This weekend I went on an expedition hosted by The Only Animal to the Bear Sanctuary on the sunshine coast, in an old-growth rain forest which hasn’t been in a fire for 3000 years. We saw Culturally Modified Trees (where indigenous people had stripped bark to produce blankets, etc) and bear dens (hollow trees where […]
This is Not A War
Pakistan has jumped into pipeline business with China and self-determination and human rights are, of course, an obstacle to that. Sabeen Mahmoud lost her life this week because of her interest in Baluchi independence. I made ths video in Baluchistan in 1998, but much of the geopolitics is still in play.
Flick shows new digital photo drawings at Capture Photography festival
I’ll be showing some original artwork at the Capture Photography Festival as part of the Arts Umbrella Alumni and Student show. The festival celebrates lens-based art, and my work pushes that definition to the limit with digital drawings taken from original photos. The texture of my prints is an unusual way to encounter digital work. […]
Yanis Varoufakis is my new Economics Professor
Figuratively speaking, that is. I just drew this portrait of him and now I want to explain why. I first liked him when he spoke of dismantling the media oligopolies in Greece. His interview on that subject hit my radars at the same time as Sun News TV, the conservative mouthpiece in Canada, finally ran […]
Banning niqabs is just as fascist as forcing women to wear them.
As we commemorate St Valentine’s beheading!
Anonymoose at CineEco Film Festival in Portugal
The film I made with Catherine Falkner during a residency at Black Bag Media Collective in St John’s, Newfoundland is now in distribution with VIVO media arts, and the first screening from this relationship is happening at CineEco environmental film festival in Portugal in October (or as they say in Portugal, “outubro”! The film, a […]
“A Moving” at the International Film Festival of Kashmir
4th International Film Festival of Kashmir 2014 The dance film I made with Rob Kitsos, “A Moving,” has been accepted to the Kashmir International Film Festival from August 2-11 2014! If you just happen to be in the Kashmir, that would be your chance to see it … 😉
Why Google Glass Is So Bad and Hated and Will Never Work
I love this article and agree completely. Why Google Glass Is So Bad and Hated and Will Never Work. “People pay thousands of dollars to have lasers shot at their eyes so they don’t have to wear glasses. People put little pieces of plastic right on their eyes so they don’t have to wear glasses. […]
Introduction to Final Cut Pro @ VIVO Media Arts
VIVO has not disappeared, it’s just gone underground while the landlord laughs and the City of Vancouver steps in to the rescue. I’m teaching my very popular Final Cut Pro X workshop there on July 12th, now EXTENDED by one hour to fill you up with Apply goodness. Total 4 hours (Saturday, July 12th, 1-5pm) […]