Jared Harvey Oliver Larsen

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IT'S FREE TIME

2011-11-08T13:35:00.000-07:00

SINKING LIKE A SUNSET

2011-09-08T11:06:00.000-06:00

4x6's

vantage points

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4x6's side by side

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4x6's

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4x6's

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4x6's

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4x6's

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4x6's

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2011-03-19T21:25:00.000-06:00

vantage points

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another brief encounter with the desert

2010-12-27T09:36:00.000-07:00

an old drawing

2010-12-12T20:39:00.001-07:00

2010-12-06T13:00:00.000-07:00

2010-12-01T01:00:00.002-07:00

the actual writers guild of Canada
I write some things and they are here, at the aforementioned website.

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4x6

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plumes

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from, "openings", 2010

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These are some works from a series entitled, 'further fiction' that was shown in a group show of other Straw contributors in 2008.

whoa man, i think our mom's stoned

2010-07-20T16:15:00.002-06:00

mother in the butterfly house, vacation california

2010-06-20T23:00:00.003-06:00

from "openings", (2008-)

And! the 11th issue of SNAP! magazine, based in Montreal features my artwork from the Centrism book, which is still available for purchase.

C E N T R I S M !

2010-05-09T20:43:00.001-06:00

This is a book documenting a series of collage works that I was working on last year. It's now available for purchase, just $25! Just email me, or consult thestraw.ca

AND - if that's not enough of a preview, the people at texture magazine were interested enough to host peek at it as well...

http://www.texturemagazine.ca/jaredLarsen.html

puzzles

2008-11-03T16:21:00.005-07:00

You can now see many more works from the puzzles series HERE at THESTRAW.CA
As well as a few other series I had been working on in the past.

puzzles

2008-11-01T13:48:00.001-06:00

openings-

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puzzles: an ideal memory (2008-)

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puzzles: an ideal memory (2008-)

2008-07-24T17:43:00.000-06:00

Openings (2008-)

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Openings

2008-06-22T18:12:00.004-06:00

Polaroid Collage Series

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2008-04-25T22:39:00.002-06:00

a plastic casket

2008-04-21T21:45:00.008-06:00

2008-04-12T00:50:00.000-06:00

one (after varley)

2008-04-02T16:41:00.006-06:00

"the more we are tempted to see some underlying connection between the phenomenon called 'realism' and the phenomenon called 'photography', the more we must beware of exploiting a coincidence."
- paul valery

2007-12-26T18:31:00.000-07:00

six.
the egg encompasses reality and unreality. eggs are stronger than ghosts.

self portraiture

2007-10-30T21:47:00.001-06:00

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an ineffectual dwelling (under roof)

2007-09-12T18:37:00.001-06:00

microfauna

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Harvey-O-Photo

2007-05-21T19:40:00.000-06:00

Old sketchbook items.

Old roll items.
i should also say that nothing on this blog may be used without my consent. so ask first.

connected by a thread

2007-04-30T15:20:00.000-06:00

seano:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22377685@N00/

son of a secretary

2007-02-01T15:47:00.000-07:00

more polaroid etchings

photos from the hasselblad that are some 2 months old.

been drawing more than photographing.
i think drawing will ultimately aid my photography, p[erhaps more than forcing myself to photograph will.
sean has carpul tunnel syndrome and won't stop complaining.
going back to school
acadacadbarkbark bark
yukon bound
hello mother.

ma.

2006-11-22T00:20:00.000-07:00

series ive been working on.

drawings ive been working on. though with this one, the wonderful water coloury shading was contributed by the lovely heather kai.

tchaikovsky & deer

2006-11-10T10:56:00.000-07:00

this is my deer and tchaikovsky. ive never really considered myself much of an illustrator. im not even sure if i spell tchaikovsky right.
for some reeaall good illustrato castrato, josh holinaty

"departure from the photo essay, 'a brief word on apartments, opposition, medium format and polaroids in the setting of this october, a photo essay'

2006-11-02T17:31:00.000-07:00

I recently recieved a grant of no less than 100 polaroids from the paisly waisly wasily institute of tron alberta. In my gratitude I have created this photo essay entitled, "a sideways shuffle departure from 'a brief word on apartments, oppositions, medium format and polaroids in the setting of this october - or autumn, (i can't remember) - a photo essay'".

fairest fountain of last desperados of this avenue

2006-11-02T12:31:00.000-07:00

hasselbladder

2006-10-25T18:02:00.000-06:00

the only two that i think worked from the first roll with the hasselblad.

a brief word on apartments, oppositions, medium format and polaroids in the setting of this october (a photo essay)

2006-10-10T14:25:00.000-06:00

outdoors

2006-10-04T14:40:00.000-06:00

y'all

2006-09-29T00:41:00.000-06:00

andrew miksys, david hilliard, international center of photography, emma summerton (again), Alessandra Sanguinetti, Dash Snow and yet again, my biggest inspiration (next to Mike Brodie), Shane Lavalette.

