(Noël approche à grands pas! Comme Temps des fêtes rime avec Idées cadeaux, les créatrices Les Perles Rares nous offrent de découvrir leur boutique chouchou située dans notre belle Capitale. Un gros merci les filles pour cet article, une collaboration qui permettra aux lectrices d’en savoir plus sur ce coin cadeau qui, j’en ai bien l’impression, deviendra rapidement un incontournable pour plusieurs…)

C’est dans un décor rose bonbon qu’on découvre les créations de Marie-Noëlle Bellegarde (Voir ci-haut) dans son atelier boutique Rose Bouton sur la rue St-Jean à Québec! Beaucoup de bijoux colorés, des horloges, des accessoires et des vêtements habillent les murs de cette merveilleuse petite boutique ludique du quartier St-Jean Baptiste.

Des boutons, il en explose dans l’univers de Marie-Noëlle! Qu’ils aient 2 ou 4 trous, elle n’en discrimine aucun! Récupérés pour la plupart de dons qu’elle reçoit, elle les métamorphose avec peinture et vernis.

Pour la création de sa nouvelle collection « Frissons », elle s’est inspirée de l’hiver. On craque pour le collier Boule de Neige avec ses grosses boules de feutres, les boucles d’oreilles Rafales, qui mélangent billes, boutons et rubans et le collier glaçon qui se glisse au cou!

Rose Bouton, c’est aussi une vitrine pour d’autres artisans qui sont, pour la plupart, des amis et des artistes invités que Marie-Noëlle admire et qui l’inspirent. On y découvre des artisans qui exploitent toutes sortes de matières et de styles. En passant par les sacs, les toutous, les vêtements et les bijoux, chacun prend sa place dans cette petite boutique chaleureuse.

Les clientes de Montréal ne sont pas laissées pour compte, puisqu’on retrouve plusieurs créations ”Rose Bouton” aux boutiques Farfelu de la rue Mont-Royal et du Carrefour Laval.

Boutique Rose Bouton
387 rue St-Jean
Québec, Qc

1-418-614-9507

www.marienoelledesign.blogspot.com
www.boutiquerose.blogspot.com

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Boutique Bijoux Bijoux
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Métamor’Lips, chez Lise Watier

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Clarks Originals have recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of its Desert Boot, by creating six new and unique designs that represent every decade since its launch in the 1950’s. Our favourite one has got to be the 1990’s model, a blue suede shoe covered with the Union Jack, reminding us of the Britpop years and Noel Gallagher’s epiphone guitar.

We’ve also seen quite a few collaborations launching. The Peter McKee x Clarks desert boots at Modculture, features a Mod-style look , which isn’t suprising considering Peter McKee has done some artwork for Oasis. We havent heard of anyone stocking the shoes though…

The Clarks Wallabee is also source of interest through its non production sample model that has been made from Barbour fabrics. Unfortunately, according to Selectism, there are no plans for it to be stocked in the near future.

I was browsing around through some images of this last Magic in Las Vegas and I came across this 3-sided canvas. Jose and Maxx242 busted an Expensive Taste piece which was 1 of 3 sides the boys and I sat and watched the most. The crew and I only stayed 2 of the 3 days at Magic and we weren’t there as Maxxer started to get down. We only saw the first 2 days while Jose ‘Direone’but all of the pieces came out great. The direct otherside to the Expensive Taste piece had OG Abel doing his thing which had a focal point focusing on DJ – AM resting in peace. Magic is pretty tiring and it was nice to sit around and see a bunch of my favorite graffiti-artists/artists getting down!

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13 Dec 2009.  How special this evening will be to all of us!?!??!

I have been singing in the Choir for many years and as always, I look forward for each performance.

This 45^th Anniversary concert will be as unique and interesting.

Not only we have a well-known guest conductor all the way from Lithuania, there is also a fabulous Jazz ensemble.

Vytautas Miškinis ! A name I have known for some time but never dream that one day, I will get to meet him and even sing under his baton.

