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Some shots from the September 2012 edition of the Literary...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:20:00 -0500

Some shots from the September 2012 edition of the Literary Review of Canada, which I illustrated. Head over to my blog to take a look at the rest of the pictures for it!

http://sabrinascott.ca/blog/?p=2379

From the art blog: I haven’t blogged about this yet because I...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:50:21 -0400

From the art blog:

I haven’t blogged about this yet because I haven’t had the time to start working on it – but I will soon!

I’ve been selected to participate in Portland-based WeMake‘s new project to raise money for arts programs in Portland schools. It’s called Put A Bird In It, and you can click here to take a gander at some of the other talented folks who will be involved!

In order to prepare for making this thing, I’ve been doing research into whether or not birdhouses should actually be painted at all…

Click here to read the rest, and see some photos!

http://sabrinascott.ca/blog/?p=2348

From the art blog: Zine Dream kicks off three days of...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 19:12:32 -0400

From the art blog:

Zine Dream kicks off three days of festivities tonight! There’s an opening party tonight at Art Metropole, and tomorrow there will be a fun panel discussion and some workshops, and on Sunday there will be a bunch of badass exhibitors selling wares (including myself)! Check out the Zine Dream site for specifics on programming. Hope to see you there!

On Sunday the zine fair is at the Tranzac (in Toronto – nearest major intersection, Bathurst and Bloor) from noon until 5 pm. Happy zine-ing, yall!

I DREAM OF CTHULHU If you haven’t read or listened to HP...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:56:22 -0400

I DREAM OF CTHULHU

If you haven’t read or listened to HP Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu, do it now! My picture is of Henry Anthony Wilcox, a vital character in that story. Wilcox is a young artist tormented by dark dreams of monsters and gods and destruction, and it is his sculpture of Cthulhu that sets the story into motion. I’ve always been fascinated by dream landscapes, and the power of speaking with spirits and gods through dreams. There is a considerable interplay between Lovecraft’s work and old tales of the witches’ sabbath – (primarily) women whose spirits, in dreamtime, travel to places and speak with beings unknown to the common human eye. Historian Carlo Ginzburg in his Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath discusses this phenomena, and…

Click here to read the rest of the post, and see some close-ups!

http://sabrinascott.ca/blog/?p=2337

From the artsy blog: What up dudes! So this is a little...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:18:40 -0400

From the artsy blog:

What up dudes!

So this is a little different from the typical artsy fare you see ’round these parts, but hey – food making is an art!

I have a bunch of handmade (I didn’t make them at home, I made them in a profeshunal kitchen, thank you very much, so I know everything was sterile while I was prepping the jars) preserves I’m looking to sell! I have pears, beets, pear chutney, beet chutney, and a nice spicy Indian chutney which is a bit more savory. I also have a beet jelly. Each preserve comes with a silkscreened tea…

Read more & see more perty pictures

Big jars $15, little jars $10-12. This is a steal for handmade preserves made from local fuckin’ produce, and with some free silkscreened cute shit on the top of them. Hellz yeah!

If you’re in Toronto, holla at me and I’ll hook you up. If you’re not local shipping will likely cost $15 or so, but hey if you’re still into it let me know and I’ll make you a custom shop listing!

Why Sailor Moon Matters – The New Anime and Media Representation

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:32:28 -0400

Why Sailor Moon Matters – The New Anime and Media Representation:

At its core, the premise of Sailor Moon is about women banding together and determining the fate of the universe. It’s about women literally drawing power from community with other women and being the most powerful in the galaxy and growing up to lead the world into peace and happiness. The celebration of women and showcase of girls developing, growing up and forming their own identities is enough to make the series great, especially considering how it influenced other media to take a closer look at female heroism and relationships. But I actually want to focus on what Sailor Moon means for queer women (and other queer people) in particular and what I feel the rebooted anime should do about queer representation.

A lot of fans are hoping the anime will stick a little closer to the original manga by Naoko Takeuchi, or at least draw on the manga’s best elements. I’m certainly hoping for that with regards to queer representation. Haruka and Michiru, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, are one of the most famous gay couples in manga and anime. The original anime was pretty blatant about their relationship, to the point where the couple’s presentation caused controversy in their home country and beyond. Most know about the English dub’s censorship that turned the couple into “cousins” (this did very little to hide their queerness). Yet, there were no girls kissing in the original anime and no character ever referred to Haruka and Michiru as a couple in a non-speculative fashion. The manga, meanwhile, showed Haruka kissing a girl, and it was stated that they were lesbians and in a relationship. I’m hoping now that twenty years have passed, these aspects of the manga can finally make it into an anime. In fact, I’d like to see even more detail about their relationship. I want to see these two lovebirds kiss and tell all over the place in this new show.

Awesome article, read it! Sailor Moon has more implications for representations of queer folks, asexual folks, trans folks, & POC than you might otherwise have thought! So happy I grew up with this series.