16 Horsepower.

these dashy old villains of willow sculptures packed with secret security codes

2006-09-19T16:38:00.000-06:00

Brian Jon Ovarum, from what i was told, is 72 and has come back to calgary to die. he of course told this to me becuase i doubt ill ever meet another person who knows this about him. he went on to tell me that he used to ride the rails and once was busted but was able to blow the whistle on nuclear warheads being shipped on the same train he was on, which occured just before he blew the whistle on a nazi child porn ring, and child beastiality ring that was run by his step father in calgary decades ago. he said he was real torn up by it all, but hates 'the bastard' all the same. as a result of giving up the porn ring, he had hitlers ss after him and once had a run in with on assassin and his assassin's knife. an assassin knife is so sharp that it can cut deep and presicely and heals within a few days with no scar. it had severed his lung and cut his heart. but this didn't stop him. he said he was bulletproof, and know one could kill him because of his wizardry which he acquired by being psychologically linked to a mayan god, who had taken him to battle in varied mental states and galaxies. he encouraged me to ride the trains though. and over all he was pleasent as long as you didn't ask about his step father too much. and now i suppose he's here to die.
the top finger points to his gun shot wound that he recieved in vietnam, which seems to show that the bullet would have hit his lung or heart even depending on the trajectory. the lower hand is pointing to where the invisible scar (he said he'd seen it though under a magnifying glass) from the nazi's assassin knife cut him.

Tom Bolinski (a.k.a nostradomas) was out with friends driving to a&w to get some baby burgers when they were pulled over. because he had an outstanding ticket for riding the train without a transit ticket, he was arrested and taken to the station. he was intoxicated when i was talking to him. it was 5:30 am monday night and it was very foggy that night. he wore a winter jacket with no shirt on underneath. he had yelled to me, 'red hood!', and so i approached. he let me see the tickets he had got, totalling about 350 dollars. after paying bail they dropped him off downtown to walk home, which was quite a ways away. he talked to me about hwo the cops didn't care and were men who just wanted guns and paycheques.
he said to me, 'fuck the police! are you down with the police jared larsen?'. and thats when i realized we had gone to the same highschool. this was his pose, and his quote.

stolen internet connection and the polaroids that result

2006-09-19T03:37:00.000-06:00

the shoot alexander

2006-07-01T01:05:00.000-06:00

BeatRoute

2006-06-21T20:25:00.000-06:00

Ewan Mills

alley bird

2006-06-16T23:32:00.000-06:00

maybe i'll keep going on this sort of idea. its conveniently similar in location and process as the hidden world series im working on. I'll probably call it somethign else too since thats really not a great title. also, gas guzzler series is in progress.
sound: Beirut, Danielson

reverse portraits

2006-05-25T22:47:00.000-06:00

This has been pretty much the only thing I've been going on. I call them reverse portraits. I'm not sure what I think of them as a series - some of them come across as very personal and intimate and take on a different quality, but I like the idea of filling up a room with a few large images of people looking away from you into these various undefined backgrounds. I'm liking the idea of the back of the head a fair bit. But in general, I guess I haven't got much to say about them quite yet. I've been thinking more about my process of taking photos; the order of the creative process I suppose. The idea vs. the image: which should come first. It seems to me that taking the image first, based on that simple abrupt attraction to a certain scene that a creative person has should come first and the rationalization of that attraction and the foundings surrounding the events and every little aspect of the photo (including technical aspects) will come afterwards.
I guess that way of thinking could end up producing a lot of photos looking very similar for a long while. Maybe some would get tired of the rationalization if there isn't much aesthetically different, or transitional. But I'm not too concerned abotu that at the moment.

some selections from recent interests

2006-05-06T00:17:00.000-06:00

some selections from recent interests.

nada

2006-05-04T16:36:00.000-06:00

Been too busy to update. I'm going back and forth on how seriously to take this thing anyways. I plan to get a site soon.