It’s just a week away that we will meet him in person … the excitement is piling!

The preparation for this concert has been challenging because we have to sing in languages that we do not know.

Getting the words right is one thing but getting the audiences (who mostly do not know these languages as well) to understand each one of them through our singing is even harder.

But I am confident that we will deliver. (YES, WE CAN!)

Happy singing !

Peiling =)

Ok. That is kinda of an exaggeration of how my brain has been like for the past few days – a flurry of Russian/Lithuanian/Latvian syllables trying to find its place in the phrase. Don’t be mistaken.. I’m not complaining. In fact, I’m sooooooooo excited about our upcoming concert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though this eggcitement could have contributed to the above confusion.. hmmm.. anyways…(do not perpetuate the stereotype do not perpetuate the stereotype. The rest of this entry will be intelligent, I promise).

As I was saying, I am excited about our concert because…..

We hardly get to work with instruments. Singing with instruments present a whole new challenge, but we shall not go there today.

The instrument parts in the Light mass are not just accompaniments as with many other voice+instrument type music. Each instrument’s part make up an important component of the music, for which the piece would not work as well without either instruments or choir.

We learn about music (and indirectly also about other cultures) that we normally would have limited access to.

We get to work with Miskinis. THE Miskinis whose name we see all over our “Cantate Domino” and “Time is Endless” scores. The man who has written close to 700 compositions; the man, who, with a wave of his magic hands (and many countless hours of hard work of course) led many choirs to success; the man who has taught invaluable knowledge to his students. It’s a rare opportunity for us on this sunny island to learn from him.

Similarly, having the chance to work with the musicians mentioned in the first point is a privilege too.

We get to travel to a far away place in singing this music and be someone else for a while.

And last but not least, being able to enjoy and perform these wonderful music with people who understand to people who will hopefully understand what we do.

Like many of my friends in SYC, I grew up amongst the midst of SYFs, Colours Awards and the like; and amongst peers who joined Band or Track & Field or ~insert any gold obtaining CCA~ because “it will get me more cca points”/”I can use it to get DSA in case I screw up in my O/A levels”/”its good in my testimonials”.

I like being in SYC because gives us the opportunity to focus on and explore things that matter – the music, the (musical) relationships, ensemble skills, voice etc.  Sure, we fumble along the way, but it gives us a sense of satisfaction and enables us to understand things beyond drilling ourselves silly to get that platinum award at competition X.

Taking that we do out rehearsal, we can find parallels in “real life” in the form of team work, interpersonal relationships, independence and synergy and so on.(Note: Actually I’m not sure what real exactly means. School and Work is quite a strange concept.)

And of course, its great to have other people understand why you want and need to spend n hours trying to learn many foreign words to sing a 2-minute song.

Just yesterday, I was chatting on MSN with Daton, who was our LO went we went to Bandung, Indonesia in 2007.

Our conversation went like

Daton: ha! I saw your facebook status. Seems like you are happy every Wednesday.
haT: HAHA! Yeah!!!!
Daton: I understand. I also feel like that when I practise with my band, even though that means I have to reach home at 1am!!!
haT: yeah! That’s good, because most people don’t understand. They think that you will not do work, or not study just because you want to sing or paint.
Daton: Yeah! My parents are like that too!! They complain about spending too much time on my band.
haT:It’s the same as someone who watches TV all day, right? Just that we choose to do something else?

………….etc

Yeah, anyways…the above conversation is linked to my next point.

I’m also excited about this concert because, to kinda put it in what Jen said in our webcast, it is amazing to meet and work with someone who has a totally different worldview from what was described in the above conversation – someone whose culture is so ingrained in the arts and in choral music in particular; someone who understands why we absolutely must spend n² hours in song every week.

This concert is also kinda like a milestone (for the lack of a better word) for me and a few others in the choir. I decided to join SYC after watching the 40^th Anniversary concert. And maybe, with this 45^th anniversary concert, someone would also be inspired to join us and to understand what we’ve come to believe in.

