Tag: art

I was rapt. Edge-jazz delicious. Oh yes.

Turns out not only was Benoit Delbecq* playing, it was in sexy, sexy duet with Andy Milne, founder of the continually tasty Dapp Theory!

Tomorrow, Friday the 24th, to continue with my impromptu Week of Fine Art that started so well with The Black Rider, I’ll be going to see Safa, an improvisational group made up of Amir Koushkani, Sal Ferreras and Francois fricking Houle, inspired by Sufi poetry and Persian classical music. They’re playing for free at the West Van Library at seven o’clock.

Also at the Library, earlier, from ten:thirty until noon, The Philospher’s Cafe is going to be hosting a discussion led by Conrad Hadland entitled “Is Richard Dawkins delusional?”. Michael and Howler and I are going. As far as I know, they’ve never met, but I expect we’ll have fun. Black humour is black humour, after all, no matter how healing-crystal the vocabulary.

In other news, I aced a job interview today, and have a secondary interview on Monday that I’m feeling optimistic about. If all goes well, I’ll have a Real Job with an illustration licensing company down on Granville Island come February. I’ve got my fingers crossed. Considering what Vancouver’s like, it sounds like a wonderful opportunity. (I’m still working on that whole Driver’s License thing though, so if anyone’s got a car and a spare hour…)

*listen especially to line 6, found on pianobook.

speaking of experimental artists, I’m going to see Benoit Delbecq tonight

365 day twenty-three: portrait of a girl
365: day twenty-three

Avant-Garde Dating is a new experimental dating service for artists. Very experimental. Hosted by Wooloo, an artists-run organization based in Berlin, it’s not for actually for dating at all, but exists soley to host a competition exploring issues associated with relationships. To apply, artists must explain how they will pry at the sticky conventions of monogamous love, challenge the very idea of artistic collaboration and/or explore one of the other diverse stereotypes of human pairing. Based on the applications, a Dating Board will pair artists off with each other, then later judge the “winners”, as three of these couples will be later awarded a one week exhibition during the Art Forum in Berlin to “further explore the concept of human partnering.” No, I am not applying.

Anyone up for teaching me to drive, like, yesterday?

edit: yay brian! any other takers? this has shuffled to the urgent pile of my things-to-get-done.

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AddArt is a wicked Firefox add-on being developed by American artist Steve Lambert. Inspired by AdBlock, which removes advertisements from web-pages, AddArt will not only block ads, it replaces them with images created by artists. The idea is to run the AddArt concept somewhat like an art gallery with different curators responsible for organizing the shows. It’s only a prototype at the moment, but hopefully it will be functional soon. What I would like to see is this project to go through with an approval system, like the thumbs-up thumbs-down of StumbleUpon, so that a user could better define what sort of art they’re interested in.