Samantha Kasdorf is a Canadian artist currently living and studying on Vancouver Island at the University of Victoria. I met her while we were both attending the U of R in Saskatchewan and I am pleased to see that she is continuing to progress in her visual arts. What we have here is …
Category Archives: Art
In the Details
I never understood why it was that the devil was in the details.
In a cosmos defined by details it leaves very little room for a god.
Details based upon details based upon details.
Fissures made of fissures.
Communities composed of units.
Units composed of communities.
Numerical infinity.
An overwhelming truth.
A storm in which we dare to advance.
Individuality intact. Nametag in check. …
History is Written by the Survivors
We are all made of starstuff. Thank you Carl Sagan (And yes later Moby) for that beautiful and awe inspiring quote. But this is simply half the story…
I am a storyteller, and as such I am also a storyfinder. Now the real problem with finding stories is not that they are difficult to find. They are everywhere. And …
A Discussion
Eric Mercer January 31 at 10:42pm
I have a subject for you to write about. In essence, it is a comparison between the industrialization of our food production to the industrialization of western human thought and intelligence.
As our food production embraces the factory system – chickens and cattle loose their worth as animals to become masses …
Give Angela Grossmann Respect Canada!
When the #8 edition of Hobo Magazine said in April 2007 : “Vancouver-based painter Angela Grossmann has had an international reputation since the late 1980s, yet still remains somewhat obscure in her adopted home of Canada.
In fact, Grossmann is so much better known and appreciated in Europe that in a survey published by The Art Newspaper …
Romania, top place for top art?!
There is a real resurgence in Romanian art these days and it seems to be coming to the fore in both art (like painting and such, I guess there are many things that fall under the term art such as porn) and in the cinema, which is my area of expertise.
First off lets talk about …
2009 A Review!
So not only is the year over but so is the decade and the endless lists of all the top of this and that. Well maybe I should stay out of it as everyone else is doing it and I don’t want to be one of the cool kids. But I do kind of want …