Photography by Pierre Maraval (left) and Joe Le Photography (right).
The first ever BikeStyle Tour officially kicks off tonight in Toronto with a slammin’ style ride and ending with a party at the Drake Hotel to dance the night away (helmets not included). Somehow, between putting together a Canadian tour, planning parties at each stop, and wrestling down sponsors, Toronto expat Meaghan Orlinski still managed to find time to answer some of our questions, and all with a smile on her face (which is yet another reason why she is amazing).
Name: Meaghan Orlinski
What I do: Stuff with people and things. I am the Marketing Manager for Momentum Magazine, where I currently am running the BikeStyle Tour, and I edit our BikeStyle section.
Why I love it: When I told people I got this job, their reaction was always how perfect this job was for me.
Why I sometimes don’t love it: I have to answer emails that I don’t want to answer.
If I were to describe my BikeStyle in 1 sentence: I am a Deadly Nightshade.
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Don't even think about trying this without Google Chrome!
Every once in a while something trips us up.
You’re going about your day, doing the same old thing, experiencing things the same old way; and then just like walking into a wall – BAM!, you experience something …different.
Yesterday I saw something different… something that, plain and simple, made me smile. I don’t smile at my computer very often; I swear, I curse, I glare… not smile.
Now, I could just throw the link in here, and if you haven’t seen it yet, let you experience it for yourself… but if your brain isn’t properly primed with web lingo and ‘dev talk’… then chances are what you see / experience isn’t going to be all that special. If you’re like me, on the other hand, and you know what HTML5 means, then you should be pretty stoked, because what makes what lies beyond this link so special, is that what you experience is entirely void of Flash. What you experience is being completely rendered / processed within the browser itself, and not by any other ‘required’ browser plugins.
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An incriminating photograph
Last week, I headed over to the Art Gallery of Ontario to check out the latest exhibit in the gallery’s “Toronto Now” series (a free space situated beside FRANK restaurant, which, of course, we discovered after paying the admission fee). “Total Eclipse” is an homage to the late great darling of the Toronto art, hipster, and queer scene, Will Munro – and a unique profile of the underbelly of Toronto’s creative community.
“Total Eclipse” is on at the AGO ’til the end of September.
Project: Seth Rudetsky in Deconstructing Broadway (coming to Toronto – check him out, he’s “A-MAH-ziing”)
Music: People rushing to work.
"Just like a professional pool cue, these tools of eating wonder are made in parts." Collapsible chopsticks from ThinkGeek
“Bring Your Own {fill in the blank}”-ing (along with DIYing), is yet another glorious by-product of conscious hipsterdom. We citizens of the Earth are finally learning that we can save money and the environment by making the most out of what we have. And… it’s cool!
One idea that has been slowly but surely catching on here in North America has been the notion of bringing your own chopsticks (or any cutlery for that matter) to restaurants. Greenpeace China recently revealed that 100 acres of forest are cut down every single day for disposable cutlery – catering to the demand for chopsticks in particular. Pretty damn terrible, huh?
Our friends in Japan have already been on this for a while now (but of course they have, they’re Japanese!) The 5 cent fee for plastic bags worked wonders for Toronto. Why not apply that same rule to our disposable cutlery? I know we love our sushi, but I think we might just love our socially-responsible-cool-factor more.
Some solutions:
- Buy yourself a fancy set of portable chopsticks from here, here, here, here (as seen above) or Pacific Mall.
- When getting takeout, request that they don’t throw in the chopsticks. Seriously, do you really need them? I bet you still have a drawer-full of those you’ve been “saving”.
- Don’t have a portable set? That’s right, go big or go home. Wrap your full-sized pair of chopsticks in a handy hanky/fabric scrap/bandana for your restaurant adventures. Ready to wipe and wrap when you’re done for the wash when you get home.
Created by MOD Design, a Taiwanese company, this porcelain cup set will definitely impress the computer nerd that rests in most of us.
Personally, I prefer the black than the white.
Available here.
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At Squab, one of us uses the foursquare application. The other complains that too many check-ins causes us to lose followers on twitter, so we’ve dumbed it down a bit. I rather like being the “Mayor” of my favourite places and ousting lamozoids
Getting to the point of this post, I just updated the facebook app on my iphone (who hasn’t) and noticed that there is now a “Places” button to show your current location. This will lead to more creeping and snooping on others, as well as facebook doing to foursquare, what foursquare did to gowalla.
I came across this company, Haiku Designs, that produces bedroom furniture that takes influences from Japan.
Simple and understated elegance is what they are all about.
I am very fond of their “Kyoto” platform bed and their “Raku” tatami bed.
The “Kyoto” platform bed is made with sustainably-farmed mahogany and comes with individually adjustable headboards for those nights where you just want to sit and read in bed.
The “Raku” is a tatami bed. Tatami is a straw-woven mat used in traditional Japanese flooring. Read more »
