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The bagel gave its secrets to me limply and without a fight. I was hungry and it got what was coming to it. They always do,stupid bagels. The sky was grey and overcast,threatening to rain. Large trucks blasted their horns irritably at little cars that were too slow to get out of their . . . →Read More:Mourning Coughey (A story sketch) To observe and comment on your life and world,you need to have a certain amount of objectivity –detachment –from it. If you’re too-comfortably living inside your world,you really can’t see the outside shape of it. . . . →Read More:On Writing:Having Uncommon Thoughts in Common As usual,I’m in the midst of a few different processes at the same time,all self-imposed. I moved on from my last full-time job in March,and in the past couple of months,I’ve been going through a personal re-evaluation of my skills as well as my professional identity. It’s that whole “changing my job/career/identity”mental anguish process wherein,periodically,I rattle my own cage and see what settles out from the upheaval. . . . →Read More:On Design:Fulfilling the Urge to Learn and Create For me,writing is a lot like an act of integration. Taking disparate chunks of experience and combining them into an assemblage or collage gives them added meaning. I think that this is what is intended by the word “juxtaposition”in art/design terminology. It boils down the creating a new whole out of a bunch of summed-up parts. . . . →Read More:On Writing:Visualization and Collage in Storytelling… Ken Lum’s public art piece,“Monument for East Vancouver”transforms an ad-hoc symbol of regional pride (or defiance,membership or territorial claim) into a new landmark on the city’s skyline. This piece is controversial…Some people love it,and some people hate it. . . . →Read More:The Monument for East Vancouver I just finished reading “The Emily Carr Collection”,which includes four of her books:Klee Wyck,The Book of Small,The House of All Sorts,and Growing Pains. Emily Carr’s voice has become familiar and sympathetic to me. Reading her is like listening to an old friend. In my mind,she is not Emily Carr,internationally reknowned Canadian painter. She’s just Emily. . . . →Read More:On Writing:Emily Carr’s life stories are an inspiration… My Dad was born in 1921,and as a young kid,knowing that he grew up during the Great Depression had always fascinated me. During the Great Depression,times were tough for Dad’s family,I’m sure,but I would learn in Social Studies class that other families had it much worse during that time,particularly farmers,and especially in the United States. That is the setting of Steinbeck’s major novel,“The Grapes of Wrath”. . . . →Read More:On Writing:John Steinbeck,the Grapes of Wrath,and my Dad’s Stories. During my art education at Emily Carr College in the 80s,I took a unique opportunity to study visual literacy under the college’s Dean of Education,Tom Hudson. This research and study involved developing computer-based imagery research for Tom’s telecourse,“Mark and Image”. In practical terms,it was like having a world-class personal tutor. We . . . →Read More:On Design:Visual Literacy in Interface Design All through my post-secondary education (which was four frantic,sleep-deprived,incredible years at art college),I never knew exactly what I wanted to do in art and design. Now,21 years after graduating from the ECCAD four year program and receiving my diploma in fine arts,I look at the preponderance of digital media and information systems in the world around me,and I’m amazed at how much that culture and technology have converged,and have even seemed to become practically inseparable. . . . →Read More:Reflections on a multimedia career… The raw material of a story or any creative work probably comes from at least two kinds of sources:the Subjective,and the Objective. Somewhere between these two seemingly opposite categories sits the Artist,who must decide how and when to engage either approach,and whether to use an unbalanced or balanced approach. . . . →Read More:On Research and Digging Deep:Setting the Tone for Believability |    | ||||
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