Showing posts from category: Arts Reporting
How Google Captured El Capitan
Publish Date: November 12, 2016 for the Banff Centre Link: How Google Captured El Capitan Through Alex Honnold’s Eyes A feature on the momentous task of mapping out of the Nose, the technical climbing route and famous face of El Capitan in Yosemite. The piece follows Google project manager Sandy Russell’s championing of the trek, the…
Don’t Believe Anything Kay Burns Tells You
Publish Date: January 08, 2016 Link: Don’t Believe Anything Kay Burns Tells You A profile of performance artist Kay Burns, and her alter-ego Iris Taylor. The piece explores Burns’ history, resurrecting the satirical Flat Earth Society of Canada, her upcoming Flat Earth Museum exhibition, and using her Taylor persona to highlight the deference to authority…
BOOK REVIEW: THE PIPESTONE WOLVES
Publish Date: September 08, 2016 for The Rockies Magazine Link: REVIEW – THE PIPESTONE WOLVES: THE RISE AND FALL OF A WOLF FAMILY A review of Gunter Boch’s The Pipestone Wolves, the result of Boch’s exhaustive observation of a wolf pack that moved into the Bow Valley in 2008. The book is part biography of the compelling,…