York University in Toronto will be hosting their third annual film festival all about sustainability. This year they are running films about oil. If you’re in Toronto next weekend or nearby you should check out what’s playing and take the bus to the festival. Planet in Focus with York University
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PostArctica: Courage, Neil Young, And The Future
Neil Young doesn’t have to do what he is doing, there are many, many reasons why he shouldn’t, but he is, and he is showing us courage that most of us can only dream of, can barely imagine. He is taking on the whole corporate structure that is oppressing and
Continue readingcartoon life: Ideas Stuffed
Ideas Stuffed I’d like to clear up one misconception right from the start. The usual suspects are eating more and moving less, but the truth is, since 1980, it’s been all about eating more.” – Jill Eisen Filed under: art Tagged: food, Obesity
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: JFK: Class Enemy
on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/jfk-class-enemy/
Continue readingcartoon life: Cat on couch draw on YouTube
Cat on couch draw on YouTube Remember that drawing in McLaren app is as much as possible simulating his actual process. As much as you want to loop, edit…. you just can’t. Norman McLaren drew directly on the film strip, and frame by frame, straight ahead. Filed under: art
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
My book recommendation for 2014. Enjoy; you’ll either love it immensely immediately, or it will do nothing for you and you’ll put it down. Another of his books, Winter’s Tale, with a pleasantly stellar cast, is coming out as a movie on Valentine’s Day. Here’s my brief review: Antproof =
Continue readingcartoon life: Cat clouds snow on a landscape
Sometimes a number of things come together in a way to make something you haven’t seen before. Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, clouds, landscape, snow
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Merry Christmas!
I’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and/or the joy and warmth of the holiday season. Make 2014 a year of more love, more compassion, more sharing and more service. Three things to mark this day: Some pictures. Here are 75 amazing pictures from 2013. Some more pictures.
Continue readingcartoon life: Get a More 22 cats book for Christmas
Download this book to view on your new Christmas tablet. It’s free. It’s a PDF. It’s digital. It’s tiny. It’s cool. A tiny delightful book of cat art Download from Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/alqodielyfhbazi/s7dVnVxyGA Mrrfy Crzzmzz! Filed under: art, book, drawing, iPad Tagged: Cat, cats, ebook, free download, free stuff
Continue readingcartoon life: A story of Egg Nog
A story of Egg Nog Filed under: art
Continue readingPostArctica: Person Of The Year
And now it’s time to make the long awaited announcement! Neath Turcot’s Person Of The Year *gnaws open envelope* And the winner is…for making something artful, for bringing sublime elegance to activism, for courage beyond the call of duty, for a willingness to be silly while being serious and not
Continue readingcartoon life: Cat asleep in bed
Just so this blog isn’t neglected for cat drawings. Filed under: art Tagged: asleep, bed, Cat
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Thriving, not surviving
Thriving, not surviving the slow cello accompaniment wasn’t haunting it wasn’t doubtful it was the soundtrack for the path she was on and it was trapped in a coda trying to find some gravitas instead of just being in touch with her own integrity it was the difference between surviving
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Canadian Words, eh?
I went down to Timmies to pick up a Double double for my coworker who is on the Pogey so they couldn’t afford it. While I was there I bought some All-dressed chips because my friend dumped my last bag into the Chesterfield after almost spilling their pop. The rain
Continue readingcartoon life: A logic named Joe
I think it was the summer I finished public school when my Father’s friend came up from a respite from California, and brought a collection of Reel-to-reel tapes of his collection of old radio programs. I spent the summer listening. I focused on The Shadow, and Dimension X… I remember
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Fried Squirrels
It’s a crisp, foggy November Saturday morning in the south side of the city. Seventeen people sit in the large open area at the back end of an organic fair trade coffee shop run by a workers’ co-op inspired by the Mondragon movement in Spain. Meet-ups like this are quite
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Secret Weapon: Self-Esteem
It’s Monday. Have you contributed positively to a young girl’s self esteem yet today? If not, here is some inspiration and a place to get better resourced! “As a child, I never heard one woman say to me: ‘I love my body.’ Not my mother, my elder sister, my best
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Absence of Resilience
The city of pain Absorbs your fracturing soul Social fabric frays March 15, 2009 No One Is Illegal – Ignite resistance ~ Canadian multiculturalism is not enough! (0) December 11, 2013 How Harper is Gutting Canada: THE LIST (0) April 23, 2013 Did Earth Day Not Quite Do It
Continue readingcartoon life: Lion statue at the Vatican
At the Vatican, as part of the plunder of foreign civilizations in the name of Christianity, this Ethiopian lion statue made it’s way to Rome and now rests in a sunny courtyard. Cats. Cats are everywhere. He is a beauty. His nose was very shiny. Filed under: art
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