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Head of Stone

December 3, 2009 – 8:26 am

The carvings at the new headquarters of RJW Stonemasons here in Ottawa are stunning:

Carved face by Jason Beaudet

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“You’re only a rebel from the waist downwards,” he told her.

July 15, 2009 – 1:22 pm

Alexander Charchar reimagines the cover art for Nineteen Eighty-Four:

1984 Reimagined
(Via the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.)

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Easy as ABC

April 30, 2009 – 10:08 am

It has been too long since I’ve posted anything worthwhile. Mostly because I’ve been working on this:

A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky

It’s done now. Will write soon.

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The unlikely boom of the wheelbarrow repair industry.

February 15, 2009 – 4:21 pm

Incredible images of pre-inflationary German currency on Flickr:

(Via MeFi)

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A Want to Believe

December 18, 2008 – 1:44 am

Eliza Gauger introduces us to Eric Fortune:

A Want To Believe

Eric Fortune’s introspective paintings make me a touch melancholy. Part of that is the content: iconic girls in balletic poses with implied, sad goals, rendered with milky color. But it is also the very existence of such a person as Mr. Fortune, who is 32 years old and until a few days ago, totally unknown to me. Bratty yahoos like the kid who recently vomited on a Mondrian (Google it; I refuse to give that bore any more linkage) are more widely recognized as “artists” than the ramen-supping drudges who can pluck scenes like this from their live, nude brains. On demand, even. As if function, skill, and work ethic were somehow antithesis to appreciation.

But I am not yet bitter. Merely tangy.

(via ECTOPLASMOSIS!)

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You got your art in my architecture!

November 24, 2008 – 2:37 pm

Design done right: Using technology to build a bridge between problem-solving and art. The Dutch have always had stunning currency design (I will forever lament the loss of the guilder, and what is perhaps the most beautiful banknote ever produced), and their new coder-designed 5 euro coin is amazing:

5 Euro Macro Crop

The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition for which a selected group of architectural offices (unstudio, nox, …) and artists were invited, including myself. The goal of the competition was not to design a building, but the new 5 euro commemorative coin with the theme ‘Netherlands and Architecture’. The winner will be rewarded with a nice price, but most of all with the honor: his design will be realized and will be a legal coin within the Netherlands.

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AVS WP

July 2, 2008 – 7:32 pm

I’ve just posted a half-dozen wallpapers to the Ad·ver·sary site. They are big, but shiny:

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حفظه ال

May 29, 2007 – 9:08 pm

One of the world’s most famous and revered Islamic calligraphers, Khalil Al-Zahawi (also known as the “elder of calligraphers” – shaykh al-khattatin) was gunned down outside of his home in Baghdad, another casualty in the ever-escalating sectarian war on culture and learning.

Once the largest city in the world and the center of human art and science, it’s slowly being transformed by soldiers and fanatics into a city of terrified, uneducated peasants.

May their gods preserve them — it’s obvious that we cannot.

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December 21, 2005 – 11:08 pm


Shadow Mechanics

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graffiti continued (or: designated riot zone)

November 19, 2003 – 5:45 pm

Robin Banks (pun intended) AKA Banksy is my favourite UK graffiti and stencil artist. Activist, artist, and part of the growing movement to reclaim ‘public’ space.

“Graffiti writers are not real villains. I am always reminded of this by real villains who consider the idea of breaking in someplace, not stealing anything and then leaving behind a painting of your name in four foot high letters the most retarded thing they ever heard.”



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