
Sign seen today in Pouce Coupe, near Dawson Creek, B.C., with my friend Brian.
June 18, 2012

Sign seen today in Pouce Coupe, near Dawson Creek, B.C., with my friend Brian.
June 8, 2012

Letter from my friend Dorothy to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the question of his profoundly anti-democratic omnibus “budget bill” C-38. The bill’s major intent, among many nefarious minor intents, is to obliterate environmental groups and their opposition to the Alberta tar sands and its pipelines.
June 4, 2012
June 2, 2012

These photos are from a long Japanese ukiyo-e scroll dating from the 1890s. The art work is on loan to Vancouver’s Centre A Gallery as part of a collaborative installation by Vancouver artists Marina Roy and Abbas Akhavan, titled Fire/Fire.

I wish I’d curated this show:
“Stripes are a fundamental visual element, appearing naturally in vertical lines as trees and in manmade products of all kinds, from street dividers to ornate fabrics.
May 30, 2012
May 29, 2012

“Those stickers on fruits and veggies tell you quite a bit!
4 numbers mean they were conventionally grown.
5 numbers starting with number 8 means they are genetically modified (GMO).
5 numbers starting with 9 means they were organically grown.”
Saw this on Facebook thanks to Holly.
May 27, 2012
(Thanks to Steven Ballegeer for this photo on Flickr)
Just to prove I don’t hate all tall buildings, this early 1970s brutalist concrete highrise in Vancouver is a long-time favourite of mine, and one that I think has held up really well over the years.

Interesting article from The Walrus magazine on Northrop Frye’s look at the condominium form and its effects on our attitudes, particularly in the context of Canadian history and our “garrison mentality.” I’d be interested in people’s reactions to this.
May 18, 2012
“If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.