Barque. Brigatine. Ketch. Sloop. Even a well-keeled head might rub the chin in query, but everyone knows a tall ship when they see one. July 16th marks a return visit of the tall ships to Nova Scotia, the eastern Canadian province that prods the Atlantic like a two-sided thumb. Return visit, it’s true. Whether four…
Author: colinmichaelmoore
Life is a box of life. You never know what you're always going to get.
The Gospel According to Richard Pryor
It’s hard to get a sense of this project from these images alone. I’ll try to add some screenshots for context down the road. This was my first stab at VR and though I’m sure I near ruptured Unity in the attempt, it was a blast. Comedy as religion. This is the concept. Within the…
NSCAD Print
A few selections from Intro to Print, a class that surveyed a handful of image-making techniques, all messy, most satisfying. The polar bear was gouged into a woodblock and relief printed by rolling a paint-covered brayer over top, then squeezed through a hand-wound press onto card-stock. The goal was to go activist more or less,…
Pixel Project
I’m not a painter, at least not on this day. Or since! An early assignment we had in Intro to Studio Practice at NSCAD was to select a high contrast image and block it off in squares. Using gouache, a quick-drying spirit-breaking watercolor, we would approximate the image using tonalities. Squinting at the final work…
Meat Me in St. Louis
Because we can.
Hockey Comes Home (2009)
Penguins waddle across warm asphalt sidewalks, in groups, to some common destination. The younger ones stumble about with fresh bed-head. Others carry slogans on bristol-board bent and rolled and hockey sticks buffed clean for an autograph, hopefully. Bird after bird they’re on the move, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Emperor himself. In Cole…
Salsa Burns the Korean Capital (2010)
There’s a certain amount of fear. That’s understandable. For a novice on the dance floor, drops of self-esteem can fall away with the sweat. Take salsa for example. Depending on the dancer, it’s either an energetic way to shed a humble skin or turn it to scar tissue. It helps to be in good hands. …
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