February 2012
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Globe and Mail: In search of higher-fat butter →
towerofsleep:
blownspeakers:
Why it’s so hard to get good butter here.
Well, that was educational. I had no idea what we were missing out on. Who knew we had such prohibitive butter laws in Canada?
SRSLY. I wanted to make a cream sauce tonight for dinner but then when I was in the aisle all I could get was a cream-milk blend held together with carrageenan gum. If I’m going to start...
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An invitation (and warning)
On Sunday I am going to start an open-table game of Dungeons and Dragons (ish). At the Empress ale house, 7pm (a little late can be OK, spectators welcome as long as they are ready for me to trick them into actually playing). It is, in the words of one curious potential player, “a really really informal low key…D&D day”. It will hopefully continue on a weekly basis. There is...
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January 2012
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“Why is pop music the only art form that still inspires such arrantly stupid...”
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Lana Del Rey’s Image on “Born to Die” : The New Yorker Sasha Frere-Jones gets the January 2012 award for accuracy!
A commenter wrote in reply to this: “Agree with the sentiment, but actors act; musicians create music. We’re not implicitly invited to suspend disbelief with the latter.”...
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“The first time I wrote about Lana Del Rey, in a column, a few months back, I...”
– Nitsuh Abebe – Important Retraction / Note on Camp
This is relevant to everything.
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December 2011
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On Multiculturalism
ndnsurgency:
sofriel:
I see so many Canadians on Tumblr pronouncing how much more forward-thinking Canada is because its history of racism is simply different than that of the United States. Canada has not solved the racism problem nor has it even come close to doing so. We in the United States may be more open about talking about racism but because the discussion is slightly different in...
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VIDEO: OWS Occupies Movie-Set Replica Of Itself,... →
It’s straight out of a Don Delillo novel: A few hours after television producers set up a replica of Occupy Wall Street for the filming of a new episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit, the real Occupy Wall Street announced plans to occupy the fake one. At 11:30 p.m. the call to occupy the set went out on Twitter. It’s located at nearby Foley Square and includes a replica of the OWS...
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Like Minded →
hydeordie:
It has been a while since the Turner prize really enraged me. Only yesterday I was praising it. This art prize often used to make my blood boil. Then in 2009, I was on the Turner jury: I didn’t annoy myself at all. I worked hard to make sure that every decision the jury made was one I was happy with – especially the winner, Richard Wright. Then, last year, there was a kind of OK,...
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“With Performa having recently concluded and in the wake of the Marina Abramovic...”
– Visual Art Performance vs. Contemporary Performance | Culturebot
Although this article is about dance– and theatre-based performance rather than music, this is what my work is about.
I think the writer has a bit of a blind spot that shows here:
From the artistic director I was told, “The...
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“15 years after it was coined, the term RA has perhaps saddled the art it...”
– The Fall of Relational Aesthetics,” Andrew Russeth for the New York Observer. (via jenlindblad)
About art that is sometimes good but associated with bad philosophy, with a touch of car-theft.
November 2011
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Ekstasis: #Occupy as Live Action Role-Playing →
ekstasis:
Joanne McNeil at Rhizome opened her post about #OWS with this: “On a quiet night, Zuccotti Park feels more like a LARP than a demonstration. Everyone deep in character with a specific task…” We have knowledge, but nothing to do with it; skills, but never opportunities to use them; time, energy and no way to put them to productive use. Our surplus is a virtual one, so we put it to...
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More sad songs for the new week →
http://nothingbutthehits.tumblr.com
Every weekday
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“As we neared midnight, the rational American in me freaked out. You could feel...”
– Jerry Saltz on Ragnar Kjartansson’s Transcendent Twelve-Hour Operatic Performance – Vulture
Sounds about right.
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“All the cows were whisked away. And all that was left were the little shadows...”
– NPR | Cow Clicker Founder: If You Can’t Ruin It, Destroy It
Via: barthel
“Woody Guthrie didn’t just want to sing about justice; he didn’t just want to...”
– Tarantino, Nazis, and Movies That Can Kill You - Christian Thorne.
Wowowow this is really good and it’s not even what it’s about! The conclusion is a lot like how I felt when I saw the movie but this article is really excellent and surprisingly relevant to the way I think about making...
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“intentionally ‘broken’ or otherwise incomplete game systems can help support a...”
– Game Studies - Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now: On Self-Effacing Games and Unachievements by Douglas Wilson
This is a very interesting essay to me. It talks about the same kinds of things I was dealing with in International Espionage, and Douglas Wilson’s term for ambiguous social...
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Watchdropouthangoutspaceout:
Panel at DiGRA on modern board games. Of special interest to you might the discussion of the inspiration and impact of the game War on Terror (which is a board game that is amazing that also includes a balaclava with the word “EVIL” on it).
Hosted by: Ben Kirman (lecturer in game design at the University of Lincoln, ben.kirman.org) and José Zagal (game designer,...
October 2011
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everything suddenly went quiet in the end →
davidthorjons:
soiree retreat has left empty rooms and halls that once were filled with sounds and joy
always keep on creating
strength
inspiration
fearless people
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Watchinreveries:
Composition for finding harmony (with two harmonicas)
Featuring Piet Langeveld
September 2011
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August 2011
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“The lowest circle of hell. Contrary to public opinion it is not populated by...”
– Zbigniew Herbert
I’m coming to Alberta next week.
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“For defective consumers, those contemporary have-nots, non-shopping is the...”
– The London Riots – On Consumerism coming Home to Roost
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July 2011
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June 2011
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“a very compelling experience that I would love to play again”
– International Espionage - igFest11 Reviews
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INTERNATIONAL ESPIONAGE EDMONTON
manhunt-edmonton:
SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2011, 2:00 PM
MEET BEHIND THE STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY
International Espionage is an exciting spy game about thwarted expectations and failures in communication, with water pistols.
You’re on a team. You’ve got a briefcase packed with secret documents and supplies, sealed hand-out assignments, a map, and a rendezvous to make - but double agents...
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Final Woodlands Artist in Residence performances
I have just three final events left this week for my residency at Woodlands. If you haven’t gotten a chance to see me performing or participate so far, this is when you can do it.
A Game for Woodlands – Sunday 5 June
This Sunday is the “big lunch” picnic starting at 1:00 in Woodlands Community Garden (91-111 W Prince’s Street) and I’ll be providing some...
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