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[Baro]

I remember one of our lovely members did a cool art show on all those classic Victoria 60's and 70's ridiculous medival-spanish themed apartment lobbies and such. I was trying to tell an out of town friend about this tacky but loved Victoria style but I can't seemto find the link to this art project.

Can anyone help?

[Ms. B. Havin]

Are you thinking of this?

The back gallery featured a computer monitor with a ‘slideshow’ of digital photographs. The images in the slideshow are of apartment building entryways, mostly from the period Randall favours (suppose, the era of his parents’ first family home…), with their host of pretentious names (many of which the artist correctly identifies as ‘Hispanic-kitsch’) and pseudo-heraldic devices. Who hasn’t visited a lapsed parent or ailing family friend in one of these apartments and passed through the doors with their gilt italics (“…Gardens”, “Manor”, “Court” or “Place”), and run the lobby’s gauntlet of false fireplaces and tired furniture?

See [url=http://faultlineartjournalvictoria.blogspot.com/2006/08/please-come-in-robert-randall-at.html:23506]Fault Line Art Journal[/url:23506] for more...

[aastra]

Robert Randall is the subject of a pretty good article in the new edition of Monday Magazine:

[url=http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=117&cat=43&id=857627&more=:2833f]A Victoria Visionary...[/url:2833f]

A couple of great quotes:

“A lot of the people on the board and land use committee are artists, so we tend to look at things like, ‘how does it look? How does it fit?’ rather than whether it conforms to the numbers,” he explains.

“People are so focussed on height, because the only figure they’re able to comprehend is the height. It’s like looking at a painting and only looking at the width,” he says. “What was that painting like? Oh, it was 18 inches wide. But what colour was it? How tall was it? Was it thick, was it thin, was it oil?”

I don't think I agree with the claim about "tonnes of people" moving into Victoria, but otherwise it's a good piece.

[VicHockeyFan]

Ya, that's a good article. Way to go Randall.

[zoomer]

Wow, that is an awesome article, nice story Rob!

And you kinda look like Elvis Costello in that picture!

[Ms. B. Havin]

Yes, great article and great cover ("RR gets wet for Victoria"? )! Love Amanda Farrell's second sentence: "It's a vibrant March day in Victoria..."

Uh-huh! 8)

[Caramia]

Nice!

[Rob Randall]

Thanks for the nice comments!

The [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/22586505@N00/sets/72157594232530846/:964bb]apartment lobby pictures[/url:964bb] were part of the [url=http://www.picturetrail.com/robrandall:964bb]"Affordable Housing!" show[/url:964bb] at the Ministry of Casual Living.

Thanks to Amanda for the great article in Monday Magazine and Ben for the awesome photos. That water was COLD!!! :smt107

[Mike K.]

...Love Amanda Farrell's second sentence: "It's a vibrant March day in Victoria..."

That's the new buzzword around town

Good work, Randall. The article was a great piece and your sound bites were fitting.

[Icebergalley]

Amanda and Robert - Wonderful grand bit of work..

However, I expected to open Vibrant Victoria to view a photoshopped - man - walking on water view...