American Midwest road trip photos
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mv5FYNM46BRJyA4E9 Google AI seems to have done a pretty fair job on curating and editing these photos. I think I may have had a hand in some filters on iPad,…
Art
Christy Lee Rogers – 2018
I love her work, very Caravaggioesque and certainly reminiscent of Evergon’s giant Polaroids. And she seem to be always taking it up a notch, one of the more interesting working…
This Artist Wants You to Buy All His Personal Data on eBay
Oli Frost got inspired by companies earning profit from his data and decided to sell it directly to anybody who wants it. He’s downloaded all his data from Facebook (and…
New books
I’ve set up a Square store for online book sales. All books are a limited edition run of 20. $25.00 covers all shipping, handling and other annoying stuff. Check out…
A monstrous season
Predictions for the summer to come. These undirected wanderings of mind and hand sometimes work out.
Politics! A cartoon
via Politics! Mix, when it was run by Paper by 53 was a great little creative social site. Art was offered as jumping points for improvisations. The monstrous creatures in…
Mop nap 2
Hmmm… I think the colouring worked out well.
MINDFUL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE CAREGIVER
In photography, mindfulness is like observing something for the first time, even though you may have looked at it a thousand times before. For example, when you’ve been away from…
Shaggy mop nap
In Sketcha, using the ballpoint pen tool – far more scribbling than I usually do, but drawing her high highness’ shaggyness requires some different approaches.
Ministers of the faith #11
These goofy drawings seem to come out of fooling about with some new tool in some new app. Test the tool, see what kind of marks it makes, scribble something…
“At Least 22 Cats” book arrives
Seriously? Dude, I’m trying to take a nap here! The newest book arrived today, and it needs to go through numbering and signing of the 20 book limited edition run…
How Trent University Preserves Canadian Architecture
Like other art forms styles come and go in architecture; and when styles go in architecture it can result in demolition of buildings (and thus history). In Canada university and…
Trump and Kim Jong to talk.
It’s the age of Big Hair Diplomacy
La Bohème at the Galaxy
Starving bohemian artists living in drafty Paris attics in the mid-19th century, struggling to produce their art, falling in and out of love, sharing and suffering, living and dying, all…
Reading as a forgotten art
Earlier this month (February, 2018), the Globe & Mail published an essay by author Michael Harris titled, “I have forgotten how to read.” In it, he recounted how he recently…
Let’s Save Brutalism
Saving architecture through Twitter seems a little odd, yet the #SOSBrutalism movement has engendered an appreciation for an architectural style and saving buildings from demolition. Critics of brutalism describe the…
His mind has always been free
So many of the images I’ve seen about the death of Stephen Hawking are basically about the wheelchair, and how now his body is free. I think it’s a bit…