August 28th 2008 // So I get this phone call from Ziz saying Marty is in town,,then the next thing I know is that I am a few beers deep, sitting in the parc with "Mertaw" strummin away on his 40's Gretch. Mart-Dawg was one of the dudes who moved into the Fort a few years back. Before crashing at my place last night, Mertaw crashed in the back of a empty cube van with a shirt and his axe. Man I love 1600 asa, and Party Marty.
August 27th 2008 // French singer Naila.
French fashion designer Jules.
August 21 2008 // I will be showing some recent work tonight at Les Pas Sages (951 rue Rachel, Montreal). Shout out to Lakai, Alpha, Infiny-t, sExpose, 33, and most importantly my brothers from different mothers in Studio Skateboards; here are some blakka! blakka! gun shots to the air for Jai Ball and Darrell Moseph Smith.
Skate rats.
August 19th // T and A in Toronto. I will also be posting up some work I just shot for Nike, gimme a few days though.
August 15th 2008 // Hitting the road, shoot tomorrow in Toronto. Thought I would leave you with inspiration.
August 11th // Ziz + Zoe = Hip Hop Hot Tub Party.
August 4th // Ash.
August 2nd // My old apartment, 3035 St Antoine Ouest.
July 29th 2007 // Quick Shout out to Eve and the Nakedeye staff. They will be doing a feature on the larping photos I snapped up on Mont Royal.
So there is this old Jewish Centre a cote of my maison (thats franglais). Zizzle and I were walking by one day, and they had opened the doors to the public. As far as I could tell is that it had been closed since the 40s or 50s, and the place looked like Wayne Manor from the outside. Now the inside, is a different story. I am not sure how or why the city opened the doors to this place, and let people walk all over the inside exploring wherever they wanted, but it was crazy. The detail of the hallways and rooms, again pure Wayne Manor. Somehow we made our way to the basement of the building, and came across a pool, with white and black tiles.
Anyone wanna trade postcards? Made some more.
Hey Gordo, do you read anyone elses sites? Yes, yes I do.
Patrick O'dell
Photographs Spanky and Hsu. Loves Morrissey.
Angela Boatwright
Angela shoots alot of metal heads, and has great shots with pop culture portraits.
Kenneth Cappello
Fashion and smut all in 1 site. This is my favourite blog.
Vanessa Heins
I love this site. I find her work very safe and calm. Plus shes tosses in photos of herself which I think is awesome. You never know what photographers look like.
Jess Baumung
Punk and Hardcore.
Matt Rennick
Man, fixed gear bikes are the worst.
Scotty Wade
Blog 1 / Blog 2
Blog 1 is about the core, Morrissey and life day to day. and Blog 2 is about teaching himself photography.
Ryan Allan
One of the biggest names in the business.
Party City
3 of the worst names in the business.
Brooks Reynolds
Brooks is a strange cat.
Andrew Norton
Everything skateboarding.
Brian Garson
Skateboarding, Fashion, and photos of his new condo.
July 26th // You may know Rosie from Hurley ads. This is somewhere in the States. Maybe Utah?
Don and Emil in Quebec City. I was going thru a window phase.
Kristin.
Goodbye Polaroid, you will be missed.
Pre drinking party at cody and megans house (Toronto).
July 24th 2008 // I have been slacking on the bloggin front, my bad. I have been lost in the woods with The Big Heat whos back with his woman Nikki from I have no clue where shes from. Somewhere very propper like England. What I learned from Nikki is that she weighs 9 stones (i think thats what she said, 9 or 7). Heres a snap that Richard took of Jeff Davis jumping into Grundy Lake, with The Heat and I already in the water. I guess you can call it a boys day out,,,, ZING!
I would like to continue this blogging session with some recent work i shot for The Heart Angel, a brand new clothing company from french designer Kevin C. We spent the day together last week talking about the campaign for Paris, Montreal and New York (sorry Toronto!).
Anto.
Zizzer.
So I had this b day party a few weeks back. I have been holding onto the photos, but I think here are 2 good ones which were back to back on a roll of film. Before you scroll down anymore, let me warn you that you may want to hold off till you are not sitting at work.
And the Zizzer telling the chicks Jon Brown is naked.
July 16th 2008 // Some food shots from the weekend, Torontonians in Montreal, and Montrealers in Toronto.... and cody creepin on some chicks.
July ? 2008 // No clue what the date is today. Cool sunglasses pics from last friday. Also got some gems of Jon Brown butt naked at my b day party. I'll get those up soon.
July 3rd /// Korey.
Riding with the dudes.
There was a huge ass ditch under the spot we were riding at, and Antoine lost his skateboard a few times and had to crawl down into a needle infested dump to fish it out.
D Man.
D Man and Emil.
Heres how to get from New York to BC. Yahh work!
Thanks to the peeps who got this over to me. This months Alternative Press, with a feature photo of Grade (which I shot 13 years ago).
Sunday June 29th // I would like to thank Color Magazine, Etnies, and Coors Light for the Montreal chapter of the Rolling Perspective photoshow. My photo will be hanging in Goodfoot for the next month.
