30.6.10

Glastafarian

Glastonbury Festival is truly the best fucking place on earth.

I just got back from 11 days at the festival. I arrived 5 days before glasto was opened to the public to work with a wonderful group of people. We built a structure called the Tin Village that served as a Pizza cafe/general hang out for everyone at the Festival. We even built a clay pizza oven in the shape of a giant scary fish.
Reasons why this years Festival was AMAZING:

It was incredibly hot and didn't rain once. I am WICKED tanned.

I got to go FOR FREE and only had to hide in a ditch for 2 and a half hours to avoid security.

Every person I met and/or worked with was so nice and funny and talented and generally fantastic. We only lived together for a few weeks, but I genuinely love all of them. Making things with a person is the best way to fall in love with them, n'est pas?

MUSIC! I got to see Bonubo, Snoop Dogg, Rusko, Dizzee Rascal, Gorrillaz, The xx, Devendra Banhart, The Dead Weather, Muse, Thom Yorke, MGMT, We Are Scientists, Toots and the Maytals, Stevie Wonder and many more bands I forgot the names of, plus a shit load of random awesome Djs, not to mention dancing my FACE off in Arcadia, Shangri-la and Trash City. 

There were some less than awesome things that occurred as well, but they only provided me with more festy memories. 

I lost my Iphone. Again.

I dropped my bag in the toilet. And I fished it out with my bare hands.

Because I dropped my bag in the toilet, I lost my 2 cameras, all my film and all the photos I had taken so far, my house keys and my oyster card. However, this story made me famous and most people I met had already heard of me and my poo bag.

I may now have a state-sponsored Noz addiction. Man, British people really love their balloons.

I am now back in London, safe and sound. I am sad the festival is over, but I can't wait until next year. I wish I could be a Glastafarian forever.

18.6.10

Back to Life/Reality

I just got back from a much needed trip to my two hometowns, Vancouver and Toronto. I love London and all, but there is something about holding my squirming four year old nephew in my arms as we get chased by angry Canadian Geese that makes me want to pack it all in and move back to the pacific northwest.

I saw my mum and brother both act in plays. It was awesome. Go see the Buddy at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver if you haven't already. 

Look! Photos!

30.5.10

Private Living on the Public Radio

Georgia LA of Roundhouse Radio interviewed me and Bryn about our guerrilla gigging habit. The results have just been posted online. Interview starts at the 7:57 mark and lasts about 3 minutes. 



24.5.10

Blasfemia's Photos

I was greeted by a heat wave upon arrival back in London, which makes leaving Barcelona SLIGHTLY more bearable. The exhibition was a success and I love every person who was in the show. Actually, it felt a lot like Art Summer Camp...a bunch of kids sleeping in bunk beds and making things. Wonderful. These are some photos from those four days.




Uli Blanchet

Michelle Bourke-Girgis

Charlotte Kaye

Alice Walter, Alix Marie and Michelle Bourke-Girgis
Anja Priska and Uli Blanchet

A still from my piece entitled "Reading"
Alix Marie as a nun

Michelle Bourke-Girgis

Uli Blanchet

Alice Walter

Helene Butler

Charlotte Kaye

Charlotte throws an Egg



Michelle Bourke-Girgis

Florian Valmont

20.5.10

The Start of my Working Holiday


I am in Barcelona setting up for the exhibition I am in. The private view is on Friday and it is going to be super fun. There will be paintings, sculpture, video, performance, installation....so ya, basically everything. Oh ya, and the drinks are free and there will be DJ's spinning till the wee hours....and then we hit the beach! The show is called Blasphemia's and it runs from May 21-24 at c/pamplona 56-58, 08005 Barcelona. If you are around, come! 

Also, Look what I saw on the street

Ya. So I have no idea why a deer's entire leg is sticking out of a garbage bag on the streets of Barcelona... but it's creepy and weird and funny all at the same time. I like it here.

17.5.10

Look Mom, a REAL Gig!



Footage from Private Lives performance at Punk May 6. And yes, I was using my tights as a purse. Wick!

16.5.10

Take a Hit and Keep On Going, Ladies



My sister, Bobbi Pinn, member of the Pillow Fight League based in Toronto. Check these girls out, they seriously kick ass.

13.5.10

Shadow of my Heart

To further my obsession with my mother, here are the first three parts of an amazingly bad and amazingly awesome movie she was in called Shadow of the Hawk. She is the hot blond babe by the pool in part 1, and she is in the party scene at the end of part 2 and beginning of part 3. After that she isn't in the movie, so I never bother watching parts 4-10. But don't let me stop you from doing so. And just in case anyone reading this lives in Vancouver, she is currently acting in a play at the Arts Club until June 6. Check it!





Who wants to stalk Pia Shandel?



Some people will do ANYTHING to catch Pia Shandel. And I am pretty sure I know why. Cuz she's awesome!

I love my mum.

11.5.10

Gadjes Collective presents....Blasfemias


I am in an exhibition in Barcelona that opens May 21 until the 24. Artists from all over Europe and North America will be exhibiting. The theme is Blasphemy. It will be real good, I know it.

Helene BUTLER / video
Patrick WILEM / video
Francisco DE PAJARO / Pintura – instalación
Michelle BOURKE GIRGIS / Pintura – instalación
Leo COHEN / pintura
Eloise TADARONE / ilustración
SNEZ / grafity
ADO Arte / video
Anja PRISKA / pintura
Alix MARIE / escultura
Charlotte KAYE / instalación
Ángel ROMÁN / fotografia
Ester COLOMINA FERNANDEZ / fotografia
Yamila FREI / Pintura
Jose Fsc MASSE RODRIGUEZ / pintura
Gloria TAMARIT / fotografia
El Migue / ilustración
Sydney SOUTHAM / video
Thalia KAVAKELIS / pintura
Vj NOKAMI / performance
Juliette BUTLER / fotografia
Adrian FRAGUAS DEL OLMO / fotografia
Fanny PEYRATOUT / ilustración
Florian VALMONT / video
TRULLAS / pintura - performance
David MARTHELY / fotografia
Garby KW / Video
El Hombre Sapo / Talismanes
Irene BOU / Pintura
Francisco JAVIER VAZQUEZ / Pintura
Louise BUTLER / Performance
Matthew MILES / Instalación
Dede DIAME / Serigrafia
Xart Woman / Video-performance
Karen BISWELL / fotografia
Eva BLANCHE / Pintura
Leonard BUTLER / escultura
Charles GARCIN / Instalación
Konrad WYREBEK / instalación
Beniaxx,Amanda Beniakriou / Video Vj
Susu LAROCHE / video
Alice WALTER / video