Every project on this site is cause for celebration. Could we take such care with our public spaces in Canada and fund artists to create such sensitive interactions? I would like that kind of commission.
Flies arriving on the backdoor, big black bottles yearning to be let out. I oblige sweeping them into the frozen air.
I just ran across this (kind of) curatorial statement on the blog of Daniel Campbell Blight for a 2009 painting and etching show he curated called ‘On Land’. The piece below, written by Vince Stephen, really touched and intrigued me….
Is it viable? I’ll try a few to check it out. It’s a kind of ajax enabled live feed of one’s tweet feeds and and all the other big name aggregators of all kinds of media, so Flickr images and…
Sens Productions The site-specific performances, installations and films directed by choreographer Noémie Lafrance explore human movements in man-made landscapes, creating a performance language that interacts with the environment and the audience. Each creation uses an existing indoors/outdoors public site or…
from O’reilly’s “What is Data Science” by Mike Loukides. Making data tell its story A picture may or may not be worth a thousand words, but a picture is certainly worth a thousand numbers. The problem with most data analysis…
Have you received an email from a techie recently that looks like this? “Had a hard time getting the X installed but is working fine now. Will be back in 10 minutes. Happy to hear responses then.” Dropped your ‘I’?…
I’m very excited about this talk. OCAD is running a great series of speakers who give unconventional perspectives on design, for free! I’ve been reading about Natalie Jeremijenko and I am smitten! She has a though training in many science…
Well I’ve never trusted cell phones, and people who try to get a hold of me using my cell number quickly realize I never recharge it and and I almost never take it out. It’s a resource of last resort…
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I love this, rainbows, libraries and whimsy – and it’s a grad project by Valérie Madill a master’s student at my old Alma Matter.. Emily Carr University. where is the magic “Why is it then that the magic, mystery, adventure…
Many people I know who reads online are as annoyed as I am by websites that paginate their content. We all know this decision is usually motivated by a desire to create more pageviews for advertisers rather than by any…
I like simple aphorisms that make me happy when I say them out loud. I’m not alone in this. I’ve noticed a few sites in my world that started with a simple but idealistic precept — that individual change can…
The impact of the Internet is that it’s pulling the froth of commentary and debate off the top of first-generation news gathering, leaving newspapers with only a first-generation role for themselves, which is not enough for them to sustain readers,…
The first appearance of archy One morning Don Marquis arrived in his office to find the following message on his typewriter, all in lower case. Archy, a cockroach reincarnated from a poet, had laboriously typed the message to Don by…
Khoi Vinh sums it up very well for me in his article. Still, even these basics are the second step, in my view. The prerequisite for doing something meaningful with any of these skills — HTML, CSS, Flash or whatever…
Alan Rusbridger reports on a conversation between facebook, flickr, Slate creator and NY Times and MSN editors. A divide in understanding still exists: A distinguished magazine editor finally broke through the cosy bonding by denying that we could all have…
Actor network theory and online news delivery
I seem to have landed in the middle of some exciting, new (to me) theories around online news and network theory. Last week while in Montreal I met Claude G. Théoret who is part of Exvisu which offers “Strategic Network…