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Pretty Pumpkins
Some of my favourite’s from last night’s 4th Annual Harbord St. Pumpkin Festival.
Autumn Leaves.
A recent road trip took me up through the swaths of Muskoka where I was lucky enough to catch our great Canadian autumn in full swing. Aside from from the highlights of seeing a train with hand-painted “Warning” instructions, countless inukshuks, and a meandering black bear, driving along the #17 was the perfect setting for [...]
Word as Image
Simply great.
Rocky Railway High @ Nuit Blanche
One of many (too many) things to tackle during tomorrow Nuit Blanche in Toronto: Rocky Railway High an Interactive Art Project for the symbolic return of the Chinese railway workers to Guangdong, China, their homeland (an important Chinese custom at the time). Between 1881 – 1884, about 15,000 Chinese laborers from the southern Province of Guangdong [...]
School’s In
As sad-faced students wrap up the first month of school season, I, instead, celebrated my return to school. (With that said, my joyful return did not involve homework, droopy lunches, and only lasted a weekend). A couple of dear friends and I drove up to spend the weekend at an old 19th-century schoolhouse in the [...]
NORBLACK NORWHITE
It’s not too often that a clothing line catches my eye and stops me dead in my tracks. Well, it just happened. Right. Now. NORBLACK NORWHITE is the creative superbaby borne between Toronto and India. If the loveliness of the website and clothes isn’t enough, leave it up to the girls to work directly with [...]
Come and get your Lovely Shit.
Yard Sale – this Sunday. Turn that shit into gold. Poster by our friend Lauren Pirie whom we collaborated with on Our Liner Notes.
Jack Layton (1950–2011)
Illustration by Kagan McLeod for National Post.
Signs Along the Coast
This summer, I had the opportunity to drive out to Canada’s East Coast (with a mini-dip down to Bangor, ME and the marvelous Nonesuch Farm). Aside from the beautiful views of the Atlantic ocean, pilot whale sightings, and, you guessed it, more lobster than we could handle, I couldn’t help but take special note of the [...]
