Nuit Blanche and some thoughts on T.O.

So we went to Nuit Blanche last week, and I feel pretty lame that it was the first event we've really been to. We went to the Jazz festival & Casa Loma in the summer. As artists though, we've been encouraged to see gallery openings, and visit the ROM + AGO (to which we have free entrance). And I haven't yet! The school also has many guest artists and speakers, and I haven't gone to a single thing.

I haven't been involved in anything at all. And that's my new goal- to check stuff out, and start doing fun things. Otherwise, what's the point in living here anyway?


Last night I saw my cousin play at the Hard Luck Bar in a band called Signifier. It was a good time, and good music. I have to do this kind of stuff way more.


Also- I'm taking photography + video right now and we're encouraged to always have cameras on us and to record/photograph whatever we like. So: on the way home from Nuit Blanche, I noticed how loud the subway was. Usually people, even if it's only standing room, never say a word. I'll get on the subway in the morning and I'm squished up against like 60 other people trying to hold onto something. AND IT'S SILENT. But the energy of Nuit Blanche, and some kind of sports match, seemed to spread into the subway and it was noisy!

Living Room

So, I got around to cleaning my living room finally. It was awful.

This is our couch. We got it for free, it's a pullout. The pullout isn't bad, but it's been gouging into our nice floor every time we put it away. Whoops...

The couch was THE WORST material to sit on during the summer. It was so sweaty. We kept it covered with blankets all summer.

We've stained it with oil paint already. But I don't think we'll be keeping longer than this apartment.

To get it in the apartment, we (as in the guys) had to carry it up the fire escape and we had to squish it into our living room. It took a long time, a lot of work and one of the guys puked afterwards. When we take it out, my vote will be to chop it up into firewood first.

This is our coffee table. We were warned before hand, that it would be too tall for putting our feet on. It's true, and mostly we just use it for storing all of our blankets and throwing stuff onto.

Aj has a big teacher's desk. It takes up the most space in the room, but it's perfect. & it's always covered in stuff. This is the cleanest I've seen it since we moved probably. He built the bookshelf that sits on top of it with his dad. It's pretty full, I have no idea where we'd put our books without it...

This is our sexy lamp.

I can't stop posting pictures of the sea critters. They're just so cute. Here's some shrimp on Scoob.

We always have paintings on the go, and as you can see, there's not much room for two easels. My poor piano has a drop sheet on it. It's hiding. I haven't played in too long. I don't have time, and can never find it anyway. One day I'll uncover it.

I used to have a desk where my piano was, and I had my little inspiration strings up. I never took them down, I love em.

There's the sea critters again! & our artsy shelf. + board games. It's funny. Most of our games require more than two people so we don't play many of them. We just got Dutch Blitz & Bananagrams.

I love our windows. They face East, and the sun is a lovely thing. It keeps our place nice and bright. We have some cutsie plants and an elephant parade in the window. I'm looking forward to needing the rads on. It'll be so cozy.

So now you've seen almost everything!

Nuit Blanche is tomorrow, and I'm pretty pumped!

xoxo

H