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Skate Path Lanterns

Skate Path Lanterns is a fun project I’ve been working on since 2016, when Edmonton Parks approached me to develop some work for their new Freezeway/IceWay alternative skating paths. They had some room to run ice trails through trees and around a park, so they wanted some artistic lighting in the darker areas. The first couple years I used my regular hanging lanterns, and then some alternate styles. For the 3rd year I believe I developed a new post mount lantern that has become my go-to for this application.

There are now Skate Path Lantern sets in Edmonton, Lacombe, Strathcona County, and St. Albert, all in Alberta, Canada. Each one has a different custom design pattern, often a snowflake related to their community design.

It’s been great to see this grow. I would love to see this project encourage other forest skating paths around the places that have snow. I can support this as an artist or work with other artists as a consultant and platform supplier.

Flying Canoe Volant 2023

2022-2023 was an exciting winter for me, a lot of events happening almost on top of each other. This edition of Flying Canoe Volant brought me to some new collaborations, and the realization of some long held dreams.

The Airship was a big project, a collab with GABS, another local Edmonton light based artist allowed me to work on a dreamed of upgrade to my Canoe Chandeliers. Last year after the event my brother Robin and I were looking at all the things we’d set up. That may have been his first time looking at everything set up in a while, so he was pretty excited about some of the work. We came up with the idea of an Airship Canoe, with flapping paddles for propulsion and flame (effect bulbs) for lift. Later that year I talked to GABS about collaborating on a crew, and she developed an amazing soft sculpture cast of birds and rodents. Apparently they were not on good terms with each other, so the title of the installation is “Squabbles” and features captured birds on a Squirrel lead ship. The birds may have been accused of stealing the squirrels nuts, but I imagine they would have an alternate explaination.

I also put together a new set of fabric lanterns, now called the Fab4 (cause there are 4 of them) and got to involve Marissa Mars in painting them. She came in for a day and sprayed the set with my stencils- I love seeing other artists us my stencil set because it always turns out so different than what I do with them.

I also got to make some cut up canoe installations. This is part of a bigger project that I hope to see develop, but that’s top secret. Anyway, first step has happened and they were super fun.

Flying Canoë Volant 2016

Every first weekend of February, in my hometown of Edmonton, we have this amazing weekend festival in the woods of Mill Creek Ravine. This is one of my favourite places in the city, and it is such an honour to be trusted with lighting it up for tens of thousands of people to explore.

This is a short video from Explore Edmonton that highlights a lot of what our event is all about.
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2016 Lantern Craft! Workshop and Parade

In March 2016, I was funded by Make Something Edmonton’s Winter Project Accelerator Grant to run a lantern craft workshop and parade. It allowed me to offer a free workshop with a fairly fancy set of materials, so I was quite excited about that.

The Lantern project was based on twine, twigs (branches) tissue and twinkle lights, and has a diverse set of possibilities within a fairly unified colour scheme.

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U of A Alumni Association, Green and Glow winterfest 2015

laser cut lanterns, green and gold for the University of Alberta Alumni Assn's 100th anniversary
one hundred lanterns for one hundred years

Jan, 2015.  The University of Alberta’s Alumni Association turns 100 this year, one hundred years after the first class graduated.  I got a call to imagine something special for their Winter Event.  This became one of the best University events I’ve been to, and we produced a genuinely magical moment.

Had some deeper learning moments about high speed production of large numbers of objects… 100 lanterns is quite a lot of lanterns. Even when you have a cnc machine to laser cut your parts. The opposite side of that learning is that 100 lanterns is a good number of lanterns to have a parade with. Especially when they each put out 2 watts worth of coloured LED light. At the last minute I decided to walk in the parade with the prototype lanterns, and it induced a pleasantly expansive feeling

The Association produced a great video, and an image gallery follows below.
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Flying Canoe Volant 2015

coat of arms- canoe with crossed paddles and wings, moon over with crown of stars, snowflakes beneath
new design for the flying canoe volant

The Mill Creek Adventure this year was a major stretch for me.  Scheduled for a week after my other biggest winter festival commission, I had to juggle 5 workshops, up to 10 workers, a whole class of artists,  dozens of projects, and hundreds of details.  Sometimes I felt like I was driving between sites for a month.  But in the end, it worked out.  and the last two days of installation were surprisingly easy.  Delegation to competent staff pays off… except in the visceral sense of feeling like I’m focused on making art.  I suppose that’s what large scale art management is about.

