The Canadian cover of my new novel has been finalized. Scott Richardson is the designer and I think he’s done a great job. The flying man is doing a parkour stunt. Wonder what he’s running from? I bet it’s really tense. I bet there’s danger involved. I’d buy it. Of course, I am biased.
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V-TARP: The Vancouver Transit Adspace Reappropriation Project
So Banksy declares street art dead and apparently nobody was listening. JermIX certainly wasn’t. Working with UK import Vegas – a stencil artist of remarkable skill – Jerm has launched what many consider his most aggressive campaign ever. VTARP, it’s called. Vancouver Transit Adspace Reappropriation Project. Which sounds like a black line item in the […]
Rabbit Receiving his own Information
On a gig for Western Living Magazine, I toured the Willamette Valley recently. Lots of gems to discover there, like Whole Hog Wednesdays at the Dundee Bistro. And of course several hundred small, high-craft wineries that produce the amazing fruity, farmy pinot noirs of the region. But I particularly enjoyed “meeting” the mascot of the Scott Paul Winery. […]
New Cameraman: The Coin of the Realm
Brilliant street artist Byron Cameraman hits “Granville Rise” again. What I love about this piece is it’s power to demonstrate just how beautiful filthy lucre can appear. If we did not find it beautiful – that is, if we didn’t exalt money aesthetically and otherwise – you could argue, “Granville Rise” itself would not exist. Up close, the hugely magnified silver dollar reveals all […]
Ladies and Gentlemen: Kevin House
The title of Kevin House’s new show – tonight, that is May 6, 2010 at the Red Gate Gallery at 156 West Hastings Street at Cambie – is telling. It’s the grouping title, you could say, of a whole group of strange and wonderful pieces that House has done about Vancouver at some unspecified point in its just-pre-Modernity. […]
Launch Party for Darwin’s Bastards
Fun launch party planned for the anthology of speculative fiction Darwin’s Bastards, to which I contributed the story Sunshine City. I quote from the D&M website: “Are you one of Darwin’s Bastards? There’s only one way to find out. Join the stellar cast of contributing writers at one of two great events we have planned […]
The Wilde Room: Chapter 5
Cillian Foley greeting Jeremy at the door to his den, after Jeremy had been shown down a labyrinth of halls by the Foley house manager. Martine’s father, it was clear even before Jeremy arrived, had serious matters in mind. That much Jeremy gleaned from Martine’s manner in setting up the meeting up in the first place. […]
Notebooks: The Blue Light Project – A01
A01 is one of the artists I followed around during the writing of my new novel The Blue Light Project. His work impressed me hugely in a number of different ways. The first and most obvious way related simply to how prolific he was. The photo above is from a series called Local Photo Posters. At the time […]
Darwin’s Bastards
A collection of speculative fiction written by writers who (mostly) aren’t known for their speculative fiction. You might have wondered how Zsuzsi Gartner and D&M’s project could possibly work. I’m biased. I have a story in the collection. But I love the results. Great contributions from Adam Lewis Shroeder, Elyse Friedman, Lee Henderson, Sheila Heti, Anosh Irani, lots of others. A […]
Going to Mecca, or its near equivalent
When I was writing my architecture novel, Story House, I had a small library of images that I used to shape my sense of Packer Gordon, the senior architect in the story. It’s no secret that Arthur Erikson was one inspiration, particularly his wooden houses. And especially the beautiful Filberg House. But Vladimir Ossipoff, the Hawaii based modernist, was another […]