Archive for 'Culture Consumed'
Last week at Cossette Convergence I met Dan Sorce, a sound designer and member of the band FNDMNTL. He was kind enough to share some of their tunes with me, and all I can say is WOW. I’ve been needing some new stuff to work to, and this fits the bill. When I’m working I [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2008 under Art, Culture Consumed, Goofy, Fun & Cool.
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My brother Reay sent me a link to some very interesting art by Chris Jordan of Seattle. Jordan describes it thus:
Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2008 under Activism, Art, Culture Consumed.
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I recently built a new speechwriter’s site for Colin Moorhouse. Over the years I’ve helped Colin with his websites, bailing him out of trouble when things got too technical or fixing them when his WYSIWYG editor messed things up. Now that it’s in WordPress he’s updating like mad, and it’s wonderful to watch it come [...]
Posted: March 1st, 2008 under Activism, Culture Consumed, Design.
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If you haven’t seen BBC’s Planet Earth series, I can’t tell you enough to watch it.
As an artist I find the eyecandy fabulous, inspiring, dumbfounding. There are so many incredible shapes and patterns in nature. The variety of behaviours and habitats is stunning.
It’s also a series full of complete wonderment. I found myself at times [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2008 under Activism, Culture Consumed.
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Much to my surprise, I found an interesting, artsy documentary at the Sechelt Library this week: WIDE AWAKE by Alan Berliner. (Links: Slate - recommended, IMDB - snoring.)
Alan has spent decades suffering with insomnia. The film documents his personal journey to solve the puzzle. It seems he’s tried everything (including valerian root, that’s found [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under Art, Culture Consumed.
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