by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 20, 2013 | Collaboration, Color, Colour, Creative Process, Expression, Maker, Paint, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Playing, Process
What movie first rocked your world?, someone asked during a recent dinner with friends. Easy: 2001: A Space Odyssey, said one. Looking for Mr. Goodbar, said another, clearly remembering her fear.Mine was The Wizard of Oz. Never mind the munchkins and the flying...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 6, 2013 | Color, Colour, Commission, Creative Process, Design, Graffiti, Industry, Installation, Paint, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Pattern, Process, Project, Public Art, Quilt, Safety, Street Art
I could never understand why the armies of construction workers in this town would head for the Wendy’s or Burger King over a nutritious, fresh soup and salad next door. That was before I started spending long days under a respirator spraypainting in a cavern of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 16, 2013 | Additive, Art, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Fabric, Fiber, Graffiti, Inspiration, Installation, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Public Art, Quilt, Street Art, Textile, Visual Field
This is my new favourite colour box, a delicious array of cans of Montana spraypaint. All packed up to take to my largest quilt project to date.Now I finally get my chance to do what I’ve been dreaming of for years: blanketing a big, blank white concrete wall...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 12, 2013 | Architecture, Climate Change, Collaboration, Creative Process, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Maquette, Motivation, Process, Public Art, Rhonda Weppler, Trevor Mahovsky, Vancouver
Pretty, and pretty alarming stripes show future water levels. All the recent natural and unnatural disasters in this country — city-paralyzing changing-climate-induced floods in Calgary and then Toronto, an oil-tanker train disaster that derailed an entire...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 5, 2013 | Cirque Du Soleil, Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Environmental Art, Innovation, Inspiration, Malcolm Gladwell, Motivation, Natalie Jeremijenko, Performance, Playing, Process
My nephew is about to launch. Freshly freed from high school, he’ll soon be flying high at the National Circus School in Montreal. If there is one kid who would run away and join the circus, Domenic is it. Long before he pushed the physical limits of the human...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 7, 2013 | Creative Process, Design, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Process, Production, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Vancouver
In case you want to know, this is a picture of what is called beaching gear — at least in Prince Rupert, B.C.It’s the kind of passing sight that makes a city girl demand that the car we’re in be stopped and reversed. Now. Because even though I had no...
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