i have more film in my fridge than food.

mont royal

The art of window dressing

Lace, lights and latticework snowflakes. Abstract photographs in shades of white. And a mannequin in a warm shearling coat. All part of the winter installation launched last week in the windows of Citizen Vintage, a second-hand clothing and accessories store on St. Laurent Blvd. in the Mile End.

Francesca Tallone, a Montrealbased fine arts photographer and friend of co-owner Brooke Doyle, was given carte blanche to design the window. “I knew wanted to do something simple and minimal,” says Tallone, “but still eloquent and beautiful.”

A multi-textural depiction of snow includes lace draped at the foot of the mannequins, and white Christmas lights and disco balls represent the glittering snow. Abstract photos are of a snow bank that Tallone shot on the East River in New York during a blizzard.

“Being able to style the mannequins and incorporate my photography, and with winter being somewhat of a beautiful and calm season, it all came together.”

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/fashion-beauty/stylefile/6017637/story.html#ixzz1jv9yaCz3

Life

Issue 4 of Films And Grains is now available featuring an interview about my time spent in Kiev in May 2011 for LOMOFest in Ukraine. Thanks so much to my friend Emma Healey from The Incongruous Quarterly for interviewing me! 

You can view and purchase the magazine here. 

jesuisperdu:

[That’s it! It’s final. The Eastman Kodak Company has filed for bankruptcy. The company filed for Chapter 11 business reorganization in the US Bankruptcy Court in New York. According to Business Insider, this allows the company to “bolster liquidity in the US and abroad, monetize non-strategic intellectual property, fairly resolve legacy liabilities, and enable the Company to focus on its most valuable business lines.”

All of Kodak’s subsidiaries outside of the US are not part of the filings and will be operating as usual. In the filings it is stated that on 20 September, 2011, Kodak had $5.1 billion in assets and $6.75 billion in debt. $12 million of that is owed to Nokia for intellectual properties and royalties.

While the company goes through the reorganisation they will try and keep things as normal as possible, paying staff wages and continuing customer programs.

For more information you can head to a website which has been specially set up by Kodak -www.kodaktransforms.com] [via HUH.]

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE I SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON FILM