by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 13, 2013 | Architecture, Art, Collaboration, Dance, Innovation, Installation, New Forms Festival, Perception, Performance, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Vancouver, Visual Field
You can thank Europeans’ dwindling Christian faith for a sensory bombardment that’s taking over Europe. The poor attendance at all the churches and cathedrals has been a boon to a new totally immersive art-architecture experience of sound and image,...
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 19, 2013 | Free Store, Gallery, Innovation, Networking, Photography, Process, Quilt, Raw Materials, Rug, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Studio, Textile, Upcycling, Use Object, Vancouver
Image found at vancouverisawesome.com I’ve been thinking for a long time that Vancouver needs a Free Store, just like the most popular ‘retail’ store on the Gulf Island of Lasqueti. And now there it is, inside the old vault of a former dim sum...
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 | 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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 5, 2013 | Art Discourse, Creative Process, Crochet, Design, Doily, Fabricating, Found Objects, Inspiration, Installation, Maker, Metalworker, Production, Sculpture, Vancouver
We are to understand that being distracted is bad, and being focused is good. Being focused will get the job done while being in the moment is not productive — productivity being the cornerstone of our prevailing Protestant work ethic.I’m aware that it is...
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