by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 22, 2013 | Art, Art Discourse, Climate Change, Critique, Culture, Environmental Art, Expression, Found Objects, Globalization, Motivation, Performance Art, Political Art, Social Justice
Carlyn Yandle photo The astronomical private art-investor feeding frenzy at prestigious auction houses is light years away from art. It’s a greedy need for prestige, worlds apart from the hand of Picasso or Andy Warhol and, most recently, Francis Bacon and the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 29, 2013 | Culture, Motivation, Studio, Vancouver
They say some of the happiest people in the world live in the most precarious of circumstances. One theory says the self-reported happiness of these people is related to the fact that they live in the moment because a shaky future is too much to bear. This is how I...
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...
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