What actually happens to recycling in Montreal? Post the same question in reference to where you live!! Let’s find out what everyone believes and if that differs from what actually happens. ( incongruously gratuitous photo follows )
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PostArctica: Favorite Murals
This is one of my favorite murals in Montreal. The bench and the flower pots are nice bonuses. Across the street from the Frontenac Metro station and the Maison de la Culture Frontenac.
Continue readingPostArctica: Tour de France 2019
Tour de France. Like the World Cup of soccer, the best of sports on a global scale. Or as my grade 8 teacher, Brother Victor, once referring to soccer as the only true world game, might say, this is the absolute summit of such a simple thing as bicycling. It
Continue readingPostArctica: Readings of Gordon Matta-Clark
Very hot afternoon. There were some readings of the artist Gordon Matta-Clark‘s notes and letters on the lawn of the Canadian Centre for Architecture today. Really interesting despite the heat.
Continue readingPostArctica: Surprise in Saint Michel
Finding myself exploring the neighborhood just to the east of the old Miron Quarry, now Parc Frederic-Bach, I stumbled upon a green lane (ruelle vert) right up against the STM adapted transport center. At first I only noticed there was a couple of murals painted on some structures which are
Continue readingPostArctica: Calgary Wins Grey Cup!!
Congrats to the Calgary Stampeders for their Grey Cup win tonight! On a personal level my total boycott of the National Football League remains solid. One thing I am really learning as I get older is that all the money in the world and all the asinine pleasures you could
Continue readingPostArctica: Citizen Trump
Watching the Trump years at the White House is like watching Citizen Kane without knowing how it ends, without even knowing what “rosebud” will mean. We are, however, picking up the trajectory of the story and can clearly see that there will be a tragic ending because unlike all other
Continue readingPostArctica: New Jam In Verdun
There is currently a jam every Thursday night at 7 at Cafe le 5e on Wellington street in Verdun. Jazz is the point of departure but people are invited to join and play whatever style they feel most comfortable playing. It is a great way to spend some time chilling with
Continue readingPostArctica: Bolsheviki by David Fennario
Read this play last night – brilliant, classic Fennario. Having grown up in the Verdun/Point area his characters tend to send shivers down my spine in their uncanny familiarity and purely old school working class worldviews. It includes a lot of stuff about World War 1 that your standard history
Continue readingPostArctica: hello, yes, this is raincoaster
raincoaster hello yes this is raincoaster So, it’s been awhile, no? For those of you who’ve missed updates at the ol’ raincoaster blog, since the last time this blog was active I’ve: Started and run Canada’s premier hacktivism and cyberwar news website, The Cryptosphere, currently on hiatus. During its active
Continue readingPostArctica: Christy Lee Rogers – 2018
I love her work, very Caravaggioesque and certainly reminiscent of Evergon’s giant Polaroids. And she seem to be always taking it up a notch, one of the more interesting working artists in the world today. For more amazing images check out this post.
Continue readingPostArctica: Ruth Orkin, An American Girl in Italy, 1951
Iconic photograph often thought to portray the negative experience of women as they walk city streets. Yet the woman photographed, Ninalee Craig, has since said, “At no time was I unhappy or harassed in Europe” and that “[the photograph is] not a symbol of harassment. It’s a symbol of a
Continue readingPostArctica: 2 Quotes, 1 Motto and a Photograph
I think that the act of reading poetry nowadays is already an archaic, cultural activity. When we read a poem, it is tantamount to going to pioneer village in order to see somebody hammer out a horseshoe. But I would like to imagine that reading a poem would be tantamount
Continue readingPostArctica: Charles Moore – Civil Rights Photographer
Charles Lee Moore (March 9, 1931 – March 11, 2010) was an American photographer most famous for his photographs documenting the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps the most famous of his photos is the one he managed to get of Martin Luther King Jr.’s arrest for loitering on September 3, 1958. It is this photo that
Continue readingPostArctica: 3 Quotes
I like common materials, whatever is at hand, but especially stones. I like the idea that stones are what the world is made of. Richard Long …if the villain – who is of course a coward – takes refuge behind the ropes, claiming his right to do so by a
Continue readingPostArctica: Some Sculptors
Subodh Gupta “Subodh Gupta (born in 1964) is an Indian Contemporary artist based in New Delhi. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment with a variety of media. His work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance and video. He is married to artist Bharti Kher and is represented
Continue readingPostArctica: 3 Post-Photographers
Yang Yongliang is a Chinese artist who uses photography and video to create new versions of landscapes and the city. Website Rune Guneriussen is an artist after my own heart, installing, photographing, and moving on. Website Cristina de Middel (born 1975 in Alicante, Spain) is a
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