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Canadian mining and violence

LB — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 23:41:10 +0000

This Globe and Main article is, regrettably, behind a paywall. I’m for supporting journalism, but the Globe and Mail has explicitly targeted a wealthy readership and a subscription is fabulously expensive.

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The Log’s Log by Carole Itter, 1972-3

LB — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:30:55 +0000

Fittingly this book arrived in the mail on Iternational Women’s Day. I’ve always wanted a copy of it. Only 1000 were printed so I was surprised I could get one.

The book is documentation of an extended artwork by Vancouver artist Carole Itter in which she found a yellow cedar log on the beach in BC, cut it in pieces, put handles on each segment, wrapped them in canvas and took the entire log with her as baggage to Nova Scotia via the Canadian National railway.

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Do not work for Mommie Dearest (Craigslist ad)

LB — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:24:04 +0000

I’m expecting that this Craigslist Vancouver ad (text at bottom of this post) will get so much abuse it’ll be taken down soon, so I’m cutting and pasting it here.

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Harvey Molotch’s “The City as Growth Machine”

LB — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 05:11:37 +0000

Sociologist Harvey Molotch
“A city and, more generally, any locality, is conceived as the areal expression of the interests of some land-based elite.”

Harvey Molotch‘s seminal 1976 article “The City as Growth Machine”—which is equally applicable today—just happened to be published the same year of the UN Habitat Conference on Settlements that took place in Vancouver (and is the subject of my upcoming book).

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Weather

LB — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:03:51 +0000

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.

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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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Craigslist: “For Sale: Vancouver City Hall. Cash only, please. No Questions asked.”

LB — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:37:14 +0000

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Ha ha. Sadly, this Craigslist ad was quickly taken down, but not before lots of us took screenshots and copied the text (a friend uploaded it to her Facebook).

Post-mortem on the old Eaton’s building: an interview with Cesar Pelli

LB — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:44:08 +0000

This is not a true post-mortem, since Cesar Pelli‘s 1973 Eaton’s building has not actually been demolished—and how rare it is to be able to say that in Vancouver, now one of North America’s capitals of demolition.

Women in great trousers

LB — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:31:11 +0000

Beat these looks.

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Turbo Architecture

LB — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:58:04 +0000

This example of blobitecture is being proposed for Vancouver, apparently to be squeezed between two older buildings on the waterfront in the historic neighbourhood known as Gastown. There has been no public hearing regarding the building, so the public have taken to social media to express what seems to be more displeasure than pleasure.

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