Volkswagen bends to critique, pulls sexist ad
Still from the Volkswagen Passat television ad in question. Volkswagen Canada has pulled the 2011 Passat TV ad “It pretty much sells itself” from its official YouTube channel and from…
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Why is CBC running sexist Volkswagen ads?
A sexist Volkswagen ad speaks to the dangers of North America’s corporate car culture. (Illustration by Coco Riot.) Over recent weeks, viewing news updates at CBC online has become increasingly…
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Handpicked from the Internets
Cleaning out the digital mailbag this morning, I found a few gems pertaining to the Occupy movement, economic collapse, and intentionally bad, prizewinning art: Salon asks how the appalling image…
Lesbian art attack – The picks from Autostraddle’s NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday
The amazing crew at Autostraddle have compiled a slew of Lesbo art for all to peruse and politic upon, including a full-on gallery, list of installations, documentaries and more. There’s…
Movember: donate and I’ll write you a ditty
During the month of November, vanity will take a backseat while I grow a moustache for Movember to raise awareness and and a few bucks to fight prostate cancer. And…
Engaged devotion and care – The terrariums of Paula Hayes
It might be because I just started paying attention, but it seems to me that terrariums are on the rise. These delicate glass globes filled with tiny gardens are like…
Put the Pocahontas back in the closet – Ethnic Halloween costumes challenged by Ohio student group
Racist Halloween costumes aren't all the rage this year, thankfully.
Happy Birthday Nietzche & Foucault!
There’s only a little to say about this – Michel Foucault was born October 15, 1926, and by weird coincidence, Friedrich Nietzsche was born on the same day 82 years…
Understanding the Crash illustrates resistance to capitalism
Graphic novel Understanding the Crash features stories of struggles against speculative economics are skillfully outlined. From the Miami housing market bubble burst that ignited housing rights struggles, to community struggles…
Underworlds Takes Views of the Chemical Coast – New photography by Isabelle Hayeur
Montreal photographer Isabelle Hayeur first trained her camera on waterfronts in 2008 to create “Underworlds”, now open at Division Gallery in Montreal. Long observing the transformations of her own local…
#Jan25: A soundtrack of the revolution – Q&A with Syrian-American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum
Omar Offendum almost his train of thought when he saw a video post on his Facebook wall, mid Skype interview, of his song #Jan25 being played in Tahrir Square. It…
Gazawood: Filmakers under siege – Making films that capture the ‘soul’ of Gaza
Tarzan and Arab are Gaza artists who wanted to make films about their home. But they lacked resources, so instead they started making film posters for films that they wanted…
On the cusp of a visual revolution – RSA Announces short film competition $6,000 in prizes
RSA is inviting artists to transform remarkable ideas into visual media — and offering over $6,000 CDN in prizes. Here’s the challenge: to create visual films for three fascinating and…
CTV’s Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata tells why he quit his job
Kai Nagata was CTV’s bureau chief in Quebec City at 24 years of age. That was until he left the world of centrist journalism earlier this week and revealed his…
The (wonderful) rise of marching bands as a form of protest – New documentary from the National Radio Project
The fine folks from Making Contact (a program at the National Radio Project) present Marching for Change: Street Bands in the US, a new documentary about the musical funsters who…
UC Berkeley offers subsidized new media workshop – Multimedia reporting and convergence for journalists
The Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley is hosting an all expenses paid new media workshop for journalists, freelancers and educators. The Workshop runs from July 17 -22 and…
Artists-in-residence @ Eyebeam Art & Technology Centre – Call for applications for Fall/Winter 2011
Eyebeam Gallery is looking for artists to come and play. The Eyebeam artist-in-residence program is inviting artists to create and teach in their labs and studios in NYC from September…
Dialogue in bite sized pieces – Speak in Images embarks on a national participatory photo project
This is you receiving an invitation. An invitation to participate in a project just recently born in Vancouver called Speak in Images / Parler en Images. An invitation to speak…