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City of Vancouver’s disastrous new logo

LB — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:22:24 +0000

New City of Vancouver logo, in un-kerned Gotham typeface

I still can’t entirely believe it, but this bland, amateur wordmark is the City of Vancouver’s new logo—or to be more accurate, since it barely qualifies as a wordmark let alone a logo: here is our new sad bit of typing.

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Russian family crest and coat of arms

LB — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 10:53:37 +0000

Just curious if anyone out there can read the symbolism in this crest? These wax seal stamps are from a Russian relative and I think they might be fairly old. The design seems to vary from stamp to stamp, one having lions and another having deer or impala, but despite differences it seems to be the same crest.

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Requiem for the American Dream

LB — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 06:01:26 +0000

Someone has uploaded a copy of the film Requiem for the American Dream. In it Noam Chomsky explains the process by which wealth inequality destroys democracy, how fantastic riches are not just intense concentration of wealth but of power, which then further speeds up the cycle of returning ever greater wealth to the rich through the deregulation of the economy that the rich demand.

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Stripes on those parking lot pillars: urban design

LB — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 05:53:09 +0000

I was parking in a tiny parking spot today and suddenly noticed these stripes at side view mirror-height on the pillar I was squeezing next to. Multiple scrapes in different colours, on a paint job masking previous scrapes.

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C’mere Go Away

LB — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 05:25:15 +0000

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No one believes you

LB — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:07:51 +0000

No one believes you, YouTube.

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World Passport

LB — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 04:31:51 +0000

Old version of the World Passport, from 1979

The website of the organization that issues this passport, the World Government of World Citizens and its associated World Service Authority (WSA), has a quote from Einstein:

So long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

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Bush: terrorist No. 1

LB — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:08:29 +0000

A friend and I arrived in Paris in 2005 at the tail end of a an anti-Bush, anti-war protest in the Bastille. This poster had been left behind and I kept it.

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Young Socialists poster circa late 1960s/early 70s – Larry Nozaki

LB — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 05:44:16 +0000

A classic old political meeting poster I found while I was cleaning out my grandfather’s house after he died. I miss these posters on their fragile yellow paper. Is this done by mimeograph?

Gastown poster – 1960s or 1970s style

LB — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 17:26:38 +0000

Because of my research on a 1976 event, people keep bringing me things from that general era. Thanks to my friend Resi for finding this in her mother’s house and bringing it to me yesterday.

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