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The PUBLIC and Roy Was Here presents - Animation Party!

2010-05-26T11:54:00.000-07:00

Roy Was Here and The PUBLIC are now accepting submissions for the Animation Party! short films up to six minutes maximum. Send us your amazing shorts to help send a kid to camp!!!! Partial proceeds from the event will be going to the Gordon Neighborhood House

check out our facebook page here

goodbye 112 West Hastings // hello 151 West Cordova

2010-05-02T17:55:00.000-07:00

So long 112 W Hastings St! It was a good time while it lasted at the Perel Gallery Building.
We're on to new projects at W2 Storyeum. Come say hello! We are still setting up, but will be functional very shortly.

cleaning up after moving out

Vancouver's Most Wanted

2010-05-02T17:45:00.000-07:00

Members of Roy Was Here attended an event called "Vancouver's Most Wanted: Chin up, Chest Out, Give 'em Hell" at the Media Club. The money from the event went to Vancouver Battered Women’s Shelter . There were models, drinks and music!

our lovely friends from Ready Set Die headlined. Here are some of the photos. We will be working alongside ready set die creating some merch with them, so check back for more updates!

Move Complete!

2010-04-18T14:01:00.000-07:00

Roy Was Here is moved into Storyeum now all we have left to do is unpack! We are excited to start our new projects in the new digs. Thanks to our helpers from Summerland Hazel and Katrina!
taking flash drier apart for the move.

all packed up!

Photos of the new space coming soon.

Last but not least. Tonight (Sunday, April 18th) W2 will be screening Copyright Criminals at 7-10 in the new Storyeum space at 151 Cordova St. $10 dolla's at the door will gain you access as well as will also buy you one complimentary drink. Check it out! There will be a remix meetup at 9-10 pm - show off yer remixed works.

copyright criminals

Rocker For Street Soccer!

2010-04-12T19:25:00.000-07:00

If we didn't work on Thursday night we would be at this event. A Rocker For Street Soccer hosted by the Portland Hotel Society at the Rickshaw Theatre on Hastings. Thursday April 15th, 2010 doors open 6pm

with Boogie Monster, Mezamazing and Special guests.
there will also be Silent Auction with very cool stuff. Meet the team and come out and have a fantastic time while supporting a good cause.

RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 East Hastings
tickets are $25.00 call 778 997 3930 to get your hands on some.

Roy Was Here @old Storyeum site

2010-04-09T18:57:00.000-07:00

Roy Was Here Creative Studio will be moving from the W2 Perel Gallery building at 112 West Hastings into the old Storyeum building site located at 151 West Cordova Street in Gastown with W2 Community Media Arts. We will begin our move between this weekend and next weekend.

Check back for more info!

inside buildingold storyeum site front of building

We are gearing up to have a brand spanking new website, we have a few minor adjustments to make but keep checking back.

We have a new member of joining us her name is Vanessa and she likes kittens, check out her out on twitter @vanixx.

@vanixx

Check out our videos!

2010-04-03T12:34:00.000-07:00

Besides from T-shirt's Roy Was Here also other things like animation and design.
Check out some of our videos on vimeo

Otherwise we're all keeping busy with a lot of side projects. Stay tuned for news, outings and events! Happy easter!!

DIY update!

2010-03-28T01:05:00.000-07:00

Roy Was Here wants to thank everyone who came out to the DIY event. We specially want to thank the artists and designers, band and dj's, and of course our gracious host W2.

The artists selected for the DIY event were (in no particular order)

Reva Diana
Tony Insua
Caitlin Russell
Lydia Fu
Alexander Cho

Reva Diana
I’m not an artist. At least that is what I used to say. I was a graphic designer, a web geek or simply – a creative. An artist? No. Art is scary and only for the brave. But as time passed I found reasons to be brave. It feels good to be inspired and it feels damned good to paint. It’s been a long journey to this moment. So go ahead. Ask me if I’m an artist.

Reva Diana's design was made using the Woodward's Heritage Letterpress. She is also exhibiting the print at the Vancouver Museum. The print has gotten some press from the Georgia straight, click here.

Tony Insua
(above)

Caitlin Russell - www.caitlinrussellart.com (above)

Lydia Fu

Lydia Fu is an illustrator and animator working in Vancouver, BC.
website: www.lydiafu.com

Alexander Cho (above)
"Turtle Programme"

We will be posting pictures of the designs above on t-shirts shortly, as well as photos from the event!

