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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Reblogged from Edenborough: Essential viewing for fans here. A very interesting, and potentially useful collection of stills from Hitchcock films.
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!
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
