Weekend Reading

Our local subscribers are welcome to pick up their magazines! Check our store hours at right, or call 283-5318. We're open Saturday from 11am to 5pm. (closed Sundays)

UPPERCASE will be participating in the annual "Calgary Blowout" this Saturday. I'll have some UPPERCASE magazines & books and Eclectonotes on hand as part of the Independent Press & Arts Fair to be held in the Arrata Opera Centre. There's a 60% chance of thunderstorms tomorrow, so it will be the perfect day to hang out, read, and listen to Calgary writers present their work.

Independent Press & Arts Fair
Saturday July 4
10:00 A.M. to 3:00 PM, FREE EVENT
Arrata Opera Centre
1315 - 7 Street SW

Small pressers and artists hawk handmade books, glossy mags, zines, broadsides, CDs, art objets, handicrafts, and other enticing you-name-its.

Stylish Sturges

Leave it to the Criterion Collection to fashion a dvd cover this stylish. I kicked off my Summer Film Studies course this week with a screening of Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels (1941).

To watch a clip of this classic film about the joy of movies (especially those with a little sex in them...), click here.

Sturges's Unfaithfully Yours (1948) also makes the Criterion cut.

Happy Weekend!

Praise for Cher

Praise for Cher and her fabulous hair!

Moonstruck (1987) and Mermaids (1990) are two of her finest films.

Wicked Witches

I watched The Witches of Eastwick (1987) again recently and was reminded how fun and fabulous a movie it is.

-Oh the glorious, gaudy 80s.

Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and Cher play wonderfully wicked witches - a fertile frump, tawdry librarian, and sultry sculptress, respectively - to Jack Nicholson's devil incarnate. Perfect summertime screening.

Waffles and squares

Throughout the first issue, I had a dot-pattern motif. This time around? Patterns made from diamonds and squares, inspired by the ice cream waffle cone on the cover (cover photo by Vicky Lam.)

Summer has arrived

See you at 4pm for the First Thursday festivities!

We Have Magazines!

The magazines have arrived!

UPPERCASE will be open to the public at 4pm today. First Thursday festivities will run until 9pm tonight, and everyone is welcome to come by and pick up a copy of our Summer issue. Hope to see you soon.

Happy Canada Day

It's our national holiday, so we leave you with Aaron Leighton's Canadian Superheroes. This was the very first show I had in the gallery when we opened in early 2005.

UPPERCASE and Art Central are closed today. I'm going to rest my muscles in preparation for the big shipment of issue 2 scheduled to arrive on Thursday.

B is for Bonfire

Uppercase gallery is excited to announce an open call to artists to participate in our upcoming exhibition, Bonfire. Please click here for a more in depth description of the theme and how to submit your artwork.

The image above is taken from a Fire-poi typography site where you can see more of the alphabet on fire and read about graphic designer Nir Tober's elaborate process of combining typography with fire spinning.

The photograph below was taken by Janine when she attended a Walpurgis night bonfire in Sweden this past spring.

Type Tuesday: Canada Type

In honour of Canada Day tomorrow, there's an extensive article by My Fonts about Canada Type. Although there is plenty of typographic cheese in this library, there are some nice revivals. I've been researching old Vogue, Seventeen and Charm magazines lately, so these classic and stylish faces are appealing to me today.