D.I.Y. T-shirt Competition with Roy Was Here!!!

2010-02-24T11:25:00.000-08:00

Now accepting submissions for D.I.Y. T-shirt Competition hosted by Roy Was Here and W2 Media arts .

Winners of the T-shirt competition will have their work shown in the gallery space on March 26th printed on t-shirts. There will be prizes to be won, musical entertainment all night long and t-shirts for the winners!! This is a great way to get your designs shown in a gallery and meet other artists and designers.

musical guests include: Matthew Johnson, Eunoia and Jabberwock

The theme is: from plain white to awesome (t-shirts will be plain white)

Please submit work to josh.roywashere@gmail.com. Please use the template provided below - (right click, save as) design away! and then (save as pdf) please also make a high res version so if and when your design is picked we can easily print a nice crispy version. Please limit your designs to four colors or less!

winners will be contacted after the deadline (Friday March 19th). Winners will be asked to supply a high res version of the design, good scan or vector image for printing after being contacted.
D.I.Y event on March 26th. If you have any questions please contact us at josh.roywashere.ca

GOOD LUCK!

2010-02-20T07:05:00.000-08:00

this clip was made by our Legal observer friends. we would like to share it with you. please feel free to check out their posts and video uploads on www.vimeo.com

Legal Observers in Action! from Legal Observers on Vimeo.

Month of February

2010-02-05T00:22:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since we've posted anything mostly because we're really busy in the month of February do to the Uh-Oh-lympics.

Here is a recent job we've completed for the Legal Observer team.

Other print production jobs this month include DTES CAN, Red Tent Campaign, W2 Media and Kulus Designs. Other non-screen printing jobs include designing the self-titled CD by Piper Davis and creating an animated advertisement for Surf Spot Media.

Collective Article by Jason Hazel-rah Sullivan

2010-01-25T13:46:00.000-08:00

This is an article written by a writer for Athabasca University's Student Voice magazine which covers issues regarding collectives and more specifically Roy Was Here.

Collective activity has always been integral to human production and creativity. In precivilized times firewood was gathered for ceremonial and cooking fires. In agricultural settings harvest was a massive collective effort. During the Medieval era pottery guilds built their kilns and communities wherever clay seams could be found. Throughout the Modern epoch artist collectives have based themselves around common ideas and methods. Artists have always expressed the basic human desire for freedom to express feelings on subjects which transcend the bounds of language. The Roy Was Here collective manifests this desire for freedom to express, create and communicate and to reach as wide an audience as possible.

The urge to become fully human by expressing oneself is suggested by the Marxian term “species being”. The collective itself as a natural method of social creation is elucidated by the Deleuzian term “multiplicity”. Yet what collectives actually produce is perhaps most important of all.

In the ancient world collective action often involved forced labour or slavery. The Egyptian pyramids and sphinx are examples of this rigid, unyielding and authoritative collective form. Yet no one can deny the mystery of these creations. They seem to harbour something transcendental and otherworldly. Perhaps the pyramids and sphinx simply represent what people can do when they exert their will towards a common goal. In today's competitive and individualist environment what could seem more alien than collective expression?

Today's social environment is in many ways still controlled by authoritative people who squelch humanity's creative desires. Yet within this oppressive realm there remains room for resistance. As the postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard stated “Reality is not so much a bitch as it is a sphinx!” Dogmatic rigidity can give way to catlike reflexivity. The mystery and awe inspired by the sphinx of Egypt would surely pale in comparison to the creativity produced by collectives directly only by the impulses of participating individuals. The Roy Was Here collective represents a possibility such as this.

Just as the Egyptian sphinx was created by slave labour, many T Shirts people wear today are produced using minimal creativity and in mass quantities by underpaid workers. Expression becomes a slave to profits. Yet without profits economic reality hits hard. So, as in any production-based realm, ownership or control of the means of production is key. By owning their own equipment and making T-Shirts out of fair-wage source materials, Roy Was Here avoids oppressing workers while remaining economically sound.

T Shirts are relatively inexpensive. They are a proletariat canvas, a “medium for the masses”. As Marx noted during his lifetime, when Capitalist globalization was just beginning to ravage non-Western cultures, “the cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery...which batters down all Chinese walls” (Sayer, 1991, p. 53). The Roy Was Here collective is in a unique position to invert this destructive process by producing what Capitalism has the most difficulty in providing: the opportunity for authentic self-expression. Artists who might not otherwise be exposed can have their works sold in T Shirt form and reach a huge audience of eyes. This will pummel our society's barriers to expression which take the form of funding cuts by governments and monopolization of market access by corporations.

