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As described on the official St. Louie festival site, “The “Main” mixes arts in the street that it will make your head spin! Free shows, talented artists wait for you to party before the rentrée! And don’t forget the incredible open-air market with goods and services on offer from more than 300 merchants. So let’s [...]
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Special thanks to Duy Thang Nguyen for this image of the St-Ambroise final piece…see the following post for more goodness.
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BIG WEEKEND for the EM team as we cooked up a couple of spicy dishes in a very informal celebration of the last days of summer! The first, and here featured event was a casual excuse to get together and draw under the sun for the Funk N’ Jazz Festival, hosted at the Terrasse St-Ambroise. [...]
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Under Pressure event…always dope! A weekend festival of all things graf and urban culture, smack in the heart of downtown Montreal! Featuring the work of a dozen or so EM artists. This year Kirsten McCrea was approached to create the graphics for UP… Kirsten is a Montreal-based artist and illustrator, as well as the founder [...]
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We got a couple of great events to announce, but first, we’re proud to announce the arrival of some serious shwag for the people! In collaboration with Moniker Designs, and with GENEROUS support from Blank Apparel, EM presents a couple of new screen printed designs on t-shirts, hot off the press, and ready to wear (in [...]
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For the second consecutive year, the EN MASSE initiative was to participate in the Osheaga Arts and Music Festival, 2010 edition. Having commandeered a bright orange shopping cart (a la Home Depot), nearly a baker’s dozen packed up paints, inks, brushes and t-shirts (SOON to be posted!) in order to travel to 3 different highly [...]
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A tight little team of a half-dozen En Massers was assembled for two late-nite sessions at the chic but friendly Petit Hôtel in Old Montreal, just a few blocks from Galerie Pangée, where En Masse was born. Operating under the rubric of “joie de vivre” and contending with a few odd and hard-to-reach corners, the team [...]
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As promised, nearly a dozen, “hot-off-the-press” ORIGINAL EM t-shirts!! These bad boys (and some for girls) were created at Headquarters Gallery during the production of the ‘Dice Show‘, by participant artists. This joint EM/Moniker Designs project was made possible by a generous donation from Blank Apparel Company. Buy one of these original, collaborative works of [...]
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MAY 28, 2010 Finished up the final touches on the INCREDIBLE piece at Headquarters Gallery on Friday evening, celebrating the accomplishment with a hot and sweaty party. From Tyson’s blog… “The Dice show will be a unique experience for the viewer and the participants as the show will literally evolve and shift throughout the month. [...]
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MAY 28, 2010 36 artists descended upon the ‘Main’ (boulevard Saint-Laurent, entre René-Lévesque et Sainte-Catherine), armed with spray paint, brushes and ink, attacking 365 feet of boarded up facade along the west side of the street. The EM crew was given the old Montreal Pool Room store front to work on. From a 2009 Gazette story: [...]
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This video has been shot at the Botkin Palace last february. The week before the Nuit Blanche event, twenty-four artists met up to produce over thirty 5’0″ x 3’0″ sheets of back lit velum that would be featured at the “Arts Sousterrains” showcase. For more details and for infos on past and future projects, follow [...]
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Happy birthday to our big black and white baby! Hard to believe only 1 year has gone by since EN MASSE, the love child of Jason Botkin and Tim Barnard, was born at the Galerie Pangee in old port Montreal! To celebrate this momentous occasion , nearly twenty-eight artists came together on the evening of [...]
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#000000book is an open repository for sharing and archiving motion captured graffiti tags. Tags are saved as digital text files known as GML (Graffiti Markup Language), which can be captured through freely available software such as Graffiti Analyisis (marker), DustTag (iPhone), EyeWriter (eye movement) and Laser Tag (laser). Graffiti writers are invited to capture and [...]
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We’re doing we did a small EN MASSE presentation onTuesday, 09 March 2010, from 11:30-1 in the PM, and though not terribly well attended (hard to pull art interested folk to the mall), a good time was had by all, especially those who drew. Should be an afternoon worth checkin’ out, including a performance from Vision [...]
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The first six pictures were taken by FIVEEIGHT of Funkill Collaborations, primarily of the staircase installation and portions of the canvas wall setup…see the post bellow for more details. Credit for the following six pics to FRANK LAM. More to follow as these fragments come trickling in over the days to come.
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amazing musical jam session on the youtube…very much an EM style project
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EMBED-Cool Paper Parkour Animation – Watch more free videos
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For 3 days, the Scottish suits have allowed 6 local artists to repaint an entire abandoned 1970′s village on their coast, they’ve called it the Ghostvillage Project. Here’s a short documentary and some pictures from the event; http://vimeo.com/8207410 Imagine what the En Masse crew would do if the city of Montreal was willing to give [...]
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On my last En Masse session, I did a wierd sharpie sketch that i then took home. Crux Mag, that is distributed for free in action sports stores all over Quebec, wa sover doing an article on my art n me and they liked teh En Masse black n white piece (which is unusual for [...]
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let’s get serious about this folks (you know who you are…) http://drinkanddraw.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/dd-mtl-changes-face/
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