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Scratch that Digital Itch
At the heart of the Creative Canada vision announced by Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Mélanie Joly September 2017 ; is a transformation in how we view culture and creativity that will guide the Government of Canada’s actions over the coming months and years, as we modernize our cultural programs, policies, institutions and legislation for the digital world.
(Think digital fetishism….Silicon Valley values ….artists as content creators ……as cultural entrepreneurs ….. partnerships with Facebook, Google, Netflix……just for starters!)
Following comments excerpted from updated January,2018 article in Walrus magazine by Ira Wells
Why Canada’s New Cultural Policy Will Be Terrible for the Arts: Turning artists into tech entrepreneurs is a triumph of Silicon Valley values
No lasting or meaningful monument of Canadian art will ever emerge from the desire to benefit the middle class.
To tie Canadian culture to the analytic outputs of media platforms, to enlist it in cause of economic productivity, is to ask art to renounce its status as art and to assume the function of evangelism.
In The Educated Imagination, critic Northrop Frye argued that culture “provides the kind of values and standards we need if we’re going to do anything better than adjust.” Creative Canada, by contrast, is an instruction manual on how to adjust. It is to cultural policy what tweets are to literature, what LinkedIn is to poetry, what Facebook is to friendship. Canadian creativity will, of course, continue to thrive long after Creative Canada has been forgotten, and it will flourish in direct proportion to its capacity to resist the homogenizing, programmatic, and deadening future the policy imagines.
Just Askin’
Journalist Paul McKay posed these questions in a April 26,2018 National Observer article Media Malpractice and the Bitumen Bubble
Where are the Asian contracts to buy vastly more raw bitumen for decades? What price have they promised to pay? How does that square up with competing, global oil supply rivals?
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• What proof is there that Asian refiners have signed contracts to purchase vast volumes of Alberta raw bitumen for decades to come? If these do not exist, there is no demand.
• What proof is there that Asian refiners are willing to contractually commit to a much higher price than U.S. refiners will pay for raw Alberta bitumen? If such contracts do not exist, there is no price certainty to support oilsands expansion.
• What proof is there that Alberta bitumen ranks high in global comparisons of oil quality, price, and ocean supertanker access, shipping costs and speed?
• Which private Big Oil players have recently placed big bets buying new, undeveloped oil sand properties, which would underpin Alberta’s expansion plans?
Variations on Orange
Ink Slinger Dinner & A Mountain Metaphor
Court Painter took time off from paint slinging to attend an Ink Slinger Dinner in Washington DC. His attendance along with the ever present Press Attache AHM was virtually uneventful except for disruptive opportunities to gossip and tell rude jokes about you know who!
However Court Painter has gotten mixed reviews for attending the Ink Slinger Dinner and his jokes have certainly prompted journalists to speak out, debating whether the laughs went too far.
An unidentified News’ Chief Correspondent (name withheld) said they did. He condemned Court Painter’s gossipy remarks on a Sunday network, saying it was more than just jokes about you know who.
“I think that the Court Painter crossed the line, and this went from poking fun at you know who to being mean-spirited. It was very uncomfortable.”
However, he added that Court Painter’s Press Attache A Hardon MacKay finding himself the punchline of jokes about his press briefings, his fashion sense and his middle name, took things surprisingly well.
“I think that A Hardon MacKay handled himself very well considering what was coming his way, and I think that most people in that room were uncomfortable with the direction of the jokes, no question at all, and certainly the only thing it will do is result in probably more goodwill for A Hardon MacKay because nobody should have to sit through that,” a person close to the matter said.
During a lull in the festivities ,ever the promoter Court Painter took the opportunity to persuade a potential patron to purchase his latest metaphor!
Other than that there was nothing to report.
Sealing the Secret Deal
In a highly secret deal Court Painter delivered the prized Court Painter Self Portrait After David to an unidentified private collector in North Korea. An appeal to keep the painting in the Great Dominion failed big time!
Buried
“There’s no question that Michael Cohen knows where many, many bodies are buried,” said Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels.
I Got Nothin’
Pirouette Time
Justin Trudeau attends Buckingham Palace tribute dinner to the Queen
Court Painter exhibits exuberance with a pirouette reminiscent of a former prime minister.
The Queen & Court Painter have a chuckle about the good old days!
Influential
Court Painter among TIME’s 100 most influential people
Court Painter has been named one of the world’s most influential people.
The praise comes from TIME magazine’s fifteenth annual ‘Most Influential People in the World’ list.
Court Painter’s angry Press Attache A Hardon MacKay just missed the list at 101 .
As defined by TIME’S editor in chief, Edward Felsenthal, “TIME’s annual list of the world’s most influential people is a designation of individuals whose time, in our estimation, is now.”
The Great Dominion’s preeminent portraitist of political pulchritude is in good company on the prestigious list which includes a wide range of international leaders, artists, scientists, activists, and athletes.
Court Painter was included on the list in TIME’s Leaders category alongside the likes of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, John Barron,David Dennison , John Millar and US president Donald Trump.
Press Attache A Hardon MacKay penned a bit of a truth stretcher on Court Painter for TIME, saying:
“There will be a few names globally that will become etched in our art history books. They will be the names that mark the shift in our artistic landscape, when senior artists took the reins and heralded a different type of art politics. Court Painter is not the first to come to mind ; his tottering presence alone is not remarkable, but winning over customers with a message of cheap prices and solid frames, when other portraitists the world over choose a better business plan—that is remarkable.”