Month: May 2012

I’m sitting in the backyard, reacquainting myself with Paul Graham’s delightful book Hackers & Painters. I bought it a while ago, liked what I found in it, but set it aside before I finished it.

I don’t love every iPhone doodle that Hockney puts out, but quite a few do appeal to me. They show, in quite a raw and simple way, how Hockney’s practiced eye and mind work to build images. They are smart, they are crafty, and quite often they evoke emotional response… at least in me.
Here are a few more for you to check out.
Whether or not you like his work, I think anyone who knows anything about the history of Western Art must grant that Hockney knows his stuff. He has studied everybody and has appropriated an amazing amount of what he has learned.

The Golden Pen documentary airs tonight on TV for the first time, so Kash Kashmeri is doing the rounds, giving it a publicity boost. His CBC radio interview starts in about half an hour. Here’s a bit of his announcement.

… I present Danica’s photo of the newborn robins that just hatched on our front porch pillar. Messy eaters. Danica calls my attention to the worm goop spattered above the nest.
So who’s Charlotte Jane Magill? None other than the latest addition to the family of Chrissy and Barry Magill in Tonbridge, England. Chrissy is the daughter of our friend Kathleen Tatham who is there to help and to enjoy the company of Charlotte Jane’s big sister, Kaitlyn. Everybody is doing well.

There are no bad jobs. There’s only bad pay. Being Finance Minister, chauffered around, wining, dining and travelling at public expense, should pay 10 bucks an hour. Cleaning public toilets for the TTC should bring in around a hundred thou a year.

Of all that was disgusting and continues to be disgusting about G20 security excesses in 2010 Toronto, the jailing and persecution of Byron Sonne was one of the worst. Today, our so-called judicial system finally declared him Not Guilty of anything and cut him loose.

AGO link
Brian, Danica and I spent 3 hours in there today and it was just enough time to get all the way around the HUGE number of pieces on display. (Thanks for the iPhone snaps, Brian).
I don’t know where the time went. Full marks to the curators who organized the exhibition.

Just spectacular.

Yard sale!

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Link:Toronto Doors Open 2012