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I’m having my painting displayed on campus right now, in the Williams Cafe shop. Well.. so not really “on campus”. It’s a giant painting: 48” X 36” oil on canvas. It’s the fourth painting that I had to do for my painting course last term. The criteria is figures in environment. It came to my surprise that they wanted to exhibit this painting at Williams. I’ve always seen student pieces there, never knew who’s in charge of doing so until they’ve contacted me. I went to ECH to pick up my painting and discovered a sticky note attached to it asking to hang it at Williams. Soon after it was up there (they hung it in the beginning of January and I received the email 2 days ago), I got someone asking me if it’s for sale. I’m still debating whether I should sell it yet.. and if so, how much? I’m surprised that there are people willing to buy it..

If you live in Toronto and you don’t sit at home all day long, you’d see these random er ad campaigns all over the city (the subway station yonge and bloor is pretty much covered in them):

I’m not sure if others are as curious as me, but it’s still got people talking. So in terms of stirring up a conversation, it might’ve succeeded, but in terms of advertising whichever company, it’s not doing any good. Especially when I finally figured out which company was behind it and what the actual ads are supposed to be. I’m pretty much disappointed:

Seriously, I don’t see the association with “er” and Bell??? Er.. Bell just got dumber? Despite the idiotic stealth attempt, neither does the blue type font make me feel Bell is any more superior than Apple, if anything, it’s saying they’re a copycat..

Get them at http://www.oyemodern.com/