I was talking to the very knowledgeable owner of a shop of antique weaving in Cuzco, Peru, and after a while he mentioned that Mick Jagger had been in the shop two years before.
Mick Jagger in Peru
May 16, 2014
When you have oil pipeline companies, who needs satire?
April 29, 2014
Giant U.S. oil/energy mega-corp Kinder Morgan has applied to triple the size of a pipeline across British Columbia, bringing dirty bitumen-laced oil from the Alberta Tar Sands. “Public” hearings to assess the application have been notoriously non-public.
Jón Gnarr, Mayor of Reykjavik, on his dream for Iceland
April 14, 2014
Photo of Reykjavik by Gunnar Steinn / Made by Iceland
Jón Gnarr, mayor of Reykjavik and member of The Sugarcubes, shared Made by Iceland‘s photo on Facebook and wrote this:
My dream
(It’s pretty naive but I just have to get it off my chest)
I think Iceland offers a unique opportunity for the world.
Arhuaca mochila bags of Colombia
April 13, 2014
I first noticed these cylindrical handwoven bags on a couple of delegates at the UN World Urban Forum in Medellín, Colombia. They looked unusually sturdy, very finely handwoven in wool, and all had unique and beautiful geometric patterns.
Sophisticated sundial clock in Medellín, Colombia
April 12, 2014
A little hard to tell from these photos how beautiful this clock is. Depending on which side of noon you are, you view either one side or another. I believe noon hits (more or less) the circle in center.
Ed Snowden’s surprise from-remote appearance at TED 2014 in Vancouver today
March 18, 2014
Edward Snowden made a surprise appearance at the TED 2014 main conference in Vancouver today. TED is calling it “Here’s how we take back the Internet.”
From a remote location in Russia he could remotely control a wheeled bot that allowed “him” to turn around and look at the audience.
Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan or DTES LAP
March 12, 2014
The Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan or DTES LAP is a comprehensive plan for a significant area of downtown/East Vancouver. It goes before City Council this week, where Council seems likely to pass it despite significant opposition.
Circle game
March 5, 2014
Circle Game. Sorry.
Ultra Ruin in Taiwan by Finnish architect Marco Casagrande
February 25, 2014
“Ultra-Ruin is a wooden architectural organism that is growing from the ruins of an abandoned red brick farmhouse in the meeting place of terraced farms and jungle. The weak architecture follows the principles of Open Form and is improvised on the site based on instincts reacting to the presence of jungle, ruin and local knowledge.”
For more photos of Ultra Ruin see Marco’s post here.
Video: the real story of 439 Powell Street, the Ming Sun building
February 16, 2014
This video, Behind the Walls of 439, corrects a great deal of the misinformation generated by the City of Vancouver. Good job by local television students.
Pretty heartbreaking.
“This is the story of the displacement of people with less power.”