It is hard to think of anything more liberating than self-expression. This is the idea behind modern collectives. They enable the true desires of participants to take shape and become literally or metaphorically animated. This 'life of its own' persona is, according to the two-man social theory collective of Gilles Deleuze and Felixe Guattari, a function of how we are as human individuals. For Deleuze and Guattari we each embody a multiplicity of selves. “There is always a collectivity, even when you are alone”. (D and G 1000 Plateus, p. 152) What they mean by this is that we each have many versions of ourselves depending on the social situation. Each time a person creates or expresses something they are producing another aspect of themselves. In this way a collective is a natural outcropping of human nature. When functioning best, a collective overcomes the dyad of “one/many” and becomes a “shared identity, shared but separate”. (Gillian) Humming like power lines in an electrical storm, a collective represents creative capacity exceeding its component parts. It becomes an action, a “funnelling together of ideas from different sources/people/places to create something bigger and exciting”. (Gillian)

Human social activity naturally takes collective form. Outcomes may be practical or impractical, edible or aesthetic. Whereas many artifacts of human society, such as the Egyptian sphinx, are the product of forced collective action, the greatest possibility for liberatory expression lies in collectives controlled by participants and working towards inclusive goals. The Roy Was Here collective combines these two aspects by being non-hierarchical and making affordable products that can be consumed by anyone.

Jason Hazel-rah Sullivan

New T-shirts, Outings & Sunday!

2010-01-24T22:26:00.000-08:00

It's SUNDAY!

The Roy Was Here team has been busy this weekend. We have printed three more designs and are looking to do some more shortly.

We have a lot of orders in February coinciding with the "O" word (Olympics that is) as well we are going to be doing some artistic collaborations and design.

Here are some photos from PUBLIC Launch Party at 112 W Hastings (W2 Perel Gallery) which was the launch of Kwan's online magazine called Public, and last but certainly not least of our other outing to 221A Pact: Even

East Van Cross by Ken Lum

2010-01-13T21:54:00.000-08:00

Check out the new Led Sculpture at 6th and Clarke by artist Ken Lum. The artist won over $250,000 to complete the piece.

He's heard the debates over the decades that the East Side always gets "the short end of the stick" when it comes to parks and political power.

But Lum doesn't see his sculpture as a piece of art that will necessarily make people feel better about living on the East Side.

"I've had questions about it, but once people understand the story behind it, I think they'll realize it doesn't really have a religious connotation," Newirth said. "There are going to be those people who love it immediately and people who will take time to warm up to it."

If the sculpture has any religious overtones, it's that many East Side residents, including Italian and Irish immigrants, are Catholics, said Lum, noting the long histories of Notre Dame and St. Patrick's schools.

Roy was on CJSF 90.1 FM

2010-01-12T21:21:00.001-08:00

So tonight we were given the opportunity to tell the world who we are and what we do...thanks to Jay Peachy of Sound Therapy Radio. We were featured on a segment called ‘The Artist Lounge” on CJSF 90.1 FM which brings together artists of all genres to talk about their creative expressions.

Getting ready in the studio...

Local Vancouver band, A Grey Medium was also featured on this segment...check out their music here.

A prize pack (movie tickets to The Book of Eli) is still available for entering the best Roy story to jay.peachy@yahoo.com so send in your stories now! We will post it on our blog.

Just in cased you missed us tonight, you can listen to a recording of our interview here. It was a first time for all of us so please excuse the awkwardness... but we had a lot of fun so that's all that matters!

Here is a group picture of Roy Was Here Creative Studio, A Grey Medium and radio host Jay Peachy.

Green Screen Grandmas!

2010-01-10T23:08:00.001-08:00

ROY WAS HERE on CJSF January 12th

2010-01-07T18:50:00.000-08:00

Roy Was Here will be on CJSF 90.1 FM (SFU radio) on Tuesday January 12th at 7pm with radio host J Peachy. If you want to listen and tune in from your personal computers you can listen to us live at cjsf.ca.

We will be talking along side of a band called "A Grey Medium" check out Sound Therapy Radio!

