When Michael Ignatief was the leader of the Liberal Party, I lamented that someone whose pre-politics life was as an expert on foreign affairs and had written several books on the subject that I read – even if I agreed only in part – was unable to articulate a clear
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cartoon life: The 100 cats project
If you’ve been following the tags, you’ve seen the tag for 100 cats.The 100 cats project is me deciding to draw 100 cat drawings on my iPad, and putting together an ebook collection of those images. So far, I have drawn more than 80. Some have been edited out of
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The Obama Question [book review]
Gary Dorrien’s book, The Obama Question, makes, as its central thesis, the following point: From a progressive perspective, much of Obama’s presidency has been a failure for which he has received ample criticism for his centrism, for his capitulations, and for his lack of leadership. Despite this, he argues, Obama’s
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Good Book Review on Health
Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster, April 2012) acts as the conclusion to the author’s bestselling “humble quest” trilogy. As with The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, Jacobs takes his readers on a wild and crazy journey, this time into the world of health. We
Continue readingcartoon life: Ocean Views eBook lost at sea
Update May 8 2012 ”Thank you for submitting your request to update your content. Your change request has been denied.” 🙁 Are there no hints? Suggestions? Guidelines? The Ocean Views eBook can be downloaded directly from here. Filed under: art, book, digital, drawing, drawings, good stuff, illustration, iPad, painting Tagged: art, cloud, illustration, iPad,
Continue readingcartoon life: Ocean Views eBook
The Ocean Views eBook can be downloaded directly from here. It seems to be stalled stubbornly under review, so may not be available through the iTunes book store. Once you have the download completed, drag the file onto iTunes, then sync your iPad. The objection—repeated boilerplate—from review staff is that: “Books must
Continue readingArt Threat: Artistry flows from V6A, “Canada’s poorest postal code”
At the very top of the spiral marble staircase in the Carnegie Centre, past the century-old stained glass windows depicting Milton, Shakespeare, Spencer, Burns, Scott and Moore, there’s a small, light-filled classroom. Inside, ten people sit around a table holding pens, scraps of paper in front of them. This is
Continue readingcartoon life: eBook #2
A shameless promotion for the link to the iTunes ebook version of the cat book. The cat book ebook An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is up on iTunes at:http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. It’s a free download. Signed print versions are still available. Filed under: book, comment, drawing Tagged: book, shameless promotion
Continue readingcartoon life: An eBook #1
A shameless promotion for the link to the iTunes store version of the ebook for 20 Landscapes IV. I somehow left it off the book page itself. 20 Landscapes IV ebook An iBooks 2 version of 20 Landscapes IV is up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/20-landscapes-iv. It’s a free download. Signed print versions
Continue readingArt Threat: Thomas Waugh flirts with fantasy while fucking reality – An analysis of Out/Lines and Lust Unearthed
[Forward: When I saw that Arsenal Pulp Press had these two books on hand I immediately thought of Tyler. A thoughtful writer, Tyler had the pleasure of meeting Thomas Waugh last summer, and I knew he’d have an interesting perspective on both Out/Lines and Lust Unearthed. He certainly delivered. The
Continue readingcartoon life: Hey, I’m #68!
Okay… it’s a special, obscure category. Arts and Architecture. Not even in the pop-up menu in iTunes. Of 184 top free books in Art and Architecture. Number 68 and number 88 in top free books in Art and Architecture. But they are there. Way cool. And they are complete books,
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 readingsamupress: ebook download surges
Phenomenal, is all I have to say. Phenomenal. Honestly, I think this is great. It is far to easy to read this as though I intend irony or sarcasm, but there are people out there in the world who have freely chosen to look at my art. I think that
Continue readingcartoon life: ebook download surges
Phenomenal, is all I have to say. Phenomenal. Honestly, I think this is great. It is far to easy to read this as though I intend irony or sarcasm, but there are people out there in the world who have freely chosen to look at my art. I think that
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 readingcartoon life: 66 ThanQs
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23273/66%20ThanQs.pdf will give you a 30 meg download of PDF book of a selected set of Qs for the Jian in London Campaign. https://picasaweb.google.com/107162781169108803437/QsForQCampaign is 74 Q images inspired by contributing to this campaign. Filed under: art, book, digital, London, painting Tagged: creative city, Jian in London
Continue readingcartoon life: Landscapes IV book just arrived
Fedex and the printer were busy. The book collecting the 20 images from this series just arrived. Same terms as the cat book, if you want one. I’ll put up a page for it soon.
Filed under: art, book, digital, iPad, painting
Things Are Good: Guest Post: Review of an Artobiography
After reading Tina Collen’s book Storm of the I: An Artobiography
(Art Review Press, 2009), I am left with a delightful and very real sense of the value of simplicity.
Collen’s creative memoir takes us from her childhood and youth in New York and her relationship with her family, to her life in Aspen with her […]