Category Archives: Cooperative Arts

Under the Dome:

A man and his dog, both wearing masks, walk along a small alley on a hazy day in Beijing. China’s capital raised its four-tiered alert system to “orange” for the first time on February 20, 2015. (REUTERS/Legal Evening/Liu Chang) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhIZ50HKIp0 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-march-4-2015-1.2981015/under-the-dome-confronts-china-s-dire-air-pollution-crisis-1.2981025 Chai Jing, the filmmaker of Under the Dome, is interviewed on CBC Radio’s The […]

Bethlem Museum of the Mind Opens in London

Artist Richard Dadd, a patient at Bethlem (courtesy Bethlem Gallery and Museum)   http://hyperallergic.com/184820/bedlams-new-museum-looks-beyond-madness/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Your+Concise+Guide+to+Armory+Week+2015&utm_content=Your+Concise+Guide+to+Armory+Week+2015+CID_30cfa9a17c4d2e6dddd6ca876fbc0601&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=Bedlams%20New%20Museum%20Looks%20Beyond%20Madness The name Bedlam is so evocative of chaos and madness, the real history of one of the world’s oldest institutions for the treatment of mental illness often gets detached from its public presence. Bethlem Royal Hospital, which still operates as part of South London […]

Pipers, Highland Games 1940

This photo was submitted by Mike Brown to the Old Photos of Antigonish Town and County web site.  A very professional photograph — could it be a Ronnie Jaques photo from the 1940s Highland Games?  It is not included among those registered at the National Library and Archives of Canada.

Photographer Levi Bettwieser Develops 31 Lost Film Rolls Taken by World War II Soldier

http://hyperallergic.com/176743/photographer-develops-31-lost-film-rolls-taken-by-world-war-ii-soldier/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Photographer+Develops+31+Lost+Film+Rolls+Taken+by+World+War+II+Soldier&utm_content=Photographer+Develops+31+Lost+Film+Rolls+Taken+by+World+War+II+Soldier+CID_4813bb77ac4edf306a51205bd28715c4&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter Photographer Levi Bettwieser has an unusual passion: he hunts down and develops old film rolls left inside vintage cameras or forgotten by their owners in the backs of musty drawers. He sees himself as “rescuing” the images from oblivion. “I believe if we weren’t actually searching for and finding these rolls of film, they could be […]

Krappy Camera Photos

http://hyperallergic.com/179872/let-us-now-praise-crappy-cameras/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=How+to+Deal+with+Inspiration&utm_content=How+to+Deal+with+Inspiration+CID_4441e523afbf423e3cb1a71a6475fb43&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=Let%20Us%20Now%20Praise%20Crappy%20Cameras Kristin Karch, “Judith in my Apartment,” first prize (all images courtesy Soho Photo) Soho Photo has been celebrating inexpensive cameras for the past 17 years through its annual International Krappy Kamera Competition.  Here is my krappy kamera photo from a Hallowe’en Party in the Church Basement (Plainville, Ontario)  circa 1964.  It would not win any prizes, but I am […]

A Different Perspective on Monrovia and Liberia

http://hyperallergic.com/178095/a-vibrant-portrait-of-liberia-in-gifs/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=What+Happens+When+You+Steal+an+Artists+Identity&utm_content=What+Happens+When+You+Steal+an+Artists+Identity+CID_f3b3170454ec6c3e518f5fbbbfd70a74&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=A%20Vibrant%20Portrait%20of%20Liberia%20in%20GIFs   The media images of Liberia tend to focus on child soldiers, the spread of Ebola, and the murderous dictator Charles Taylor.  This site presents GIF images of everyday life and resilience in Monrovia     “Wesseh Freeman is a blind musician from Monrovia making his living singing in Duala market. He learned music […]

Gaelic Making a Comeback through Strait Regional School Board

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/gaelic-core-class-increasingly-popular-in-nova-scotia-1.2932151?fb_ref=Default Now Gaelic is making a comeback. The Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High School students are part of a growing trend in the Strait Regional School Board as more and more students jump for the chance to study Gaelic in the classroom. ‘I wanted to surprise [my great-grandmother]. I got a surprise too: the […]