Sorry, but insurance companies’ assurances that they don’t intend to use genetic screening techniques to deny coverage isn’t worth a whole lot. Remember, this is a whole industry that is based on paying for something that you hope you never use, but in theory is there for you when necessary. Except – and it’s a big exception – during the last ten years or so they’ve become extremely litigious to prevent their own clients from using what they’ve paid for even in legitimate cases, seemingly hoping to scare people away from making fair claims. And then they just turn around and raise your premiums anyhow! They get you coming and going, but still seem to resent you and hold you in contempt for being their client. Nice.
Which reminds me….
I have to get back to work on the website for Zeke’s Gallery, a little commercial gallery that a friend of mine started just over a year ago. He specializes in first solo exhibitions, which is great cause he displays work by artists who are just starting to make their way in the world – at least as artists who make their living doing art work. Of course, it goes without saying that I’m basically doing the site for free, as is my pattern. As I used to have on an old personal site (and on my CV), “I do websites for worthwhile projects, usually for free.” [Consider this entry here a little self-prodding, self-motivation.]
I recently came across
an interesting site called artengine, which is an online gallery based in Ottawa. My friend Julien’s sister is showing her work, the reliquarium. She does text/object associations, one a day all year. The primary medium is email, but the pair is placed on the website as well on the day it is sent. In a way, it reminds me of Placing, but it’s less linear and less overtly making a particular statement.
Beyond the work itself, I was really happy to see a project (and a gallery) like that originating in Ottawa. The city isn’t known as a hub of the arts, but it has a long tradition of very grassroots, almost activist, arts work centered around facilities like the SAW Gallery and others. The web and the internet more broadly seems like a perfect extension of that.
thissiteisnice:
thisboyistoast.nu. Congratulations to a random passerby on the new digs! I like the concept, I like the actual slice of toast, I like the popups, I like the colours, and much more.
The corruption of Col. James Hiett
The corruption of Col. James Hiett in Salon is an excellent story about the nonsense the US is engaging in in Colombia. Excellent in that it provokes a lot of important questions – questions that I don’t think the US political system is currently strong enough to deal with effectively. Nor would the Canadian system, mind you – I’m not taking a swipe at our neighbours to the South here.
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