Not so fast: Cosmopolitics and the Higgs boson

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:30:11 -0400

Not so fast: Cosmopolitics and the Higgs boson:

littlecitywitch:

The idea that there is one single nature is an artefact of Western culture, both cunning and naïve at the same time. It is the biased interpretation of the world at the root of colonialism past and present. Mining operations around the non-industrialised world are an example of how the Western idea of nature imposes devastation on the rest. In dealing with the local inhabitants, the white man uses (to his convenience) his scientific instruments and describes the universe: “This is a mountain, it is made of coal worth billions”. The idea makes no sense in the universe the indiginous inhabit: “This is not a mountain, this is a sleeping God, and it is clearly priceless.” Since money is the ruling spirit in the universe of the materialist, who is also more powerful, the God is usually killed no matter what.

Who is right, when it is clear that neither is speaking metaphorically? The mountain, being a cornerstone of local cosmology, literally is a god, but scientific instruments designed for a materialist universe are unable to register the fact. Every day, right now, the outcomes of these fundamental disputes, these clashes of worlds, determine the extinction or survival of indigenous cultures around the world.

The problem of nature has been since the beginning of colonial times a matter of genocide. The idea that the “standard model” has been fully demonstrated is so dramatic, so absolute, that it might fuel further invasions. Will the Western inability to co-exist with other universes take a further, deeper, turn into plain arrogant greed? How many more languages will disappear after everyone has been forced to agree that there is only one true “standard model” of the universe?

AWESOME article, relevant to all occultists, pagans, witches, magical practitioners, nature-y types, those who work with gods and spirits, etc. Hells yeah philosophy!

So now that I’ve recovered (a little bit, anyway) from 2012′s...

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:27:42 -0400

So now that I’ve recovered (a little bit, anyway) from 2012′s Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition I can finally post some photos!

For a bunch more pictures of the event and a tiny update on how it went, click through to my blog!

Illustration, Irresponsibility, and Race

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:29:00 -0400

I wrote a little thing on my blog, you should go check it out!

It’s a commentary on an illustration in the Toronto Star which caused a bit of a fuss. It was about the recent Danzig shooting in TO.

Here’s a preview:

Representing visual difference is a tricky thing in the illustration business.

It would be nice to get to a place in our society when we can represent the diversity of the people on our planet simply as they are without people feeling as though you’re making a comment specifically on who is being represented. The default is inevitably middle-class white men; deviating from that norm, in the public eye, often means that you must be saying something pertaining to that non-normative person you’re representing.For instance, if you depict a person with a disability in your illustration, the illustration must be making some sort of comment on disabilities or folks who live with them. I’m of two minds about this issue – I wish that our society was at a point where a disabled person in an illustration could just be interpreted as reflecting the diversity of humankind rather than a comment on disabilities. However, we’re not.

The illustration industry reflects that. What’s in an illustration must be …

Click here to read the rest!

etteette: saarsattack: patchthatsweater: my roommate...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:04:12 -0400

etteette:

saarsattack:

patchthatsweater:

my roommate michelle’s brilliant sailor moon fanzine MOON GRLS, featuring jupiter with legs, a crow with arms pushing a shopping cart, heads coming out of weird places, a million cat faces, and many other adorable/nightmarish things. if you want a copy you can get one here. smudgy pencil offset zines foreverrrrr

HELL YEAH my friend showed me her work the other day, i am p positive she submitted to the sailor moon fanzine!!

but this zine is something i’d rly like to own pls.. *u*

Ohhhh just bought this.

This is fucking great! I want!

aplacebothwonderfulandstrange: lovecraftzine: “Over the jagged...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:37:57 -0400

aplacebothwonderfulandstrange:

lovecraftzine:

“Over the jagged peaks of Thok they sweep,
Heedless of all the cries I make,
And down the nether pits to that foul lake
Where the puffed shoggoths splash in doubtful sleep.”
(Sonnet XX, “Night Gaunts” in Fungi from Yuggoth, 1929–30)

- H.P. Lovecraft

Hey guys, here’s a mock-up of the new cover for my upcoming H.P. Lovecraft art zine! Previously named “Three-Lobed Burning Eye”, the new title will be “PUFFED SHOGGOTHS”, a phrase from one of Lovecraft’s short poems in “Fungi From Yuggoth”. Thanks to Jon Vermilyea for the name suggestion!

Little details may change, but i think this might be the final look for the cover of the zine. The previously posted cover-image will be featured in some way, i’ll probably see how it looks in grey-scale and include it in that fashion.

Stay tuned, and PLEASE, reblog and like! Spread the word! And thank you for your time and attention!

- Trevor

New cover, new name, same cosmic terror. Reblog and follow the source for updates on my upcoming H.P. Lovecraft art zine, featuring some AMAZING names in comics, art and illustration.

I’m gonna be in this! Fuck yeah!

TOAE - officially over! A pic of me w/ my swag & also the...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:34:05 -0400

TOAE - officially over! A pic of me w/ my swag & also the view from my tent. Holla.

