I Had A Dream

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Crystal Dorval aka White Poppy "I Had a Dream" from I Had a Dream (2012, Not Not Fun – cassette only, edition of 125)

(via GvB)

Northern Ports

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Craeft by Ports 1961, FW2010, by Vancouver-based designer Tia Cibani. Model Bruna Tenorio shot in Finland by Geoff Barrenger, with styling by Tu Ly and music by Jeff Martin and Kapsburger.

Image of the Day

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Strathcona Variations, the latest release from Vancouver- based producer Scott Morgan, aka Loscil – performing tonight at the Seattle Art Museum. Morgan also plays drums with Dan Bejar's ongoing project Destroyer, highly esteemed around here. Also tonight: El Perro Del Mar and Taken By Trees at the Triple Door.

Also tonight: me, on cold medicine, and Vitamin R.

Here's my favorite Loscil cut, from his 2004 LP First Narrows. It's dying for a real video but this will have to suffice:



Perfect iPod music for gray days in the great Northwest.

Our Beautiful West Coast Thing

Haida Raven with Snow Pat McGuire

Images from RUINS IN PROCESS: Vancouver Art in the Sixties, a recently-launched digital archive of artwork, ephemera, and film.

Film stilll from What Happened Last Summer by Stan Fox

Landscape Manual by Jeff Wall

Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of a Greater Fragment catalogue cover

Bilingual by Audrey Capal Dorey

A Portfolio of Piles by Ingrid Baxter / N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.

Poetry Front: ConcretePoetry

No Ow Now from USCO Hubbub by Gerd Stern

artscanada, June/July, 1971

Much, much more here.

Where is the Seattle version of this – is there one I don't know about? The Municipal Archives Flickr page is great and all, but damn.

Via Jen Graves , particularly on fire lately at SLOG.

Watercolors Into the Ocean

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This show at Yossi Milo has been blogged about quite a bit already, but I'm really psyched about it, so here it is. Photographer Asako Narahashi takes pictures with her camera close to the water or half-submerged, and what results—aside from beautiful images with really amazing colors—is that unique combination of relaxation and fright that comes with swimming in open water.

I am a terrible swimmer, always have been, but that hasn't stopped me from spending as much time as possible on or near the water. I used to guide kayak trips in the San Juan Islands and there is nothing more calming than gliding silently through the waves. I'm looking forward to doing some more of that soon.

Asako Narahashi's Half Awake and Half Asleep In the Water is up through August 22nd at Yossi Milo Gallery (525 West 25th Street, NYC). See more of her work here.

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Bonus. Chris Watson, formerly of Cabaret Voltaire, now a specialist in recording wildlife and nautre, contributed this field recording of water to the Visionaire Sound issue. Telegraph Cove is at the North end of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Chris Watson Telegraph Cove At Night MP3
from Visionaire 53: Sound, available at visionaireworld.com