LONDON: A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti has been sold at a London auction for 65 million pounds ($104 million). Sotheby’s says the sale set a world record as the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.
The auction house said Wednesday it took just eight minutes for bidders to [...]
My city is going a bit crazy. The Olympic Games begin here on Feb. 12 and it is the warmest January in recorded history here. The Snowdrops and Croci are blooming. There are buds on the trees and no snow on the local mountains so they are making snow day and night. Downtown is transformed. [...]
Rethink Communications made this ad about their scholarship in design at Langara College in Vancouver. Rethink is a Vancouver company.
I loved the movie, simple plot that it has. A celebration of imagination.
Wherever you are, but if you are in Vancouver Nov. 20-22, GO TO THE EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL. A free Olympic-sized event. Link.
It’s been a week since my last posting and posts are going to be few and far between for a while because LUCKY ME, I am going to write another book that has all the pieces it needs in place to make me very happy. My agent and principal buyer are on side and I [...]
I am a subscriber to the New Yorker and it is easily my favourite publication. I have learned, over the years, how to keep up with my reading so that they do not build up. Imagine: While magazines are folding left, right and centre, and while newspapers dwindle, the New Yorker, which comes out almost [...]
Kara carves bicycle saddles.
I’ll never forget how nervous I was to make that first cut into the gorgeous seat. Carving leather leaves little room for error; not only can you ruin the design, but with one slip of the blade you can render an object useless!”
Link including how to order. Thanks to Boing Boing.
We Canadians are very familiar with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Not all of us love it, but I do passionately. The only thing more binding in our culture, it seems to me, is hockey. Well my beloved CBC appears to be being ripped off by Stella Artois, the beer company. Stella Artois seems to [...]
It is here on the awesome “Lines and Colours” blog. Everything you ever wanted to know—well, almost everything. Copyright issues differ in different countries. Embedded watermarks or other theft-protection considerations are vital.