Oh yes, and about those Russian/Lithuanian/Latvian syllables trying to find its place in the phrase? It will be fixed with lots of sleep and lots of practise. It will be a gooooood concert. Please come!!!

- haT

SYC 45th Anniversary Concert - SYC and Friends - 13 Dec 2009 730pm - Esplanade Concert Hall

Here is the beautiful collaboration that Retna and The Mac got down on in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of our crew posted a video of interviews with the guys behind the secene, but here are the finished pictures of this gorgeous outcome. I wonder what all of the Mormons thought of the graffiti even though these images are very religious in theme. Either way, religious or not, Catholic, Mormon, Christian, or Atheist, these pieces and previous pieces by Retna and The Mac feature very similar religious icons images such as this and are beautiful no matter what you opinion of religion is. I personally am and have always been a very big fan of Catholic imagery which probably had to do with having a Catholic mother and finding prayer cards and various items around the house, but no matter what your religious stance is, it is impossible to find these images anything other than beautiful.

I am not sure and I have not researched Retna and The Mac’s reason for doing this piece in Utah or maybe they were even commissioned to do this piece, who knows. But I would not be surprised to see the cities inhabitants reaction to give them a different view of so-called ‘graffiti.’ Maybe it was a great way to show those who wouldn’t be big fans of graffiti or street art that it can be a valid artform that I know that it is. Granted, there are a lot of vary shitty ’street-artists’ out there who give nothing but a bad name to graffiti-artists and street-artists, for instance, those who take their self-proclaimed title literally. Going out into the street and making a mess is not graffiti nor street art.

I think what Retna and The Mac have done was great and most likely have changed a lot of people’s views of graffiti and street art. Still, I have not researched or even watched the video we posted a few days ago, but I am sure those living in Salt Lake City have somewhat of a different view and opinion of what they saw.

Gorgeous!

Dr. Martens have always reminded me of the brief time I went to Catholic school, hence, negative connotations. However, lately I’ve been searching for a solid black shoe for winter, as my other high-roatation shoe purchase from this season was a chunky-soled Fluevog that I’ve ended up wearing all the time. I really like the contrast stitch on the Docs, and the width is pretty much perfect for that sh*tkicker oi bruv look that I truly appreciate. I’m mostly likely going for the 16-hole classic boots pictured above, which give a good option to either tuck or wear pants over, even with skinnier cut denim. Dr. Martens has been pretty visible in the fashion word over the last little while, most notably for the Raf Simons collabo which featured metallics that put a striking contrast to the conservative styling. Keep reading for a few more Doc styles that I would definitely mess with.

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The Madame speaks of the Maestro (codename: Miškinis), the Music (origin: Lithuanian) and the Mystery (what will Jen do on concert day?!). This is the 4th segment of a 4-part interview.

SYC closes the year with a special concert at the Esplanade Concert Hall on 13 December, with special musicians on stage.  We have Vytautas Miškinis (from Lithuania, land of choral giants) to direct the SYC Ensemble Singers in an evening of music from the Baltic states, and also local jazz musicians  Tamagoh and Tony Makarome to premiere a work for choir, jazz trio and additional piano, the “Light Mass” (by Miškinis himself).  We are privileged to have such luminaries as our friends, on stage with us. 

Come share this extraordinary celebration with us!

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Peep this awesome litte exclusive nugget of a collaboration I found that will release as a CONART® x Xpres collaboration. Xpres was the graffiti-artist that just teamed-up with Maxx242 on ‘Attack of the 2 Headed Monster’ this past weekend. Be on the prowl for this t-shirt soon!

Also, keep checking-back for the upcoming interview with A$H of CONART®.

I remember doing a little face off between Wheesung and K. Will =) This performance where they are side by side performing one song was one of those must see performances.

They blend well with each other and I must say there wasn’t any overpowering of voice.  They are after all — artists in the the truest sense of the word.

credits to SSYY008 for the You Tube Video.