Happy Holidays from Roy Collective!

2009-12-23T17:33:00.001-08:00

Happy Holidays from Roy Was Here and a Happy New Year (that didn't intentionally rhyme, but we're going to go with it)

The Ear - Launch Party at Gallery Gachet

2009-12-20T14:16:00.000-08:00

We were at Gallery Gachet last week celebrating the launch of their new arts and literary journal - The Ear.

The Ear is published three times a year by Gachet Publications, an arm of Gallery Gachet. Its mandate is to provide a space for marginalized, professional artists to publish their work. Each journal will feature literary and visual contributions; stories, poems, essays, photography, drawings and paintings. This issue’s theme is “atypical perspectives”, a celebration of work that looks at reality through diverse perceptions. Read the bios of contributing artists here.

It was a night of good music and amazing talent! The line-up included a sing-a-long by Vanessa Richards, performances by DB Buxton, Misha-Q, The Shottas and a special guest appearance by C.R Avery.

Vanessa Richards conducting the audience.

DB Buxton and his sweet guitar!
I couldn't figure out why he would tune it so many times while he was playing and remember thinking to myself that this guitar must be really old. It produces quite a unique sound nonetheless, you gotta spare a few minutes and take a listen to his music here.

The multi-talented slam poet C.R. Avery who combines poetry with beat-boxing and blues. CBC Radio 3 describes him as an "electrifying performer". It was a treat to watch him live.

The Motion Sickness Animation Collective also contributed that night with projected visuals which accompanied the performance of Misha-Q and The Shottas. Here is a short clip:

Visuals at Gallery Gachet from The Motion Sickness Collective on Vimeo.

And of course, what is a party without Cheese Photobooths? Here's a shout-out to Cameron! We love your photobooth. Next time we will attempt to break your record again, we only managed 10 in the end.

Peace out!

12 Hour Vigil

2009-12-13T22:52:00.000-08:00

On the weekend members of Roy Collective participated and attended "12 hour vigil" a project curated by Stephanie Ellis which speaks to the arts funding cuts.

The project was setup so an artist would show their work every hour. Their was a tent setup outside of the art gallery on Robson St. Josh showed his work at 11 am on Saturday, and Gillian showed hers at noon to one pm.

Liam Gillick - Fall Speaker Series at Emily Carr University

2009-12-09T09:30:00.000-08:00

We attended a talk by British artist, Liam Gillick, earlier this week. He is one of the 5 artists featured in this year's Fall Speaker Series at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Gillick is a New York and London-based artist who emerged in the 1990s in the midst of paradigmatic political and cultural change. In the past two decades, he has developed a highly influential artistic practice around a discursive model that complicates object production and raises key social questions.

Solo exhibitions include The Museum of Modern Art, 2003; Palais de Tokyo, 2005; Witte de With, 2008. Group exhibitions include the documenta X 1997; Guggenheim Museum, 2004; 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009.

Gillick engages in writing, design, film and installation. He showed slides of his work based on a chronological time line and talked about a constant revisiting of themes in his art practice. Some of these include the idea of parallel histories, shifting the order of representation and investigating principals of production.

"Art is a convenient term for a mid-space location where you don't need cultural permission to carry out certain corrective tasks in relation to society in general. There are a number of keys to understanding my work; one is distraction. ... What I like about the position of an artist is that you might start out intending to be a DJ but end up cleaning the floor with vodka and glitter instead." - Liam Gillick

To read more about Gillick's work, please click here for an essay written by The Museum of Modern Art.

A Little Tune for a Tuesday afternoon

2009-12-08T00:50:00.000-08:00

HEALTH is a noise rock band consisting of four members including Benjamin Jared Miller, Jake Duzsik, John Famiglietti, and Jupiter Keyes. All are from different cities including Seattle, San Diego, and their current home base, Los Angeles.

DIE SLOW

E-letter

2009-12-07T09:07:00.000-08:00

Roy Was Here / Roy Collective has an e-letter! If you'd like to know of any upcoming events, ways you can submit designs or just generally want to know what we're doing, please email us at josh.roywashere@gmail.com and we'll add you to our mailing list.

We will soon be doing custom orders and going into full production.

Meanwhile, please visit our online store http://www.roywashere.bigcartel.com/ to take a look at what's available now!

Roy was at "sights / lights / sounds" + Emily Carr Media Pubnight!

