Leif Norman O

Free. Weekly. No 12 // Issue 68 // Volume Weekly. Free. V ember 21 INsIDe THe Home oF PHoToGrAPHer Leif Norman THE image ISSUE URBAN EXPLORATION HARRISON SAMPHIR & Kevin LEGGE Shad C h i C G a m i n e PUP The official s TudenT newspaper of The universiTy of winnipeg CUT AND SAVE. TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT IS COMING UP... DON’T MISS A DATE. THIS MONTH AT THE PARK THEATRE 698 OSBORNE ST. / 1 204 478 7275 / PARKTHEATRECAFE.COM FIND US ON 3 PROUDLY SERVING MANITOBAN CRAFT BEER Tickets to these events and others can be purchased at: The Park Theatre, Music Trader, & Ticketbreak.com/ParkTheatre THe uNITer // NoVember 21, 2013 03 IMAGE IS EVERYTHING. Look around Winnipeg and you’ll see all sorts of ran- dom, dilapidated buildings - places that people used to inhabit to make the things you love. Most of them are covered in glorious graffiti tags. Check out the guided tour we’ve prepared in our cover feature. Leif Norman is the photog that you see at every Win- nipeg event, but what goes on behind the lens - or better yet, at the place he keeps the lenses? This week’s Whose House? feature answers any and all questions you may have. There’s also a profile on a band that used to go by a Boy Meets World reference (PUP), a piece about the late Nick Ternette’s memoirs, a bit about one University of Winnipeg department’s study of inner- city poverty and a look inside Bunny Ben Wa’s sex toy basket. This is a good time (and place, hey, I can really do and say what I want here) to mention that our December 5 issue will hold the results of our read- ers poll! Should be interesting. And hey, if you didn’t vote in it, we definitely look forward to hearing about how you don’t like the winners. Because that’s how reader polls go. Oh, and happy birthday to my sister Lauren! See, I remembered. online exclusives Our Free Weekly Download comes froM Winnipeg’S favE vocaL poP on the cover machine Chic Gamine. Get “DAyS anD Uniter staff photographer Kevin Legge put on DAyS” from thE Closer album at his good shoes and braved the rubble before the uniter.ca foR zero (0) dollars. snow fell. @THeUniter @THeUniter facebook. Com/THeuniter DAniel Crump UNITER STAFF SUBMISSIONS OF ARTICLES, LETTERS, CoNTACT US » GRAPHICS AND PHOTOS are encouraged. ConTrIbUTorS General Inquiries: 204.988.7579 However, please email editor@uniter. Advertising: 204.786.9790 ca or the relevant section editor for Managing Editor Staff Photographer Bunny Ben Wa, Michael editors: 204.786.9497 nicholas Friesen » [email protected] Kevin Legge » [email protected] Fax: 204.783.7080 guidance on content, word count, etc. Carlisle, Cory Falvo, Articles must be submitted in text (.rtf) Business Manager Arts Reporter e-mail: [email protected] robert J. Holt » [email protected] Deborah remus » [email protected] Christopher Friesen, Jodie Web: www.uniter.ca or Microsoft Word (.doc) format. Deadline Layne, Lisa Jorgensen, LOCATIoN » for pitches is Friday at noon, 13 days CreativE Director arts Reporter room ORM14 prior to publication, with copy deadline Ayame Ulrich » [email protected] Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell » [email protected] Samantha Samson, Mike university of Winnipeg being the following Friday at noon Senior editor city Reporter Sudoma And Adrienne 515 Portage Avenue (six days before publication). Deadline Harrison Samphir » [email protected] Samantha Duerksen » [email protected] Winnipeg, manitoba Tessier. r3b 2e9 for advertisements is noon Friday, six Arts & Culture Editor Beat Reporter days prior to publication. The Uniter Jared Story » [email protected] Melanie Dahling » [email protected] reserves the right to refuse to print CITy Editor Beat Reporter material submitted by volunteers. The brian Lorraine » [email protected] Lukas benjamin Thiessen » [email protected] Uniter will not print submissions that Mouseland Press Board of directors: are homophobic, misogynistic, racist or Photo Editor Listings co-ordinatOR Ben Wickstrom (interim chair), Kent Davies, Ksenia Prints, Andrew Tod and Megan Fultz. Daniel Crump » [email protected] Ken Prue » [email protected] libellous. We also reserve the right to For inquiries e-mail: [email protected] edit for length and/or style. ARTS h Whose house? SE. LeIF’S HOU QUALITY OVER quANTITY Leif Norman is a constructive collector, not a compulsive hoarder TexT + PhoTos by lukas benjamin Thiessen @Lukasbenjamint beat reporter In 1999, after obtaining a degree in chem- His home expresses these principles, “I have a love for bad art,” says Norman, sional choices as well. istry from the University of Winnipeg, Leif from the well-maintained wood of the