@ValLisitsa in Donetsk
Valentina plays
… in Donetsk, east Ukraine, under Russian occupation. Aah.. actually no. Actually, under Kiev bombardment. And for what? Federalize already, and let these people live in peace.
Valentina will play
The true north (according to the official narrative) strong enough (we’d like to think) to bear a dissenting voice, and free enough (we really really hope) to let it be heard. O Canada.
Will Calgary stand?
Pictures from an Exhibition
The Transience of Value
April 24th to May 31st, 2015, in the Salon Shop at Gallery Gachet, an artist-run centre in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Photo: Graeme K. Nix
Photo: courtesy Gallery Gachet
Photo: Graeme K. Nix
Photo: courtesy Gallery Gachet
Photo: courtesy Gallery Gachet
Photo: courtesy Gallery Gachet
Photo: Graeme K. Nix
Photo credits: Graeme K. Nix and Gallery Gachet.
The Transience of Value
Gallery Gachet
Salon Shop exhibition: The Transience of Value by Lena Tan.
Opening reception: Friday, April 24th, 7.00 – 10.00 pm
Exhibition runs: April 24th – May 31st, 2015
Lena Tan carries forward forgotten traditions into a contemporary society that leaves a trail of increasingly obvious destruction behind it. Hand-worked lace, based on the pattern work of Irish women crocheting for survival through the Great Famine of the mid-19th century, meld with the flotsam of the daily commuter. Repurposed bus tickets & crochet become micro meditations on transit and transformation. Permanence fused on to transience. Can the invalidated be made valid again through art?
Let Valentina play
Valentina Lisitsa:
Yes, Toronto Symphony is going TO PAY ME NOT TO PLAY because I exercised the right to free speech.
Yes, they will pay my fee but they are going to announce that I will be unable to play and they already found a substitute.
And they even threatened me against saying anything about the cause of the cancellation.
Shostakovich Sonata No. 2 Mov 3 Finale
Update at CTV.
More info at CBC.
Pixelations
Pixelation #1
Limited by the original resolution, surfaces pixelate at very high magnifications.
World’s Most Charitable
Bill Gates pledged to give away half his fortune and persuaded Warren Buffet to do the same. In 2010, the duo started The Giving Pledge to sign up other billionaires to their cause.
In 2010 Gates’s net worth was $54 billion, and Buffet’s $45 billion. In 2015, today, Gates’s net worth is $79.2 billion, and Buffet’s $71.3 billion. Way to go, Bill and Warren. You prove that great generosity garners great rewards.
Original poster sighted in La Bodeguita, Havana, Cuba, 1979
Squares
block1-a
Tiny areas under high magnification – mind machine meld – lose your self in here.
“Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees.” The Art of Colour, Johannes Itten
Accidental colour
Landscape #1
Layering coloured light, like layering paints, can produce unexpectedly beautiful results.
Found Images 