Mike J and Alexis.
Tuesday June 17th // I have been somewhere in the mountains of Kelowna since Saturday. Its beautiful here, but everything closes at 5pm. Whats the deal with that? Side note: Zyanna went to Toronto to party with my friends over the past weekened, here are some photo updates I got from her trip; via camera phone. For the first photo of JB rocking Silence of the Lambs style, ya gotta sing "GOOOODBYE HORSESSSS" .
Saturday June 14th // I think skateboarding was the first thing I ever got into when I was a kid, before RC cars, before hockey, even before picking my nose. I remember being in kindergarden and racing home from school beacsue Tony Hawk was on Captain Kangaroo, thats a pretty big deal when your 5 years old. Now skip a few years to an old fat guy whos knees cant even take rolling down a street... thats where I am at now. Yesterday I tagged along with the Studio Skateboards team and popped a few old school tricks while they were doing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 shit in real life.
Friday June 13th // Alternative Press is doing a story on the 23 most important bands in the punk scene. I think thats what the story is called? A few months back they asked me to use this photo of Grade I shot 13 years ago. yes I said 13 years ago. This was long before they were known as Kyle and the Scabs. I havent seen the new AP issue, so if anyone has a copy of it, and if Grade still made the list of important bands, and if this photo is featured with the story, please scan it for me and send it over so I can have a look. On a side note, when I sent this photo off to Ted (SUP BRO!) I also had scanned
the pass from the weekend I was away with Grade,,, and it got me thinking. Shit these days is not even a shell of what it used to be like going to see bands play. There were no stages, no security, bands carried and tuned their own guitars, bands like underoath would have gotten the shit kicked out of them for even showing their faces. There was no tolerance for sexism or homophobia.
Heres the weekend pass.
Wednesday June 11th // I take off to BC in a few days to shoot portraits of the golfers for IMG. Its pretty awesome since I get to chill out there with the pros and party with a VIP / All Access pass, not to mention I get to eat and drink as much as I want. Cheers to jobs like that.
While I was in Toronto last week, I shot a pic for the Partycity blog my friends are doing. They're posting stories of all the drinking their doing this summer. pretty funny stuff.
Tuesday June 10th // Pics from the weekend, bin loving my natural light shots with the contax. lovin it.
Monday June 9th // I have a few days off which is pretty awesome. So its time to see what kinda pics I can post up from the last week or so. I was in Toronto doing a editorial / fashion shoot with Argyle Magazine, I dont think I can post any of those photos yet. Its coming up in the Fall issue, so we might have to wait till then. Yet I'll probably break and post up a pic here or there. Heres a behind the scenes of a model taking 5, and Kris creeping her out in the background.
What was pretty funny about being in Toronto for a few days shooting fashion, I came home to these dudes crashing on my couch. Theres a snap of them at 5:34am on my balcony looking over Parc Jeanne-Mance.
Wednesday June 3rd // a Rolling Perspective, Montreal QC showing through july / opening reception Saturday, June 28. Expect photos from such pros as Mikey Taylor, Ryan Smith, Mark Appleyard, John Rattray, Colt Cannon. Photographer's Dan Mathieu, Geoff Clifford, Gordon Ball, Judah Oakes, Dylan Doubt, Ryan Allan, and other sweet dudes: Tyler Maher, Pierre Yves Gauthier, Bob Kronbauer, Campbell Milligan, Dave Carnie.
Opening reception Saturday, June 28
8pm OFF THE HOOK(1021 Ste Catherine O.)
10pm UNDERWORLD(289 Ste Catherine E.)
12am GOODFOOT (3830 St. Laurent Blvd.)
After Party @ BLUE DOG MOTEL (3958 St. Laurent Blvd.) dj TRUSPIN + guests
Saturday May 31th // New Gear. The Nikon is F'ing awesome. 12mpx, 8 frames a second. And the Contax with those Zeiss lenses. 
Spent some time with the St Alvia dudes today, shot a snap or 2 for their new record.
Cool Guys photoshoot.
And Arnolds promo shot for his show on June 6th at the fort.
Wednesday May 28th // Sex in the City. Toronto. Barn Burner. Argyle Magazine. Ziz.
The best part of NYC is Jones Street, heres a pic I shot of it. Yes, you may reconize it from the lovely Freewheelin' album with Dylan and Suzie strolling down the street.
Home for 2 more days. Then I fly out to Toronto catch my bothers band BARN BURNER play sneaks,,,, then a photoshoot on Monday for Argyle Magazine. I'll make sure I post of some pics from that shoot, its going to be loco.
Tuesday May 27th // Française sensations Bonjour Brumaire, des principaux actes de "Osheaga" festival à Montréal. On m'a demandé de passer la journée avec ce groupe rupture des photos, en essayant d'obtenir de bons plans de presse. 1000 photos plus tard, nous avons été en mesure de se retirer environ 75 bonnes s'enclenche, et le réduire à 10.
Monday May 19th // Thanks Fuji!
Back in Montreal. Had a great time down in Jersey at Portland and Annes wedding. Got to spend some time in NYC.
