Jeff Wall  After ”Invisible Man” by Ralph Elliason, the Prologue.

1999-2000

Transparency in lightbox 1740 X 2505 mm

Cinematographic Photograph. 

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Ashley Nagy Ouellette is a photographer who currently resides in Whistler B.C. Click HERE for a daily. 

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The year was 1995. Braveheart won best picture at the Oscars, Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee wed Pam Anderson, Bill Clinton was having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky and…who gives a shit right?  over in Canada Wes Makepeace was boning one out over a cat track gap on Mt. Seymour For Jaime Mosberg’s ”Milk”  …thanks for the poster Dano

Wes Makepeace lamar Ad. circa 1995 

Here at gnarcore.com we love photography, and why shouldn’t we? The ability to capture a mood and a feeling by the tilt of the head a thought in the mind and a flick of the finger is such a magical phenomenon that we constantly feel the obligation to give it the praise and affection it deserves. Today we take a glimpse at the work of  Ashley Nagy. Ashley is the only person i know that got married on halloween, by a dead pirate and had her dad dressed as a grim reaper walk her down the aisle. Really!  Her guest attended in costumes, she was dressed as a zombie and her husband had palbearers carry him in a coffin. Talk about some next level type shit…fuck zombies are cool. Anyway Ashley lives in whistler where she can bee seen snowboarding with her husband Lucas Ouellette, riding her bike on a sunny day or shooting photos of strange things that move in the night. Isn’t life beautiful? We think so.

 now go shoot some photos.  

Our friend Cherie Carswell (who happens to be a designer over at Westbeach) emailed us last week saying that she was going to this “crazy tranny show” that we had to check out. And since we’re not the type to back down from anything weird and unusual we said SHIT YES! We had our interns do a little research and found out that it was non other the world renown transvestite Amada Lepore wich according to Soap box prophet (wich we religiously acknowledge) is “the tranny to top all trannies” (ok?) and she would be playing at some bar called the Biltmore. Playing…we don’t know what but it sounded freaky and crazy and dammit we wanted in. Instantly we dropped the mounds of paper work, html-codeing and all sorts of other technical internet workings that we do here at gnarcore.com and called gnarcoraspondent and cultural documenter DAVID ROULEAU who happen to already be in Vancouver. View the Gallery to see how his night went.

Color Magazine is my favorite mag in the whole world. So i asked my friend if he’d come with me to the opening reception of Etnies and Color magazines A ROLLING PERSPECTIVE on last Saturday night at Anti Social. He was like “whats that?” and i said “i dunno i think its this photo show of a bunch of people that shot them selves riding skateboards. You know like point-of-view style” “meh” he said and then asked if anything else was going on. I quickly hung up the phone, hurried out the door and made my way to Anti Social.

After that useless phone call i wasn’t expecting much. Upon arrival to the show i realized why i always enjoy going to shows at antisocial. People are drinking, people are talking, people are skating the mini ramp and above all there’s usually alway good art. Etnies and Color had asked skaters to shoot a photo of themsleves from thier own rolling perspective. Over 200 portraits had been collected from all over Canada, the U.S and as far as japan. A selection of these portraits of pro skaters, artists, photographers, filmers, desginers and many other talented familiars from the skate scene had been composed into the exhibition in a celebration of skateboarding. Mark Appleyard, John Rattray, Yogi Proctor and Dylan Doubt to name a few ….a very few cause there was lots more.

Don’t Sleep’s Benny Stoddard, Photog Dylan Doubt (with young Doubt) and Color’s Sandro Grison

In closing the show was rad. People are different and different people interpret things with their own flare and style it was cool to see how the various photos showed that off. The show will be next rolling its way through the country with stops in Montreal (QC),Winnipeg (MB), Calgary (AB) and Toronto.

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