2009-12-07T08:24:00.001-08:00

We were at W2 this past Friday listening in on an artist talk by Barcelona-based artist-in-residence, Antoni Abad.

Abad talked about a recent project which involves marginalized people around the world (Geneva, Sao Paolo, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, the Sahara Desert and elsewhere). His megafone.net program uses technology to identify major cultural and community points that act as barriers to self-representation.

The Mobile*Native collaborative project connecting W2 and Megafone.net engages local First Nations youth in digital media expression as citizen ethnographers. In using the internet and new technology, the project aims to give voice and visibility to groups that previously had no or little truthful presence in the media.

We headed over to Emily Carr after this to check out this year's Media Pubnight Fundraiser. Sadly, it ended earlier than we thought..

It was a good thing there were still people around... we bumped into many familiar faces and had a good time catching up with old classmates and teachers!

NADATODO Party

2009-12-04T19:43:00.000-08:00

The Roy team attended the Nadatodo launch party last Friday. Nadatodo is an online arts and culture listing space which was hosted at Gallery Gachet.

Check out their website www.nadatodo.com

The party was full of good food, people music, prizes and a FREE photobooth!

Here are some images from the night:

Roy takes on the East Side

2009-11-22T17:34:00.000-08:00

This week has been a busy one! If the RoyWasHere team isn't working, we're busy going to local events like the East Side Culture Crawl, or shooting local music videos.

Check out some of the images from the Gachet Studios located at 524 Powell Street:

Dinosaur Jr.

2009-11-11T17:26:00.000-08:00

Lets face it, I'm probably just upset that I forgot my camera and I didn't order the famous ribs. Pink Mountain Tops were great! Dinosaur Jr. was great!

The Sounds @ The Commodore Ballroom

2009-10-27T10:59:00.000-07:00

We had the opportunity to check out the Sounds show at the commodore last night and I have to say it was unbelievable. The energy of the band was incredible, especially the performance of Maja Ivarsson(lead vocals), she sang until she lost her voice.

The show carried on easily for over an hour and a half and with the speakers quite possibly as loud as they could get. It felt quite simply, like a Saturday night on a Monday evening. Despite having my car towed and having to get it out of the impound lot, it is definitely going to be a highlight show of the year to me.

If you don't know them, you should check them out!
www.the-sounds.com

W2's FRESH HOT TYPE

2009-10-27T10:05:00.000-07:00

On Saturday night we were invited to attend a Letter Press party that was put on by the new W2 project in the DTES. The night was overall, awesome.

We met with some friends working with the project who showed us how the letter presses worked and along with some beers and some good music we were able to use these wood blocks and take some paper to create anything with them. Once done we were able to show them on the wall of the venue. it was so packed with other people trying out the blocks that it was hard to find any letters to use, so we just made do with what was available.

Some of the Djs included:
The Funk Hunters
These guys were awesome, they had 4 turntables and a great sound. mash-ups of some old funk and great mixing.
M.C Thinktank
Again, great sound. You should check out his page!

This party was great. Here's some pictures!

If you want to check out more images, go to:
http://www.creativetechnology.org/photo

Haha

2009-08-19T10:42:00.000-07:00

I thought this was hilarious, so I thought I would share.

Flora + Fauna

2009-08-19T10:23:00.001-07:00

Submissions are rolling in for our Flora + fauna {plants and animals} exhibition. We are really stoked on the response we have recieved! thanks to all who participated! Gillian Cole has been accepted into the Montreal International Film Festival and the Panthenon Experimental Film Festival in Greece! we will be checking out the MOntreal Film fest and doing a shoot in NYC for our new fall/winter line up! so check back soon for some exclusive shots!

let us know if you are in any of these areas between Aug 27-Sept 6th! we love making new friends!

If anyone was wondering...

2009-05-29T09:30:00.000-07:00

Make-It was a complete success!
We spent the whole weekend there and met some great people. We also had some excellent feedback and of course sales upon sales!
Emily took some photos of the event so i thought i would post.

Just Ridiculous!

2009-05-28T23:00:00.000-07:00

so we have been super absent. we are sorry. all this graduating has been killing the internet time. but alas we are now all finished and ready to get some new shirts and some new art moving ASAP.

