On Saturday afternoon, Karl & I ventured into Waterloo for an event we found out about on RQ Magazine. Although the all-day rain put a damper on it (see what I did there?), we enjoyed Arts Squared in Waterloo Town Square.  We certainly weren’t expecting the ‘Rhythmic Recyclers’ to be playing when we arrived – which consisted of five members dressed up in animal costumes and all playing hap-hazardly on home made instruments… Water bottles, elastic bands, tin cans, etc.
Eclectic.
Random.
Here’s a video:

Aside from these characters, there were quite a few vendors with very beautiful art.  One in particular that stood out for me was Lauren Judge (check out the portfolio section of her website, the paintings rock).

There was also a live art installation happening. Over 3000 cups of coffee were made into a mosaic of King Tut. A team of volunteers as well as ‘Matter of Taste Coffee Bar’ worked tirelessly for the final product. Check out the full story on the Record website & I’ll leave it to you to decide weather or not the use of so much coffee/milk/cups was wasteful.

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Another vendor (our favourite!) that we spent a good deal of time with was David Okum, author of a variety of Manga Illustration Books and fantastic Caricature artist.
He drew Karl & I:

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