My Ramblings
Royalties and Resale Rights: Who benefits from artwork sales?
This is a thought-provoking message from CAR/FAC (Canadian Artists' Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens) that highlights one of the reasons that many visual artists, no matter how valuable their works may become, continue to live at poverty levels in...
Why we need creative people
Even in the face of yet another blow, a sense of humour and quality production values (and respect for copyright, of course) prevail in British Columbia's cultural community ...
The downside of victimhood
< div class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; display: block;"> July 11, 2010 Consider this excerpt from an 1826 essay by William Hazlitt (quoted by Sasha Abramsky in his article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 11, 2010 - Look Ahead in Anger: Hyperbolic...
Mind Heist
Mind Heist by Zack Hemsey
Building Digital Canada
I wanted to let you know about a recent epiphany that has me finally grokking the digital policy landscape and what needs doing about it. All because I was sick and channel surfing. I happened to catch a broadcast on CPAC of the June 8 Panel at the Telecom conference...
Bait and Switch
Barbara Eirenreich speaks. We listen. It's strangely familiar... Pulling back the curtain on the paradigm of employment and jobseeking in white collar America, even in 2005 when this interview took place, reveals some hard truths about how we are preparing our...
The Gift
MC Yogi - Give Love (Giving4Living Mix) from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
Cognitive Surplus: put it to work..
I love synergistic thinking. Clay Shirky has hit on something that I appreciate with all my quirky soul. A fascinating analysis of the side-effect of paradigm shifts on the humans trying to cope with them. This is an excerpt from the transcription of the video...
Council supports Cultural Plan in tough times
Despite the need to make deep cuts in spending as a result of steeply-reduced revenues, Vancouver City Council recognized the importance of maintaining the momentum on implementation of the Cultural Plan as a contributor to local economic regeneration. Full details of...