Your Occasional Monty:

The Bridge City

I first noticed the fire truck on Broadway Bridge when I crossed it on Friday. Changing lanes to avoid the potential aftermath of a vehicular collision, I then noticed the three distraught teenage girls staring in shock at the rocks below. Most people don't think of Saskatoon's bridges beyond traffic but, while beautiful, there is an aura of sadness that surrounds them. 

Last year while out walking my dog by the Weir, the whitenoise of nature was suddenly pierced by the blare of sirens. Within minutes... (read more at streetsofYXE.com)

SIAST WINS AGAIN!

Today I won an Elevator award, presented by the GDC Saskatchewan North chapter, for design work on the 2010-2011 SIAST Annual Report. Whoo hoo!: 

You can view the project below: 

SIAST wins ACE Award of Excellence

As my friends, family, acquaintances and pretty much anyone on the street willing to listen will know: I love my job! Today I am even more euphoric as my colleague and SIAST Creative Team counterpart, photographer Tom Bartlett, received an ACE Award of Excellence for his work on a piece we created last year. I knew from the moment that we met with the model (a student), we were working on something special. It feels great to get the validation that it, indeed, is. Congrats, Tom! 

Members of the SIAST Marketing and Communications team (from left): Sara Snodgrass (Graphic Designer), Deborah Clague (Senior Graphic Designer), Tom Bartlett (Photographer) and Jen Pilsner (Senior Marketing and Communications Consultant). 

The award-winning work: 

Boom

Living and working downtown, I've come to recognize and appreciate the characters that perform on the stage that is #YXE. There's the woman with the epic beehive who has a fondness for leopard-print fashion. The buskers that provide the soundtrack for 1st and 21st. And also, sadly, the senior citizens that walk amongst the shadows, unnoticed by white-collar hustlers who's sole focus is personably quantifiable ROI. These are people who also helped build the province and are now faced with the hard realities that an economic upturn brings. Individuals who now resort to digging through trash bins for bottles or discarded day-olds. They've stopped caring about people staring because they know they are invisible. Forgotten. Avoided. Boom.

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Welcome to #YXE

It all started with a wolf. Or was it a smoking toddler? I can't recall what made me want to start chronicling the strange, sometimes depressing but always interesting things I encounter while wandering the streets of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. But in the two years since moving here, there have been plenty...

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Your Occasional Monty:

Monty is on his third squeaky, slingshot chicken. It is his favorite toy, handspaws-down.

Holy shit!

In the United States of America, Fritos®-encrusted KFC exists. No word of a lie, I've also seen fish sticks covered with candy sprinkles in the frozen food aisle of a grocery down south. Junk food is suburban heroin.

Jesus of Boca Raton

While traveling through Florida, I came across a street corner prophet that looked just like Hulk Hogan: 

Florida Gallery

A gallery of images from my recent trip to the Sunshine State has been added. All pictures were taken on an iPhone 4. Click here to check them out.