Wal Mart Classic – A Riff on an Iconic Image of Superman
This is the opposite of “Yes we can.” This is the American dream remixed and gerrymandered by the 1%. This is all that a small town boy can hope for in 2013. Wal...
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Is Gatsby Great? A Book Review
I’ve yet to see the Baz Luhrman’s cinematic take on it, but I’m certain that the shirt scene will be spectacular in 3D. However F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby still leaves me...
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Hot Docs Review — The Unbelievers
If Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss are the rock stars of the so-called New Atheism, then Gus Holwerda’s The Unbelievers is its Truth or Dare. This tour documentary follows the pair as they...
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Book Review – Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?
I started reading Sheila Heti’s novel What Should a Person Be? after several friends shared on Facebook her piece about generosity in the Canadian arts scene in response to a Globe and Mail...
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Are you Happy? Are you Helping People?
Do you ever get up in the morning and wonder if you’re doing the right thing? Do you ever think that you’re in the wrong line of work? A whole industry of career...
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Seth MacFarlane – Getting the Last Laugh at the Oscars
It looks like Seth MacFarlane is getting the last laugh. The social and traditional media outcry over his lack of “class” as the host of last night’s Academy Awards ceremony has generated more...
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I’d Thank You For Not Sharing
A few days ago, a fellow photographer initiated a 114-person Facebook chat asking all of his friends to vote for his wife in a CBC songwriting competition. As a result, my attic studio...
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If it feels like Homework don’t do it
Hey, look! It’s Douglas Coupland. The “Generation-X” author and mixed media artist was in Toronto last week giving a talk to students at Ryerson’s Faculty of Communications and Design about life beyond art...
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Hell’s Bells: Let’s Talk about Marketing
Hey Canada, do you feel like talking about Mental Illness? Well, you should! It’s Bell Let’s Talk Day, you know, the day that one of Canada’s least-loved companies donates 5 cents to mental...
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My Weekend with Superman
It started on Friday over a cup of coffee. I was telling my friend Jonathan about my disappointment in J. Michael Strazcynski’s Superman: Earth One, an alternate origin story that set up the...
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