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Garnet Hertz

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currently into Japanese microvans, painting murals, graffiti, teaching design @ university, exploring life @teamlambokiller @keiclubvancouver

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★ THE 5 LEVELS OF BORSCHT ★
1. What's borscht?
2. I've tried borscht.
3. I made borscht and it looked like a murder scene.
4. I made great borscht.
5. I made great borscht and it didn't look like a murder scene. taken in Saskatchewan, Canada by @garnethertz

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The World's Largest Easter Egg (miniaturized), video (Date: 2011, Duration: 2:57). Making a traditional Ukrainian Easter egg, or pysanka, modelled after the world's largest Ukrainian Easter Egg in Vegreville, Alberta, Canada, that was built in 1978 for the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh. Exhibited at the Trajector Art Fair 2011, in Brussels, Belgium. Curated by Iris Anna Regn and Rebecca Niederlander as part of Marking Time by Broodwork. This is a video of me re-creating a roadside attraction: a giant Ukrainian Easter egg near where I grew up. Since having kids, I've been drawn to craft-type work - but this has primarily been in private with my family. Making this egg and video is also related to me realizing that I'll likely never take my kids to this roadside attraction and other things I grew up with in Canada - but the miniature egg is a substitute for the time and place from my childhood. by @garnethertz

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Clip from my appearance on the TV Tokyo documentary special titled "High-Tech Animals Great Gathering" (ハイテク動物大集合) directed by Ryo Nishida. This segment originally aired on October 29, 2006 and was filmed in October 2005. It features my work developing the Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot #3.

日本のドキュメンタリー特番「ハイテク動物大集合」に出演した際の映像です。西田良（Ryo Nishida）ディレクターにより2005年10月29日に撮影され、2006年10月29日にテレビ東京で放送されました。私が開発した「ゴキブリ操縦型ロボット（Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot）」が紹介されています。 by @garnethertz

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EXPLORING APE CITY: Movie Locations at UCI (2003). The University of California Irvine has supposedly appeared in several movies. This is an exploration of these rumors through rented movies from Blockbuster and bad skateboarding. (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Poltergeist, Creator, Silent Movie, Extreme Days, Ocean's Eleven). Featuring Jim Ehrlich (RIP). by @garnethertz

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May 2026 by @garnethertz

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Garnet's Editing Abbreviations 2026 taken in East Vancouver by @garnethertz

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Crafty Play, a discussion with artists Lorna Brown, Garnet Hertz and Christian Huizenga around the subversive potential of craft and hand-making.

Wed Oct 22, 5:00-6:30 with a pre-discussion learn-to-knit workshop from 4:00 and post-discussion reception, all at Green College Coach House. Bring your own in-progress handicrafts to work on during the discussion.

Seasons of Play lecture series

Play is a defining characteristic of human nature -it acts as a means to connect, a method of subversion, a way to teach and communicate, a space for exploration and imagination, and a place to use our senses and connect with the world in an embodied way.

This Green College Leading Scholars series engages with play as a critical practice across time, place, and space, asking the fundamental question: how can play help us learn, think, and teach? We orient our conversations through the cyclicity of the seasons, grounded in Indigenous understandings of wise practices. Seasons of Play is fundamentally experiential and embodied, incorporating opportunities for active participation in each session.

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@lorna.doone.brown taken in Green College, University of British Columbia by @garnethertz

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Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot 3 is an experimental robotic system that uses a live insect as the controller (or driver) of a three-wheeled robot. It has toured the world, and this segment is from the documentary "Art Loves Technology" (2006) shot and produced by Jane Snijders. Filmed at the former Philips Strijp-S factory site (Klokgebouw) at the STRP Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands. by @garnethertz

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Part of the reason I find mechanisms and stuff with wheels interesting is that my Dad built experimental fuel-efficient vehicles when I was a kid - he broke six consecutive world records. This video (with his vehicles) was at Expo '86. It taught me a lesson in that farm kids from Saskatchewan could build hacksawed and hand built DIY projects onto the world stage, and that designing and building stuff from scratch was interesting and fun. He's the guy in the lab coat with a stopwatch. by @garnethertz

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The time in 2001 when the Saskatchewan government featured me in a campaign to promote not leaving Saskatchewan - along with Andrea Menard and Dean Fleck. It was a relatively large campaign with billboards and print distribution. I was "President of one of Canada's premier web production studios" circa Y2K and was trying to sell my company (Vividworks) under an IPO. I wanted to make a ton of money and retire before I turned 30 and make art projects. We had VC funding and had built a search engine (Typengo) and a fully functional ATM-ish music kiosk system that burned custom audio CDs for $0.99/track in a couple of minutes - we were going to be the future. by @garnethertz

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Did this hand lettering at the @richmondmuseum for "The Maple Road Experience", a fabulous exhibition by @crispysuds on the life of Bones Brigade member and first pro skater in Canada @skeletonmountie - lots of fun, tons of incredible artifacts and memories by @garnethertz

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physical springs and stabilization algorithms battle it out over an Olde Style Pilsner can by @garnethertz

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