The two cones at left are young and old cones from the same pine tree (I forget the variety); same with the ones on the right, but from a blue atlas cedar.
Weather
August 30, 2015
Young Socialists poster circa late 1960s/early 70s – Larry Nozaki
August 20, 2015
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
July 4, 2015
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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British Columbia,
Canadian design,
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urban planning,
Vancouver
Oxi to austerity
July 3, 2015
UPDATE July 5: Yes, it’s a no! Nai, it’s Oxi!! <3 See Paul Mason’s assessment.
Transcription of Alexis Tsipras’ speech tonight, July 3, 2105 in Syntagma Square in Athens.
Compulsive restaurant decor commentary
June 27, 2015
The receipt says October 21, 2013. I was at a local restaurant (which shall remain nameless) with two architect girlfriends. As I looked over the restaurant’s faux-Victorian, Yukon gold rush brothel decor (readers of this blog know is something that has been irking me for a while) I asked for their opinions.
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architect,
British Columbia,
Canadian design,
design,
interiors,
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Fellow Greeks… historic speech by Alexis Tsipras calling for referendum
June 26, 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras‘ speech to the Greek people:
Fellow Greeks,
For six months now the Greek government has been waging a battle in conditions of unprecedented economic suffocation to implement the mandate you gave us on January 25.
More colonial craft
June 25, 2015
Once you start seeing something, it’s suddenly everywhere (and it doesn’t help that people keep sending me examples). After noticing that we seem culturally obsessed with our colonial settlement of this city/province/country/continent right now, and that this pioneer DIY craft style has spread as far afield as Brisbane and Berlin, based on what people have written me, I feel compelled to keep collecting it.
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craft,
design,
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graphics and signage,
politics,
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National Aboriginal Day – Wab Kinew’s “500 years in 2 minutes”
June 21, 2015
Happy National Aboriginal Day everyone!
Wab Kinew, always concise, does 500 years of ‘Canadian’ history in 2 minutes.
“When Hipsters Dream of the 1890s” – an abridged version of my hipster essay is now in Briarpatch Magazine
May 7, 2015
Briarpatch Magazine, one of Canada’s oldest lefty political mags, has published an abridged version of my earlier essay on heritage hipsters and colonialism redux.
If you want to read the original and longer post (with a far drier title) it is here: Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.
Murder Murder
April 28, 2015
Apparently this is not a renegade settler war party, it’s a new “bloodgrass” band from Sudbury in Northern Ontario called Murder Murder. You can listen to their banjo-esque non-Northern-Ontario-ish neo-bluegrass murdery numbers at the link above.
