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Guest Ann Krista Miles Archive

Miles Collyer is a Toronto-based artist with a BFA from the Ontario College of Art & Design in photography who hasn't taken a photograph since he graduated in 2006. Now he prefers to make things with his hands from scratch and conceive of expensive sculptural installations that will probably never be made. He is also Art Metropole's shop manager. Go visit him at www.milescollyer.com.

David Buchan, Canadian Youth
A photo mural by Buchan, originally exhibited at the Western Front Gallery, Vancouver in 1988, mirroring Charles H. Scott’s original painting by the same name. The original painting is reconstructed with inflections of artificiality and the vernacular of advertising

DADDY Magazine Issue 5: Teen DADDY, 2008
As the tightly wrapped and stickered package declares, this is DADDY FOR TEENS - caution tape across the front warns "Don't let some scumbag steal your PRECIOUS VIRGINITY". Also included is a puzzle of the cover image. The imagery runs the gamut from young nubile poseurs, celebrity pregnancy, and cartoons to drugs and modern art. Edition of 2000

Oliver Sieber, Die Blinden, 2007
Sieber's work often portrays different subcultures in society where the symbolic importance of certain style codes and certain forms of uniformity play an important part in group identity. In the series, "Die Blinden“ I was interested in the concepts of "being able to see“ and "being blind“ and their relation to the photographic portrait in general. The form of the passport photo as a token of identity has always irritated me as in respect to the blind. For these people my work is completely insignificant. That is an interesting point for me,..and for photography." -Oliver Sieber Includes a text in German by Kerstin Stremmel. Signed. ISBN: 3-932187-56-3

Jennifer Sciarrino, Etiquette Softeners, 2007
Infuse yourself with the clarity of knowing you have the etiquette necessary to improve your social relationships and avoid being scorned by society. Soften your clothes with a hand cut admonition to return messages, never speak poorly of another person or be an un-attentive listener, for a cozy reminder all week long. Pull a fresh, kind and considerate sweater over your self-centered shoulders. These rules and rituals are simple social graces, which are intended to infuse your life with politeness, chivalry and self-fulfillment. Carefully place in your gym bag or underwear drawer as a reminder to make good decisions and modify your behaviour. These guidelines are not without exception; consider them reminders to make your life comfortable and your conscience clean. Housed in a beautifully designed box, with debossed title and artist name. Edition of 5, numbered.

Paul Kneale, Excess Capacity, 2008
A DVD formatted either as a screen saver or an autoplay DVD for the 'TV fireplace' effect. Taking a 3000 frames per second recording of a TV turning off, the artist has slowed it down to a minute and a half; allowing you to see the abstract dying of the picture, exploding into static and fading away. Unlimited edition.

Fastwurms, FASTWÜRMS postcards - individual (from a set of 8), 2007
Eight new postcards from contemporary artist-witch duo FASTWÜRMS. Seven of the postcards depict their famed cats in various poses : 'Cheese and Full Moon Rising', 'The Haywagon', 'Cheese on the Massey', 'Russell Crowbar, Taalon + Spoticus', 'Taalon on Patrol', 'Bunny Lick', 'Dragon Wagon on a Straw Bale', and the odd image out titled 'Pirate Head, 2005: Swashbucklers Michael barker and FASTWÜRMS show off their insurrectionary community values'. Sold individually.

Fuck Death Foundation, Fuck Death Pennant, 2008
A high quality black felt pennant with the Fuck Death Foundation logo and the phrase 'Fuck Death' in matte silver ink. Produced by the Fuck Death Foundation as part of their incisive venture to "carpet bomb death". As an alternative to the often abstract impact of art on the world, the Fuck Death Foundation is structured to make a quantifiable contribution to society. As their mission statement outlines, "The Fuck Death Foundation is an organization dedicated to the elimination of death through the generation and distribution of funds to strategically selected causes and initiatives worldwide." The organization aims to efficiently and effectively target the 5 illnesses responsible for 70% of the world's mortalities; parasitic and infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer and AIDS through the distribution of funds, while a Lightning Action Relief Fund will respond to global crisis situations. Over time, resources will be directed toward "life extension sciences". All proceeds from sales benefit the Foundation. Edition of 100.

Amy Lam, Steve Kado, Jon McCurley, MY TOPICS SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE, 2008
Non-Non-Fiction Illustrated Books * 3 Topics in 2008: "Extraterrestrial Communication" by Amy Lam (www.amylamwebsite.com) "Movies" by Jon McCurley (www.lifeofacraphead.com) "American Decision Making: Quakers" by Steve Kado (www.theblankket.com) * Books as in some compilation of stories or essays or photos or drawings or lab reports or interviews or statistics or maps of important sites or photos of 3D pie charts made about interviews or drawings of computer screens where story is being written... All about our topics! $59 for US orders $89 for overseas orders

Scott Hug, Too Much Too Little Too Late, Polaroids 2002-2007, 2007
Published to coincide with Hug's 2007 exhibition "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late", this artist's book juxtaposes Polaroid photographs with found magazine imagery to explore issues of fame, beauty, and the dissemination of information. Hug excavates magazine covers and ads, from fashion mags to Time and The New Yorker, celebrity tabloids to Leatherneck and blueboy magazine, and overlays them with his own Polaroids of the hip New York art scene. Celebrity, disaster, death, media spectacle—all kinds—in glossy oversized tabloid format. Comes sealed in a glossy black box-board envelope. Edition of 1000.

Lyndsey Cope, untitled (brooch), 2006
Using the versatile (and largely untapped) medium of expanding foam insulation, Lyndsey Cope has created dozens of unique brooches by spraying small blobs of foam and mounting them on brooch pins. Largely abstract, these nodular works can call to mind fetuses or albino Turtles candies and because of the unpredictable nature of expanding insulation, their final shape represents an interesting example of aleatory (ie. random chance employed in artistic endevour) sculpture.

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