Among the very many cool things happening in Paris this week (seriously, what gives?) is an art show by Tom Sachs titled “White”, where he meticulously papercrafts science-fictiony sculptures. His best work, though, is science fact – an enormous Saturn V, Lunar Module and Orbiter. WOW! This blew me away! So much amazing detail!

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Natasha and I ducked into Ottawa U’s Tabaret Hall building on Saturday to get out of the rain on our way to see a Fringe festival play, and discovered some really fun art hanging on the walls. Manon Elder’s “High Tea” series captures portraits of awesome Canadian women holding teacups… from the neck down. This [...]

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To say that I’m a fan of Roger Ebert is maybe an understatement – I have been following (and mostly agreeing with) his film reviews for as long as I can remember – Siskel and Ebert would come on Sunday afternoons before the Sunday movie matinees on TVO and I’d watch the two of them [...]

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I found a nifty sidewalk chalk character outside a kids’ store during Westfest, a dinosaur monster someone drew among all the scribbling of the toddlers. I’ve been itching to bring a box of coloured chalks home and doodle out some art on the sidewalks in front of our building, but I haven’t gotten around to [...]

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We were out with Nigel and the family a little while ago and while Rowan was climbing around on the equipment at the park, some neighborhood kids borrowed her recumbent trike-thing that Nigel built and were racing it around recklessly, eliciting gasps from the adults until one of them finally (predictably) ran into another.
There was [...]

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To get out of the house the other night we went for a stroll through Westboro, which is a great little neighbourhood. The snow was coming down heavily and it was a bit nippy outside, so we ducked into a few little shops and galleries along the way, including a tiny and well-hidden art shop [...]

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Every so often I check in on this british company called “Advanced Rendering Technology” or (conveniently) ART for short. They make special chips for doing all your rendering mathematics very very quickly. Before, you could buy clusters of processors for some huge amount of money… and I’d always decided that if I were a silly [...]

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