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Six Months As An Online Predator
If you are at all interested in watching our culture’s bald-faced approach to economics, try buying and selling online. We are spiritually diverse in the most wonderful ways….. until it comes to...
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Will Success Pamper Or Torment Cherry Suede?
In music, success today means have to scale your time to fan expectations. It can be a tough slog for indie bands like Cherry Suede. Courtesy of Alex Eben Meyer. It happens so infrequently that when...
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Why Armchair Leftists Are Defaming Capitalism And Other Arts Issues
Entrepreneurialism is the new black for all artists living in this millennium. Even when Andy Warhol was taking the piss out of this exact concept 50 years ago, it isn’t likely he ever thought of a...
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Three Lessons About Becoming An Arts Entrepreneur
Part 2 of arts and the entrepreneur. Part 1 here. The key to being a successful arts entrepreneur is finding the right Program to purchase. Ottawa’s Adrian Salamunovic promises to get you noticed by...
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Kharas Creates Message Of Love, Death and, Ultimately, Hope
The pain of a mother who can’t hold her dying child is one of the intense moments in Ebola: A Poem For The Living, a new animated video that is trying to help stop the spread of the disease in West...
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One More Reason FOX News Should Never Be Trusted
Courtesy of RINF.com Poor Amy Parkinson. The day after the young Toronto woman broke up with her boyfriend Carl Matthews, he won just over $360,000 in online Bingo. The Fox news story about this...
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How Ignoring Art Can Get You Killed
A child’s ability to express fear and alienation has benefits that know no borders. In 2012 a poster show in Islamabad by children about terrorist violence was a huge success for the Pakistan...
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Translators Without Borders: When Linguistics Saves Lives
The Ebola-prevention video “Ebola: A Poem For The Living” could only have reached millions of West Africans with the help of Translators Without Borders. Courtesy of Chocolate Moose Media. By...
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Andrew Huggett: Advertising Tunes and Saving Lives
Andrew Huggett often has so much music running around his head that he’s got to replace it with something else. Courtesy of Facebook/Andrew Huggett. Like hundreds of Baby Boomers growing up in...
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Trying To Take The “Less” Out Of “Thankless”
Frank O’Dea will speak at the Option Bytown 25th Anniversary evening at 141 Catherine St. Photo courtesy of the Montreal Gazette. One of the most thankless jobs around is trying to help people who have...
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Techno-Steroids Or Why Selfies Matter
You think Selfies are just a modern indulgence? Think again. Courtesy of BBC.com. Nash Grier is kind of dreamy, if you like that sort. If you haven’t heard of him, you are a) over 18 years old, b)...
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RUSSELL YURISTY – STILL UNPREDICTABLE
Sleeping Pig (2013), by Russell Yuristy. Courtesy of Cube Gallery. When Russell Yuristy was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts last year, it reminded me of a question I had asked him...
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Where Did All The Borders Go?
Pain Without Borders,” another entry into the “Without Borders” family of humanitarian organizations. But what does Pain Without Borders mean? Courtesy of Douleurs sans Frontieres. A shorter version of...
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Kharas Creates Message Of Love, Death and, Ultimately, Hope
The pain of a mother who can’t hold her dying child is one of the intense moments in Ebola: A Poem For The Living, a new animated video that is trying to help stop the spread of the disease in West...
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One More Reason FOX News Should Never Be Trusted
Courtesy of RINF.com Poor Amy Parkinson. The day after the young Toronto woman broke up with her boyfriend Carl Matthews, he won just over $360,000 in online Bingo. The Fox news story about this...
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How Ignoring Art Can Get You Killed
A child’s ability to express fear and alienation has benefits that know no borders. In 2012 a poster show in Islamabad by children about terrorist violence was a huge success for the Pakistan...
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Translators Without Borders: When Linguistics Saves Lives
The Ebola-prevention video “Ebola: A Poem For The Living” could only have reached millions of West Africans with the help of Translators Without Borders. Courtesy of Chocolate Moose Media. By...
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Andrew Huggett: Advertising Tunes and Saving Lives
Andrew Huggett often has so much music running around his head that he’s got to replace it with something else. Courtesy of Facebook/Andrew Huggett. Like hundreds of Baby Boomers growing up in...
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Firdaus Kharas’ Forest Of Videos
The director and the composer. Andrew Huggett (right) has composed virtually all the music during the past 20 ears for Firdaus Kharas’ animation projects. Photo by Mike Levin. I first started...
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Breaking Away From The Boys’ Club
Jackie Boy begins as a character drama about “bro culture” and today’s technology-fuelled “hook-up” scene – one that often puts sex ahead of intimacy – but it takes a sharp turn into horror (Ottawa...
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