A screenshot from Я на народе!. Try for yourself; go to the site and run your cursor over the kaleidoscope.
Kaleidoscope
February 21, 2013
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Vibrating mandala – without any moving parts
July 9, 2012
Via my friend Stephen. If you know the name of the artist or designer, please comment.
This effect is, I believe, called visual vibration, though that’s usually achieved by juxtaposing particular colours, and here I think shape/form are playing a role.
Stripes: “Order and Border” at the Seattle Art Museum
June 2, 2012
I wish I’d curated this show:
“Stripes are a fundamental visual element, appearing naturally in vertical lines as trees and in manmade products of all kinds, from street dividers to ornate fabrics.
Nothing happens in good weather
May 3, 2012
Great Vancouver public art work titled “Nothing Happens in Good Weather” by the Instant Coffee collective, curated by Barbara Cole of Other Sights. Photos by Kate Armstrong and Kelly Lycan via the Goethe Institut’s Goethe Satellite.
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Discuss.
March 24, 2012
There is so much going on in this picture.
Square, downtown Victoria, B.C.
Playplax by Patrick Rylands
August 7, 2011
Playplax, another toy from my childhood, was designed in 1966 by the brilliant British industrial designer Patrick Rylands. It’s in the permanent collection of the V&A Museum in London.
Rocking camel by B.C. painter/author Jim Willer
July 15, 2011
I grew up with this psychedelic rocking camel, handmade in the late 60s/early 70s by B.C. artist/novelist Jim Willer. He called these “Bumpity Camels” and ours was one of a series—our cousins had one too.
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Colour Barr
May 8, 2011
Folding bar by my friend (and well known Toronto designer) Barr Gilmore. Available from made design. Via moco loco.
The Colour Barr is made of stainless steel, polyurethane enamel, ziricote, glass decanters, tumblers, shot glasses, cocktail shakers and various bar equipment.
Geometric mural in the basement of Vancouver City Hall
March 13, 2011
[UPDATE: I was just informed by the artist’s son Guy that this mural is now threatened, after gracing the lowest floor of City Hall for over 40 years! It’s odd that the City now says it will demolish or paint over the mural, having recently asked Guy and his sister for a bio of their father, suggesting that City Hall had intended to preserve his work.
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Vancouverites, Sarah Gee exhibit opens July 9
June 26, 2010
My design partner, the artist Sarah Gee, is having an opening on Friday, July 9, for a 2-day solo exhibition at the beautiful studio of designer and TV person Brad Gough.
