Excited to share a beta test of 2021 at the Festival of Live Digital Art with support from the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen's University.

Would love to see you there and learn from your feedback. Get your tickets now at folda.ca!

Polaroid's SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible What makes a gadget great? You might argue that it's determined at least in part by how many lives the product in question touches. Back in 2005, when I helped choose a list of the fifty greatest gadg...

Laurence Olivier's only advertising campaign was for the same type of camera used by Andy Warhol. A fun little read.

beauty in shadows.

‘Mahmoud Is Not Safe’ | Nadia Abu El-Haj Mahmoud Khalil has been a public face of the pro-Palestine student movement at Columbia University and Barnard College since last spring. I have known him

“Let us be clear: Mahmoud has been abducted and detained for his political speech.” —Nadia Abu El-Haj

Blame Canada Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory

"Wars begin with words, and we have to take words seriously, at the time when they matter most, which is now. When we see the truth of where this is all meant to go, we can prevent it: by calling out the big liars and telling the small truths." —Timothy Snyder

Photographer who snapped fight between a bald eagle and Canada goose calls it 'very symbolic' | CBC News A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle b...

Hey Donald, Canadians don't back down.

To be fair, diplomacy often involves some level of gaslighting. But the sheer obviousness of it in this exchange surprised me.

FULL EXCHANGE: Zelenskyy and Trump's heated argument at the White House YouTube video by CBC News

"What makes America a good country, is America engaging in Diplomacy. That's what President Trump is doing." 

JD Vance redefines diplomacy: gaslighting included.

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…

"Transformation, dissent, and revolution are impossible without collective imagining. And democracy requires precisely this: a form of collective assembly in impossible time and space." Judith Butler

IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

OUCH. Hope the colouring is a nice balm for the pain. Wishing you a speedy recovery!