And a few weeks back TB and Hammy came up to Montreal and spent the night in the fort boozin. Good seeing the dudes from Toronto.
Friday May 9th 1008 // Basement tapes, err basement shots?
Slorach and his band METS came thru Montreal the other night. I thought they sounded like Shotmaker, which is pretty cool in my books.
Tuesday May 6th // Sorry for the slacking the past few days. Here is the poster for the Color Magazine show, and I thought I would finally release the photo I shot for the exhibition. Here are some photos from opening night, looks like some people showed up.
The show is hanging in Vancouver BC @ ANTISOCIAL (2425 Main St), LIVESTOCK (239 Abbott St), THE SWEATSHOP (1945 E Hastings St)
Wednesday April 30th 2008 // Alot of people ask me about this Fall Out Boy cover I shot a few years back. I thought I would explain it alittle more. This is pretty much how I remember it that stormy day in long Island.
Wentz: Dude Confine ruled
Gordon: Ya man, I know
Wentz: Why does Canada love Lifetime so much?
Gordon: How can you not love them.
Wentz: Shoot our record cover before the show today?
Gordon: Fine.
Monday April 28th // Montreal -> Toronto -> Montreal -> New York -> New Jersey -> Montreal -> Kelowna -> Vancouver -> Montreal-> Toronto, then hopefully I'll get back home to Montreal after that.
Here's a photo of Boobs after a St Alvia Cartel show.
Mardi, la 23ème Avril // Sup? Back home in Montreal. Had a great time in Toronto chillin with Cody and Zoe, and everyone else who was at the Lucero show Saturday night. I went to the concert at the Horseshoe, and to be honest, I never made it further then the patio in the front of the bar. I love how flights from Montreal to Toronto are 33 minutes.
Heres how a photographer travels:
4:20 // Writing from the kitchen of Codes, in Toronto for a shoot for Cargo Jet. Its been a great few days seeing the peeps I dont get to see that often since I live in Mtl. Its aways fun blowin thru town.
April 13th 2008 // From Color Magazine:
a ROLLING PERSPECTIVE
"Etnies and Color Magazine asked skaters to shoot a photo of themselves from their own rolling perspective. Over 200 portraits have been collected from skaters across Canada, the United States, and as far as Japan. With the help of Fourstar Clothing, a selection of these self-portraits of pro skateboarders, artists, and ther talented individuals have been composed into an exhibitions in celebration of skateboarding."
"The show has been broken into a three-part art crawl (or roll) traveling across the country during the next six months from Vancouver (BC) to Montreal (QC) with stops in Winnipeg (MB), Calgary (AB), and Toronto (ON). Opening receptions in each of these cities take place in separate spaces at different times. Attendees are encouraged to take their cruiser boards out from under their beds or wherever they've been stored all winter and celebrate the freedom of skateboarding and embrace the roll from spot to spot."
Photographers include: Mark Appleyard, Ed Templeton, Jordan Hoffart, and Ryan Smith. Photographers Allen Ying, Judah Oakes, Ryan Allan, Dylan Doubt, Gordon Ball as well as other sweet dudes like Bob Kronbauer, Alex Corporan, Campbell (monster childern mag), Erik Brunetti (fuct), Mark Delong, Paul Urich, Sam Mckinlay, and tomonori 'Rip' Tanaka (japan).....
Opening reception
Vancouver, May 3, 2008 Complimentary refreshments provided while supplies last.
8pm at ANTISOCIAL (2425 Main St), 10:30pm at LIVESTOCK (239 Abbott St), 12am at THE SWEATSHOP (1945 E Hastings St)
After party at THE SWEATSHOP
Friday 11th April /// Howdy! Well its that time again, a brand spanking new site. I got lazy sticking up all my old photos from the blog so I'll only add up a few favs from the last year.
I heard from the Color Magazine duderinos that the photo show will go on tour. I do not know all the dates or places, but I have heard some rumors. I am stoked to show a photos with Ed Templeton and long time photo mentor Ryan Allan.
I have been working with Simon & Schuster over the past month. A good friend has a book coming out, and I was fortunate to have shot the front and back cover of the project. Due to contracts and such, I cant say too much about it. The art director is Lisa Litwack, who is responsible for the Stephen King book covers. Wow.
Friendly Skateboards, Fontski, and myself are teaming up to bring you the new 2008 spring / summer line for Friendly. None stop emails at 4am with deep explanations about what they are feeling for the art direction. Pretty funnny stuff. As far as I know there are going to be 4 - 5 new decks. Fontski is doing a few, and I am lucky to have a Gordon Ball photo deck. I hope they end up going with the creepy photo of a certain person.
In the upcoming months , I'll be tying to tackle this french language, shooting the 2008 campaign for Mulcair (fashion line of Juliana Bennett), heading to NYC for a week in mid May for the Photo Fest. But most importantly finalizing the photo picks for "I'm So Negative", a coffee table book by yours truly.
Yo Sie, I am out in Vancouver for a shoot, I think its June 13th to the 20th. I think I may crash at your place for a few nights. Hit me up.
