Hits & Misc. #02: Hot Takes 🔥 & Hot Wings 🍗

It’s getting hot in here 🥵

With the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference turning up the heat (and taking some themselves) about this mess we’ve created, we figured the timing was perfect to share some of our favourite hot takes on climate change from over the years…

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c/o @sixcentpress

Time For! Climate Change Emergency Response
We’re still trying to figure out who designed this button (printed by Six Cent Press back in 2015) but we’re big fans of it’s simplicity, that exclamation point where it really shouldn’t be, and the molten-hot card it’s mounted on. 🌋

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c/o @damienpoulain

“Home is Movement” Flag
Part of the “Everything is Temporary” flag series, this particular design from @folkclothing x @damienpoulain places our over-heating planet at the centre of the universe with all points leading to the action we’ve gotta take before it’s too late. ⌛️

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c/o @yeyeweller

Love Your Mother
German artist Yeye Weller keeps it simple with this exhortation—and we’re all about it. We’ll let you decide/decode the symbolism of the three eyes. 👁👁👁

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c/o @jameskingsley

So Hot Right Now
Did this little sketch of mine from 2007—whipped up in response to Gore’s 2006 An Inconvenient Truth—age well? Let me know what you think in the comments.

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Misc 🍗

Remember Philadelphia Chicken Man from Issue 01? Remember how I didn’t think I had any “poultry-adjacent” work of my own to throw into the mix? Turns out I completely forgot about one of my first assignments from my undergrad (Fine Arts) at the University of Victoria…

The class was Photography 101 and the assignment was to “tell a story” through a series of photographs. The night before the project was due found me nervously waiting on some inspiration when it dawned on me that I could tell the story of the dinner I’d just finished.💡

I ran across the kitchen and pulled the remnants of my chicken wings out of the garbage, placed them individually on the shiny white stovetop, and proceeded to photograph them one by one. From there, I printed up the photos nice and big and shiny and headed off to class the next morning ready to tell my story.

Here’s a few shots from the series—at a much smaller size—to give you an idea of how it all came together. 👇

Turns out, viewing those larger-than-life glossy photos of gnarled bones was, um, more intense than expected. My “documentary” was unanimously received as a “horror” story, with half the class assuming I was making an argument for veganism while the rest sat there in stunned silence 😶.

In the year’s since, the whole experience has served to remind me that even the most mundane stories can take a turn toward the exciting if you leave enough gaps for your audience to try and fill. 🤔

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WAIT!! THERE’S MORE CHICKEN!! 🐥🤯

If you’re not subscribed to my (other) newsletter about the experiences and people that make London, Ontario home, you’ll have missed last week’s issue dedicated to some of the city’s finest—and most famous—chicken.👉 Read it here!

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