In the chaos, I managed to bring 3 new major lanterns to the event, and a much deeper colour palette to my older lantern work.  New LED colours… as fun as christmas for me!
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This gallery is from Paula Kirman; you can find her edmonton events photography on flicker


Lanterns in the Snow

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lanterns under the bridge... like trolls made of light?

Walking With Lanterns

last week some friends and i went for a walk in the local ravine.  we brought some lanterns and a firepit on a wagon. all accounts concur that it was a  great evening in the park. Some women complain about lack of sexual pleasure because their male partners last for just one or two minutes in the lovemaking. tadalafil 40mg india http://robertrobb.com/legislature-should-clarify-public-health-emergency-laws/ The turning blade after that turns a shaft within the wind turbine which is sometimes called the lowest priced tadalafil “sex doctor”, whose new-age center is located in Kuala Lampur. cialis store The full erection disorder is rare illness. Man, making love, ends cipla cialis india after the third shock.  the weather was perfect too, chilly but not dangerous.  and the snow that had been threatening for the last week held off until we were back at the beginning around a big fire. pictures by Luke Smith, thanks!


Winter Light Gala and 2012 season launch

winter light logo, waterjet cut from plywood and lit upI’m involved in a festival project in my home town of Edmonton, AB, that takes on the colder half of our year.  It’s called Winter Light, cause we light up the long dark days of winter.  At our latitude, we can have as little as 4 hours of daylight in December.  Which is crazy.  Especially if you are stuck in school or work for those 4 hours.  You can see all about Winter Light at our styley website here:  www.winterlight.ca (website no longer maintained)

Last weekend we launched our new Season and our newly founded Non-Profit Society.  Up till now we have been a City of Edmonton created and funded project, that startup situation is now over and we are free to find our own fate as a non profit.  Comes with perks and challenges ;)

I get to be the Lantern Co-Ordinator and Artistic Director of one of our events, which is about the  most interesting job title I’ve ever had.  And it means I get to build really fun things.  For our launch, I worked on some more vector design + waterjet cut wood construction, and built a really fancy stage.

Best Part was everyone loved everything.   Food, Music, Art, Fires.  Other best part was we got the whole thing installed with time to spare.  Must be practice or something.
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so, Pictures! thats what you and me are here for right?  Here’s the pictures:

Thanks to Robin George for taking the pictures.  I think I had the time to take two?  Must have been busy doing art or something.   I’ll be adding descriptions to the gallery as time goes by.

H13 – SIP-a-yurt timelapse

New Years Eve, 2010.  Our community holds an annual gathering for about 5 days to celebrate and reflect on the last year and imagine for the next year.  We call it Intention Alberta, after the much longer running Intention on the west coast of BC.  This year we put a project in motion to test and increase our capacity to assemble off grid shelter.  The Hexayurt was the open-hardware building style we chose to work with.

There are a bunch of pictures and models posted previously; here we have a time lapse movie of the second stage of assembly.  the base was put together the day before.  As you may be able to see: we used a frame, square-edged SIPs (structural insulated panels) and triangular wedges to fill the corner gaps. Our next SIP-a-yurt will have beveled edges on the SIPs and just 2 posts (center+front) and one beam for framing.

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H13 – insulatayurt (thick wall) – sketchup model

this is a sketchup model that we worked from in building our first Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) hexayurt.  we needed something on the base to level the floor, as the floor was also SIP based (because of winter snow).  for this version we used full, square edged SIPs, with triangular foam to fill the gaps.  We DON’T RECOMMEND THAT.  Bevel your SIP corners instead.  less (fragile) junk to keep track of.

Model here:

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to see how the situation turned out, check out one of the other hexayurt posts.  the one we built had 4′ walls rather than 6′ pictured here. also not shown in this model is the inside frame, which may be excessive, but we felt that better safe than sorry principal.