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Quaero mihi similes, et adiungor pravis.
Friday, September 18th, 2009I spent a lot of time last night looking at translations of Latin and Middle High German poetry. Oh, and listening to what I can only refer to as operatic renditions of the pieces.
How did this happen? Well, actually, like many times when I start following a trail of weird connections, it all comes back [...]
Now Magazine vs The Adapters
Thursday, July 16th, 2009I’ve been following the video posts from the shooting of Scott Pilgrim vs The World, the movie that’s being adapted from Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of Scott Pilgrim comics. Partly this is because I dig the comics, and it seems like the filmmakers are having a wonderful time adapting them, and partly it’s because Mal [...]
It’s just vanishingly possible I’ve mentioned my appreciation for Scott Morse’s art on the blog in the past. Given that I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that he’s doing a crazy online comic called The Shogunaut, which he’s been updating regularly. He’s up to 25 pages as I type this, and will likelly complete it soon. It’s kind of a Jack Kirby-meets-Maurice-Noble thing–perhaps not for most people, but if it’s the kind of thing you like, it’s really the kind of thing you’ll like.
(0 Comments)The Warrior’s Lament
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Today I ordered a copy of Possibilities, an EP by Sierra Noble. I’d never heard of the ridiculously young Métis from Manitoba prior to today–which actually kind of surprises me–but as soon as I encountered her on the web today I knew I was going to buy the album.
What I encountered today (indirectly, via Penguin [...]
The Latest Addition
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009The latest addition the collection of stuff hanging around my house: a signed print of Wondermark #442: In which Beth keeps her Books, which I have had framed, and which is now hanging on the door to my office/library1 for obvious reasons. (Apparently Sarah told her mom tonight that Sarah and I are “bibliofiblioians”, and [...]
It has come
Friday, February 6th, 2009After more than 18 months of contemplation, I have finally broken down and tracked down a copy of the Codex Seraphinianus for myself.
The cover surprised me a bit–I was expecting something in dark colours, more like an old school leatherbound Bible, not something that looks like this:
The insides, though, are exactly what I was expecting, [...]
Another One Just For Me
Sunday, January 11th, 2009When Youtube dies, this post will be very mysterious in my archives.
Happy Accidents
Sunday, January 11th, 2009That’s “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” by Édouard Manet. I spent a bit of time thinking about it recently because of a cut-and-paste error.
It started when the guys over at SFFAudio pointed out that the podcasts of UCSD lectures are available for a limited time. Their intention was to direct us to quickly grab the [...]
Adding Some Character
Saturday, November 8th, 2008When I finally gave in to Jobs and switched from my series of non-Apple mp3 players to the iPod I wanted to give mine some character. Ironically, one of the primary reasons I switched was all the third-party stuff that was available for the iPod, so it was easy to start looking into ways to [...]
Have some art
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Man, I like Scott Morse’s work. I have mentioned that I have several pieces of his original art in the house. The stuff I have hanging, though, are Morse’s black and white ink style work (I have some originals of some of his more recent stuff not yet framed).
Here’s one of his recent colour pieces. [...]
I like Art
Thursday, September 25th, 2008I also the The Arts. Of course I’m an elitist liberal scum, but this just gives me one more reason to despise Stephen Harper. I could rant, but let’s let George at BookNinja do it instead, since he’s so good at it:
First, he tried to set up arts and culture producers, from dance companies to [...]
I can not afford some Art.
Thursday, September 11th, 2008I have survived the day of endless meetings.
As soon as the last evening meeting ended, I hauled ass down the road to the bookstore to unwind with some browsing before it closed. I made some weird purchases that I suspect I might not have made if I weren’t dazed and confused from the meeting marathon.
Case [...]
Indie Artist, multiple media
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008My pal Danny Michel just whipped up a homemade video for the track “Tell Sally” from his latest album. Check it out.
Apparently the budget for making this video was… $9.00.
I love living in the age of digital media.
Speaking of making art with digital toys, Danny has also made the all the raw tracks from his [...]
Limits Of Human Ability
Monday, August 4th, 2008Because I have a young daughter, I spend some time every week looking at various clips of dancers on YouTube, for her entertainment.
I’ve seen some pretty amazing stuff, but today I saw one that is hands down the most amazing thing. It’s a performance at the Circus Festival of Monaco, by two dancers, Wu Zhengdan [...]
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