Christmas mixes for y'all--
Santastic V: Snow, Man!

& from CE Putnam in Shanghai--

P.I.S.O.R. Christmas Mix 2010 | P.I.S.O.R.

the long-awaited return to publishing & publication of Lary Bremner

WW11 aircraft workers, from scanzen

last minute gift ideas from Toronto bookstore The Monkey's Paw (thanks JH)

see some of my blog pics extra big!

walk in/here you are | An outdoor installation by Christian Kliegel and a year-long exhibition project curated by Cate Rimmer on the North Plaza of the Vancouver Central Library.

Peter Culley
from Out and About (2007-2010)

Althea Thauberger
The Bear Video (2006)

Colleen Heslin
Long Roads and Small Places (2007-2010)

Kevin Romaniuk
Continued research into wilderness, wildlife, isolation and shelter (2010)

Videos run from December 1st, 2010

out & about

The New Gallery: Michelle Normoyle : P R E T T Y V A C A N T

Emptied of customers, owners and security I photographed the interior without fear or reprimand: pressing the camera against the thick pane, the glass of the storefront becomes the lens of the camera; a membrane through which the aesthetic and commercial values osmotically exchange. Its neutrality is an illusion. The empty store, like the empty gallery acts as a transitional device that bleaches out the past at the same time controls the future. The neutral space is merely an illusion and as such, subject to change...

Geoff Dyer on a sore winner

I can't remember whether it's the author (played by Charlotte Rampling)
or her publisher (Charles Dance), but in François Ozon's film The Swimming Pool
one of them remarks that literary prizes are like hemorrhoids: Sooner
or later, every asshole gets one. This sentiment might have been used as
an epigraph to the Austrian author Thomas Bernhard's My Prizes, an "accounting" of the many literary awards that began coming his way in the mid- 1960s...

"STRAY visual REFERENCES"
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Sentimental Journey etc Chris Mullen collection

out & about

lots of Stompin' Tom Connors links---

download Samuel Beckett BBC Radio Plays

1. A Piece of Monologue (UK, 1986)
BBC Radio Cast: Ronald Pickup

2. Cascando (UK, 1964)
BBC Radio Directed by: Donald McWhinnie Cast: Denys Hawthorne, Patrick Magee Music composed by Marcel Mihalovici

3. Cascando (Ireland, 1991)
RTE Radio Directed by: William Styles Cast: Bosco Hogan, Frank O’Dwyer Music by Gerard Victory

4. Embers (UK, 1959)
BBC Radio Directed by: Donald McWhinnie Cast: Jack MacGowran, Kathleen Michael, Kathleen Helme, Patrick Magee Music performed by Cicely Hoye

5. Rough for Radio (UK, 1976)
BBC Radio Directed by: Martin Esslin Cast: Billie Whitelaw, Harold Pinter, Patrick Magee, Michael

6. Words and Music (UK, 1962)
BBC Radio Directed by: Michael Bakewell Cast: Patrick Magee, Felix Felton Music composed by John Beckett

7. The Old Tune (Ireland)
Adaptation by Beckett in English of La manivelle, a radio play by Robert Pinget RTE Radio Directed by: William Styles
Cast: Peter Dix, Brendan Gauldwell

8. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Ireland, 1958; Caedmon Audio, read by Cyril Cusak)

via::: wood s lot :::

new page at Roy Arden's blog--

photographer Greg Girard illustrates David & Solomon, Kings of
Controversy - National Geographic Magazine

Was the Kingdom of David and Solomon a glorious empire—or just a little cow town? It depends on which archaeologist you ask...

James Kibbie - Bach Organ Works

Free downloads of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach,
recorded by Dr. James Kibbie on original baroque organs in Germany, are
offered on this site...