Team Macho
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Team Macho is a collaborative illustration and fine art effort composed of Lauchie Reid, Christopher Buchan, Nicholas Aoki, Jacob Whibley, and G. Stephen Appleby Barr. They occupy a large studio in Toronto, Canada where their collective efforts are divided equally between illustration and preparing gross quantities of artwork for galleries in Canada and abroad. The group met on a dangerous and ultimately doomed mountain climbing expedition in Nepal. They have cited the moment responsible for the creation of Team Macho was when the group members simultaneously rescued G. Stephen Appleby Barr who, after a misstep and subsequent tumble, was barely spared what he later described as a "very Luke Skywalker and the Wampa" style fate. The newly assembled team returned to Canada with the intention of becoming, in their own words: "Edgy, nervous alcoholics" and attended art institutions Sheridan College and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Setting themselves in an oppositional stance to the prevailing scholastic atmosphere, the members of Team Macho decided that a self-imposed exile would benefit their newly acquired Buddhist mindset. The Team spent much of the next two years preparing and experimenting with a visual style described by the Toronto Star as "wacky/serious". After two art shows at a Toronto gallery named Magic Pony, Team Macho was approached by members of Canadian pop sensations The Barenaked Ladies and quickly agreed to develop the cover art for the band's next two releases: Barenaked Ladies Are Me and the forthcoming Barenaked Ladies Are Men. Team Macho's current projects include the release, through Magic Pony, of their latest art show "Fancy Action Now" as well as the accompanying book of the same name.
