Inspiration, ideas and information on arts, culture, communications.
The new Vimeo Video School includes some nuts-and-bolts lessons (i.e., how to capture good sound or improve your framing & composition). And then there are some extra tutorials created by members of the Vimeo community. http://www.openculture.com/2010/12/the_vimeo_video_school.html
SCVNGR is a game. Playing is simple: Go places. Do challenges. Earn points and unlock rewards! (Think free coffee!) Individuals and enterprises build on SCVNGR by adding challenges and rewards to their favorite places. via scvngr.com
Anne Carson's Nox is gorgeously crafted, both as poetry and as a book and beautiful object. Carson collaborated with designer Robert Currie to create an extended accordion fold-out of a plump, substantial set of pages that have the feel and heft of a handmade scrapbook. The assembled and folded pages are stored in a sturdy, hinged box, in handsome, muted neutral tones with a family photo album snippet on the lid. The elegance of the outer package seems to be trying to contain the unravelled scope of the pages when...
As BC's government pulls gaming funding, artists are forced to rethink survival strategies.By Robyn Smith, TheTyee.ca Victor Wang makes and curates art in Vancouver, but don't get the idea that's an easy thing to do. "The thing about art," he said, is that "to buy art, and for people to find artists, it's kind of difficult in this city unless you're in the art industry." The sentiments of Wang reflect tough realities for artists these days. Until this year, many of them received financial support in the form of...
Hugh McLeod of gapingvoid is someone who's been inspiring me lately. He has impressive credentials - talented cartoonist, author, famous blogger, marketing guru, former advertising copywriter. I started...
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, by Martha C. Nussbaum (Princeton University Press, 158 pages, $25.50). Reviewed by Paul Russell for The Globe and Mail. Over a century and half...
From TED.com/Talks: Clay Shirky believes that new technologies enabling loose collaboration - and taking advantage of "spare" brainpower - will change the way society works. In his latest TED...
From The Globe and Mail - Tom Rolston, the Canadian violinist who brought the Suzuki method for string instruction to this country, was a visionary, a free spirit who opened doors and made the...
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