Friday, November 28, 2003  
Rocking Raven in the street and Bark on the March

:: Posted by max @ 11/28/2003 08:37:00 PM
[co. rockingraven.com] Rocking Raven serialized in newspaper

The Street Newspaper in Vancouver Canada is printing a serialized Rocking Raven story- "The Strong Silent Type". You can click the thumbnail to read the page



In early 2004 the story will be available to other newspapers sold on streets throughout North America by marginalized and homeless people-



Also

Canadian design flaunts its ‘Raw Potential’

at exhibit in abandoned Gastown building



VANCOUVER, BC – A jet-setting exhibit of Canadian design that picked up kudos during its debut at the Tokyo Designers’ Block in October will be touching down in Vancouver from December 11 to 14 as part of its global tour. “Raw Potential: Design from Canada” will be flaunting the best of Canadian design in an offbeat exhibit in an abandon building at 44 Water Street in Gastown. The exhibit is headed to design shows in Toronto and London England in the new year.



“We want to break the stereotype that design is elitist by showcasing some of Canada’s best designers in an unorthodox, raw setting,”

says Rob Studer, a member of the Vancouver-based BARK Design Collective, which is organizing the exhibit. “We picked a derelict building in the heart of Gastown to bring this high-calibre, international exhibit down to earth, to make it accessible to everyone in the city.”



The exhibition showcases both conventional and iconoclastic design

that challenges stereotypes of Canada. Haida Manga, for instance, in the form of the retelling of the ancient saga of Raven Travelling illustrated in Japanese comic

book format or "manga", casting the lewd Trickster-Creator in fishnet stockings. "Aboriginal design is not some artefact buttressing the Canadian myth" says Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, a Haida illustrator.



"I want to reshape the elevated and sacred Haida iconography into a rudely familiar image, one that is relevant and accessible to all..."



Other offbeat designs include a white "one-piece" felt suit by Vancouver fashion designer Natalie Purschwitz, architectural renderings of an "extreme" museum perched precariously at the top of a rocky mountain by Cynthia Wilson and Oliver Lang, and a "Grow-Op" coffee table to green the interior of your cramped, downtown condo by Mark Brady.



"Canada is the Petri dish of human culture. We are an experiment in identity, where cultures from all over the world are grafted together, where social conventions about marriage and drugs are being radically reshaped, where creativity is unhindered by history," says Beth Hawthorne, a member of BARK.



"Yet our international image is strikingly out of sync. Canadians are seen as a painfully polite, terribly dull bunch whose greatest contributions to humanity are maple syrup, smoked salmon and log cabins."



Read more at Rocking Raven >>>



{Ed note: now, last I heard Canadians were thought of as Cool?:Here & Here }
    
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