Archive for October, 2008

Solo Show in Edmonton as part of the
Exposure Festival

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Who Does She Think She Is? And WACK.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

You should check out the trailer that Amy Stein recently posted on her blog. The documentary is a moving depiction of women artists and their decline in the art world post graduate school (here).

On another note, last Friday I attended the Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution exhibit at the Vancouver Art gallery. The exhibit focuses on feminist art created between 1965 and 1980. At times I felt a bit like I was attending a 70s consciousness raising group, but all in all I was pretty excited to see the original scroll that  Carolee Schneemann pulled out of her vagina, sit on the floor and watch Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” and be in the same room as the artist celebrity Orlan. The exhibit is on at the VAG till January 11, 2009.

And here are some amazing audio interviews with WACK artists on the specific pieces they have hung in the show (go here and click on the subsection “highlights”).

Trouble Maker’s Handbook 2.

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Had some photos from my days of helping organize Powell’s Bookstore, in Portland, Oregon, published in this great book, Troublemaker’s Handbook 2, on how to fight the man. It retail’s for $24.

Jeff Mermelstein on street photography.

Sunday, October 5th, 2008



An interview with Jeff Mermelstein broadcast on Media Matters in 2003. It is quite an impressive interview, that shows how he works on the streets of NY.

Great Link of the Day: Perception is more powerful than truth

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

An amazing illustration of how perception affects how we perceive light, brightness and colour. Take the test and see why colour calibration can only go so far.  (Lab tests from the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University).