My final post about the OLA Super Conference sessions I attended saves the best for last. “Sub-Urban Beats: Hip-Hop Programming in the Library” thrilled me with possibilities. Even more exciting, it was co-presented by two librarians from the Mississauga Library System who are youth specialists, Erica Conly and James Dekens.
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cartoon life: Cat face. Are you looking at me again?
Oh, are you looking at me again? As spontaneous as this drawing seems, it took four days. I have wanted to draw the cats more from life, but they generally are always sleeping. This one will look at me from time to time. Then run away. Or fall asleep curled
Continue readingPostArctica: Keep Your Coins, I Want Change
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Continue readingcartoon life: Free shipping continues for just how long?
Free worldwide shipping continues at Society6 plus $5 off every item ordered. Check out my shop of great stuff http://society6.com/dougsamu Filed under: art
Continue readingThings Are Good: TradeCity: A Game That Shows You Your Own City
TradeCity: Toronto is a new expeirmental art game made by Golboo Amani that begins April 1st (no fooling’) and runs to the 12th. The game is set in Toronto and you need to physically traverse the city to play the game. TradeCity will expose players to really cool organizations in
Continue readingRob Maguire: What it means to bring home the bacon and schtupp the schoolteacher
Copywriting can lead you down some strange rabbit holes. While hacking together some draft web copy this morning, I typed out “bring home the bacon” as a reference to earning income. I then paused to wonder about the phrase’s origin. Pomodoro be damned; a quick Google search brought me to
Continue readingcartoon life: Cat just looking
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Continue readingcartoon life: Insomnia
Filed under: art, cartoon, comment, digital, drawing, illustration, iPad, life Tagged: insomnia
Continue readingcartoon life: Zen cat’s rules for living
Yesterdays repost below prompted the gears turning. A few of my own basic rules went very well with the drawing posted a few days earlier. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, zen
Continue readingcartoon life: Musical Paint Calico cat
Our fluffy calico held still long enough for me to work on this. Filed under: art Tagged: animation, calico, Cat, musical, Musical Paint app
Continue readingcartoon life: A lazy Saturday cat
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat
Continue readingcartoon life: Black cat composition
Drawn moments ago in Musical Paint app Filed under: art Tagged: animation, Cat, music
Continue readingcartoon life: Landscape Image work all up on Flikr
Something for a coldish day All the landscape work is up on Flikr Filed under: art
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Harlem Renaissance is “Coming Back Again”
Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes dropped earlier this month. My esteem for Langston Hughes, his insight and vision, and the too-often ignored human/cultural catalyst that was the Harlem Renaissance came back again last night for me when I found Leyla McCalla on the internet. Merging Haiti, Hughes and
Continue readingcartoon life: From a question about iPad’s
This, in response to a question on another board somewhere… “I’m just curious if anyone here uses an iPad for any of their image work, like creating graphics and designs? ..but I’m just curious if iPads have anything to offer for graphic/image work or not. I’m a bit skeptical about it, but
Continue readingcartoon life: Sadly neglected blog
is sadly neglected…. 🙁 Filed under: art
Continue readingThings Are Good: 100in1Day Spreads to More Cities
On June 7th Toronto will be one of many cities having an intervention. 100in1Day is being brought to Toronto through the efforts of Evergreen meaning that Toronto will join many other cities in random acts artiness. 100in1Day uses art and other fun activities to break the routines and everyday sameness
Continue readingThings Are Good: Art + Activism = Craftivism
Some crafty people are up to some crafty activism. Craftivism is using your skills at crafting things you like to send message to make the world a better place. Through activities such as teaching knitting lessons, crocheting hats for the less fortunate, and sewing blankets for abandoned animals, craftivism allows
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