puppet

finger puppet i made in the early 70s bearing a cartoonish resemblance to syl.
i used syl’s tune and raised the tonality.

her dream house

Sometime around 1983 I decided to turn a milk house which was attached to the barn into a studio. Dane was happy with this idea as the structure was a later add-on. Natalia Douglass a friend from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal who lived in Glengarry and was building a very large house loaned us her carpenter Rollie and his friend to help us move it into an open field. When finished, it had electricity heat and insulation. I moved my Juno-60 and an old National amp in there along with some recording equipment and had the best time ever playing and writing. Over the years the studio slowly became a catch-all for everybody’s junk including Dane’s collection of Zap comics which often had very lewd strips (Captain Piss Gums comes to mind.) The kids spent a lot of time in there with their friends looking at this stuff. Sylvan just wrote this waltz for his friend Alex who makes video games. It puts me in mind of fine Austro-Hungarian types in powdered wigs and lace prancing around in gilded halls.

the thief

the theme for the 2009 M60 festival (montreal’s 60 sec filmfest) was deception hence the preponderance of films about thieving (2) on this site. we’re coming up on rutting season and i’m hoping to crawl out of the one i’m in. rose cockapoo stars in this short about a deceiving dog. we gave her everything and this is how we are rewarded. cockapoodle-do.

thief of time

junkyard children would also be a fitting title. getting more use out of this b&w film hannelore and i shot in the early 70s of traffic on papineau below the escarpment with the jacques-cartier bridge looming (barely) in background. this time i’m mixing it up with dane’s pics of sylvan, lily and ninjamama who posed in this enchanting overgrown pre-ww2 car graveyard we happened upon in maine while driving back to montreal from the beach some time in the early 80s. sylvan ‘composed’ this nostalgic tune which i think works well under the cars trundling uphill from the river.

huffpuppy sampler

Welcome to Huffpuppy the site for sore eyes where the emphasis is on the visual with texts that harken back to the good old days of the Gestetner printing machine with its typed stencils and coloured inks + old faded film, slides. Living in the past I am. Seems a safer place than the future.

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