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My name is Valerie. I am currently a grad student in Communication Studies (interested in art institutions and the internet) who thrives in a realm of yummy smells, instant and speedy wifi, and the artists, designers and thinkers who make everything worthwhile. Welcome to my website.

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art that inspires imagination

 
this is art, a collection of paintings by Irina Block.
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Oh, and:  upcoming is a lengthy post about our fabulous vegan canadian thanksgiving (made for 14 people!) two weekends ago… but despite the fact that I am missing my beautiful camera to death, since I am a poor student it looks like I will be waiting [...]


Art… or un-called for cruelty?

Sorry, won’t be posting too often in the next little while.  SO much reading to do.  Reading that I should have done yesterday.  Before I was even born!  Fantastic books exist that tantalize me with their awesomeness.  Just finished Too Loud a Solitude by Hrabal, which was one of the best books I have read [...]


The blogosphere is rich and mysterious

Here and there I have been discovering some new blogs that I feel passionate enough about to immediately add to my feed reader (Bloglines Beta).  In the meantime I have also been weeding out the blogs I no longer read actively, all part of my routine system of organizing my online habits to make them [...]


Three sculptural artworks to inspire urban life

Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo’s outdoor installation ice sculpture of melting men: hundreds of ice figures dissolving in the day’s sunlight.

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Lace Fence, by Dutch Design House Demakersvan:

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Wim Delvoye’s photographic mountains consist of inscribed messages on mountains of a massive scale.  (Photographic manipulations).  These messages seem like written notes we write to each other as reminders or [...]


artists: midori yamada

more webby stuff = my strategy to post much more frequently.
The artwork of Midori is simple but eloquent.  Detailed drawing, subtle watercolour tonalities, and the dramatic use of black and white.  Check out more in her extensive gallery.

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Settling in

Posts have been scarce lately what with my camera lens being broken, settling into my new apartment, and beginning graduate school after having taken a year off.  I can feel my brain getting into gear again (all of that dust being blown off from the areas that weren’t being used for travelling and working) and [...]


Quick trip wrap up & moving onto graduate school

I apologize again for being off the radar.  After returning home from my trip I had to venture out to Montreal to do some apartment hunting for my move to the city that commences on the 27th of August.  Things have been very busy and jittery, and I have been relaxing into the embrace of [...]


Prague, Czech Republic

Maybe it was because of the cloudy sky that makes colours pop and photographing a dream, but Prague immediately struck me as a really beautiful city.  Being in Prague hardly gives me the ability to make many observations about the Czech Republic (or rather, I am at a loss as to what to gage from [...]


Austria: Salzburg, Vienna, and finding a soul mate city… post NSFW

I had a total blast in Austria, and as I expected came to find the ultimate in vegan friendliness - its name is Vienna. Immediately upon entering Austria I noticed the increase of health consciousness: fruit, smoothies and juices available for purchase, falafel places at the train station itself.  In other news, [...]


Budapest, pronounced “Budapesht”

Budapest was a striking contrast to everything that was Sarajevo. Brilliantly clean, wide boulevards, spotless metro, pristine neighbourhoods, availability of vegetarian food. I have to admit it was a bit of a relief. I really enjoyed Sarajevo, but I realized in Budapest that I had felt unease there… uncomfortable seeing all of [...]


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