“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.” ― Bridget […]
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PostArctica: Walk # 5 –
“Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Fantastic Night In Verdun
Friday evening was a celebration of a wonderful project started over a year ago by the Comité d’action des citoyennes et citoyens de Verdun (CACV). The basic idea is to […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Great Day At Dawson Community Centre.
I went to dances at this place as a teenager so it’s extra cool to have had a chance to hang out today at the annual Race for Kids/ Street […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 4 – Miron
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you’re in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 3 – The Road To Miron
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 2 Part 2
“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller’s, only to know that […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 1
“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.” ― Jane […]
Continue readingPostArctica: More Backlog
Some more pictures from over the last 4 or 5 months.
Continue readingPostArctica: Backlog
Some more from recent months.
Continue readingPostArctica: The Searchers
I like discussing influences which may also be a way of simply saying I am not ashamed to admit where it all comes from….anyway, took a shot of a “back […]
Continue readingPostArctica: This Is Not A Bus Stop
This is not a bus stop That is not me but it’s got an ash tray and a place to sit Most (temporarily) abandoned buildings do not provide this Over, […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Trouble On Troy?
Walking down here yesterday and this valve thing started to blow. It’s a strange sight with pipes leading from one fire hydrant to another. The other side of the street […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Today’s Walk
Went to the Point today, not a long walk but a good one. Marguerite Bourgeoys Park. Random telephoto shot of sculpture in the park. Further up Wellington. Les Filles du Roi. […]
Continue readingPostArctica: My Stieglitz Shot
The things we do to get a good picture… One of the first very important figures to passionately endorse photography as an art form was Alfred Stieglitz, perhaps even better […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Some I liked
Again, some random shots from recent months…
Continue readingPostArctica: Dirt
Dirt Dirt is an ongoing visual project that addresses ideas concerning the city in the period before the Arctic collapse (Polar Caps buh bye). It is really just a […]
Continue readingPostArctica: At The River Today
Not much ice left out there, just this weird strip of chunks floating along next to the shore. You could hear it tinkling, like chimes.
Continue readingPostArctica: Recently Here and There
Just some semi random shots from recent months.
Continue readingPostArctica: Community Exchange?
Saw this while strolling on Rushbrooke in Verdun this evening. Figuring it’s a community exchange? Great idea in any case.
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