ZBQ Fan Club is finished. This is the last blog entry I will ever make for the zbqfanclub blog, and I’ll be shuttering zbqfanclub.com shortly after. But one ending is another beginning. And this is by no means the end of ZBQ- not by a long stretch. OK, so I clickbaited you there a bit….
Welcome back to ZBLOG errbuddy. My obligatory apology for this sustained absence is not disingenuous: I truly do lament that you’ve been bereft of my guiding wisdom for such an extended season, and for that I do sincerely take genuine penance in my darkest hours. Forsooth. I’ve been down in the dub tank for about…
Ah the insufferable blogger. Knocking out posts with ferocity one minute, defaulting back to confounding silence the next. And always returning with the same sad song: I’m sorry it’s been so long. But I’m back now. I will be good. I think anyone who’s been following what I do for any length of time will…
HOLY SMACK folks, can you believe it’s already been a month since my last update? What a lame blogger I am. Well, enough self-pity. I’m pretty excited about this month’s collection of garments, so let’s dive right in: OK so this shirt is obviously all about context, and if you don’t follow hip hop culture…
It’s a new month, and that means a new collection. While I had thought of basing collections around certain themes when I first started this in February, I’ve gone with mostly color-based groupings of shirts so far. I’ll be honest, it’s easier. This month’s color, just in time for spring, is green. I’ll focus on…
The applique project has been proceeding nicely- in fact I just finished my fifth composition. I apologize for not posting updates through most of April, but I hope to make amends for that in May and beyond. I’ve been taking plenty of hyper-lapse videos to document a lot of the process, and I’m throwing them…
Another new year, another crossroad in my life. It was the beginning of 2008, and it was time to piss or get off the pot. I’d been having this on-again, off-again relationship with Canada Post for over a year by this point. As a letter carrier (aka “mailman”) for the nation’s postal service, I was…
I’m going to start doing this when I post the monthly collections. It’s a way to talk about each piece a little bit, its history, its provenance and so on. This month’s collection is called Mystery School, and features 12 unique pieces of clothing. Franny Farmer was an infamous actress from Seattle whose career was…
My applique dreams are proceeding apace, though with a few delays as I await the acquisition of the last few tools and materials to start experimenting. While I’ve been waiting, I’ve started to plan some tentative applique ideas in Photoshop- basically finding pictures that I think would work well and converting those into traceable (and…
As 2007 dawned I was overjoyed to be returning to Halifax after a challenging 4 months in Victoria BC. But I had a big uphill battle in front of me. I had completely shattered my left elbow only weeks earlier, undergoing an intense 4 hour surgery to piece it together again. As a result my…