Tired Spiral
History of Graphic Design
From the University of the Arts in Philadelphia
Liquor and Lit
A Portrait of the Writer as a Drunk
Fair Copyright for Canada
Overview of bill C-61, the proposed amendment to Canadian copyright law. [More Analysis]
The Genius of Miles Davis
with YouTube vids.
Skateboarding shot at 120 frame per second using a Red camera.
Knitted Dome
Summer Memories
More photos (along with the above two) from my summer. [2008]
Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father
Dealing with memory lost.
Frenglish a Muxtape
aka Franglais in tunez.
Working Class Hero (Found exploring the TumblrSphere.)
Canadian Tories Continue to Cut Federal Arts Funding
Contributions cut this week by the conservative government:
- $300,000 cut from the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, which archives and makes available for distribution film, television and musical recordings.
- $1.5 million cut from the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, which helps top up the budgets of independent films and triggers private investment.
- $2.5 million cut from the National Training Program in the Film and Video Sector.
Federal programs canceled this week by the conservative government:
- The ProMart program, an artists’ travel support fund. ($4.7 million)
- The Trade Routes program that supports film and music exports. ($9 million)
- The Stabilization Project and Capacity Building program, which provides financial and administrative support to art groups.
[source]
Tories cut funding for artists touring abroad. — CBC:
Ideology played a role in decision, spokesperson acknowledges.
Want a ‘culture of innovation’? Fund our artists. — Globe and Mail:
First we have Bill C-10, the bid to deny tax credits to what the Heritage Minister calls “indecent material.” Meanwhile, other art forms have been told they are insufficiently “mainstream” and their funding has been cut through the cancellation of Trade Routes and PromArt.
‘Left-wing’ writer denies applying for travel grant — Globe and Mail:
The cuts to arts programs hit on a favourite theme of the Tories - cutting spending that appears wasteful and elitist - to gain political advantage in some target markets.
Amazing but True Cat Stories
Written and illustrated by a hive mind.
Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly-Understood and Sloppily-Formulated Ideas - 1969
[pdf] - An html version is also available.
Face Swapping: Automatically Replacing Faces in Photographs
Found searching Blogonia for “propositional calculus”:
- Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part I
- Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part II
- Alain Badiou - Course on Logic - Part III
“A translation of lecture notes from a course on Logic delivered by Alain Badiou in 1980 - 81. It is rather short and deals specifically with Gödel and his theorem of incompleteness.”