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MONASTÈRE PHOTO DUMP: Professional Photographers

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I hope you enjoyed the audience-view peek at the latest update of BARBETTE. Thanks for the comments and feedback you left on the post or messaged me privately with; it's a beautiful feeling to share the continuing evolution of this work with you. Yo...

BARBETTTE DOES "LE MONASTÈRE"

My dear, strange, wonderful reader –  it's been a hot second.

Quite literally: the humidity in Montréal has been unrelenting. You feel like a wrung-out, sweaty gym towel just walking a couple blocks, downhill, in the shade. It's been too hot to sleep.

I can see thunderstorm clouds gatherin...

🎬 "VACUUM" performance • May 2024

Hello, my strange and wonderful reader! Well – strange and wonderful viewer, today.

As promised, here is the recording of my performance of VACUUM from May in Toronto. Just got the footage from the event videographer a little while ago.

I had to get a whole new external hard drive for ...

RE-STOCK (& discount code) – "Slow Circus: Barbette"

Happy Saturday, you strange, wonderful reader! SLOW CIRCUS: BARBETTE is officially re-stocked in Ye Olde Stran...

☔️🌷May: Pandemonium Progress Report👹

Hello, strange and wonderful reader – this evening's long offering starts a brief reflection on recent days, and then offers you some re-caps on what's been going on in film/TV world, book-world, circus-world, world-world ... you get the picture. (Speaking of which – there's pictures! wheeee)

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📗 SNEAK PEEK 👀

As promised! A cheeky first sneak-peek at the inside pages of this labour of love - Slow Circus: Barbette.

I’m hard at work chugging away through making all the shipping labels for you pre-orderers — and finishing up night-shoot-world on my stunt contract. It’s slow-going because I’m real tired and don...

PREQUEL TO A PEEK 👀📗

Good morning everyone! It’s 4:55am where I am, and I just wrapped on another long chilly night shoot BUT — I wanted to share this little teaser with you because THINGS ARE HAPPENING on the book front!

I picked up my special, extra-fast early shipment of 200 of the limited edition hardcover Slow Circus: Barbette boo...

🔮 Changes: Towards a Well-Written Future

[1900 words, or roughly a 8–10 minute read]

Hey patrons,

What's working well in your life? What's not serving you so well anymore? What needs to change? What needs to stay the same? What needs more time before you can see that clearly, or take a step in a decisive direction?

All things I've been asking mys...

☔️🌷 April: Pandemonium Progress Report 👹

Hello patrons! After a lovely rainy morning visit with my old pal Maui here, I’ve cooked up this overdue update post for us. Here we go!

Thank you guys so much for your kind words last week about Tournelle du Soleil– it brightened my day each time a new one popped into existence and makes me feel motiv...

📸 Album du Soleil

Good morning, lovely patrons! My sleepy thumb swooped down and posted this before pasting a short morsel of text back into the body of this post for you —!!! 

The last instalment of Tournelle du Soleil hit your inboxes mid-last week and I wanted to offer a visual collection to add on to whatever the cinema in you...

[53] TOURNELLE DU SOLEIL • AFTERGLOW

The space is packed full of bodies singing, dancing, screaming, grooving, slurring, flirting, falling, tipping, beaming, swearing, meeting, being. Local drag queens periodically take a battered microphone from the DJ, snaking through the crowd as their chosen tracks blast out a decibel louder than the music t...

[52] TOURNELLE DU SOLEIL • POST-SHOW

“You were magnificent!” the businessman exclaims, arms spread wide as he cuts in amidst the other artists to stand next to me. He slides his arm around my waist, flashing watch and one well-manicured hand resting on the seam of the dress where the lower spikes meet the upper ones. It’s appropriate–but...

[51] TOURNELLE DU SOLEIL • SHOWTIME [v]

The quick change– We didn’t tease the D-rings of the fly harness through–!

They should've been fed through the layer of the shorts and out the keyholes carefully cut and waiting in the starburst dress. Now there’s only moments left in the trampwall act. Shit shit shit shit...