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We're back from the woods. I'm having trouble remembering how to type. At the marsh I startled three species of heron all at once: great blue heron, night heron and green heron. We saw lots of cute little black bats, tiny furry flying cousins to Bat-boy. And we saw a hawk moth for the first time. It looked like this image stolen from butterfliesandmoths.org except the flowers were tiger lillies.
Unretouched photo of Joe McKay.
Recent spam that horrified Joe McKay.
A nice combo GIF that Joe McKay found and thought I'd like.
Joe McKay's picture review of "Wall•e" the new Pixar movie with a pseudo-enviromental message.
A nice picture that Joe McKay clipped from a contest site and liked very much himself.
An image that Joe McKay received and wants deconstructed by feminists [It looks fine to me, Joe.]
A photo by Andrew Wright that Joe McKay animated with a kitteh & bloodeh hand.
The dog and I are leaving today on a short road trip......near a lake...
Nutbush City Limits
The Tina Turner version
Found animated GIF version
The Tina Turner & Marc Bolan version
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Some observations from Pierre Tristam on Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin.
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Two levitations by Jimmy Limit at NO PARTY NO JOKES NO FUN:
(via Wil Kucey at LE)
The very eloquent Jennifer McMackon has reviewed Katie Bethune-Leamen's gi-normous Mushroom Studio for BIG RED & SHINY
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Saturday's Resonating Bodies pollinator lecture by Dr. Stephen Buchmann was really really good (if you are into nerdy data about bees, which apparently a lot of people are into because it was standing room only by the time we arrived, and it was interesting enough that we kept standing for the whole darn thing). This Thursday's dorkbot features the Resonating Bodies artists: Sarah Peebles with Rob King, Rob Cruickshank and Anne Barros, as well as pollinator expert Laurence Packer and a screening of "Bee Man," a short film by Robert Lendrum, Drew Ferguson, and Morris Lum. There's a real buzz about this project. Early bee get's a chair.
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The Harbour Symphony has been happening annually in St. John's since 1983. Artists participating in the Sound Symposium compose pieces that are played by the boats in the harbour. When I asked Von Bark if he would write a post about the piece he composed with Marlene Creates he told me he didn't want to blow to his own horn. Then he sent me his notes:
The artists are: Marlene Creates & Von BarkWe were there to hear it last Saturday, and it sounded great. The harbour is really beautiful and the sounds of the horns swell into it. There were about 4 boats participating, and one that VB believes was improvising along for the heck of it.
The title is: Variations on Two Themes by Arvo Pärt
The total running time is two minutes, approximately.
Notes on Variations on Two Themes by Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian Composer known for his austere choral and instrumental works often presented in a Renaissance style. Current audiences might best know his music used in movie soundtracks, such as in the recent film: ‘There will be Blood’.
This composition for The Harbour Symphony is a crude interpretation of two pieces from the ‘Arbos’ album released in 1986 on the ECM record label, dedicated to the memory of film director Andrej Tarkowskij.
The first variation is loosely based upon the piece ‘Arbos’, for brass octet and percussion. The uncharictaristic blaring trombones in the original might suit the foghorns of The Harbour Symphony somewhat. The time-frame from the original is modified somewhat. This piece was later arranged for 8 recorders and 3 triangles.
The second variation is loosely based upon ‘Pari Intervallo’, a contemplative solo piece for pipe organ.
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What kinds of things might a neuroscientist want to tell us, after she has recovered from a massive stroke?
"We are energy beings, connected to one another through the consciousness of our right hemispheres, as one human family. And right here, right now, we are brothers and sisters on this planet, here to make the world a better place, and in this moment we are perfect, we are whole and we are beautiful."
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"My left brain is that little voice that says to me, 'hey, you gotta remember to pick up bananas on the way home, I need them in the morning.' It's that calculating intelligence that reminds me when I have to do my laundry. But most important its that little voice that says to me 'I am, I am.' And as soon as my left hemisphere says to me 'I am' I become separate. I become a single, solid individual, separate from the energy flow around me, and separate from you. And this is the portion of my brain that I lost on the morning of my stroke."
Gareth Lichty: Thrum at Peak Gallery, 23 Morrow Avenue, Toronto. Until August 2, 2008
Opening: July 10th, 2 to 8 pm
Blue Republic- Nostalgia for the Present
curated by Carolyn Bell Farrell at the MacLaren Art Centre - Barry, Ontario to August 31, 2008
Catalogue launch at Peak Gallery July 10, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.
23 Morrow Ave. Toronto ON
Speeding 2004 from Beautiful Infections (detail)
Speeding 2004 from Beautiful Infections (installation view)
NEWTOKPA 2006 from Simulations(detail)
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Bill C61, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act, has been tabled in the House of Commons on June 12. As a Government Bill, it was introduced by the Industry Minister Jim Prentice and is likely to be debated at the next Parliamentary session which is scheduled to begin on September 15, 2008.If you'd like to read the actual bill, here it is
-Toronto Arts Coalition
...but you won't, so check out these links for further information:
Toronto Star
CBC
Copyright bill protests surge online
Tories' digital mashup
Prentice’s copywrong
Canada's new copyright bill: More spin than 'win-win'
Tories to unveil new copyright bill
Copyright Act gets overdue update (Lawyer's Weekly)
Uncle Sam's fingers are all over the Canadian copyright bill (a good one)
(links courtesy of Toronto Arts Coalition)
In summation, it will be illegal for a Canadian to make this glorious GIF that I found:
And for posting it, we will go to prison.
