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The Art of Tim Jocelyn

Tim Jocelyn was a central figure in the art scene that exploded around Toronto’s Queen Street West in the early 1980s. He first emerged as an innovative designer of clothing and fashion accessories, for which ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

By Michael Ondaatje

Thought about film editing lately? As the guy who leaves the cuttings on the cutting room floor, Walter Murch has given the final shape to a host of seminal American movies – including The Conversation, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver

By Karen Love, ed.

Is it possible to capture the essence of a city by photographing its inhabitants? That is the underlying goal of Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver ($29.95 paper 1-55152-127-X, 160 pp., 8 x 10, Arsenal Pulp ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination

By Penny Cousineau-Levine

Finally, a theoretical examination of contemporary Canadian photography that is not only insightful and impressively researched but is beautifully designed and makes for a darn good read. In Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

By Gillian Robinson, ed.

The Inuit-made film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner gains much of its power from documentary verisimilitude, to say nothing of the unforgettable image of a naked man running for his life over a vast ice floe. ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Every Building on 100 West Hastings

By Stan Douglas

Long deemed by many to be Canada’s worst neighbourhood, and further degenerated by the infusion of cheap crack cocaine, most of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood has resisted all efforts at gentrification and reform. A block ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Heroines

By Lincoln Clarkes

Lincoln Clarkes is a Canadian fashion photographer who has made his mark both at home and in Paris and London. In 1996 he began a series of photographs whose subjects could not be less glamorous ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Paul Has a Summer Job

By Michel Rabagliati

Having rekindled a passion for the comics medium, 40-year-old graphic designer and illustrator Michel Rabagliati has emerged with a surprisingly full set of chops. Rabagliati’s first graphic novel, Paul Has a Summer Job, pays tribute ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Inanna

By Kim Echlin

The ancient kingdom of Sumer, located in what is now Iraq, gave the world its first form of written language. Sumerian cuneiform was used to record the world’s first written poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh. ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest

By David Spaner

There’s a telling moment in David Spaner’s book on the history of Vancouver filmmaking when West Coast writer and director Bruce Sweeney arrives at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival’s opening-night gala with his award-winning ... Read More »