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| Our shows at York Quay Centre open next week (Friday May 12th). That means the current shows are coming down soon (Sunday is the last day), and if you haven't seen them, you should! City Beautification Ensemble's dystopic future diorama (tiny abandoned cars and tiny bits of rubble and tiny weeds sprouting out of tiny crumbling tarmac) of the Gardiner Expressway is Blade Runner satisfying in both its detail and its amibiguity. The Case Studies show about Beauty, curated by Patrick Macaulay, has a killer weird human-faced doggy by Allyson Mitchell and a giant black ooozy blob by Seth Scriver that looks like a tar pit sprouting its own life form. The other pieces are good too, and the whole thing holds together really well. |  Simon Faithfull, 30Km, 2004 (image taken from here | My favourite thing of all, however, is a video by Simon Faithfull in the show in the main gallery called Timeless – time, landscape and new media. Faithfull affixed a video camera to a weather balloon and recorded the signal via wireless feed. The balloon just went up into the atmosphere and eventually popped. The video is circular, projected on a round screen, and what you see is the earth slowly getting farther and farther away. As you rise, the signal starts to break down. Sometimes towards the end the image will be all noise, and then suddenly a shape will appear and you realise it is the curve of the earth. When you are damn near to entering outer space, the screen goes all black with white static. Then the static slowly diminishes into tiny sporadic points of light. I recommend watching the whole video, which takes about half an hour. It's really beautiful, and, compared to internet satellite technology, the experience feels very personal. I found it very sad, but that could just be me. |
3 x YouTube. That is a looong time to, as MTV put it, look "the president in the eye and let loose a characteristically blistering barrage of invective, which was met with a stunned silence by the crowd and reportedly made the most powerful man in the free world squirm in his seat on the dais." Whatever they say about Stephen Colbert in the future, they will never say he was a coward.
In Canadian comedic news... Harper's budget sucks but we're stuck with it and the Mercer Report is off season. Agh!!
update: Colbert's speech was removed from YouTube (thanks Mark) but it's still available here at Viral Video and the transcript is here at Common Dreams.
Holy shit! this is no good.
On Thursday, April 27th - Two Toronto High School Students from Dante Alighieri Academy, a Catholic High School in North York, were pulled out of their classrooms by immigration officials who barged into the school demanding access to the students. The sister and brother whose family is originally from Costa Rica were ripped out of their respective Grade 9 and Grade 10 classes in front of thier classmates and told by enforcement agents that they will "never come back to this school again"....more at No One is Illegal...
My pal Derek Chadbourne is running for City Idol. He's got some stiff competition, but I think Derek would make a top notch councillor because he is smart, ethical, passionate about his beliefs, isn't afraid to look girly, doesn't sweat the small stuff, and remains uncompromising on big issues. His pro-bike, pro-chick, anti-smog agenda gets my vote! And he just might show up in a funny hat. Plus...plug!... he runs the best darn bike shop in town cause they are friendly, fast, and they do a great job without all the typical bike dude 'tude. Go to the Bike Joint!
note: City Idol is a brilliant idea. Simply scanning the list of candidates makes me feel better about thist town. Tomorrow night is opening night... details at cityidol.to