Street Writing – that’s the term I have been applying to what I have been doing since mid May. The activity has evolved from simply me sitting on some infrastructure provided seating along the Verdun waterfront to me using a little portable stool and writing on the now car free
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PostArctica: Pandemic Report # 6
It might be a good time for ventriloquists.
Continue readingPostArctica: Goose Family in Heatwave
At the river yesterday. One thing I hate about this camera is that it makes my breath sound like I am struggling. Well, maybe I am
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Some glitches with the wind wiping out my voice and camera doing some odd focus things. Anyway, will work on it.
Continue readingPostArctica: Pandemic Report #1
Might become a thing…we’ll see.
Continue readingPostArctica: A Song For Jack
Poet Jack J Locke passed away last week. We got to know each very well during the past year as we co founded The Charter Poets along with Blossom Thom. The doors were open wide for what we hoped would be a great future for the group. And now we
Continue readingPostArctica: News From Home – a film by Chantal Akerman
How long is a long take? That’s the question I was asking myself as I began watching this mesmerizing film which is basically a lot of long takes in New York City while the director reads letters (with English subtitles) her mother had sent her from Belgium when she had
Continue readingPostArctica: Zone Vegetale
Plant Area – Do Not Remove Snow Recently seen in Saint Michel. Even appears as if someone created a ventilation system.
Continue readingPostArctica: I Yam What I Yam
A film by Bryan Konefsky TRT 16.5 minutes, Bryan Konefsky 2005 In 1929 monocular vision was not limited to the gaze of telescopes (Edwin Hubble) or movie cameras (Dziga Vertov). 1929 was also the year that the one-eyed, “strong to the finish” sailor named Popeye was first introduced to the
Continue readingThings Are Good: Wild Animals Keep our Cities Clean
CBC’s ecological science show is taking an unorthodox look at the vermin and critters in our cities by showing how they help us. On Jan. 31 The Nature of Things will air the episode, trailer above, all about how animals have adapted to urban environments and how those animals end
Continue readingThings Are Good: What Cities can do Right Now to be More Sustainable
People can make changes in their everyday lives to help the environment, like reusing items or simply by buying fewer things. If a bunch of people make positive changes together the impact is bigger. This is what you can do in your city today. Cities the world over are changing
Continue readingPostArctica: A Charter Poem
A Charter Poem A charter poem slipped onto the shore where I sat daydreaming about you it came from a flooded place back up the river and seemed happy to be on solid ground again landfilled ground containing the detritus that caused the flood upstream
Continue readingPostArctica: When You’re Hungry
When You’re Hungry Our antennae signal jammed low flow other channels may exist Power Outage on our Do you see what I see? In the blur we hang under water Watching everything die warm er We can only wait
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