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eaves.ca: The Ground War for Control of Public Space
My partner stumbled on the quote below attributed to Banksy (wikipedia), the English street artist who many consider to be one of the great a modern day satirists. It’s an interesting take on advertising in public space – for some it will be a familiar call to arms, to others
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Yas A., Kagan Goh and Carmen Aguirre: Monday at 6pm on COOP Radio
Monday night at 6pm on The Rational on COOP Radio [livestreamed], 102.7fm in/around Vancouver: Yas A with another instalment on Italian political song writers. Alnoor Gova interviews Kagan Goh and Imtiaz Popat about the world television premier of their documentary Stolen Memories on Sunday, March 4th at 9pm on OMNI
Continue readingcartoon life: Shaggy baggy cat
Just a heads up. Yes there is a new tag there; 100 cats. Probably shouldn’t talk about projects, but I am drawing 100 cat drawings and want to gather them in another ebook. Filed under: art, digital, iPad Tagged: 100 cats, Cat
Continue readingThings Are Good: New Art Project Examines Humanity and Art-as-Experince
ZED.TO is an art project that is examining how people relate to one another while exploring the boundaries of art and theatre. It’s run by a small group called the Mission Business and looks like they’re going to create something downright nifty. ZED.TO – an immersive biotech adventure from Trevor
Continue readingcartoon life: Air cat
Filed under: art, digital, drawing, iPad Tagged: 100 cats, Cat, zen brush
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Politics, Re-Spun on COOP Radio Tonight at 6pm
Tonight at 6pm [East Vancouver time], Politics, Re-Spun teams up with The Rational on COOP Radio with an analog radio show at 102.7fm in Vancouver, which will be streaming live at COOPRadio.org and interactively in a multimedia liveblog here below. Here is what we’ve got tonight: 1. Tia Everitt interviewing
Continue readingcartoon life: February cat
sketched with SketchTime Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: art, Cat
Continue readingwmtc: shadow art of a higher magnitude, by tim noble and sue webster
Isn’t this amazing? Many other wild shadow creations by Tim Noble and Sue Webster can be seen on a slideshow on Environmental Graffiti and on this Daily Mail story. BuzzFeed brings us examples of shadow art by several artists. This is by Larry Kagan. Thanks to @ImpStrump.
Continue readingcartoon life: 8 Panels again
Better pictures. Better white balance, though there’s just a bit too much colour in some of the white areas. But, I paint in the basement, and these are the first time I’ve seen them outside in proper light. If you’ve seen the landscape collages, the major forms are recycled from
Continue readingcartoon life: If you meet the buddha on the painting, kill him.
Seeing the sequence like this, the fourth seems, oh, anchored to the first. You can see the first image in the last stage still. Seen like this it seems still connected, not an image on its own, which is what I see when standing over it, working on it. As
Continue readingsamupress: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available.
Continue readingsamupress: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available.
Continue readingcartoon life: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available. Filed under: art, book, digital, iPad Tagged: art, Cat, cats, digital, illustration, iPad, painting
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Defamiliarization of a Saturday Morning
This morning, with a brightening glow from my right I looked up from my newspaper to see a fog of falling snow across the yard, neighbouring street, and rooftops below. The unplanned and surprising sight had taken me back, contrasted all the more by the warm mug in my hand
Continue readingcartoon life: My first iBooks eBook iBooks Author book
Yesterday I downloaded iBooks Author. It kills to spell that in American. While poking about and figuring out the interface and its design sensibilities, I managed to put together a short little ebook of the 20 Landscapes IV images. As carefully as I could I filled out all the fields
Continue readingNorthern Gateway Pipeline: The Video Version
I’m not much of a video lover, myself, but I know most of our culture is and so I’ve been amassing a few links that may be of interest to those who’d rather learn about the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline via video rather than text. Here are just a few.
Continue readingcartoon life: 8 white paintings
I’ve been engaged in a protracted push, pull, following, yielding, gouging, scraping, sanding, layering since the last post and now these 8 panels are done. All are 24 by 38 inches acrylic on masonite. Filed under: cartoonist, painting Tagged: acrylic, art, landscape, masonite, painting, seascape, water, white, wind
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ART: POLICING: As in keeping “someone’s peace.
Continue readingArt Threat: The Noise of Cairo explores art in revolution
The Noise of Cairo is an upcoming documentary about the Cairo art scene after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Produced by scenesfrom, this “cinematic kaleidoscope” interviews a dozen artists and explores the role played by creatives during the revolution. Via African Digital Art.
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