Reblogged this from a soon to be dead blog because A) Everyone should read at least one page of Finnegans Wake if only once in their life, and B) I find this totally fascinating as it builds up to the last word, which was the name of the soon to
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Walking Turcot Yards: Superheroes
Reblogged from Edenborough: Artist Dulce Pinzon has created a series, The Real Story Of The Superheroes, that looks at how, “after September 11, the notion of the “hero” began to rear its head in the public consciousness more and more frequently. The notion served a necessity in a time of
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses
A great picture. And she appears to be reading the last page which is, quite awesome!
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Gone but not fogotten. He was Montreal’s Emperor Norton.
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Gravity’s Rainbow Illustrated
A screaming comes across the sky…Above him lift girders…the carriage, which is built on several levels…drunks, old veterans…hustlers…derelicts, exhausted women with more children… On a Giant’s Shoulders: Zak Smith Illustrates Gravity’s Rainbow By Creon Upton April, 2005 Illustrating Gravity’s Rainbow is like putting Ezra Pound’s Cantos to music, or writing
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Louise Lecavalier
From Wiki, Louise Lecavalier (born 1958) is a Canadian dancer, known as one of the icons of Canadian contemporary dance. Lecavalier was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She began her professional dance career at the age of eighteen when she joined Le Groupe Nouvelle Aire. It was there that
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: 1000 Frames Of Hitchcock
Reblogged from Edenborough: Essential viewing for fans here. A very interesting, and potentially useful collection of stills from Hitchcock films.
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Thomas Pynchon Reads Trailer For Inherent Vice
Reblogged from Edenborough: You probably will never see his picture but here is an opportunity to hear one of the greatest American writers reading from his own work!
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Tweeting The First Page Of Finnegan’s Wake
Reblogged from Edenborough: Just had to try this to see what it would look like on Twitter when Twitter was kind of new and seemed to have certain unusual potential such as making the most unreadable book in the English language even more difficult to read. I am convinced Joyce
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Do Not Call
Reblogged from Edenborough: Reblogging some old posts from other blogs before I dump them. We are in a senior’s residence until we die so take us off your goddam list Did some telemarketing between 2007 and 2012 mostly business to business but spent a year and a half calling people
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Blade Runner Revisited
“But what can a poor boy do except to sing for a rock and roll band” The Rolling Stones Or maybe just follow your imagination with a camera if music is not your talent. So this is my take on Blade Runner. Or should I say my ultra low budget
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Transport Quebec warns motorists: stay away from Turcot Interchange this weekend
It was built below specs and has been poorly maintained. Saving on maintenance costs in the first 3 decades created full time maintenance contracts that has cost, and will cost taxpayer’s, over 100′s of million of dollars to maintain a structure that is scheduled to be torn down. Somebody has
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Coney Island And The Santa Monica Pier
Two amusement parks on the ocean at each end of America. Must have been weird to drive from one to the other seeing that Elmer Gantry, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Jack Kerouac, Betsy Ross America pass by in the never stopping long winding days and happy/sad boozy neon nights of
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Hidden City Festival 2013
The Dufala Brothers have been selected to be part of the Hidden City Festival in 2013. Their installation will be at Globe Dye Works, and will feature materials sourced through RAIR. Check out their video! We have the dormant, yet exciting Canada Malt Plant along the Lachine Canal in Montreal
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Untitled (The Woman In Red)
This is a work that came about during my recent consolidation of images past, present, (and future?) . The projection happened in the early 90′s when I was experimenting with arbitrary images I had shot on streets, off television sets and so on, then projecting them on houses, walls, backyards,
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Capitalism efficient? We can do so much better
By Richard Wolff A Madrid woman holds a banner reading ‘Your benefits, Our crisis. Another world is possible’ at the Spanish headquarters of the European Commission. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters What’s efficiency got to do with capitalism? The short answer is little or nothing. Economic and social collapses in Detroit, Cleveland
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Dream of Life: An Elegantly Impressionistic Portrait of Patti Smith
Reblogged from Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities: Dream of Life: An Elegantly Impressionistic Portrait of Patti Smith Patti Smith: Dream of Life, directed and mostly shot by Steven Sebring, is an elegantly impressionistic portrait of the punk godhead, Patti Smith, which was created over a heroic period of 11-years.
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Bless You: Setting the Hungry Cat Amongst the Pigeons
Reblogged from Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities: Bless You: Setting the Hungry Cat Amongst the Pigeons Bless You is a delightfully humorous animated short film by Philip Watts. The little film tells the story of an urban architect, who decides his architectural model needs to be spiced up quite
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