Its on!
The first ever Afflicted Yard exhibition: November 10-Dec 10, 2007, BERN, SWITZERLAND.
Check THIS LINK at Highsnobiety.com for more information.
More info to follow.
November 03, 2007
November 02, 2007
Truth always stranger than fiction...
Those of you who know The Afflicted Yard are familiar with some of the fake ads that have appeared on the site over the years.
One of these ads--a fake adidas flash banner that appears to be an attempt to cash in on the untimely death of Jammaster Jay of Run DMC was one of the more well known ones and by extension, one of the many reasons The Afflicted Yard has been called, among other things--a bit insensitive. ( For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about , the ad can still be viewed HERE at the top left hand corner of the page).
Now, have a look at this LINK on Complex and ask yourself: where did I see THAT before ?
October 30, 2007
More Lee
Look for these in the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair. Sorry for the lack of updates lately but things been a bit busy. Big announcement coming soon.
October 08, 2007
October 06, 2007
October 02, 2007
October 01, 2007
Apartment 101
This one will take a little explanation.
Yesterday I was walking around in downtown Brampton taking photographs of the white ghetto when I happened across a peculiar green gate and a yard that appeared to be covered with lawn furniture and ceramic figures.
The gate was locked so I walked around to the side of Unit 57 where I found a older woman stuffing garbage into a box. I asked her who lived behind gate 101 and she told me it where she and her husband Bruno lived.
After some small talk about the yard and all the crap in it, she went and fetched Bruno who opened the gate and started to show me around. At first I thought the garden was all there was to it...but then they offered to let me have a look inside....thats when things got weird. Really weird.
See for yourself :
http://www.afflictedyard.com/apartment101.htm
September 28, 2007
Death Row Art
Got the above from a couple of old friends of mine today--Tracey and Dave 'Grave' Parkinson.
They're interesting people, to say the least, and when I first met them Dave was the only person I knew who owned a shark-proof glove. That is, a metal chain link glove that was good for, well, protecting oneself against shark bites and Nazi's with knives ( Dave said he had it for the Nazi's).
Tracey and Dave were special though. They loved people and typically it was the most downtrodden that they defended on our radio show--Uppercut--which was, as a matter of advertisement the absolute WORST show on CIUT ( 89.5 Toronto).
The show was a strange mix of activism ( primarily concerned with Nazi skinheads) and what we thought was comedy---crank calls, recordings, interviews with Raelians, weed advocates and people who drank Aqua Velva and directed traffic in their spare time.
The show actually had a interesting (if unemployed) little following and Dave actually got his nickname from the show after numerous skinheads would phone in and call him 'Dave Grave' before threatening to kill him on the way home from the station.
Consequently, Dave was a bit paranoid and a visit to their apartment in Parkdale often found Dave searching for wiretaps and hidden cameras, possibly put there by a Nazi assassin or the Canadian version of the, FBI--CSIS.
After being thrown off for a final time ( I think it was because Katrin played Snoop Dogg to celebrate International Womyns Day or because we started infighting over what sort of crap music to play), Uppercut ended and we all went our separate ways.
A few years later we found each other back online and I found out that they were running an anti-capital punishment organization called CCADP or the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
As is usual with Tracey and Dave Grave Parkinson, their activism is mixed with things that don't seem too 'activist' --for instance this collection of images that they sent me today showing artwork done by some of the inmates they communicate with on death row.
The stuff is weird and nice and in some cases kind of creepy but all of it is quite real in that each piece was done by someone who is locked up and scheduled to die.
Check the rest of them out here:
http://www.afflictedyard.com/deathrow.htm
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No.12 is Afflicted. Turn to page 65 ( but buy the print version--its nicer and you can read it!)
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