Congrats to them as they were both nominated and took home first place for the categories they were selected for. Gillian Cole took home People Choice for "Dinner Parade" and Su-An took home the Presidents Award for "Nature on its Course" both films were favorites among professionals in the feild and the people. for more info check out the review here

im sure you all are waiting to see these goodies! we can only provide a snippet of these shorts because Su-An and Gillian are still in the process of film Festival-ing

better than nothing i guess.

presenting Gillian Coles "Dinner Parade"

Su-An and "Nature on its Course"

Nature on its Course Trailer from Su-An Ng on Vimeo.

New Shirts Printed!

2009-04-28T15:49:00.001-07:00

We have a new design finally printed! This design was brought to you by Su-An Ng. pictures coming very soon!

Roy likes the Motion Sickness Collective

2009-04-28T15:44:00.000-07:00

We work closely with Motion Sickness and would like to present a demo reel made by them!
here it is!

Demo reel - Summer 09 from The Motion Sickness Collective on Vimeo.

We liked it.

2009-04-09T13:57:00.000-07:00

This is a little this and that that Su-An Ng created with Motion Sickness. I was wondering what she was filming all night at the ECUAD pub night, I'm guessing this was what it was!

Thanks for coming - Emily Carr Media Pubnight 2009 from Su-An Ng on Vimeo.

Make-it. fashion, art & design market, be there.

2009-03-22T14:33:00.000-07:00

We are proud to announce that we will be in the Make-it Fashion, art and design market this year!
since we're gonna be there you should also be there. Roy loves markets of handmade goods and so should you. support local designers! come to make it!

make-it will be held on:
May 1rst 4p-9p
May 2nd 10a-5p
May 3rd 11a-5p

@ the Roundhouse Arts and Rec Center.
admission is 5 bucks at the door. its worth it, i swear.

and a little more for ya:
"Make-it is a funky
shopping experience
showcasing Canada's top
designers, artists and Djs"

come! come! tell your friends! check out all the local talent
for more info visit
www.makeitproductions.com

woah. more designs for you!

2009-03-20T11:57:00.000-07:00

so we have more designs in the works. This time we will be featuring some bags and bandanas! yesss. Bandanas are our favorite part! keep posted i'll be uploading some previews!

check this out.

2009-03-17T23:42:00.000-07:00

check out su-ans new site, lots of cool little animations and cool vids you might want to see!
www.su-anng.com

Friday was AWESOME.

2009-03-15T12:45:00.000-07:00

The Emily Carr Media Pub Night went off without a hitch. the attendance was awesome. the Djs were awesome. but most of all, the beer was cheap and the people were great. the media grads put together a great night! the 50/50 draw featured $160 to be won and 3 tshirts made by us at Roy. What a great night!

aaahhhh!

2009-03-10T17:17:00.000-07:00

So we're all super busy with all of us working on our grad animations, Independent studies and just tying up loose ends with school related things. I do have a new run of fresh t's but i havent had the time to get images uploaded to the website. We're super stoked on two more designs that will be printed this week and thank goodness just in time for RiP and the Emily Carr BYOM Media Pub Night! yessss. Thanks to Su-An Ng for her contribution and Gillian Cole again for her contribution. Alas. I do have some visual delights to keep you from getting too bored.

this bad boy by yours truly. (thats me, josh)

2009-03-02T14:20:00.000-08:00

holy crap we have some new designs printed! FINALLY! I'll be posting them in the store shortly.

so we had an art-o-thon

2009-02-02T14:32:00.000-08:00

we had our art-o-thon this weekend! not a lot of attendees but in the end it worked out for the better in a spacewise sort of way. it was quite involved this weekend. we have some new designs sealed and ready for print now and we will soon be crafting together some hand screened gift wrap and making some Roy Collective magnets! so keep on the look out for some fun stuff!
anyway, heres some pictures of the nights events! i will be posting the art that we created and it will be for sale on the big cartel website! please if you can, buy some art! its for the homeless!

Motion Sickness Collective Rotoscope Animation

2009-02-01T16:29:00.000-08:00

Our friends at Motion Sickness have produced a Collaborative video that I would like to share! This was a student short that was finished just a few short months ago. Gillian, Leanna and Su-An all contributed to this!

Interview from The Motion Sickness Collective on Vimeo.

RIP brought to you by the NFB and Creative Commons. MARCH 13th BE THERE.

2009-01-30T14:02:00.000-08:00

We're going to this and a few of our animators from Roy are going to be having a screening at this event! Yay!
We want to share the trailer for you this is being show cased by the NFB at Emily Carr University on MARCH 13th

The Motion Sickness Collective is having a pub night after RIP and Roy is going to be there in full force.

