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Tags: environment
Tags: Architecture, Toronto
I saw his work this evening at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery.
“The history of art is reflected in MacKay’s superb drawing and painting style as well as the figures, the poses, the compositions, the cropping, the lighting and the mysterious ambience. This effect is achieved by an original layering technique which begins with a colour slide transformed into a black-and-white laser copy that is, in turn, reinterpreted with charcoal and pastel in a very vigorous drawing style. The surface of the drawing is brushed and splattered with melted wax that is overlaid and highlighted with oil paint. The resulting texture is visceral and contrasts with the literalness of the image.” — Monique Westra, from The Talented Mr. MacKay http://www.allanhardingmackay.ca/source.html#image
Tags: art
I attended a session this evening with Rick Hancox, one of the best documentary filmmakers in Canada who teaches a film course at Concordia University. He was introduced to film by American filmmaker George Sensel who taught in Prince Edward Island. Rick went on to study film and photography at New York University and Ohio University. He is currently working on a film about his father and the last year of his life. http://rickhancox.com/index.htm
Tags: film, photography, Rick Hancox
The New York Times shows American spending on the 200 categories that form the Consumer Price Index with colour coding that shows price increases over the last year. The article is entitled “All of Inflation’s Little Parts”.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/03/business/20080403_SPENDING_GRAPHIC.html
I listened to a webcast this afternoon on functional food trends. There are some underserved areas in relation to the trends. They include:
Healthy convenience foods for families
Nutritional bars for kids to match their nutritional requirements
Sports drinks for those 50+ years
By the way, the top new product pacesetter is Campbell’s reduced sodium soups – $101 million in sales. http://www.campbellsoup.com/lowersodium.aspx
Here is an article on the top 10 functional foods: http://sloantrend.com/Documents/2008-04IFTTop10FunctionalTrends.pdf
Tags: Food, functional food, trends
Excellent radio segment called ”It’s the Insight, Stupid” that was aired on May 3 on the Age of Persuasion radio show. Here’s the link to the audio file: http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/2008/05/its_the_insight_stupid.html#more
Tags: Advertising, CBC
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If you are a Tom Waits fan…you will enjoy the brilliance of this clip. If you are not…or don’t know him, you will thinks he’s a bit crazy. I am a fan…saw him in concert in Toronto and was transformed by his genius to weave a story. He is not just a storyteller, he is a story architect. He is a good study for a writer…he constructs a story like a building…using theatre, music, spoken word and the preconceived constructs of our mind.
I saw this printed on a banner when I was touring through the shops in downtown Toronto this afternoon. I thought it was worth repeating.
Tags: Add new tag, Nelson Mandela
