Chinatown, the work builds emotively, progressing in complexity. Incorporating the lyrical and percussive ideas of both classical Chinese music and western jazz improvisation, like a flowing stream it reaches toward the fuller harmony of a genuine new world eloquence. "It's a bit o f a shocker: it does sound new to some people, there's no doubt." Young smiles. "I've found that the trick is all in the listening. It's like sex; to get it right you gotta try it more than once.... "Anything that's going to last longterm has to go beyond the novelty o f the moment." he concludes. " M u s i c is no different, really. The sense of completion you finally get from sticking to your commitment is just a higher kind of l o v e . " " - music Author Trevor Carolan writes from Deep Cove. Henry Young in the groove at his Deep Cove home. Photo: Trenton Welters. Young may be contacted do: P.O. Box 30079, 3650 ML Seymour Parkway, North VancouverV7H 2Y8. A l l Our Yesterdays, Digital History for Artists by Tom Watson art dealer, would take us before the movies and I really fell in love with z A s a wee lad in Glasgow. R o n Moore spent many a Sunday afternoon avoiding the dreary Scottish weather by intoxicating himself with wonderful images of art and art history in the Hunterian Museum o f Art. "Glasgow is a city o f galleries," Moore says. " M y Dad. an antique and the whole process o f standing in front of a painting." After bringing that love to Canada in 1970 and combining it with years of experience in the design industry, Moore recently created a C D - R O M library o f royalty-free, historical images entitled All Our Yesterdays. With over 3,500 rare images ranging from cave drawings to Renaissance Love Reviving Life, a Tinelli sculpture of winged Cupid cupping a dead butterfly and kissing it back to life. One of the historical images in Ron Moore's digital library for artists. A l l O u r Yesterdays. paintings, the ten-volume library is the first product offering from EclectiCollections Publishing, a new Canadian company. O f all the images in the collection, the Scotsman says Love Reviving Life, a Finelli sculpture of winged Cupid cupping a dead butterfly and kissing it back to life (pictured right). personifies what his image library is all about--beauty, quality and creativity. "I was impressed by what I saw in the press kit." says Chris Ovsenny. an editor at Applied Arts magazine. "The library's artwork is fantastic." Moore spent over two years hunting through prestigious private collections and sources, including a rare encyclopedia published during the Napoleonic Wars, looking for just the right images to include in his The entire library sells for U.S. $799 and individual volumes cost U.S. $95. Volumes include: Portraits;Architecture; Fashion & Costume; Flora & Fauna; Patterns & Motifs; Paintings & Engravings. For information, call 1-800-877-7977. Tom Watson is a freelance writer living in Toronto. library. Then he packaged every image in 600 dpi and 72 dpi T I F F files so they can be immediately used in print, multimedia, video and word processing. "I've been in the communications business for 20 years and for most o f that time I've owned a graphic design studio." Moore says. "That's how I knew there was a real need for a high-quality stock image library of royalty-free historical images." Because of unique browser software. Moore believes the library almost acts like the H . G . Well's time machine, taking visual artists back in history where they can find inspiration for their modern work. "If you type in 'Massachusetts.' you don't simply get images of Massachusetts. You get a whole series of images, ranging from paintings and sculpture to fashion and medical procedures, that were developed during the time period in which that colony was founded."-"