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Julia Marie Gunst – It Runs Deep
The other day I was perusing my social media feeds, looking for something new. A new SoundCloud link. I clicked. The strums of the acoustic guitar rang out from my steely laptop speakers, accompanied by a distant metallic chime. Then, as if breaking through fog came this voice
In the Limelight – Stop Motion Has Its Day In The Sun
Stop-motion animation has grown significantly in popularity in recent years. It has been around for quite a while in clay animation, paper animation, and model animation. It has been used to animate inanimate objects, to create dynamic and textural cartoon worlds that operate under familiar laws of physics and expectations of reality
Urban Growth – New York Farm City
Where does your food come from? What does it take to get it from the field to your table? What’s in your food? What’s on your food? The formation of the modern agri-food system, nudged and prodded into shape by the emergence of a global economy has given rise to some unusual patterns in food creation
Up All Night – T.O. Nuit Blanche 2011
The Event Toronto’s Nuit Blanche 2011 took place over the weekend; an all-night celebration of contemporary art. Toronto is a city with nearly half of its population composed of immigrants (45.7%, I always have to check the numbers whenever I say this because it is so remarkable). Toronto is a hyper-diverse and extremely vibrant city
I’ve Given Birth to A Germ!
An idea is like a virus, it infects open minds, it grows, it spreads, and it mutates. Surely this is the case. Considering an idea as a pathogen can explain the spread of Hitler’s doctrine to a weak and susceptible Germany in the early 1930s
Considering Our Data: Set My Data Free!
There is something about data that makes us want to collect it and to protect it. Government’s corporations and organizations all like to keep their data close but perhaps they shouldn’t.
Considering Our Data: Into The Mines
What can we do with the hoards of data that we have managed to amass. It’s everywhere, and we have data on everything. We (here I mean CreativeVANITY) have data on the number of people who visit this site, whether they are new or returning visitors and their (your) geographic origins
Considering Our Data: Do You See What I Know
“I have to see it to believe it”. Indeed, many of us do, and in the realm of data, visualisations are king; they allow us to see so that we may believe. Visualisations are an extremely powerful means of communication
Considering Our Data: Into a New World of Complexity
Data is our society’s latest obsession. We love it. We can’t get enough of it. Engineers compete to find new ways to collect it, analysts endlessly coerce their supervisors to purchase ever more and ever more expensive data and executives congregate to gloat about the amount of data their organizations managed to amass under their tenure
Got an idea? I’ve Heard You Say That Before
So, you have an idea? But you’re always coming up with ideas, so what? You say this is the one, the game changer? Okay, so now what? Creative people brew with ideas. Their minds are constantly brewing them up and they continually froth with excitement over their lastest imaginary creation. It’s kind of an uncomfortable bubbliness. If [...]