1. Birds at Library, shot at the Vancouver Public Library March 31. I really need a better phone with a decent camera. Perfect moment by the library, had to shoot with my old 2MP camera phone. :(

    Birds at Library, shot at the Vancouver Public Library March 31. I really need a better phone with a decent camera. Perfect moment by the library, had to shoot with my old 2MP camera phone. :(

  2. Digital collage of BC Place made of found photos. I wanted to highlight the new roof’s dominance of the skyline.

    Digital collage of BC Place made of found photos. I wanted to highlight the new roof’s dominance of the skyline.

  3. Gingerbread Man, 5x7 lino cut print.

    Gingerbread Man, 5x7 lino cut print.

  4. How expanding IP laws prevent innovation and creativity.

  5. elledark: Banksy on Advertising“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers” and they are laughing at you.You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”~ Banksy

    elledark:

    Banksy on Advertising

    “People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers” and they are laughing at you.

    You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

    Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

    You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

    ~ Banksy

  6. Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.

    — 

    Jim Jarmusch (via boiledrocks

    )

    (Source: goodreads.com)

  7. We make art under the cover of darkness. We add colour and culture to fight commodification. We are many, and we are none.

  8. [Crowdsourcing sites] broker hundreds of design projects and their process is fairly typical. Customers post projects and designers bid on them. Usually (but not always) the lowest price wins.

    They make money by treating the profession of design as a commodity. It’s a volume game – if they post enough jobs, the little they make from each one adds up. This is possible because the designers who created your other 46 designs and whose work wasn’t chosen received nothing for their efforts. That happens far more often than getting an award … and is why crowdsourcing is considered by many to be exploitative.

    A consequence of crowdsourcing is that quality suffers, not only in the final logo but in the thought that goes into it. If a designer’s odds of making any money is fairly low, there is little incentive to put much craft and originality into the entries. It becomes a numbers game for the designer, too

    — “Crowdsourcing in My Face” by Laurel (via interactiondesigning)

  9. Made this today. It’s a good thing to remember.

    Made this today. It’s a good thing to remember.

  10. Mixtape For You

    Hi. I made you a mixtape – uh, I mean playlist. DL it here.

    1. Beware - Death Grips
    2. Wake Up - Arcade Fire
    3. Lately - Memoryhouse
    4. I Go Away - MNDR
    5. The Suburbs (Arcade Fire Cover) - Mr. Little Jeans
    6. Endless Nameless - EMA
    7. She Gone - Gonjasufi
    8. Humpty Dumpty - Kaamos FX
    9. When The Road Runs Out - Blonde Redhead & Devastations
    10. Drain You - Foxy Shazam