St. Jared & The Pimp My Bride's

2006-04-06T01:04:00.000-06:00

"the bacon is beautiful". i watch too much tv, i admit, but that has to be the worst thing ever uttered on a mcdonalds commercial.
islands - opening for metric. most supreme pop. so many bands that ive had come my way recently, i'll just list names. Lou Barlow, The Books, Madeline Peyroux, The Robot Ate Me, Jill barber, Herman Dune, Feu Therese, Esmerine, Arc Lab, No Orchestra.
for eyes - Tracey Snelling, John Copeland
songs that i can always be really taken by: junior boys - teach me how to fight, calla - as quick as it comes/carrera, destroyer - your blues, kathleen edwards - the lone wolf, Godspeed - Blaise Bailey Finnegan III, Sleep.

subtlties of a life lived indoors

2006-03-25T21:37:00.000-07:00

the wonders of the indoors! homes lived in, rooms made into rooms filled with rich recycled, musty, dusty air! Rooms for things and of things, of windows, of people! the intricacies of a house and a life going on within walls! you dont' get that from ikea.

I stabbed your father, right there in the bed.

2006-03-19T23:20:00.000-07:00

Well, this post is a little all over the place. This television business is what I've been working on recently.
I came across this the other night, and was really struck by it. I suppose it's a photo essay, but its absolutely amazing. You must must go through all 126 pages. - Color Magazine
Also this. Snakes on a Plane, of which I just don't know what to say. It boggles the mind, just like the Color Magazine site.

Radio (one, then the other)

2006-03-17T17:50:00.000-07:00

well, something good has happened. a friend has offered me a spot in an exhibition she is putting together. so! when i get the dates i will post them.

jared.
p.s. Hanne Hukkelberg (listen)

The Grey Hotel (this actresses place)

2006-03-08T13:15:00.000-07:00

Greek Diner (28th & 5th)

2006-02-28T23:13:00.000-07:00

As I was speaking to a friend about, New York is all about intangible cohesion. The uniting of anyone and everyone creating this unanimity while still maintaining anonimity. It serves to create this wonderful support system of energy that surged through me walking out of the hotel into the streets everyday, and everynight. Remarkable.

I hope to go back as soon as possible.
(new songs on myspace)

new york hotel room

2006-02-26T22:42:00.000-07:00

in victoria, "the streets are muddied with a thousand lonely suicides." i'm going back to where people have purpose.

appalaichan craftwork

2006-02-12T20:25:00.000-07:00

25 words

2006-02-06T21:55:00.000-07:00

Lately I've been trying to work on a series chronicalling Victoria's off-season. This includes the two posts previous to this as well as 'Surf Motel','Snowin' on the west side' and a few from a quite a while ago. It continues, and it's been more architecture than I would like. My intention to show the general mood of the people, the economy (as best as I could figure), the pulse of the city, or lack thereof. After getting a few images in, I realized its better described as a series of my experiences with this place rather then just a documentation of the place.
This works intention is to show this tired process of rejuvination that takes place to all the businesses during the off season. The two images must be paired together because they are essentially the same image. The similarity in composition and effect (echoed patterns to the left, the flares of light) force the comparison, or atleast I hoped that to be the result of it. Construction is going on everywhere, inside and out, and all of it will be finished by April, yet now, and for the past few months, you would have felt nothing from the people but a sense of letting go of this place. Everyone just lets themself go during the offseason it seems. The city is old as it is, and all these two story brick buildings have moss growing up the sides and chips in the brick everywhere. Its battered by these storms, it's filled with this dying elderly populations - everything seems to be on its way out here, except for all this construction. But when winter comes around, its more a process of one step forward, two steps back.
Imagine an old woman, living anywhere. She may have a pass-time. Gets up, comes home, whichever, but she doesn't know what to do with herself. However she is constantly trying to maintain a sense of self, a sense of a life, because otherwise she would be non existent to even her own mirrors. She throws a party once a year. She puts on makeup, and the guests come over. She lives happily and lovely off the vitality of her guests, her children, her grandchildren, and they leave and they go home. The woman returns to her uneventful life worse for wear at the price of living the entire year, in that one evening. The process of ineffective maintanence then continues.
It's this sort of half boring, half inadequatley articulated commentary that keeps me from giving much more then a title. I like to see this blog as more of a break from the explanations that seem so contrived in first year arts rather then a vessel for'm.
good day.

p.s. joannanewsom4evr.

I want to be on Letterman.

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Historybooks

2006-01-26T18:54:00.000-07:00

Surf Motel

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geesum geesum geesum bank of canada
My Morning Jacket - Z, very good new album.

the west side

2006-01-10T00:58:00.000-07:00

dodgin' knowitalls & hits of the 90's captured on a handheld camcorder

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paisley

boring maze

2006-01-01T23:38:00.000-07:00

family photo series

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