Wow! Modern art! I love it or I hate it, and when I hate it, I love it, because there is nothing like a grate venting of spleen. But the piece, “The Artist Is Present,” by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic, is one I love incredibly—at least its legacy. I discovered the story on The Daily [...]
Category Archives: Artistic Expression
Catalyst Theatre Makes Me Want to Move to Edmonton
Thursday, May 6, 2010
If you are not Canadian, you may not know that:
We, in Vancouver, think we live in paradise and we look down on everywhere else in Canada (kind of) as a place to live.
Edmonton is a prairie town: prairie = boring (conventional wisdom).
We had the Olympics here recently, and one outcome of that event here was [...]
Genesis, by R. Crumb
Sunday, April 25, 2010
I saw this exhibition at the Armand Hammer Gallery in LA. It is amazing to see and I was humbled by what I thought would be a sensationalist work. It isn’t. It is absolutely fantastic. This, from someone who was nevvr part of the “keep on truckin’” group. If it tours to a gallery near [...]
George Steinmetz, Aerial Photographer
Thursday, April 22, 2010
The New Yorker I received this week contains an article about photographer/adventurer, George Steinmetz, who shoots many of his images from a paraglider. I love that I could put down the magazine after I read the article, cross the room to my computer (soon, I imagine it will be, at this stage, picking up my [...]
Typo-Video
Sunday, April 18, 2010
I am not much of a fan of pop music, so this music wouldn’t be something I would listen to, but when I started drawing, I loved drawing words in letters in the shape of the meaning of the word. So I would draw the word, “house,” for example, in the shape of a house. [...]
AWESOME Flash CV by Vancouver Designer Alexis Trepanier
Friday, April 9, 2010
I would hire this guy in a second. This is exceptional self-promotion. I teach professional development for visual artists at Emily Carr University and Alexis’ site is something I will be showing to all my future students. Brilliant!!
Because I Was Adopted
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Because I was adopted and because I was an orphan (for a short while) and because my adoption was not as successful as one hopes it will be. And because I discovered later in life that war babies were treated differently than the bastards by the Catholic orphanage workers, and because I have no children [...]
Freaky, Fabulous Dawn Chorus of Marcus Coates
Friday, March 26, 2010
Marcus Coates recorded birdsong, slowed it down, had people learn how to make the slowed down sound, then recorded them and speeded up the action to achieve a look of people making perfect birdsong. It is captivating. Watch how they move. I was fascinated right to the end. From Boing Boing. Link.
“Western Spaghetti” by PES
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
PES is a FABULOUS website when you want to kill some time having total fun on the web. There are several films that they have done on their site, “Western Spaghetti” is just one of them, but it is one I love. Their Washington State Lottery ad is AMAZING and in the same style—animation with [...]
“Iceland,” by Gunnar Konradsson
Saturday, March 13, 2010
I love the music VERY much in this film called “Iceland” by Gunnar Konradsson. I use the 720 setting, turn up the sound and watch it with full screen on my love—my large-screen iMac. Nothing inspires like nature. And the music! The composition and the voice are so suited to the images and immediately engaging. [...]