Category: books

Gregory Heilser 50 Portraits

I’ve been waiting for this book for 3 years! Way back in Nov 2011 I was jazzed to drive 16 hours to Calgary to have the opportunity to…

Friday 5ive: the return

I started this Friday 5ive thing as a way to commit to writing about different things on my blog. Its been tough to keep it up, when so…

Friday 5ive: Photo books

This week I am going to talk about 5 relatively new books on photography. I’ve bought all of these myself and recommend you do the same. 1. New…

2013:The year of Daring Greatly

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them…

Social Media is Bullsh*t and the Social Media Arms Race

(read this story about photogs should write more. So here goes,…) Just finished reading this on my Kobo ($11) and I have to say I found it quite illuminating. Basically…

I love mags

I am a magazine junkie. I love magazines. I love reading the real thing. I’ve tried digital versions and I have to say I enjoy the print versions…

Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead by Neil Strauss

From the description at Amazon.ca You can tell a lot about somebody in a minute. If you choose the right minute. Here are 228 of them. Join Neil…

A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe and a book club

Recently on Twitter I saw a friend’s tweet about how she was excited to get together with her girlfriends, drink wine and enjoy their book club. That made…

The Thank You Economy

Just finished reading this book. It was the first book I’ve read completely on the iPad using Kobo. The jury is still out on that experience. I’ve raved…

Facebook Foto Day, the MOVIE!

My friends at BlinkWorks are amazing, talented people. If you follow my posts regularly, you probably already know this. But seriously, not only did they take my ramblings…

33 1/3 books

The 33 1/3 series are smallish little books written about one album. Thats right, one book about one album. What a concept! The list of titles is pretty…

The Places In Between

Read this in almost one sitting,after a glowing review in last weeks Globe. A great travelogue of one of the most daunting places on Earth. He walked in…

Watching the World Change

I saw the author interviewed on Charlie Rose, and immediately wanted to read this. Not a picture book but more a study of the images of the event….

Watching the World Change

I saw the author interviewed on Charlie Rose, and immediately wanted to read this. Not a picture book but more a study of the images of the event….

Cover Browser

Just the covers of many comics, very cool to waste some time….

J G Ballard review in the Globe & Mail:Mall of menace

The Globe’s review of J G Ballard’s Kingdom Come. I would recomend this one, very well done, less gimmicky that the last one.