More soon!

(Photo not mine, from BlogTO) I’m exhibiting at TOAE (the...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:13:25 -0400

(Photo not mine, from BlogTO)

I’m exhibiting at TOAE (the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition this weekend, starting in less than 12 hours! Aaaah! From the blog:

In less than 12 hours I’m going to have a tent at this lovely event, theToronto Outdoor Art Exhibition at Nathan Philips Square! It’s the biggest outdoor art show in Canada and I couldn’t be happier to be attending, especially since the exhibitors are very severely juried! Thanks judges, for selecting me! I’m in booth Blue #355, which is to the northwest side of the square. Here’s a map (well, the top of the official map – to see the whole thing, click here)!

So that’s exciting! Come visit me!

Here are the hours, taken from the TOAE site:

July 6, 7 & 8, 2012
Friday 10:30am-7:30pm
Saturday 10:30am-7:30pm
Sunday 10:30am-6:30pm

Here’s the link to the Facebook event I created for this. Share with your pals and folks who like art! See you at city hall!

WeMake :: connect. create. collaborate: Put A Bird In It!

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:53:56 -0400

WeMake :: connect. create. collaborate: Put A Bird In It!:

wemakepdx:

A BIG THANK YOU! & Congratulations to these folks for being selected to Put A Bird In It. YAY!

Adam Garcia—The Pressure
ADX
Always with Honor—Elsa Tyler + Zoe Lang
Andrew Kolb
Alberto Cerriteño
Ali Potvin
Amy Ruppel
Ashley Burke
Bethany Ng
BT Livermore
…

I’ve been selected as a participating artist in this project! Hooray!

From my blog: Today this blog post will be about rad inspiring...

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:22:35 -0400

From my blog:

Today this blog post will be about rad inspiring stuff. Like flowers!

I love wandering around and seeing beautiful sights like this! So awesome! Honestly, food, flowers, and occultism are my biggest inspirations, and stumbling upon something like this randomly is such a huge jackpot for me, and an awesome reminder of how magical and pretty the universe can be. I love the variety of colour in these flowers – some purple, some deep red, some magenta, some light pink, some white. Does anyone know what…

Click through for some more badass downtown Toronto flowers & an update on the Toronto Anarchist Book Fair, and TOAE (Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition), which is right around the corner!

From the blog: Sup yall! I’m very excited to say that I’ll be...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:13:10 -0400

From the blog:

Sup yall!

I’m very excited to say that I’ll be tabling at the Toronto Anarchist Book Fair this weekend! Hooray! I’ll have all of my usual goodies, plus a bunch of salves and canned goods (all from local food, professionally sealed so it doesn’t spoil – and which also come with a silkscreened tea towel!). I’m almost out of My Mundane zines and it’ll be a while before I can silkscreen any more (the fall at the earliest), so come and get yours while you still can! I’ll also have a bunch more Fruits of Love zines (printing some 2nd editions this Friday), as well as some official call-outs for my new zine project which I haven’t officially announced on the blog yet. I’ll do it after this event! I swear!

Anywho, check out the Facebook event for this fair for some more information! The event is at the University of Toronto, and you’ll be able to find me either in room 404 or 405 in the accessible Galbraith Building (at U of T) – the address is 35 St George St, Toronto. You can find me there from 10am-3:30pm on Saturday June 23^rd, and from 10am-2:30pm on Sunday the 24^th. Come say hello and give me a high-five!

If you have the chance, take a gander at the list of talks/workshops. So many great things to see and participate in!

birdandmoon: Sometimes when I’m hiking in the woods I think...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:30:37 -0400

birdandmoon:

Sometimes when I’m hiking in the woods I think “This place is so pristine and wild.” Then I remember some of the changes that have happened to wildlife in the past couple hundred years.

This is so fucking awesome.

I can’t wait to make more sweet environmental-activist illustrations! Starting my Masters of Environmental Studies in the fall, I think it will help wham-pow my brain with more knowledge of The Nature.

For a few more pictures of the process of an estasol transfer...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:34:00 -0400

For a few more pictures of the process of an estasol transfer (transferring an image on an oiled photocopy to a blank wooden block), head on over to my blog!

http://sabrinascott.ca/blog/?p=2176

I made a thing.

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:08:55 -0400

I made a thing.

So! The sketchbook I made (rather haphazardly) for the 2012 Art...

Tue, 29 May 2012 18:06:13 -0400

So! The sketchbook I made (rather haphazardly) for the 2012 Art House Co-Op Sketchbook Project (which is housed at the Brooklyn Art Library) is now available for online viewing. Hooray! Click here to go check out my sketchbook.

I made this thing in the span of about a week, and just played, for a change! I experimented with a bit of collage in this book, which was fun. The above isn’t the best example of that, but I really enjoy the effect of the…

For more pictures and babbling, click here to read the full post:

http://sabrinascott.ca/blog/?p=2162