My first memories of Gordon Lightfoot are hearing his music coming from the old transistor radio in the corner of the kitchen in the house where I grew up in Ancaster, Ontario. Late seventies, early eighties. The radio was always on. I remember hearing Buddy Holly for the first time. I remember Barry Manilow and [...]
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Talking to Nathaniel G. Moore about SAVAGE: The Art of Macho Madness
Check out this interview with Nathaniel G Moore about his interesting new exhibition at The White House in Toronto’s Kensington Market. CRANBURY / MOORE / SAVAGE INTERVIEW The mercurial and evanescent Nathaniel G Moore – check out his eponymous website, Critical Crushes – is curating SAVAGE: CULT OF PERSONALITY, PURE MEDIA & THE ART OF [...]
Robert Dugoni: This Day We Write! Live Audio from Surrey International Writers’ Conference
I had the pleasure of meeting Robert Dugoni today. He’s a Seattle writer who has come to the Surrey International Writers’ Conference to teach a few master classes, inspire some writers, and maybe blow a few minds along the way. Earlier in the morning I had checked out his website while battling a vintage brew [...]
Bookcamp Vancouver: Spring 2012 at the W2 Media Cafe #BCVan12
hands-on letterpress sessions, graphic design, social media workshops, aboriginal writing and publishing, build your own ebook, P2P marketing and distribution strategies, agents, community building through events, exploring marginalized writing communities, bookselling, grant writing, collaborative book creation, art and photography books, children’s books, cross-media mash-ups, your great ideas and more.
Planting Seeds: Indie Authors Cut Out the Middleman, Develop New Models
We live in an age of disintermediation. An age where middlemen are cut from equations like fat off the bone. In book publishing the web is increasingly demonstrating how little need there is for some intermediaries to exist. Like the buggy whip before it these once useful utilities to various processes are being replaced by something else.
Talking to David Shields About Reality Hunger
David Shield’s book, Reality Hunger, arrived right on time. The publishing industry struggled to come to grips with realities of life in the digital age, and questions of copyright, remixing and appropriation of written work started to penetrate the pages of blogs and national newspapers. Historically reliable distribution chains were being circumvented and traditional methods [...]
W2 Utopia Festival: Vancouver Women Read | Saturday March 5 2011
The Utopia Festival will celebrate women in electronic arts, educate through workshops, and inspire with an evening showcase performance featuring the largest line-up of women in electronic music in Western Canada.
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Every time a book comes up in conversation, your dude friends will ask “Did you listen to that on audio book?,” and then they will laugh. Less dude-like people, people less invested in making fun of you, will just cock their heads to the side and ask you why you do it. As if liking books were not enough! As if it weren’t the best thing in the world to have someone read to you! As if you had something better to do!
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