sweet milk

it's 1pm. it's cleaning time and i'm pretending to look busy as the students empty shredded paper into clear plastic bags, drag a broom around, and move dust from one side of the room to the other. i'm drinking my milk from lunch since i feel jilted today given the menu (nattou again). the milk here tastes as though it's been sweetened by honey.
my friend from hull, quebec Jean Rene is a photography (slash, works for CBC) and filmmaker in and around ottawa. he's a wonderful person and has been a great friend to me (always encouraging my own photography and helping me set up photo shows at the university and fringe festival etc). i've participated in several photography projects with him, beginning in 2002 with one he was doing called entre les branches (between the branches). jean's theme tends to be semi-nude slash artsy poses, digitally altered in some way - which he turns into something concrete such as an address book (entres les branches) or the latest one i was involved in (Mozaik H2O). http://www.artmozaik.com/Mozaik-H20.html his most recent theme involves dozens of pictures which he then turns into one giant photo by digitally putting them all together, which he then prints a giant mural and has it on display somewhere in downtown ottawa. his newest project is Energie Tribale (Mozaik UV) where he paints his models in uv-reflecting paint then photographs them. blurb: "Les participants seront peinturés par notre dynamique équipe d'artistes locaux en arts visuels. Les modèles seront photographiés individuellement en style libre et semi-nu (calçon noir obligatoire). Afin de produire des images électrisantes, nous utiliserons de la peinture fluorescente qui réagira sous l'effet de la lumière ultra-violette (lumière UV-Black Light). Les modèles deviendront alors un pixel pour créer la palette des couleurs de la grande murale: MOZAÏK UV - Énergie tribale"