Happy Easter tout le monde!

Very Unassuming

Spring Break 2018 - The Movie

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Ran into Chris last week in Toronto

I ran into Chris Tyrell from HOAX COUTURE on Queen West last week. Chris goes way back to the intoxicating disco nights at Tobascos in Hull Quebec in the 80's. Chris Tyrell and Jim Searle were already at the beginning stages of cobbling HOAX together. "HOAX is consistently voted Best in Toronto as fashion designers, tailors and dressmakers."

Photos below are from their Spring Collection Fashion Show at the Cameron House on Queen West in 1992. I took these photos using a mini Pentax camera with 110film - blew heat on the back of the camera to distort the colors - these images are un-retouched, no photoshop straight out of the camera.

 

Please DO NOT tell me what to do

Mr. Solid

Standing between two BENOIT PAILLé photographs (fav Instagram photographer!)

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 Benoit Paille on  I N S T A G R A M

Miracle in Montreal - Finding JANO

Well i guess we've all had this miracle happen - well at least those who get off the couch and into a real living life.

Left Ottawa for Montreal to experience LUMIERE and NUIIT BLANCHE  Saturday a couple day ago and to shoot some image/sound for my drama-documentary BEAUTIFUL BACHELORS.

Came up with a new inclusion to make B.B. slide from a pure Doc. into a dramatic doc with a story line. So HELENE is now a character looking for a 'new life' with some interesting bachelors like she lived before her life changed into seclusion and 'aloneness'

Her first encounter as she travels Canada is with ZOLTAR a gypsey fortune teller and from there she get clues on her life and how to aquire what she wants. ZOLTAR is a fortune telling machine that gives fortunes for money.

So there we are in Montreal and i'm shooting a scene using the background of 'the village' and a large display of Quebec artists mounted in the snow on large blocks of white walls. HELENE talks about her life with Jano both living to the fullest having a great time the years they spent together.

The foootage is good and so we're returning to the van and i'm shooting some cover shots when i hear HELENE yelling after me - there she was calling out, 'It's JANO'

So hugs and excited words and we can hardly believe that after 25 years we found each other again at the exact time i'm shooting a scene where HELENE is talking about her wonderful life living with him in Toronto.

Since when friends meet after decades apart usually the connetion is immediate like no time has past and what amazes me is that JANO recognized us walking on the street like it was yesterday.

He tells us we haven't changed and i can hardly beiieve is since i've been going thru a decade of Cancer treaments with 4 major surgeries, radiaitons, etc .... but he did recognize us immediately.

So it seems that somehow that movemenet of 'getting out there' created a miracle for us and for the movie - we now have a cetral character for the 'new' dramatized story version of BEAUTIFUL BACHELORS - now that's what i call a MONTREAL MIRACLE and certain put a LUMIERE on my life.

All's always well when miracles happen, eh Canada?

story above by Peter Evanchuck!

Vivienne in the City - Homage to Nan Goldin

Homage to American photographer NAN GOLDIN and her fight against the SACKLER FAMILY, makers of OXYCONTIN

 PETER & THE CYBER KNIFE

 photo by HELENE LACELLE

"not fun CYBER-KNIFE treatments 7.5 hours of laying perfectly still on closed confined stretcher-bed (u are tightened into bed )

first attempt failed computer inaccurately set up ( the infallable was fallible )

the big boys came in readjusted computer last Sunday made new masks to keep alignment accurate

refinements of new program seem to be working ok

get to take mask home after treatments for next Halloween costume (I'm going as a cyber-knife MAN) " Peter Evanchuck
MY KING MY HERO!

Helene by the woodstove

Today Downtown

John - gave me his fur coat today on Elgin Street. He said 'Give me $5 bucks then said NO NO NO I dont want any money. You know it's a ladies coat.'  'Yes I know' then gave him $2 bucks. He hugged me very hard and walked me to the Church next door of that weird barber shop on Elgin. We went to Iona Hall where they were serving lunch. The 'free clothes' room was closed for the day. I will return next Tuesday and this time have lunch with John, hopefully, and arrive early enough to catch the free clothes room. And again very unexpectedly received another big hug from John as I left.

 

Thomas

Yesterday Downtown

on the road again ..... beautiful Toronto

photo & words by PeterEvanchuck on our weeklly road adventure 'put adventure in ur life, folks'

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heeehaw ya'll 

photo/video shoot went well on our week exploring the hiways and biways of this place we call CANADA

weather was remarkable so Toronto like Spring hardly any snow and mild

great Chines BBQ duck/chicken and Indian ButterChicken

as RK STEVENSON said when asked why he travels so much, 'I travel to move.'

 that is to kick the rigour mortise of the soft couch and easy life in the safe slow zone

so 'move' u potatoes mmmm off the couch now kids

??how's u hangin' on the moore???

Working on new 'Gaze Study'

My little animal kingdom

7:35 a.m. this morning at the Civic Hospital

OTTAWA SCHOOL of ART XMAS  SHOW/SALE

23nov opening 5-8p.m. show on 'till 10 Dec.

Holding one of my 'little creations' for this year's Christmas Fundraiser.

hope you guys get to do something creative today

photoBY PeterEvanchuck at Ottawa School of ART 23nov XMASartSHOW

Latest work

Condo Forest

Peter waiting for his radiation treatment

Misty on the Salmon River

Fun Pass

Harvest moon from the balcony at Best Western in Niagara Falls

Inside Rideau Bakery

Jim

Prof. Gustave Morbeus SteamPunk Time Machine

I was biking around Old Ottawa East last week and came across this!
I saw a man riding this intricate mobile sculpture thinking maybe he's some kind of whacked-out old fashion knife sharpener.
Turns out he's Prof. Gustave Morbeus.
Gustave explained to me with great patience and detail how his time machine was built and the philosophy that goes with it. This Time Machine does not travel to the past or the future, it is set in the present because the past is gone, the future hasn't happened yet and well the present,  that's where the action is.

Sandy Hill garbage day

Trevor

I ask Trevor if he was the one who made that great little portrait behind him on the pole and he turns to look at it and says no. Continues with the fact that he has absolutely no drawing or painting skills as opposed to his sister who can open a Cosmopolitan magazine and draw exactly what is in it. And a singer, she can sing like Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald just belt out those songs from the bottom of her heart. So what is she doing now with all that talent, asks I, "NOTHING" says Trevor, she has a job for 6 months and then messes it all up, all my family is in Montreal. And they all fucked me good when my dad died.

Downtown Minto, NB

On a side street in Chipman, NB