ALL THE CLUTTER OF MY LIFE… (www.michelleford.ca)

April 27, 2008

the baker’s disease.

Filed under: blah blah blah blahg blog. — michelle. @ 6:16 pm

my friends are in a band. it’s called white lung. last sunday afternoon i took some photos of them for their 7″.

this is what a uk music magazine called wire had to say about them:
“Great Vancouver punk quartet that combines a sort of classic West Coast punk vocal sneer with early Riot Grrrl articulation and sheets of throbbing post-core guitar. At their best they sound like Bikini Kill doing a cover of Minor Threat’s cover of Wire’s “12XU”

you can see all of them HERE if you wish.

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grady!

natasha!

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April 20, 2008

thank you thank you thank you thank you.

Filed under: blah blah blah blahg blog. — michelle. @ 2:08 pm

i would like to thank everyone and anyone who helped out with my show on saturday night. jen for lending us the space. adam for helping us set up. pascale for the door. everyone for showing up.. friends family. and everyone else.. julie for coming to the absolute rescue in an emergency. tony and tyler for playing lovely music. and mostly meghan for putting the entire thing together and making everything possible!

merci

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meghan and me.

April 15, 2008

typical vancouver skyline.

Filed under: blah blah blah blahg blog. — michelle. @ 12:56 pm

two years ago my father came to visit me from montreal. one of the things he remarked about vancouver was the number of cranes that were tossed in the middle of the city skyline…since then i’m sure that number must have at least tripled. this is a photo of where the athletes village is going. there are 12 cranes in a one block radius.

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April 10, 2008

sometimes i like to write haikus.

Filed under: blah blah blah blahg blog. — michelle. @ 11:17 pm

i’m no writer. but i’m in this creative writing class and sometimes i just really like the aesthetics of what i write.

these are some haikus. on a polaroids… from a slides… i took in bellingham several years ago.

April 3, 2008

GANGofYOUTH.

Filed under: blah blah blah blahg blog. — michelle. @ 11:51 pm

tony made these. i really like them.

GANGofYOUTH april 19th.

back in the summer on a late tuesday night in english bay, meghan patterson approached me on the side of the street and asked if i wanted to be part of her opening show for her new gallery called Mercy Gallery… (she wanted to have big party to celebrate this new venture and thought the irony of having party photos at a party would be rather clever)

we got together in the fall and made a date in early december to have this event, however do to complications we now finally are going to make it happen. on saturday april 19th meghan’s nomadic gallery will present it’s first show at this really rad space on drake and richards.

it will not only be a solo show, but it will be my first show ever…i’d really like if you came. there’ll be music and beer and wine!!! and will probably go late!

ok great!

ps. i would like to inform all those people who have negative opinions towards what i do.. and most likely will dislike the idea of this show, i never, not once, said what i did was art. i never said, or ever thought that i had talent or was trying to prove some artistic concept, i simply documented the moments of our youth so you could go and post them on your facebook or myspace page…(it really doesn’t get much more deep than that) everyone has the right to their opinion and i completely respect that, but before you go into combat with this whole thing i’d appreciate you research your battle first. it doesn’t take much to see that every other kind of photography i do goes well beyond the wide-angle lense of a digital slr….

April 2, 2008

leah and jasper #2.

Filed under: blah blah blah blahg blog. — michelle. @ 6:38 pm

i decided, (even though i thought they turned out wonderful the first time. to re-shoot leah and jasper because they were slightly underexposed the first time around…. they turned out so wonderul yet again.

yesterday jasper left for africa for five month. he does things like that. leah plans on visiting him during the summer. she does things like that. they are perfect.

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final countdown…

Filed under: blah blah blah blahg blog. — michelle. @ 6:07 pm

i have less than month left to finish up everything…. here are a few more

skipper and florent.

skipper and florent

and hannah and evan.

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