So a good friend recently recommended I visit the Starving Artist Cafe in toronto, now I haven’t had much time to do it but thought I would share the info with everyone.

Blog To Review

Michael’s Bloor-Landsdowne Blog

Ok ok enough with the flood stuff, this site is basically about art so since I’m lazy here’s a great interview from FecalFace with an amazing artist named AJ Fosik!

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1581&Itemid=92

Also the second Friday  in August is the next artcrawl, come check out some art enjoy!

Oh man so sunday night I was late getting home due to the Parkdale bus being insanely late, little did I not realize I live now in England where it constantly rains! So even though today i was getting over being sick I can’t even begin to imagine the crap some people are dealing with…. read this …. http://thespec.com/News/Local/article/607242

Whao the Redhill area is flooded check out the info at the

Spec, here’s a good one….

Spectator

Wow in case you aren’t in the loop or in my case don’t read the spectator, James St North will be getting a bunch of condos… well  Stephanie of http://stephanievegh.ca/ has a great blog post about them. I partially agree with a her comments about the James St North scene being very new and doesn’t really have the need or capacity to with stand this gentrification. That said I think this development may spur some people to actually invest and move here/create jobs creative or otherwise. Sadly right now Hamilton doesn’t have the population density it needs to be a great city. People don’t feel safe if there is no one around except a few homeless people.

On the short lived Matt Jelly radio show Jeremy Freiburger of the ICCA once said when commenting on Starbucks on Locke St, “the more gentrification the better for Hamilton” in reference to the fact Hamilton is light years from becomming the next Queen West with Nike Stores,  H&M, etc. I agree as it roughly took Queen West about 10-15 years to get to the point where the major chains took over. Some also forget that Hamilton has a sea of derelict buildings and areas that would kill for this, think Barton and Wentworth, heck even John St North.

Hamilton is not James St North or Locke St or Westdale. Hamilton should concentrate on developing interesting development, whether they be buildings, squats, businesses,etc. Hamilton cares too much about Toronto and not Hamilton….Berlin is one of my favorite cities I have ever visited or read about, what got me interested? The squats started by artists in the 1970′s and that are still around! So hopefully it gets done and Hamilton’s artist scene survives and maybe adds some new folks.

In a related theme… Wax Manaquine has a great post about France on his facebook/myspace page, read it!Here’s a bit…

“This town has a great tradition of low culture – trashy cabarets and street performers, drug-addict artists painting dirty pictures on their patron’s dollar. But all of the opportunism and self-destruction of the past has now been idealized into untouchable high-art.”

Ok so after sooo many posts related to coffee some people found me! Check them out at Latte Art also my friend is telling me I need a Burr for proper coffee??? wtf?

Also a Reminder—-Hamilton Artists Inc. seeks artists, curators, and writers for the
General Call for Submissions – 2012 Exhibition Schedule
Deadline:  August 31, 2009.
and Urban Moorings 2 – Call for Expressions of Interest
Deadline:  August 15, 2009.
Word fillable, downloadable form at:  www.hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca/submissions.shtml

Sorry to the good folks at Blue Angel forgot to add the info they sent recently,

FOR THE MONTH OFJULY AND AUGUST   METAL ARTIST IHOR DEMYDCHUK.

NOISE BAND THURSDAYS 7-10

OPEN STAGE FRIDAYS  7=12

SCRIPT READING SECOND MONDAYS OF EACH MONTH 7-9

Well alot of hopes running high on the Skyscrapper forum in Hamilton and someone may have hit on something??? You may want to read this….

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009479123_starbucks16.html

I may have to look into this but I can firmly say Hamilton downtown is more than willing to be assimilated by the Mermaid! (no need to hide)

Ok so I haven’t done a post on this in a while and the old post have died a slow death via google’s absurdness, well Oprah has said wallpaper is cool so enjoy this article and Rollout always floats my boat so enjoy that too!

Also Rollout has decided you needed this graphitti in your home….

Or you can always goto the 1970′s for some wallpaper?

Ok even though I have no way of affording this seriously if someone wants to buy it for me???? I think this next item is so worth it!!! From niagra no less! Hit the image to take a look….