And this blog will be all about prison crafts and will be renamed sally mckay and L.M. and Maurice "Mom" Boucher, but more likely will be called Maurice "Mom" Boucher and L.M. and sally mckay
If you have so much contempt for your M.P. that you can't remember his/her name, you can use this handy little tool to find his/her contact info.
Or you can email Jim Prentice, the American entertainment industry's handy little tool who is responsible for this bill: Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca
and of course, the Prime Minister’s Office: pm@pm.gc.ca
Miklos Legrady - Vintage Digital
"An 18th century funeral cortege, filled with guns? Seems like cause for concern.
Is the dreamer the violent one, or is the danger external? Either way, it's bad news"
When I saw this project, made with a 1990 Mac Classic program called Superpaint, I went back to Tom Moody's animation archive to look at these again:
George Grosz - Ecce Homo
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The hero 1936 litho
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Jesse Harris - 1-2-3-4 W.D.W.Y.F.W. 2008 enlarged pinback button replica, 12"x12"
Happy July 4th, my American friends
This is the greatest Canadian folk song ever written and it's about an American Lake Boat. So in honour of your day, we will all weep over and sing along to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Annotated lyrics.
CBC Ideas has a pretty good podcast series called How to Think About Science. Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin was on talking about his book, The Trouble With Physics. The book and the talk both provide a nice analysis of the current political and funding structures that have put string theorists in the majority of gainfully employed physicists, even though string theory still hasn't generated any experimental evidence.
Quote from the podcast: Nobody has been able to extract anything that is what we call falsifiable, that is, if it's not seen then the theory is wrong. And this has just never happened before in the history of physics. As radical as general relativity was, even before Einstein had it in final form he knew what the key experiments were. ... He had several predictions that could be done with the technology of the time within two years, three years. Same thing with special relativity, same thing with quantum mechanics, same thing in every successful instance in the history of physics. The experimental check comes right away. There's always the contact with nature. It's very easy to invent mathematical structures, mathematical games that make no contact with reality. But a situation where some thousand, very gifted, very highly placed people in the most elite places in the world, passionately believe in something and have worked on it for two decades without a hint of how to test it experimentally, that's unlike anything that's ever happened before in the history of physics.Also, Smolin had some really nice things to say about Toronto.
Quote from the podcast: I have the impresion that science is part of the front of culture as culture evolves, and culture progresses and those of us who are at the front — scientists, artists, social theorists, architects, so forth — have a lot to say to each other. That maybe we lose out with the over-specialization and departmentalization. And there are venues for that conversation. Some of them are conferences, some of them are friendships, some of them are cities. A city is a venue for conversation, that's what they're for. As a New Yorker who moved to Toronto, I'm pretty excited about Toronto, that is, the people I meet here from theatre, films, music, writers, people in technology, people in politics. Toronto is more like New York than it is like London or Paris. It's a more open accessible city. You can be in Paris forever and never meet anyone who does anything different from you. Whereas in New York, once you're somehow in New York, you are continually meeting people who do something other than you, and Toronto is like that as well. I think I'm in a very lucky position because I've been fortunate enough to be able to write books as part of this community.
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In more exciting bee news...
photo by Rob Cruickshank
Resonating Bodies is a big art, sound and research project about bees and other pollinators by Sarah Peebles, in collaboration with Rob King, Rob Cruickshank and Anne Barros. There's going to be a speaker's series with bee experts, a new bee-wasp condo on Toronto Island and an art/sound installation that L.M. will not be visiting, called Bumble Domicile.
Bumble Domicile, the first installment of the Resonating Bodies project, uses an on-site bumblebee hive at *new* Gallery (906 Queen street West) and displays video and audio of its internal activity. Headphones that "plug" into the actual hive give the viewer opportunity to hear the bees in real time. Ultraviolet video of flowering plants in the building's communal garden is projected onto the North wall of the gallery to provide live tracking of the bees pollination.There's lots more information about the project, including the schedule for the speaker's series, at Interaccess.org. Visit Sarah Peebles' website for research images and an audio sample.
Continuous audio transformations of pre-recorded bees and shoh (the Japanese mouth-organ, an instrument which has utilized beeswax since ancient times) fill the gallery space. Visitors are invited to place aromatic offerings into a heated copper tray, which resembles the interior of the hive. This copper tray was created through a unique process involving the remnants of a discarded bumblebee hive.
RESONATING BODIES- BUMBLE DOMICILE
A co-presentation between InterAccess Media Arts Centre and New Adventures in Sound Art
Come and meet your most misunderstood neighbors, but don't mention honey...
Resonating Bodies- Bumble Domicile (part 1)
July 4-27 2008
*new* Gallery 906 Queen Street West,(corner of Crawford and Queen W.)
Opening Reception Saturday July 12th 4-6pm at *new* Gallery
Followed by "The forgotten Pollinators," a talk by Dr. Stephen
Buchmann at InterAccess, 9 Ossington Avenue, 7pm
A truck carrying 12 million honey bees overturned on the highway in New Brunswick this week. The commercial bee industry has been big news lately, since so many of the bees started mysteriously dying.
Panoptic Series 2006