COME TO THE PUB NIGHT AND RECIEVE A DISCOUNT CODE ON ALL ROY APPAREL.
I will be offering discount codes ranging from 10% off to 30% off so get ready to get crunked for a cause!

2009-01-29T15:41:00.000-08:00

This weekend we are hosting an art-a-thon! Everyone is invited! We will be posting the art created by our collective and be putting it up for sale in the Roy online store! The proceeds from sales will be going directly to those in need of food, shelter and help just getting by. Check back in soon we'll have some fantastic art posted for ya'll to check out!

Ta da!

2009-01-13T21:03:00.001-08:00

We finally have our big cartel site up and running. not all our designs are available yet but we are working diligently to get all our designs online as soon as possible. We can say with confidence that all designs will be up and ready to go by the end of the week.

It also looks like we have a huge shipment of shirts ready to print so look out for some new artwork for our Vancouver series!

Looks like there's another store we'll be at, son.

2009-01-12T20:25:00.000-08:00

Another day well spent here at Roy Was Here! we are going to be selling our line at Blue Sky T-shirts on Commercial Drive.

This is a big shout out to John and Nicole who own Blue Sky T-shirts!
Check out their store and their assortment of hand printed tshirts!

Emily Haggar Visual goodness

2009-01-10T08:21:00.000-08:00

Heres some works by Emily Haggar

images copyrite Emily Haggar 2009.

Emily Haggar Edition now finished!

2009-01-04T13:23:00.000-08:00

I know its been quite some time since the last post. we have been super busy over the holidays and had to step back from Roy for a little while. We are pleased to announce our Emily Haggar edition to the Vancouver series of artist designed t-shirts will be hitting the shelves today and will be available to purchase online at http://www.roywashere.bigcartel.com/ so please check it out!

with your new roy shirt you should see that attached to each shirt is a collectable artist print that is unique to each of our artists! collect them all!

Also we are working through our submission back log so please be patient as we're working through the many submissions that have been recieved and those whome submitted and have been selected for thier design will be contacted shortly. thanks for your patience!

Hope everyone had a good holiday and Happy New Year!

Roy is now at Mark-it!

2008-11-17T13:55:00.000-08:00

Its been a great weekend for us at Roy Was Here! we are now selling our clothing at Mark-it at 525 West Pender St. A big thanks to the owner, Cam for helping us out. Mark-it also has a great selection of other independent lines of clothing as well as some pretty sweet accessories so check out Cams store!

new shirts fresh off the press!

2008-11-15T11:44:00.000-08:00

i've finally completed the second design and some additional color selections for both designs! we are very excited at roy was here to get these shirts out in stores and onto our website. currently we are building a temporary website at BigCartel so we can get going online until our website is completed.

I am currently releasing a design by local photographer/artist Emily Haggar and another by Gillian Cole within the next couple of weeks so keep posted as i will be posting pictures of progress and some art by these fantastic artists!

The Shirts Are On The Way!

2008-11-01T12:15:00.001-07:00

OK so the first line of shirts have been printed! Heres some photos of the process and the finished product! we're currently working on our second line and have gotten some submissions from a couple new local artists! we're very excited for the next few months as new submissions roll in! our first design submission is from local Vancouver artist Gillian Cole and her designs will be out in print and on our shirts in the next couple weeks. We're also currently working on launching our website very soon so keep checking back to find out more! Oh, and please excuse the picture quality! They were direct phone pictures at a wopping 1mp so unfortunatly theyre quite grainy. Currently a call for sumissions in the Vancouver area is underway! If you are a local artist and would like your work considered for print please contact us here at Roy Was Here for more info!

Roy Line Launch

2008-10-24T14:18:00.000-07:00

This is the first post for us here at Roy Was Here. We are a newly formed collective and are looking to produce artist designed Tshirts and other apperel to support the local art communities here in our home base of Vancouver and other art communities all over the world. Our mission is to give local artists the chance to gain exposure and to share their ideas to the world. We are always looking for aspiring artists to join our collective and welcome all styles of art. We will be donating a percentage of gains to local charities and shelters to help fund each community that we take on. we are looking foreward to our first launch at El Kartel in the next couple of weeks. T-shirts and designs will be posted once theyre off the press so keep checking back! thanks!