Performance Art, Cultural Activism and Politics: Québec to Belfast
Québec City has a vibrant history of performance art and live arts that extends back to the early work of collectives run by artists, like Inter/Le lieu since the 1970s. More recently, however, younger generations have been carving “spaces” for a new type of “art-performance”. This is an exciting and crucial time with new energy and … Continue Reading
Art, Art News
Art Shots: Adam Adamowicz’s ‘Fallout 3′ Concepts
Adam Adamowicz was a concept artist, best known for his work on Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with Bethesda Game Studios since 2007. He has also worked shortly with Jaleco Entertainment, Inc. between 2002-2003. He grew up on Long Island, New York. He died of cancer on 8 February 2012. This is … Continue Reading
Art, Art Shots
Avant-Garde or Crazy?
Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo. Yes, I will be the first one to say that originality is an indispensable characteristic when it comes to high fashion. The ability to transcend traditional ideas and to create designs beyond “common imagination” has enabled designers … Continue Reading
Culture, Style
Soul in the Walls
photos by Sara Harowitz A building is just a building until you put people in it. Then it comes alive. It begins to breathe, to grow, to change, along with the humans who inhabit it. The building becomes a person in its own right, providing warmth and comfort and peace. I’ve worked in the same … Continue Reading
Culture, Journal, Nostalgia
Avi Federgreen and Canada’s Independent Film Market
Why did you start Indiecan Entertainment? A: It’s important to me that Canadian audiences watch Canadian film. Indie films matter. These are emerging filmmakers for the most part that are making their first or second films and in order for them to continue to make films people need to see these early films. And some … Continue Reading
Entertainers, Interviews
The Cycle of Cool
How fads, trends, styles and fashions go from trendy to tasteless…and back again The problem with the word Cool (or sweet, awesome, sick, or whatever else you want to call it), is that as soon as you pronounce something Cool…it instantly becomes un-Cool. Popular as a counterculture expression during the Beatnik era of the late … Continue Reading
Commentary, Culture, Style
3D Toys: From Metal To Paper
In 1901, an Englishman by the name of Frank Hornby, a bookkeeper and a toy hobbyist, while tinkering with sheet metal, invented a D.I.Y. building kit that would become one of Britain’s beloved toys: Meccano. By 1916, a busy factory on Binns Street, in sooty Liverpool, was cranking out perforated metal strips, plates, gears, wheels, … Continue Reading
Culture, Design
Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, a novel by Andrez Bergen, and a conversation with the writer
Australians aren’t really known for hard-boiled, noir fiction, partly perhaps because their country is so dammed sunny. If we’re gonna go the whole hog and use some national stereotyping, let’s say we expect Australians to be care-free, relaxed and outdoors kinda people (if you’re not, my Antipodean friend, I want my money back). But when … Continue Reading
Books, Reviews
Conjoint Words in the Age of Pixels
art above by Emmanuel Laflamme CoverCake. BlackBerry. TweetDeck. HootSuite. MySpace. GrubHub. Were Rip van Winkle to rouse from his sleep on today’s date, and encounter the above words, he may well take them to be the names of a brand of a lidded confection, a dark hued fruit, a hard toffee, a shrill whistle, a … Continue Reading
Culture, Digital
Ansel Adams Shoots 1940′s Los Angeles
Ansel Adams was famous for his signature series of landscapes, spindling trees, ominous clouds and cliffs, but he also had bills to pay. He had clients. He had assignments. In the ’40s, Fortune Magazine sent him to document Los Angeles’ aviation industry. He shot workers at a steel plant, but also dawdled around LA a … Continue Reading
Art, Art Shots
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