I went on a road trip Saturday with my friend Adam K., down to my parents’ place, and his grandparents’ farm. On the way around southern Saskatchewan, we saw close to 150 deer and antelope, a snowy owl, a dozen hawks, a handful of Canada Geese, smaller birds, two dead
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Walking Turcot Yards: Neath Turcot Exhibition at Cafe Victoria Through April
Hope to see a lot of you at the vernissage this Saturday between 4 and 7, if not, please drop by during the month. I feel this is the best show I have done yet in terms of it’s scope of ideas, blending old projects with new and the ever
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Forward Together #UofR: Buffy St. Marie – Live Blog
Buffy St. Marie tackled the subject of Aboriginal peoples’ self image. What has been the basis for it? In many cases in popular culture, it’s from philosophers in Europe who never met the First Peoples in their life! #Buffy event at #FNUniv is almost full 10 min to start. http://t.co/TNO8jZ4K0a—
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Nixon Was Scum
Win at any cost. That seems to have been Nixon’s election campaign strategy, and it worked. Had LBJ notified the public of information the FBI illegally gathered from an ambassador using a phone tap, then the future may have been very different. Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson’s telephone calls
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Danielle Plamondon at Cafe Victoria in Verdun
Danielle Plamondon is one of the most respected, admired, and loved urban explorers on the planet. From the abandoned factories of Montreal and the rooftops of Europe, through the sewer systems of London and Paris, she has photographed these locations with a passionate eye and a creative energy that radiates
Continue readingArt Threat: Tillett Wright’s million shades of gay
When Tillett Wright began her photographic project, Self Evident Truths, back in 2010 she didn’t expect the groundswell of requests for photographs that she ended up receiving. She originally wanted to shoot 4-5,000 people, but the response has led her to increase her goal to 10,000 people. “I basically decided
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Stompin’ Tom Connors Stomps Out
Farewell to a Canadian music legend who made folk music cool. Stompin’ Tom is bound to provoke cultural references for years to come. Listen to Corb Lund’s cover of Stompin’ Tom’s Hockey Song. It has a bonus verse too. “It’s culturally important to hear that song.” Here’s one of my
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Higher Ed / College Campus Photos
Over the past couple months, as part of my Multimedia and Visual Journalism course at Newhouse I’ve taken hundreds of photos. Here are a few from around campus. Higher Ed / College Campus Photos, a set on Flickr. Filed under: #hesm, #heweb, higher ed, Job Hunt, Newhouse, Newhouse School,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Club: Music
I went to a show tonight with Jesse, after buying a monthly membership at CrashBang Labs (which is in the same building as The Club at The Exchange on 8th Ave. Real excited to have my song Leaves are falling featured on tonight's episode of @CBCArcticAir! Tune in at 9pm
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Verdun Lanes – Winter
All of these were taken behind Wellington street between 1st and 2nd on the Verdun side. On different days – wink!
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: The Strange Case Of Vivian Maier
Not a new story but still a spectacular one. How someone who would have been a peer to the likes of Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus and Gary Winogrand was able to take over 100,000 pictures in her lifetime and pretty much keep the whole thing a secret is
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Sarah Anne Johnson – Arctic Wonderland
All is well as we approach the PostArctic era. Here are some images originally shot at the Arctic Circle in Norway by Canadian artist Sarah Anne Johnson. Taken from here. Sarah Anne Johnson: Alien Arctics
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Some More Verdun Lanes
Haven’t posted any of these in a while. Time again, I guess. Verdun/Wellington, Argyle/Melrose Verdun/Wellington, Argyle/Melrose Bannantyne/Verdun, 6th/5th Wellington/Lasalle, 1st/Willibrord Bannantyne/Verdun, Woodland/Argyle
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: More construction at Centennial Pool
Here you can see the additional aluminum supports that have been erected to hold up the fabric covering. Only a small area at the north has had some of the fabric installed (visible at the lower left of the photo). … Continue reading →
Continue readingmike watkins dot ca: Our Pristine Coast Is Worth Saving
The Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipeline proposals, and Kitimat LNG export plant fantasy, threaten our coast for a fistful of dollars that will end up in the hands of land-locked Albertan oil companies and their shareholders. If Canada treated its natural resources more like Norway, we’d have tens or hundreds
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ISS over Regina
I was checking to see the next time the International Space Station would fly over Regina’s skies, and saw it was in two minutes! (There are only a few times a week it is visible for a couple minutes, sometimes none.) I threw on my ski pants and coat, and
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Mars Rover Self Portrait
The next step is probably self consciousness. “NASA has snapped its most amazing self-portrait yet of the Curiosity rover on Mars, showing the robot posing with its ultimate destination: a huge Martian mountain. The new view of Curiosity on Mars is actually a mosaic of dozens of high-definition color photos
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Winter in Saskatchewan
When it’s too cold to explain, photos will have to do. I don’t go to church anymore, and didn’t want to long before I stopped going. This year I was invited to two different Christmas church services, and ended up going to neither. When I do go, it’s out of
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: The Trashcam Project
Here is a remarkable photography project using garbage dumpsters as pinhole cameras. The city of Hamburg has allowed it’s trash collectors to drill small holes into these portable bins that are loaded with large sheets of light sensitive paper. And the results are often quite stunning! From their Flickr page
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #IdleNoMore: Regina Round Dance on Albert St. Bridge
Another exciting day of protest in Regina, and across the country, as Canadians rise up against the Harper regime and their undemocratic ominbus bills. This was at least the second march down Regina’s main street, Albert St. in the past weeks, and the second appearance of a crowd of hundreds
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