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Posts from February 2009

Richard Renaldi - “Touching Strangers”

I absolutely love this project - photography is fast becoming a favourite medium of mine. In this series, Richard Renaldi asks strangers to pose with each other, touching, in a photograph.  It reminds me of a discussion I had in a class last term about the Free Hugs public performance work.  While talking about its [...]


Happy belated Valentine’s day

As you may have noticed, I am very behind in posting - from here until mid-April I am officially submerged in academic crunch-time, aka: three major papers, three jobs and holding-on-for-dear-life.  So you may not hear from me as often until this wave has passed.
We celebrated Valentine’s day with heart-shaped chocolate chip pancakes breakfast (in [...]


Time-Lapse Video: Glowing Cities

Check out this beautiful timelapse video showing a rare perspective on city lights by James Leng. (via)
In the description, he writes:
On my night time flight back to SF from Amsterdam, I noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow. Really spectacular and ethereal - it was really seeing the impact of urban [...]


Superflex: Flooded McDonald’s

Superflex has created a 20 minute film in which “…a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald’s burger bar, without any customers or staff present, gradually floods with water. Furniture is lifted up by the water, trays of food and drinks start to float around, electrics short circuit and eventually the space becomes [...]


WWOOF France: Follow Up Advice

As many of you know, I spent a month in France last summer volunteer working on organic farms in France, with the WWOOF program (stands for “Willing Workers on Organic Farms,” and is a worldwide network of which France is one national group).  I wrote two posts about it, one from my first experience at [...]


Kids + video camera = awesome

I don’t have much to say about these video finds, except, well, I kind of love them.  Also, I remember when I got my wisdom teeth out and I had lots of drugs to keep me totally out of it.  And I am not ashamed to say that I really enjoyed it!  I had been [...]