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Soûlanges Train

ruthanzo — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:16:34 +0000

doodles

ruthanzo — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:28:36 +0000

Kate and I spent a lot of time in recording studios and when I wasn’t noodling I was doodling. The collage looks like the handiwork of Pat D. and Gerry C. and I can hear them cackling now.. The pic below it was done during an I Eat Dinner session. George the dog and Caramel the bunny were also part of Kate’s menagerie back then.

couple of my puppets from early 70s and some recent monoprints

ruthanzo — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:30:44 +0000

These were taken by real photographer.

last moon over glengarry

ruthanzo — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:04:21 +0000

On the night of Aug 12 I filmed the full Moon from our balcony. The next morning in a futile attempt to write music in Garage Band to compliment the grandeur of Nature I learned that a 22 yr old mother and her 3 infants had lost their lives overnight in a horrific fire in the town of Alexandria 2 miles from where I live in Glengarry Co. Ontario. At the end of this 60 sec film there appears to be a small child floating in the heavens.

The sorry house, taken yesterday, one month after the fire, still cordoned off with yellow police tape. Not sure if foul play is suspected. Only the front of the house seems to have burnt.

Ten Fags

ruthanzo — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:17:43 +0000

Lily and Dane are both growing tobacco. So in the spirit of American Spirit, a package prototype for a new brand of cigarette made from organically-grown Virginia tobacco and aimed at the discriminating smoker. I’m recycling the old water-colour of Sitting Bull I did for Judy Garfin’s class back in the 80s. Very excited about this new venture even though we’ll probably only have enough leaf to make ten fags. And then there are the health warning labels. I’m thinking old tooth and lung x-rays.

brooklyn-st james

ruthanzo — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:45:29 +0000

Dane, Sylvan and I walking through Brooklyn in the merry month of May on our way to the first rehearsal for the NYC Kate Tribute. St James Hospital is from Heartbeats Accelerating the cd Kate and I made with Pierre Marchand in 1990.

Biting Water

ruthanzo — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:00:25 +0000

I’m feeling a bit nostalgic these days, hence the blue and purple hues that imbue new pellicules. Bert sits in his silken tent at Gardencourt in the Summer of 2008. Bé the dog plays with the hose, bites water. This dog bit everything, including me. Sylvan did the music. I hope he doesn’t mind me borrowing it. Thanks Syl.

Purple Train

ruthanzo — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:50:48 +0000

Lament for a Princess.

Empty carriage on the Via train intercut with pics of Diana’s wedding gown and train. These days it’s hard not to be reminded of Princess Diana’s sad end.

prelim. poster ideas for Kate tribute

ruthanzo — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:52:25 +0000

Some ideas I had for the Kate tribute in NYC. I was going for that retro folk look. The one that isn’t of Kate is of our grandmother Laury Coté at about age 10 or 11 brandishing a pot-bellied mandolin, probably a prop in the photographer’s studio, though I have a vague recollection of such a mandolin in my grandparents’ country house in Ste-Dorothee, Qc (now part of Laval.) Laury’s hands with their long fingers are so reminiscent of Kate’s.

A few more monops

ruthanzo — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:36:25 +0000

The bronze paint didn’t scan well. Scanner doesn’t like metallic finishes.