Being sleep deprived at 3 am with a high-speed internet connection and a Paypal account can get you into trouble. My friends will never let me live down that authentic alien corpse I paid $800 for. Sometimes though, impaired judgement and twoclick payment can be a good thing.

Dave Trautrimas is adorable. This becomes obvious almost immediately after he enters the small café diner where we are scheduled to meet in Toronto. The 29 year old artist, originally from Belleville, has got the flattered, eager to please manner of someone who’s never been interviewed before (he admits as much). It’s sweet, but it [...]

When I tell David Pirrie his work reminds me a little of M.C. Escher, he seems surprised. “Escher!?” he exclaims “All I remember of his work is endless stairs.”
That’s fair. And to be honest, while there is something vaguely Escher-esque about Pirrie’s work, I was mostly talking out of my ass. The two artists have [...]

To get to Diyan Achjadi’s studio, you have to climb a lot of stairs—all the way up to the top floor of a nondescript building in Gastown. Next comes a long, skinny hallway. Its sides are adorned in exposed two-by-fours and draped sheets of industrial plastic—it feels like a construction site.

Regardless of if they love it or hate it, a lot of people have something to say about Nicholas Di Genova’s art. His incredibly detailed, sometimes monstrous creatures are alternately fawned over and slammed. The Toronto-based artist doesn’t take the bad stuff to heart, though. He just keeps plugging along. At the moment, he’s hard [...]

Obviously, photography is an art form. As is graffiti. So what’s photography of graffiti?
Vancouver-based artist Nicole Sanches has been posting photos of discovered street art from Seattle and Vancouver on Flickr since August 2005. This month, I spoke to her about appropriation, documentation, and yes, her own art as well. Is she stealing? She says [...]

Pro photographer, designer, skateboarding aficionado and art golden boy Bob Kronbauer made a splash in 2004 when his first book of photos, Beach Glass hit the market and a lot of people decided he was the next big thing. Suddenly, Bob K was everywhere. But he’s not the sort of guy who likes to [...]

“A kid walks into the woods with a man and the kid starts crying. The man looks over to the kid and says ‘what are you crying about? I’m the one who’s gotta walk out of here by myself.’”

Nick Currie was born in Scotland in 1960, and he still looks younger than you. Why? In his improbably prolific adult life as an artist, musician, and social critic, he has produced a staggering amount of art and letters while in a state of perpetual cultural transition, living a lush yet materialistically austere lifestyle, [...]

So here I am, waiting for breakfast at Sophie’s Cosmic Cafe. If you ever go there, get the eggs benedict; they’re good. Tell them Michael sent you and you’ll get 10 percent off (I’m joking, it’s only five percent). But I’m sitting here waiting for my breakfast and drinking a coffee. On the placemats, there [...]