Have you ever started writing an email and found yourself thinking: “I haven’t had a drink in hours, yet I still can’t manage to string three words together without a typo. I must be going mad!” Only then do you glance down at your hands and realize that you’re not suffering from the shakes, but [...]
The intricacies of intellectual property law baffle me, in their often convoluted and retrograde manner of dealing with digital information. I can’t even imagine how a young child might begin to understand the legal “rights” and “wrongs” of file sharing, and the possible repercussions of downloading the latest Shayne Ward album.
Fortunately there is no [...]
Anyone that knows me well enough knows I harbour deep resentment for hipsterdom and all it encompasses. Imagine the divine glee with which I absorbed the fantastic satirical sports coverage of the Hipster Olympics, embedded below.
My favourite line: And they’re back to the mirror! They’ve gone back to the Mirror! I haven’t seen performances like [...]
It’s always impressive what a fresh coat of paint can do to one’s spirits! After a long hiatus marked by progressive digital decay, robmaguire.com has been revamped. Wordpress is now my weapon of choice, having quickly fallen in love with it after taking my new job at the National Film Board of Canada’s CitizenShift ( [...]
While I will be updating this blog from time to time, my current online focus is Art Threat, an online journal of political art. It is the online component of überculture’s latest project, which should hopefully publish a print version of our political art magazine by year’s end. Please do visit, and leave [...]