Posts from the ‘Art’ category

Freedom of Public Space and Art: Gary Yarbrough at TEDxTerry Talks 2013

Gary Yarbrough speaks about the power of street art and public space and its effect on humanity to spark reflection and its ability to transcend socio-economic…

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Sacred Waste: a Polymeric Ritual at the New Orleans Fringe Festival

My friend Vince Says: “…A show called SACRED WASTE, which was created by LSU Ph.D. student Bonny McDonald, is playing in the upcoming New Orleans Fringe…

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From the slums of Shaolin…

Cary Campbell is a jazz studies student at Capilano University. Our recent podcast on rebranding and identity led to this piece on the power of analogy…

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Identity and Authenticity at the Cosplay Cafe

Author: Bryce Doersam, research assistant for the Terry Project Podcast The entrance to the “cafe,” set up in a rented room in the UBC student union…

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The Earth as if you were watching on the ISS. Timelapsed, gorgeous, inspiring, and obvious that our planet looks very delicate indeed.

So, this past weekend, I watched this video. A few seconds in, I stopped it, turned off the lights, plunked on a pair of headphones, and…

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Passing Encounters: Towards a Visual Archive of Vancouver Public Culture

There’s an interesting and short – it ends Friday – exhibition in the lobby of the Lasserre building (map).  Passing Encounters: Towards a Visual Archive of…

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Happy Birthday! Nikola Tesla turns 156.

Lovely art by Alvaro Tapia, via Hey Oscar Wilde! More from Tesla’s wikipedia page here. Awesome, and of note, on this site: Tesla letterhead. Tesla: Kick…

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If Leonardo Da Vinci were to sketch CERN’s Large Hadron Collider…

… You’d get this: By Sergio Cittolin (CERN research physicist), via Kottke. —

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Brilliant witty banners, a few of which would make great visuals for all sorts of different discussions.

You know, maybe for developmental biology/stem cell stuff (the whole marvelous thing about going from a single cell zygote to the fully formed little organism), or…

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