Spentipede

For those of you who were waiting to see a photo of the spider/centipede I caught.

Faces of Vancouver

We made these to show some people we don't see very often, the people we see often.


Street Punk

This girl is a street punk with some brown and blue hair and three dreads. She has tons of gnarly tattoos and piercings and owns a brown dog. She panhandles by attaching a string to a stick and a cup to the bottom of the string like a fishing pole. Sometimes she sits on the sidewalk and holds a sign that says "I bet you a dollar you'll read this". I always read it and then feel tricked.

Luigi

This guy is one of three hundred thousand Italians who lives in the area. At odd hours in the night and early morning, he shuffles to one of the Italian cafes on the drive. He goes there to spit and speak loudly in Italian to other old Italian men, who are also spitting, smoking and speaking over each other. But mostly to watch soccer.

Weekend rider

One of the many rich lawyers who likes to think he is a motorcycle rider. Blasting around on his brand new Harley complete with full leathers, skull cap, and a cross bones bandanna. He only rides his bike when it is sunny out and the streets are full of young ladies to impress.

Vinny

He works at JJ Bean (a hipster coffee shop on commercial dr.). For some reason girls think his thick rimed glasses, tight button-up shirt and disgusting mustache attractive.

midnight skate sesh

Leeside midnight
Aaron Shreding
Jordan (Eyes'n dog) slashing.

Because the weather has been so nice lately and there are so many radical skateparks in the Vancouver area Aaron and our friend Jordan. E have started skating again. Skateboarding is the perfect sport; it frees the mind and body of every worry. When I am on my board with loose legs and a creative mind I feel refreshed. Im stoked to be skating again.

Reawakening the Fink Within

After my oldest brother introduced me to "Rat Fink" when I was just a kid, I was hooked. I just couldn't stop drawing finks. From cat finks to dharma finks, I drew them all. However in my last year of high school I decided that I did not want to draw finks anymore. Even though Rat Fink was my hero I wanted to move on, find my own style and way of self expression.

Nearing the end of this last semester at Emily Carr I was feeling a little down with the projects that I was working on. I needed to do something fun, something that would reawaken my creative spirit, so during one of my super boring lectures I decided to draw this fink. This is a portrait of Norman, the creator of Vancouver's Motorcycho zine; he was pretty stoked to get it in the mail.

Somthing that I have wanted to do for a long time.

Every stunt has a story. This one involved super cold crappy weather, the last shot of a short film, a plywood row boat, fifty confused bystanders, a seal, determination, and goal- to jump a tall bike.

Get ready for the Zenga Bros latest production.

Sorry Diligent Followers.

I, Skate Rat and my favorite Cat have been seriously lacking with our updates lately. We have pretty much just spent the last month watching movies, txting, and playing online games so there has not been much to blog about.......Just kidding. Our lives have actually been busier and more exciting than ever. So get ready to be blown away by what we post in the future.

School & Centipedes

School has been ruling our lives for the past few weeks, as we prepare for our foundation show on the 16th. Christian is finished, but because I was sick and out of school for three weeks I am still finishing. Tomorrow I will be finished.

In other news, this morning I woke up at 7 and went into the bathroom and noticed a piece of fluff on the floor by the tub. It was unusually large, and because we've been having some house spider invasions my paranoia came into action and I leaned closer to inspect it. It was a dying, spider/centipede. It was a pretty large insect that I've never seen before, at first glance it looked like a caterpillar, but with the legs of a spider- so I decided that it was a spentipede. It was pretty much dead, it was lying on it's back and wiggling it's legs slowly in circles. I trapped it under a glass and went back to my room to finish writing an essay. Throughout the day I would return to the bathroom, tap on the glass and nudge it with the cup, and I was sure the end was near. About mid-day, I went back and noted the time of death, as it was completely still as I lifted the cup off the floor. I kept it under the glass for the rest of the day, had a shower in the bathroom with it and so on. Around dinner time I went to the bathroom to check on it and it was alive again, back from the dead. I think it was also pretty upset from the way it was punching the sides of the cup. Anyway, I noticed that it had lost 4 legs and they were in a pile in the centre of the cup. I wanted to identify it, so I went online only to discover that it was a Scutigera Coleoptrata: a house centipede. It eats spiders and other bugs, can run 1.3 mph and it stings.. but only when provoked. Here is a picture of a Scutigera:

Disgusting, yes. Anyway, I'm slightly concerned that there are more in our house somewhere, namely in my bedroom, in my sheets. I'll post a picture of the real guy soon, I fed him some leaves and put a bottle cap of water in his cage (the cup on the bathroom floor). I think the steam from the shower revived him. I also think that I'm going to cast him in resin, you know... make an example of him for the other bugs, make some jewelry out of it. Tomorrow I'm going to catch a bug for it to eat.