happy to receive hard copies of Heffel's catalogues for its upcoming live auctions in May; you can read my descriptions of Alex Colville's "Cattle Show" (1955) and A.J. Casson's "Autumn on the York River" (1959) at the links below or look for them in print 🖼️ 📖 ✨
https://www.heffel.com/Auction/A2026s_PWC_27.pdf
very pleased with these texts I wrote for Heffel's catalogues accompanying its forthcoming live auctions in May; you can read my descriptions of Alex Colville's "Cattle Show" (1955) and A.J. Casson's "Autumn on the York River" (1959) at the links below, or look for them in hard copy 🖼️ 📖 ✨
https://www.heffel.com/Auction/A2026s_PWC_27.pdf
"... someone could take a Chinese LLM and, if they were lazy, not try and get rid of the ... [CCP] 'information guidance' parts within them. So I have been finding models that were built by companies in California and Germany, on top of DeepSeek's models, which then start repeating key Chinese official talking points about certain topics."
#AlexColville, China Media Project, 2025
https://omny.fm/shows/the-little-red-podcast/the-lead-goose-china-s-ai-embrace
In the latest episode in our series on belief, we’re looking at the CCP’s faith in Artificial Intelligence. China has embraced AI like no other nation, laying out a plan for AI that would see 70 percent adoption across six sectors - including governance – within the next two years. This aggressive approach is driven by commercial imperatives, the desire to shape international standards, and the hope that AI will solve the Party’s biggest worry: social stability. To explore China’s AI dreams, Louisa and Graeme are joined by China Media Project’s Alex Colville, who also writes the China Chatbot newsletter on Lingua Sinica, and Daria Impiombato, a senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. Image: Goose, c/- Andy Hazel, 2025 Transcripts are available at https://ciw.anu.edu.au/podcasts/little-red-podcast
Paintings by Canadian artist Alex Colville from the 1950s-1970s that look like PS2 graphics
Celebrated Nova Scotia artist Tom Forrestall dies age 88
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/celebrated-nova-scotia-artist-tom-forrestall-dies-age-88-1.7385035
Aside: Not fam. w. Forrestall 🙏 but while attending Dal the AGNS was adjacent. Not an arts person, on a whim saw an amazing Alex Colville exhibition. Astounding detail (pointallism ...).
Forrestall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Forrestall
Colville: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Colville
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/alex-colville/style-and-technique
Google >> alex colville gallery >> images
Again, Google images >> hyperrealistic painting plastic wrap 🤯
Good Morning #Canada
Today is my birthday but I was today years old to discover that I share this day with one of my favourite artists. Alex Colville was born David Alexander Colville on August 24th 1920 in Toronto, Ontario. He spent his entire career in Canada, primarily in Nova Scotia, studied painting at Mount Allison University and served as a military artist in WWII. He passed away July 16th 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Artists #AlexColville
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/alex-colville/biography/
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