Tintin vs. Predator (click for full-size image)
from Periscope Studio, found via @CBCRadio3 »
Han Solo, P.I.
Autodesk Project Dragonfly: a new way to experiment with rearranging your house without actually having to move anything.
It is WARM here in Victoria– supposedly it’s only peaking at just above 20, but I suspect it’s made to feel heavier by the weight of the air. That’s one thing I never knew about living near the ocean: wind, or lack thereof, is a constant factor in the overall weather.
My significant other took the initiative of planting a few veggies about a month and a half ago, and they’re starting to sprout, especially the radishes.
The lettuce is also coming up, in the same spot we grew a dog just a short time ago. In the background is the western red cedar I got back in winter at a forestry event, and planned on turning into a bonsai plant (I’m not sure how to transport it around with me, though, so I may just find somewhere to plant it).
For anyone with an inclination towards plants living in a city, I highly suggest you take a look at Bladediary.com, where the author has posted some photos of turning abandoned newspaper boxes into gardens in downtown Toronto. Apparently, mint works best for this (there are seven posts total, I’m just linking you to the first one, by the way). Thanks to @PotterJenny for sharing this.
I’m a pretty big fan of t-shirts. They’re comfy, they’re casual, and for a brief period around 2003, they were classy when combined with a dress jacket and jeans (I think this time is past us now, though– I’ve been wearing a shirt and tie to work). I also have a notebook where I write down t-shirt ideas. Now, thanks to Twitter Tees, my dream of being paid $500 for coming up with a catchy 140 character phrase could become a reality. I don’t know that I’m going to be submitting anything, but this is a pretty interesting example of how quick the turn around time from an idea coming into existence to it being a sellable commodity has become.
Twitter Tees »
Also, I wish I could go to this:
From camping in Bamberton this weekend: campsite, ferrets, ducks, beach, lobster, me. Not pictured: ground that looks like it’s moving because of crabs, seals.
This is the best thing to ever happen as a result of me eating citrus fruit, aside from not having scurvy.
It’s my last day in my current work placing today, which is really too bad since I just came up with an idea that is probably moving forward, and I would like to be there to see it. Hopefully I get to stay involved somehow, though.
But it’s the weekend soon, which means camping, which also means it’s time for another North by East Mixtape, this one with Joel Plaskett, In-Flight Safety, the Rural Alberta Advantage, and other great bands– this one is really good (not that any of them are bad).
Have a good one.
On the bike ride to work today, I was listening to a lecture by architect Bruce Kukabara called “Ourtopia: Ideal Cities and the Roles of Design in Remaking Urban Space.” In it he talks about an essay he read on the Sarah Polley film “Away from Her” in which Robert Fulford talked about Alzheimer’s as being “doomed to live in an eternal present” and draws a parallel to how cities treat their heritage buildings and spaces, asking “What does it mean to live in a city without a collective memory?” With another downtown revitalization renewal plan being put forward today, I hope this is something they ask themselves.
from stairporn.org »
(found via CBC Radio 3 (again) »)
UPDATE: it turns out that this in turn links to an entire site devoted to cat ladders called, appropriately enough, catladder.blogspot.com.
Generally speaking, I get my podcasts from the CBC. They cover lots, they cover it well, and there’s only so many hours in a day. There’s a couple of exceptions, and one is TV Ontario’s Big Ideas podcast. So it’s fitting that when one of my favourite CBC podcasts was cancelled on the CBC, TVO would pick it up. Search Engine is a fascinating show that talks about the effects of technology on the world in such a way that you don’t need much understanding about technology in order to get it.
Its production also encapsulates one of the things that makes me think the internet is a good idea after all. From producer/host Jesse Brown:
Search Engine’s resilience mirrors the beat that it covers: like the Internet, the show is scalable, portable, and cheap. I can produce it with a team of professional journalists and engineers in state-of-the-art studios, or I can produce it in my bedroom.
(Currrently, I produce it in my bedroom).
The only thing Search Engine absolutely needs to survive is its audience, who happen to also be its producers. As long as people still listen, still send in stories, still correct my every inaccuracy and grammatical error, and still count on the show to cover the most interesting and ignored beat out there, then there can be a Search Engine podcast.”
You should really listen to this show.
There seems to be some debate in (choose one: tourism, cultural development, cultural tourism, etc) over whether agencies should be involved in marketing or product development. However, it’s my thinking that anytime you’re selling an experience, there’s not much difference between the two. Everything from signs to sculptures are simultaneously selling the experience (marketing) and contributing to it (product development). When it comes to destination marketing, I’m not sure where the delineation comes in, or if it even exists.
At first I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know.’ Poet laureate — whoa. Getting heavy,” Pemberton told the newspaper. “Do I need a staff, and a big, grey beard? But then I actually starting thinking about what I do already, and most of my content is about Edmonton. Most of the music I’ve put together comes from a very specific regional source. And I feel like I can just expand that into the poetry as well. It’s basically another outlet for the writing I’m already doing, and I can focus it even more now.”
Ad nauseam
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June 4 2009 | ∞
I’ve thought this should be a t-shirt, and apparently it is, so now I just have to find it.
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