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I recently met a mustached fellow by the name of Tascar. This is one of his paintings that I stole off of his myspace. I am always stoked to meet a fellow mustached man wondering the world. I am sure that there will be more Mediocre/Tascar/Mustache collaborations in the near future. But I hope that you all can dig that sweet mustache art!

My  favourite fashion uncle in the world has done it again.I don’t want him to ever die because it wll be a massive disaster as there can never  be another Uncle Karl.Uncle Karl definitely knows how to multi task and always keep himself busy,He  can now add ballet custume designer to his ever expanding resume.I mean if uncle karl was gonno design for anyone,they definitely know that it would  be out of this world.This custume looks delicate,beautiful,swan fairy like whilst staying true to the elegance of Chanel ,I love it and I love him.Viva Uncle Karl.

Pumps hold a special place in my heart. It wasn’t until 1992/3 that Air Jordans became a playground necessity. Before then, if you wanted to climb the playground hierarchy, a pair of Pumps would fast track you right to the top. Pumps were present at some of the most important stages of my pre-Air Jordan childhood. They were there for the good, lke the time I got some Reebok Pumps, and the bad, like the time Richard Oliver pumped mine up too much.

This year it’s their 20th birthday and, while you can’t get the pair with the candles, they have some awesome colaborations with a bunch of exclusively chosen stores being asked to help put their own unique spin on the worlds first interactive sneakers. My favourite so far are UK retailer Size’s different coloured pair.

For more of the festivities, go here.

After a very successful Monster Match this year, several of my classes wanted to do a turkey match with the same idea. We called it Turkey Talk. Roxanne and I partnered our classes, and ended up with 18 classes participating! The sessions occurred Friday, today, and a few more tomorrow. We were able to use the training materials and agenda for Monster Match. Interestingly, some of our classes had done Monster Match just a month ago, but they still wanted to do it again with turkeys. Clearly this project is meeting writing and art objectives!

Here are some pictures of the turkeys from Friday:

Notice how the turkeys are easier to see and compare when they have a plain background behind them.

A funny comment: One of my classes said to their partner class in TX: “We weren’t surprised that your turkey was so big since everything in TX is bigger!”

This is what we are calling an “accidental project”. Didn’t intend on it, but it just grew! I think I’ll be making this a project for next year for sure.

The cover of the CD+DVD edition

W-B-X ~W-Boiled Extreme~ is Aya Kamiki’s 11th single and it was released on November 11, 2009. The single reached #8 on the Oricon Weekly Charts and sold 23,144 copies. The title track was used as the theme song for the TV show Kamen Rider Double. It’s also her first single on the avex trax label.

I think they both look good. Get over it!

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Okay, I admit that I didn’t take notice of Aya Kamiki until her switch from GIZA to avex trax but she is pretty awesome. The song Summer Memories turned me into a fan. This blog needs more cool rocker chicks anyway!

Kamiki collaborated with TAKUYA (former guitarist of the band JUDY & MARY) for W-B-X ~W-Boiled Extreme~, a sleek and energetic track that’s a lot of fun. For those who are not familiar with Kamiki’s voice, it’s quite strong and has good tone. It’s perfect for the genre she performs in, which is primarily upbeat rock. TAKUYA has some singing parts too but it seems more like “blurting” during the verses. At least they sound good together for the catchy chorus.

The 2nd track is a “jazz edit” of the A-side. I liked the music since it adds laid back brass instruments and a xylophone but unfortunately, it’s an instrumental. Oh well. I was informed that singles with a Kamen Rider tie-in include an instrumental track though.

Pros: I really enjoyed the main track. It’s a great collaboration too.
Cons: That jazz version would have been cooler with vocals.

BASICALLY…I’m looking forward to Kamiki’s first album with avex! It’s out in January.

Overall Rating

4 stars

Tracklisting

1. W-B-X ~W-Boiled Extreme~
2. W-B-X Hard Boiled Jazz Edit.
3. W-B-X ~W-Boiled Extreme~ instrumental