August 10, 2006

Stop Motion Animation Video

This stop motion animation video is pretty cool. I love it when people take the time to be so creative.... more
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July 31, 2006

Permutations: The Raw and The Soft

"Permutations: The Raw and the Soft" features the fabulous work of my dear friend Jody MacDonald. Also showing is Stephen Laidlaw who I'll discuss briefly as well. The exhibition runs until Aug 26 at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. Highly recommended... more
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July 05, 2006

There's hope for me yet

Innovation Weblog disusses an article from Wired Mag - New research suggests creativity comes in two types: quick and dramatic, and careful and quiet. David Galenson from the University of Chicago studied the auction prices of art, and charted the... more
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March 05, 2006

Threadless

I just discovered Threadless. This is a brilliant use of the web for a commercial venture. They've gotten people excited and connected in a community built around their product, in fact, the community designs the products. When I first found... more
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March 04, 2006

Cool Art stuff

Webesteem Art & Design Magazine has this cool art by Jessica Joslin. (See also Jessica's site.) Thanks to Suzanne G I also found Toyky Plastic, creators of this great musical pooch and Opera Dude. This is one of the rare... more
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March 02, 2006

Blendie

Kelly Dobson at the MIT Media lab created Blendie. The video is hilarious. I think Blendie could be strangely cathartic. I wonder, is a good sense of humor a requirement at MIT? Update: Closed for comments.... more
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September 04, 2005

Alice, thou have grown

Annie Leibovitz teams with big fashion designers to interpret Alice in Wonderland. View photos.... more
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February 06, 2005

Illegal Art?

As an artist, and having done my share of collage, I'm pretty interested in issues of copyright and appropriation. There's some cool art at Illegal-art.org that crosses the line... depending how you draw the line :) It's an American site... more
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January 29, 2005

Code 46

Watched Code 46 recently. (Would you believe my week was such a blur that I don't recall which night...) I really enjoyed it. The dialogue was mostly English but the characters often used spanish and other languages sprinkled through it.... more
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December 05, 2004

Brendan Munroe

By fluke* I have discovered Brendan Munroe. Of course I was drawn to the sculptures first, but after exploring the 2D as well, I was really pleased to look at the installations and see how wonderfully all the elements fit... more
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September 18, 2004

Lectures at UBC Robson Square

UBC Robson Square has Arts Wednesdays lectures. McLuhan in Vancouver/Art Without Walls could be interesting (October 6th) The 50-minute lectures take place at UBC Robson Square (800 Robson Street), start at noon and are free to attend.... more
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June 20, 2004

Media coverage of art

Russel Bell asks "Why is it that the broadcast news media have such a hard time understanding what art is? They feel an uneasy social responsibility to "cover" it — which means making reference to it whenever a large sum... more
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June 14, 2004

KenFest

Vancouverites: If you're familiar with the fire that destroyed Ken Gerberick's studio, or even if you just want to come to a cool art event, KenFest may be for you. See the invite or see way more details and images... more
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February 15, 2004

Wretched Writers Welcome

Reay alerted me to the results of the The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. (Apparently he's the guy that wrote "It was a dark and stormy night...") The winning entry begins: "They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced... more
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January 04, 2004

Pretty Pictures

Some wonderful pictures on Everyday Things Scene. I think baby snake is my favourite. The author says "Maybe someday I will learn the difference between an F-stop and the F-word, but I have my doubts." So there's hope for me...... more
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November 02, 2003

Art does a body good

Spent some time working on collaborative collage with Jody today. Oh what joy I get from a few hours of mucking about with art supplies!... more
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October 21, 2003

The Royal Art Lodge

The pop-culture-as-art tidal wave of post-Warhol imagoguery seems a little desperate, as if art fears for its significance if it doesn't lay claim to the geiser of icons which blows through our daily lives. Artist as warper and juxtaposer in... more
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September 21, 2003

Ogni homo me guarda...

"A leading museum has paid 240,000 pounds for a plate which shows a portrait of a man whose head is made up entirely of penises. It is thought to have been made by Italian Renaissance ceramicist Francesco Urbini in the... more
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