Canada 150 Stamp Series
From Canada Post, kind of disappointing as a representation for 150 years. Other than the Trans Canada Highway, there isn’t much older history.
Month: June 2017
Canada 150 Cap
From Red Canoe, online.
Ontario Blogging Women
I started a Twibe (a Twitter based group) for Ontario Blogging Women. We can talk about anything but the idea is to get together in real time, have coffee, meet real people in real places. You can bring the digital world with you but lets see some faces.
Update – The Twibe is long gone. But, I created a new link via Blogger.
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The sad thing about checking links is finding abandoned projects, like the 24 Hour Zine Thing.
… Read the restThe 24 Hour Zine Challenge asks zinesters to create a 24-page zine from conception to final product in 24 hours straight. Zines should be of suitable size and technical difficulty so that this truly is a challenge for individual zinesters.
An Idea is Like a Ghost
“An idea, like a ghost, (according to the common notion of a ghost), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself”. – Dickens
Les Miserables: Even After all These Years
My sister-in-law gave me Les Miserables (by Victor Hugo) for Christmas one year. It was a big book, a tome. But, I was curious. I hadn’t read the book, seen the movies or performances. Also, the story is over 100 years old (closing in on 200 years even) and I really like history. What better way to see history than from the words written by someone who was there.
… Read the rest How Honest is your Review?
I don’t especially like writing reviews. They are tricky. I don’t like to be negative or critical, it makes me feel petty. But, a review needs honesty – otherwise it isn’t worth much at all.
… Read the restAmazon’s lawyers are willing to go after anyone making money from writing reviews, no matter how small that “business” may be.
Jenny Holzer Writes Projections as Art
Jenny Holzer is an artist presenting ideas in words for public spaces. 
… Read the restThe public dimension is integral to Holzer’s work. Her large-scale installations have included advertising billboards, projections on buildings and other architectural structures, and illuminated electronic displays. LED signs have become her most visible medium, although her diverse practice incorporates a wide array of media including street posters, painted signs, stone benches, paintings, photographs, sound, video, projections, the Internet, and a race car for BMW.
In Time We Won’t Be Here
I often think about the future and history. They aren’t opposites really. The future becomes the past and the past inspires the future. But, in between, what do people in the future think about people in the past? All the things we have written… will anyone read them?
That bugs me. People may or may not read what I write now.
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