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July, 2010

Osheaga Winner

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Thanks for all your entries in our Summer acrostic poem Osheaga competition! The bar was pretty high but Katie Boswell pulls through with this:

Sweaty

Unbearable

Muggy

Midnight,

Expecting

Rainstorms.

I think we've all felt this these last few weeks ... Congrats Katie!

 

Tiger Distribution competition closing soon!

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Be quick to get your entries in for the Tiger Distribution design competition! You've only got a few days left ... $1000 worth of clothes up for grabs from brands like WeSC, Penfield, Brixton and more ...Full details here. GO!

Ticket giveaway for Osheaga!

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Summer is well and truly here ... sweaty nights, days spent hiding out in air-conditioned cafes, beers in the park, ice cubes down the shirt ... Tell us what you think of summer in an acrostic poem. Dunno what the hell we're talking about? Here's one to get the ball rolling.

Staggering

Under

Melting

Mirages

Expecting

Free Wallpaper Download

Get your free wallpaper download of our SNAP! x Tiger Distribution poster (as featured in issue 11).

Collaborative Music Project - in B Flat

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In Bb 2.0 - an interesting collaborative music project. There are a bunch of short video/audio clips which can all be played simultaneously or at different times -it sounds super cool - check it!

Islands Ticket Giveaway

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Friday, July 16, 2010 - 7:00pm
Belmont
4483 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

Montreal band Islands are playing this Friday night at Belmont. I saw these guys a few years back and they were pretty damn awesome. They haven't played in over 6 months so be sure to get out and support our local kids!

T Exhibit at SNAP!

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Friday, July 30, 2010 - 9:00pm
SNAP Salon
4064 St. Laurent Suite 1
Montreal, Quebec

Montreal-based collective French Fourch is hosting another event at the SNAP! Salon. This time around the Franco-Belgian-Canadian zinemakers are presenting a t-shirt exhibition. The tees will be sold by silent auction and given the quality of work being produced by these guys, expect something pretty special.

More From BLU

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Delorean Ticket Giveaway

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 8:00pm
Belmont
4483 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

- Barcelona's Delorean mine a territory between dance music and independent pop, producing a sound that is distinctly theirs. This is the record it took Delorean 10 years to evolve into, a fusion of dance music (including their native Spanish Balearic house) and contemporary pop music.

SNAP! Newsletter #1

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Sign up for our newsletter now! The first issue is coming soon and we've got Osheaga tickets to give away! Get in on that!

 

Sandrine Castellan

This French beauty has a thing for natural light; as such it was only fitting that she shoot her first SNAP! contribution for issue 9 from Coney Island's beach. Her second, for issue 10, was a fun mix between fashion and documentary, and featured a number of Montreal's top new models in a casting environment.

Robin Hart Hiltz

Halifax-born photographer Robin Hart Hiltz's mug is now infamous thanks to his EAT series which we featured in our THREE LETTER WORDS issue and which also graced the cover.

Richmond Lam

Richmond Lam is one of the most promising talents in photo currently working in Montreal and frequently draws comparisons in creative circles to legendary portrait artists like Helmut Newton, Hedi Slimane and Irving Penn.

Raphael Ouellet

Born in Rimouski, Quebec, Raphael Ouellet now lives and works in Montreal and is establishing himself as a professional photographer, having already made contributions to an impressive number of publications from La Presse, Le Devoir, Urbania, VOIR and Clin D'Oeil to Newad Media magazine Nightlife.

Pascale Georgiev

Stylist, art director, sweet-heart and life-saver, Pascale joined SNAP! in 2009 as fashion director and has lent her expertise and flair to the editorials and visuals of the magazine since that time.

Nico Stinghe

Bold, experimental and sexy, Romanian-born Nico Stinghe's photos have a special force in the Montreal scene.

Maxyme G Delisle

Award-winning Montreal photographer Maxyme G Delisle first contributed to SNAP! for issue 8 and has produced a number of fashion and beauty stories for us since then, including a stunning 5 page series in our 15th issue made with art director and stylist Melissa Matos.

Maxim Ryzansky

American photographer Maxim contributed an 8 page series to our Three Letter Words issue in late 2009 which focused on suburban youth and was titled KID USA.

John Londono

John Londono is well known across Montreal for a number of things, from his impressive stack of Nightlife and Voir covers to his fashion work and commercial projects, to his lively, charismatic persona.

Jimmi Francouer

Jimmi submitted a pitch and then shot a four page fashion editorial which we published in issue 10, the Crowds issue.

Jeremy Dabrowski

Concordia Fine Arts student Jeremy Dabrowski is an artist and graphic designer who has worked closely with the SNAP!

Jean Malek

Now represented by La Cavelerie, Montreal photographer and film-maker Jean Malek first contributed work to SNAP! with a playful locker room editorial for the Crowds issue in Spring 2010.

Jason Harvey

Jason Harvey contributed an illustration to SNAP! for it's issue 7, and was also one half of the DJ duo Homosexual Cops that played for our issue 9 launch party.

Jared Larsen

Jared's stunning photo collage 'Reclining' was featured on the cover of issue 11 for our Paper issue, as well as three other works inside the magazine, all taken from his Centrism series of work, completed in 2009.

Gregory Lee Lynch

New York photographer and DJ Greg Lynch knows how to have a good time.

Dave Arnold

Dave Arnold has created original artwork for SNAP! in three issues now. Montreal-based visual artist and veritable personality, Dave shows a bold, comical and often irreverent perspective in his art, which paired with his "modern sensibility with a penchant for nostalgia" creates unique, fun and experimental work.

Coey Kerr

Emerging Montreal photo talent, Coey contributed portraits for our issue 11, where she visited the home and studio space of one of our featured artists.

Andrew de Freitas

Andrew de Freitas, now settled in Montreal, hails from New Zealand where he attended the Elam School of Fine Arts before enrolling at the Univeristy of Toronto.

Andreas Sundgren

From photographing at SNAP! events to doing guest lay-out work, taking on-location portraits or being featured for a story on Swedish style, Andreas is our resident Swede.

Alexi Hobbs

With an eye for light and a natural sense of composition, Alexi has developed a style of photography that is part document, part dream.

Alex Sebag

 

Alex Sebag is a graduate from Concordia's fine arts program, and works with a stong focus on print media particulary screen printing and illustration.

Alain Astruc

Prolific French talent Alain Astruc engendered a beautiful series in an old Montreal bookstore for us back in 2008. Having recently returned to Montreal from Europe, we are delighted at the prospect of working with him again. With experience in film and photography, Alain's style come across as personal, sensual and ethereal.

SNAP! Newsletter #1

Issue 1 + July 2010

Welcome to the SNAP! Newsletter.

SNAP! Magazine Issue 11: