By Joe Fantauzzi@jjfantauzzi Key Findings: – The development industry is clearly engaged in the political process at Brampton City Hall. – 233 development companies and development-affiliated individuals were publicly disclosed to have contributed money to Brampton candidates in the 2010 municipal election. – Of those 233 developer donors, 48 were
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PostArctica: César Santos
Reblogged from Good morning, best morning: How gorgeous are these pieces by César Santos? These classic paintings, re-imagined are almost like visual fan fiction. Is it important that we merge with the past before we break into a future light?
Continue readingPostArctica: Before there was Photoshop… Surreal Landscapes by Jerry Uelsmann
Reblogged from ⓔMORFES: Long before the invention of Photoshop, artists were creating trippy fake images. The techniques used to create these images include multiple exposure on a single negative, and printing a single print from multiple negatives. In the 1960s, Jerry Uelsmann revolutionized the art of photography by manually blending
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: This Area is Under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance
Reblogged from Urban Dialogues: This intervention by Agmet Ögüt is called This area is under 23 hour video and audio surveillance. For the work, Ögüt took the standard security signage that can be found in parking garages, banks, parks and other public places. He altered one single character, the number
Continue readingThings Are Good: “Weirdos” Make Cities Better
Joi Ito, the director of the Media Lab at MIT, proposes that one way to make cities a better place for people and economies is to let weirdos flourish. What he’s getting at is that cities attract creative people who can generate wealth and culture so therefore we need to
Continue readingWalking 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 readingThings Are Good: Save the Environment, Live in a City
The IEEE Spectrum recently interview William Meyer who is the author of the book The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism. The book’s central thesis is that we need to change the discourse around cities from a negative one to a more positive conversation about the efficiencies of cities
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: 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
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: A Human Caused Methane Avalanche
Reblogged from Sustainability Hub: About This Video: One of the most feared of climate change “feedbacks” is the potential release of greenhouse gases by melting arctic permafrost soils. New research indicates a critical threshold of that feedback effect could be closer than we once thought. Related Story: Siberian Caves Reveal
Continue readingThings Are Good: China to Build Car-Free City
The Chinese city of Chengdu will be getting a new neighbour, an entire city purpose built city for people instead of cars. China’s capital city Beijing is known for its smog problems and the Chinese government is under more and more pressure to implement environmentally-friendly policies. Creating sustainable urban centres
Continue readingThings Are Good: Skateboarders Help Transform Urban Environments
Skateboarding culture is often (wrongly) lumped together with criminal behaviour amongst youth. To those that still think that way, you should check out a study in the most recent Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. By looking at what young skateboarders would do in the city of
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: I Don’t Support The Troops
Michael Moore I don’t support the troops, America, and neither do you. I am tired of the ruse we are playing on these brave citizens in our armed forces. And guess what — a lot of these soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines see right through the bullshit
Continue readingIlluminated By Street Lamps: POSITION ANALYSIS: A Scathing Indictment of Neoliberalism And The Privatized Delivery of Social Services in Canada
The increasingly privatized delivery of social services under neoliberal governments is arguably doing real damage to the Canadian welfare state. Discussions about neoliberalism, which as the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics points out emphasize deregulation and a diminished role for the state[1], are often closely linked with the rise of
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