I am not normally into sculpture
But the last two pieces in this video are completely awe inspiring and amazing.
Another open letter to Jim Prentice
My colleague Geoff Sowrey wrote what I think is a brilliant open letter to Jim Prentice. In fact he inspired me to write one of my own as well. If you don’t know who Jim Prentice is you can start here. If you don’t know what is going on then …
Greed and shame
So the CBC lost the use of the theme for “Hockey Night in Canada” and while no one else will say it I will, shame on Dolores Claman. That’s right, shame. CBC paid for that song many times over. She received royalties every time it played and after negotiations broke …
Cats for Corporate Sponsorship
I was watching live blog updates of Steve Job’s presentation at WWDC and a thought occured to me. If Apple keeps naming their software after endangered cats, perhaps they could spend a little money, say one percent of total sales to protect that animal. The next OS is called snow …
Democracy for China?
“May you live in interesting times.” – Old Chinese Curse A couple of weeks ago some friends were over and we began discussing China. While most of them were not Chinese, a few were and a couple more, myself included, had been to China for extended periods of time. This …
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. – Robert Frost
The day art died
Art died in April 1917. We can thank Marcel Duchamp for that. His urinal in Society of Independent Artists exhibit in 1917, signed R. Mutt was the final nail in the coffin. I bring this up now because other artists are still kicking that corpse. Take the London Duo Jake …