Indulging again in It Happened One Night. Criterion is a great collection.
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cartoon life: The Ghost of Christmas Lockdown
Doug Ford agonizes over keeping the economy open.
Continue readingThings Are Good: It’s Time to Get Crafty for the Winter Pandemic Months
In North America and Europe we are bound to have to spend the winter mostly in our own domiciles due to political mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside the scourge of ignoramuses who don’t wear masks. Being stuck in one environment all the time will inevitably lead to boredom, so
Continue readingcartoon life: Can Art Survive the Internet? | TVO.org
Can art survive the internet? Can artists make it in the world of free that’s enabled by it? Author William Deresiewicz explains why those are urgent questions, before, during and after the COVID-19 era. — Read on www.tvo.org/video/can-art-survive-the-internet
Continue readingThings Are Good: In Italy, Art is Used to Block Illegal Fishing
It’s well known that industrial fishing is bad for the environment and bad for the fishers involved in it. A local fisherman, Paolo Fanciulli, had enough of the industrial fishing in their area and decided to fight it using art. Fanciulli creates large marble art pieces on land then drops
Continue readingwmtc: art in our new home
When we were in Salt Spring Island, we went to the Saturday Market, and I instantly fell in love with this man’s work. Salt Spring artist Lorne Tippett uses wine-barrel stays to create a hanging frame, and carves the designs from reclaimed wood. We splurged and bought one. It’s not
Continue readingwmtc: virtual walking tours of new york city, hosted by ny times architect critic michael kimmelman
During the pandemic shutdown, there were so many offers of interesting things to do online — cooking, crafting, indoor exercise, art classes, author readings, and on and on. I didn’t do any of it. I began piano lessons with Pianote, read books, took walks, and generally (although somewhat guiltily) enjoyed
Continue readingcartoon life: New Ethnicity estimate at Ancestry
Less broad, more specific. Yes, nation names have nothing much to do with the ‘ethnicity’ of the people who lived on the land hundreds or thousands of years before. I find myself wanting to break these groups into a few groups, basically, based on my grandparents. On the Paternal side,
Continue readingThings Are Good: Art Can Help us Understand the Climate Crisis
The world of art may one way to help people understand issues around the climate crisis. The impacts of climate change are diverse and interconnected, which makes it difficult to conceptualize. Single use plastic use is connected to the tar sands, inequality is connected to palm oil production. It’s all
Continue readingwmtc: cpmvfsgu day 6: salt spring island (saturday)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times? Perhaps not as dramatic as all that, but yesterday was a tale of two days, for sure. We had a leisurely morning — well, when you barely sleep, all mornings seem long — and drove the dogs over
Continue readingcartoon life: Impressionists were people too.
www.youtube.com/watch Loving this series. Especially the biographical and historical evident in this episode.
Continue readingcartoon life: Escape
While I should be working on that, you know, legacy, make-me-famous, immortal and wealthy Covid lockdown project, for which I bought this last years model iPad Pro, I started doodly scribbling something that turned into this. All the time and energy I could have spent making #comjcjam comics went here.
Continue readingwmtc: missing nyc: spontaneous political street art in bloom
This story in The New York Times made me miss New York City more than anything has in a very long time. All over the city, artists have created murals protest racism and police abuse. This critic surveys the murals, and compares them to the Neolithic cave art in the
Continue readingcartoon life: Our house …
In the middle of the street Just futzing with brushes and pens and tools in Procreate. Make a mark and see what it turns into into. Sometimes they remain scribbles and blobs. I’m turning out a set of comets. I sometimes wonder why I can’t draw the same twice. Is
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