers in the late 1800s and early 1900s deliberately desecrated graves and stole the remains of indigenous people.

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This could be anyone’s FAVORITA

Newly transformed by Nuno Sottomayor and  Sam Baron, we can see why this Portugalian escape has been re-named Hotel FAVORITA.

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YEKPARE – Building Projections in Istanbul

YEKPARE

Yekpare is a story teller to narrate 8500 years’ story of Istanbul. The story has symbols by from Pagans to Roman Empire, from Byzantine Empire to Latin Empire, and finally from Ottoman Empire to today’s Istanbul.

A building which we play on is Haydarpa?a Train Station has brilliant architectural forms. Connection between middle east to west as Istanbul since 1906 was formed by Haydarpa?a. In 50’s; it was a door millions of emigrant. Internal migration triggered chaotic order of Istanbul dialectical daily life scenes. Either its conceptual and political and geographical position or its location’s depth of field to watch the entire show from Kad?köy coast; Yekpare is dramatic as a representation.

First day of the performance is also 47th death day of famous Turkish poet Naz?m Hikmet Ran. We started with his quote:“At Haydarpa?a Train Station, in the spring of 1941, it is three o’clock. Sun, exhaustion and rush lay on the stairs” (from his epic novel Human Landscapes from My Country).

Art Direction & Visuals:
Deniz Kader – Canda? ?i?man

sourced from: Nerdworking

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Frank Michels – RUSTICAL X INDUSTRIAL 2010

Rustical x industrial’ is a series of furnishings which derive from
an aesthetical and theoretical survey on rural and suburban bricolage. The objects enunciate the poetic language of such vernacular furniture
by arranging a crude patchwork of archetypes and materials -Michels

photos from Frank Michels

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