November 11, 2012
My grandfather fought a war, but he despised war and all the arms dealers, profiteers and politicians who engineer it. See my 2009 Remembrance Day post about his landing in Normandy, France on D-Day here.
November 10, 2012
After Chernobyl, the German town of Schönau didn’t want to get its energy from nuclear power. So its citizens turned the town into an energy producer via solar panels and other green carbon neutral sources.
November 9, 2012
Watch the video below and also go to Rolling Jubilee (above is a screen shot of its website) to find out what they’re doing. More explanation here. Thoughts?
November 8, 2012
Yes, more video and more departure from design, but on the topic of seeming departures from design, read the “About.” It’s hard to concentrate on design niceties while the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
It looks as if we may have inadvertently designed this storm ourselves.
Animation by University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
September 27, 2012
Great video from CBC’s George Stromboulopoulos show and its Soap Box series. It’s “5 First Nations Stereotypes” by the entertaining Wab Kinew.
Wab, host of the Doc Zone series 8th Fire, is also a CBC News Winnipeg reporter on CBC Television, and a hip-hop artist, named by the Winnipeg Free Press as one of the top artists to watch from Manitoba.
September 18, 2012
The above video by a Berliner complains about Berlin’s influx of hipsters, addressing them directly in its conclusion:
“Please stop to face your neighbourhood… it matters if you try to live in Neukölln or whether you just live your imported party here.
September 16, 2012
Thomas Anselmi of Slow singing Have Not Been The Same, circa 1985
Slow at UBC’s Thunderbird Stadium, dressed in bloody nurse’s outfits, circa 1986
Slow was a legendary 80s Vancouver band sometimes credited with spawning grunge.
August 26, 2012
How to write pointed political commentary. I’ve been laughing about this for more than 15 years. Harper’s Magazine, November 1995.
August 18, 2012
Radiant City is an entertaining 2006 Canadian film written and directed by Calgary filmmaker Gary Burns (Kitchen Party, Suburbanator, Way Downtown) and Jim Brown. The film focus on the Moss family, who introduce us to the brand new suburb they have recently settled in.