Dan- pointing a paint-by-numbers adaptation of “I like the new technology of cameras, Norman picked up his mother’s camera, a ish modern furniture (1) in one room of his da Vinci’s Last Supper (3). phones, and gear. Old if it’s good, new if it’s Canonette, and started shooting. and partner Heather Lee Bea’s apartment, “I’m not collecting bad art because I’m good. Things have to churn,” Norman says. “I decided to focus… and see where it to the Edwardian touches in the adjoining being mean. Corniness is endearing. It’s When it comes to older items, he has goes,” he says. area. The Scandinavian pieces not only look heartbreaking. It can’t be middle of the road a cache of books, some of which are over Today, Norman works for or has been beautiful, but ones like the three drawer bad. It has to be atrocious. I love it.” two hundred years old. On a recent trip to the principle photographer for Manitoba dresser transform into an office desk. Norman’s collector’s appetite for vintage Iceland he brought one book, John Draper’s Chamber Orchestra, Kids Fest, the Win- His appreciation for de-acquisition – ter- items from our city is sated by matchbooks Textbook on Chemistry from 1851. nipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, Winnipeg’s minology for what happens to a work of art (4). He has four. He’s a connoisseur, not a “These old chemistry and physics books, Contemporary Dancers, the Winnipeg when a gallery decides it no longer belongs kitschy collector or hoarder. they are lucid in the way information was Comedy Festival, the Icelandic Festival of in their collection – clarifies his focus. I was “It comes down to time, money, and conveyed,” he says. “And they’re still ninety Manitoba, the Winnipeg Arts Council and in his home a year ago, and now he says, space,” Norman says. “Sure, I wish I could percent accurate.” many more. “Every single thing here is new.” adopt all the puppies, but I collect match- Norman’s vocational and personal vision His painting collection (2) reflects a focus books. Maybe, if I find one more, I’ll get it.” is the same: to be useful and to curate. on Winnipeg and one other genre. Practicality is paramount with his profes- THE COLUMN THe uNITer // NoVember 21, 2013 05 THE INTERSecTION @jodieLayne WiTh jodie layne Supplied When something induces cringing more striking out. The show’s focus has shifted This past April at the National Con- do have unchecked. We shouldn’t depend often than it elicits joy, it should be a fairly from our female protagonist to a new ference for Media Reform, a panel of pop on them to correct the lack of representa- obvious decision to pack it in and call it ‘bro’ doctor, it’s played off date rape for culture critics asked if feminists should tion in the media in one show or movie or quits. That said, many Winnipeggers still laughs, and Mindy’s weight is emphasized support women or people of colour in book, either. (financially or otherwise) support the Blue much too often in an attempt to normal- prominent positions whose work didn’t It’s okay to like things that aren’t per- Bombers and I still tune into The Mindy ize women who look like Kaling being the reflect the goals of feminist movements. It fect – being aware of the flaws and view- Project every week. star of their own television show. There are was a fair question: does a woman deserve ing things with a critical lens and not just The show should be all kinds of win for lesbian jokes, fat jokes at the expense of our championing just by virtue of being mindlessly consuming is so important. us feminists: a prime time spot on a Tues- other characters, and other characters who a woman? Should we support people So go ahead and watch TV and listen to day night for a show written by, directed by fill tired and offensive stereotypes. There like Tyler Perry, Roseanne Barr or Selena music that is partially problematic. Use and starring a woman of colour who iden- are many other problematic elements of Gomez? those things as relatable points to discuss tifies as ‘not skinny’. Mindy Kaling is not her writing, and feminist critics have taken Jaclyn Friedman spoke the line that social justice and anti-oppression with relegated to a sassy sidekick or a neurotic her to task for them. launched applause and cheers: “We folks in your life who might never read bell and needy stereotype of a woman. She is a Kaling responded pre-eminently to this shouldn’t hold [the work of] people of hooks, but who might watch Girls. I’ll be doctor and loves her job and sequins with concern in an interview with Terry Gross colour or women to a higher or lower tuning in with you with my critical lens equal fervour.

Load more