great interview with Van Dyke Parks (right, working on "Smile" with Brian Wilson)

Just something satisfying where every line ended up on its feet. Every cat got turned up and down on its feet again, up and down the tree...

A Polar Bear's (Christmas) Tale

Anthony Stewart Culley
Dec 31st 1925-Dec 19th 1992

out & about

Collection: Christmas and Toy Catalogs

Christmas department store music music from Seeburg

The Christmas holiday season required a special set of records. A box of 25 Christmas records was issued to be played during the month of December. This set consisted of Christmas music interspersed with non-holiday music.

It was the job of the machine operators to replace all Christmas music with the standard fare on December 26. This job was a large undertaking - in New York, "the entire service and installation force, and even the office help, are pressed into service to still the sound of Christmas past for another 11 months...

listen here---

The Seeburg Music Library - Christmas 1960

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...