The 1st edition of the 8bit photo journal is published! 🎉🎊🥳
Thank you so much for everyone who participated 🙌 A few photos are included in the post to whet your appetite, to see the rest of the images from the full publication you can use the itch.io link attached on my bio ⬆️
https://catspillow.itch.io/8bit-photo-book
DM @friendofafriend_co to get your copy of UPSTAIRS. A softcover book with 100 pages of artworks, poem, essays from 20+ artists.
The residency was surreal and I am grateful to be a part of this community. 🙏
We’re pleased to introduce Friend of a Friend, a newly formed Ottawa artist collective dedicated to collaborative, community-driven projects.
The collective grew out of Upstairs (Nov 2025), a two-week residency and pop-up exhibition that brought together more than 25 artists in a temporary apartment-based gallery. The project welcomed over 200 visitors and highlighted the value of artist-run, informal exhibition spaces.
We are currently producing a printed catalogue documenting the full project, and our goal is to include it in the Possible Worlds Zine Fair in May.
We are fundraising to cover printing costs for the catalogue.
If you would like to support independent artist publishing, donations of any amount are greatly appreciated, and sharing this post also helps.
To make a donation, please send an e-transfer to
[email protected]
Thank you for supporting artist-run culture.
Friend of a Friend Collective
Just wanted to share a work in progress video of my current VR project. This is just about 9-10 months of work currently, with some more work on the environment and movement systems and significant work still to go on soundscapes and the menu system. I look forward to sharing more soon! (running on a standalone quest 3 headset).
Special thanks to @ly_ledotcom (my wife) for making this short video for the 8-bit photo journal 😍After posting about the release the other day I realized that I missed a submission, and updated version with the missing photographer is now uploaded at the same link as before. If I make the volume 2 in the future would you be interested in joining?
View the 8bit photo journal in my bio link 🔗
I got to visit my parents this holiday and while there me and my wife visited my dad’s studio. A recently retired high school art teacher, his current practice focuses on linoleum prints of local birds. I hope everyone had a great holiday and I hope your new year is full of art! 🖼️🎨🖌️🎭
My interactive 8-bit art piece at the UPSTAIRS gallery show in November got a lot of interest and a lot of questions about how it was made.
Creating Gameboy-style games and art is more accessible than you might think - no coding required.
I’m hosting a creative get-together at Art Engine to share what I’ve learned using GB Studio, a free drag-and-drop tool for making interactive 8bit experiences.
📅 Jan 21, 6:30pm @ Art Engine
💻 Bring a laptop with GB Studio (download from itch.io)
✨ No experience necessary - we’ll cover the basics together
#ottawaevents #ottawaartist #gameboy #8bitart #ottawaontario
Here is a quick tutorial on how to convert photos into 8bit GB style. Don’t miss out the chance to have your photos featured on the 8bit photo journal ‼️Only a few weeks left until the deadline and it’s completely free to submit your pics 😊
I am finally making the time to go through the 3D photos and videos I took during my time in Vietnam last year. Most of them were taken with a stereoscopic camera from the back of a motorcycle driven my wife @ly_ledotcom . Coming from a medium sized Ontario city of around 100 thousand people traveling around a city of 14 million people in south Vietnam on motorcycle was both an exhilarating and overwhelming experience. I tried to capture this in the photos taken and am now starting the slow process of putting together a 3D video based photo book experience. I’m currently experimenting on a way to display three screen stereoscopic video in VR as part of this.
#vietnam #streetphotography #3dphotography #stereoscopic3d #blackandwhite #virtualreality
