and this piece came on about art and the internet. It was geared mostly towards a discussion of how galleries and auction houses are moving onto the net, not net.art, but the last segment was about paintingsdirect.com. As the name suggests, they sell paintings, and they’ve extensively indexed everything for easy searching. Trouble is – art is usually a more rarefied thing – you go to a gallery and you see what they’re showing. It’s not supposedly something you buy by typing in “flowers, blue, oil” and clicking a button. The thing is the work on the site seemed legit enough to me, and the woman in the interview seemed pretty cool, and to know what she’s doing. Would you buy art like that?

film shoot starting up here in Montreal next week: The Score, with Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Ed Norton and Angela Bassett. Lots of films are shot here every year, but this is a new one – the movie’s actually set here for once. Usually Montreal stands in for New York, London, San Francisco, or Anytown, USA – But De Niro loves the city and convinced them that Montreal should be Montreal this time (or so the story goes).