Archive for January 15th, 2009

So that's what Michael Stipe's apartment looks like

Jan 15, 2009 in On-line

I recently got hooked to the Selby, photographer Todd Selby’s portrait/drawing series of artist/creative types in their homes (yes, including Michael Stipe). There are dozens of them here. A portrait in someone’s home sheds so much insight into their character. Being shot in a familiar place definitely puts the subject at ease. It doesn’t hurt that evidence of comfortable domesticity are everywhere in these photographs.

Here’s Canadian artist David Altmejd Gangland download

in his studio in Queens

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror video

Extraordinary Rendition download And the series.

The Prince of Tides download

Smokey and the Bandit psp

Canadian Literature overload

Jan 15, 2009 in On-line

Not sure how I missed blogging about this but my friend Alexis Christmas in Connecticut move (and her friend Melanie) are currently undertaking the Canadian literary equivalent of an ultra-marathon, reading as many of the New Canadian Library.

Beneath the Surface release American Pie download This is Melanie’s synopsis of the project:

Closing the Ring dvdrip download Doctor Strange

download The Terrorist Next Door I started collecting 1970’s paperback copies of the New Canadian Library novels about 10 years ago – purely for aesthetic reasons although I always told myself that I would get to them… someday. When I had my daughter in April 2008 I had the chance to read more while nursing her a million times a day and thought it would be a good time to challenge myself and dig into those paperbacks starting at #1 and seeing how many I could get through.

They are currently on a bit of a detour, reading all five books in this year’s Canada Reads. CBC’s battle of the books The Dark Crystal psp for all you non-Canadians reading this. But will undoubtedly return to tales of snow, wilderness and frontiersmen (and the brave, hardy women that follow them) in no time.