Emilie Mover is a singer songwriter in Toronto, Ontario. I met her in 2004 when I first moved to Toronto, and was immediately enraptured by her sad, magical songs. I was at the Tranzac for the release of her first record, Good Shake Nice Gloves. Since then she’s released a new album – also entitled [...]
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Obscure Band Showcase: Part 3 of 3 – Emilie Mover
Posted in Art on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Posted in Art, Capitalism, Philosophy, Picturesque, beginning on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal is free. This means you don’t have to pay, (except for some temporary exhibitions). That and the collection is quite astonishing – including the likes of Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, etc… There is also a serious ancient Greece exhibit which, unlike the ROM’s, doesn’t pretend that Roman [...]
The arrival of the future. Part 3 of 3: BMW’s GINA project
Posted in Art, Capitalism, Pragmatics, Things, beginning on September 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You might be wondering how a concept car could signal that the future has already arrived. Concept vehicles, we normally think, project futures that may or may not arrive. For instance, the minivan was first shown by Lancia in 1978 – but it didn’t “arrive” until Chrysler’s great success in the 1980s.
However, what we can [...]
Form inside matter
Posted in Art, Being, Body Phenomenology, Capitalism, Ethics, beginning on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The AGO currently has an exhibit in its Italian gallery of beams of wood carved away to reveal the heartwood. Literally starting with a building material, the artist is able to reveal the tree inside it – in other words, in something whose form has been neutralized, made identical (one beam is the same as [...]
Values and Religions
Posted in Art, Capitalism, Philosophy, beginning on June 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Reading Jared Diamond’s “Collapse” has got me thinking about how future historians might talk about our age, and to what extent capitalism might be interpreted as a “religion”. While that might sound far-fetched at first – hear me out. For instance, when Diamond talks about the history of Easter Island, and how changing material conditions [...]
Montreal Week
Posted in Art, Capitalism, coffee on May 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve spent the last week in Montreal at my friend Nell’s place. It’s been quite excellent getting to know the city I’ve always loved, but never for very long in person. I saw the Tam-Tams, hung out in the cemamtery with an old friend drinking Unibrou on the Molson tome, spent two days in the [...]
What is Representation?
Posted in Art, Being, Capitalism, Ethics, Philosophy, Picturesque, Pragmatics, Technology, Things, beginning on April 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What is Representation, how does the WTP turn truth into a value, and how does the inadequacy of that value require another value, and what does this allow us to say about the essence of Art?
Representation is not, at least in its purest form, the determination of the manifold of intuition as an object, [...]
A Walking Artist
Posted in Art, Being, Body Phenomenology, Ethics, Philosophy, Pragmatics on February 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Whilst walking down Dundas street last sunday, I happened across a small gallery. Inside, I found a small collection of squigly drawings. They were, in fact, drawings which had been penned by a person walking through the city, along the streets.
This was interesting for several reasons. First, they drawings are not strictly representational reproductions of [...]
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
Posted in Art, Body Phenomenology, Ethics, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Technology, writing on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On one level, Zen is a book about a motorcycle journey taken by John and his son Chris from Chicago to San Fransisco. On another, it’s a treatise about how mechanics ought be practiced. On another it’s a recollection of John’s previous life before a nervous breakdown, when he pursued the ghost of reason, and [...]
Andrea Pininfarina
Posted in Art, Technology on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Andrea Pininfarina, managing director of the Pininfarina design house, has been killed when knocked off his Vespa on his way to work. Andrew was the grandson of Battista Pininfarina, who founded the most prolific and respected automotive design house the world has yet seen. The world we live in would not look the same without [...]
