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Episode 293 [9:52]
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Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand in conversation with Billy Mavreas, artist, gallery owner, cartoon blogger, ‘zinester, scenester and general man-about-town. In this episode Billy talks about his future plans, how he met Emilie O’Brien, accumulating and some of the difficulties he has encountered.
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Episode 292 [9:45]
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Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand in conversation with Billy Mavreas, artist, gallery owner, cartoon blogger, ‘zinester, scenester and general man-about-town. In this episode Billy talks about the beginnings of his artistic career and Monastiraki, the art gallery.
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A very nice little surreal film combining art and hamburgers…
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I love it when you can compare and contrast…
versus Honest and Accurate Burger Reviews by The Burger Busters and an earlier review by The Burger Busters.
I find it quite telling that A Hamburger Today has not reviewed Father’s Office…
OK, so I would guess that Lexus paid for the placement, so what are the odds that Father’s Office did as well?
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Well, this is new to me, land claims and native rights being used as a means to open a hamburger stand. OK, the backstory is here.
As far as I can tell from reading the articles (Hamilton Spectator, Dunnville Chronicle cd989.com) someone is building an unlicensed hamburger shack in Caledonia. The hamburger stand isn’t connected to the electric grid and apparently doesn’t plan on paying taxes either, and as a consequence there are a bunch of people who are rather annoyed. And while it’s only about 100 km from Caledonia to Toronto, it did take a full 21 days for the news to get there (the reason I know about it, is because my friend Jordan Timm pointed out a Macleans blog post about the conflict – Thanks Jordan).
Does anyone know if the hamburgers are any good?
Personally I love how Kaz Novak absolutely had to get a teepee in the picture to validate that the dispute was on native land!
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Episode 291 [10:46]
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Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand in conversation with Billy Mavreas, artist, gallery owner, cartoon blogger, ‘zinester, scenester and general man-about-town. In this episode Billy talks about how he got started.
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Since I was talking about licensing images yesterday, I figured it would dovetail nicely with these three images…
Last week I was walking along Greene Avenue when I saw these magnificent paintings in the window of the Galerie de Bellefeuille. While I don’t think there is a patent on spraying diamond dust on silkscreen prints, I would bet dollars to doughnuts that Russell Young is not paying any royalties to the Michael Ochs Archives or Getty Images for his use of their photograph. (Which if I did the drop down boxes properly would cost somewhere around $600)
And while I’m not entirely certain (after all I did take a crappy and blurry picture) but it certainly does look like a painting of Tintin, and again I would bet dollars to doughnuts (Tim Horton’s even!) that someone forgot to cut a check to Paramount Pictures for their royalties…
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I’m almost (almost) caught up with the backlog of links. And saw this write up of the Venice Biennale (notice no mention of Steven Shearer… Anyhow that write up led to this piece on The Clock (2010) by Christian Marclay that I was talking about last week.
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I initially bookmarked this back in May, specifically May 7 to be exact (and redundant). And it has garnered exactly 36 views since then. There are videos of people picking their noses that have been seen more times than that!
How bad is it? Watch for yourself…
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As many of you might already know, my crank gets turned by public art. So much so, that I’ve even tried to make a map of it here in town
View Public Art in Montreal in a larger map
Anyways I was real happy to see that this guy, David Giral, had taken some pictures of public art in town. And I was especially happy to see that he was taking pictures of some of the more obscure public art in town such as Affinité by Hans Schleeh. Which just might be the most obscure piece of public art in town.
Affinité by Hans Schleeh, photo by David Giral” title=”Affinité by Hans Schleeh, photo by David Giral” width=”372″ height=”560″ class=”size-large wp-image-2673″ />But I digress, as David Giral’s website is so obviously set up to sell his pictures, I naturally clicked on some links wanting to get an idea of how much he wanted for an 8×10, or something along those lines. So I clicked on the “buy image” button, and the first thing I was asked to do was to “Select a usage region.” After that I was asked to answer seven (7!) other questions via drop down menus. None of them offering a simple 8×10. But that’s not my problem, M. Giral only wants to sell to businesses. Which is fine. But if he really thinks that there is someone somewhere who wants a five-year worldwide license (and once I clicked on worldwide, it still asked me for a “sub-region”) to display his photo of Affinité by Hans Schleeh on one JumbroTron (doesn’t he know that they stopped making them in 2001?) and is willing to give him $3,059.28 (why not an even $3K?) I have some swampland in Florida that he might just be interested in purchasing from me…
And if I am wrong and there is some sucker who wants to pay more than $3,000 for the permission to display David Giral’s photo of Affinité by Hans Schleeh, I want to know how much is he paying in royalties to Schleeh Design? Who I think is the company that owns the rights to Affinité by Hans Schleeh.