I previously heard of playgrounds for the elderly through various newspaper articles, but Tokyo-based Ping Magazine has a beautiful blog entry that includes many pictures, to give us an idea of what the gear actually looks like. Surf over to Playgrounds For The Elderly:Fit In An Aging Society. Ping Magazine‘s entry includes not just pictures, […]
Fascinating entry by Digital Urban: Connected to the World but not to the City – The Local Cloud At the heart of the argument is the desire for information, to be part of a wired society and to feel connected to the city not only on social and retail level but also architecturally. We want […]
I would love to be at this event… Hope someone is blogging it! Art & Science Symposium – Edmonton Cultural Capital of Canada
Outerspace sound recordings that sound like 50s space invasion movie music! Click through on this “Cassini-Huygens: Mission to Saturn and Titan” page for all the sound files. Do it. They’re cool. Very cool (via Coolhunting)…
Another Toronto Star article on Toronto specifically, but Canadian cities generally, written by Royson James: Conservatives have written Toronto off Annotated James’s article relates to one from the previous day by Jim Coyle, If Tories not for cities now, when? (also Toronto Sun), which I blogged about here. Echoing Coyle’s theme (and also Christopher Hume’s […]
Watch this: Cool Hunting: Bruce Shapiro It’s a terrific video produced by Ami Kealoha, on the artist Bruce Shapiro. He grabs my attention immediately by introducing himself thus: "My medium is motion control." That’s the first time I’ve heard motion control described as an artistic medium. After seeing Shapiro’s work in the video, though, I […]
If the “continuing saga” were a question, the answer might be “badly.” Or: “poorly,” literally. The Toronto Star‘s Jim Coyle has a great column, which asks this question: If Tories not for cities now, when? He leads us into the problem with Rabbi Hillel’s three questions, as used by Bob Rae, a Liberal politician at […]
Update, see below… This has to be the stupidest thing I’ve read all year: Arts groups want government to regulate the web A coalition of Canadian artists is demanding that the government control the internet for Canadian content, lest we get swallowed up by the Americans. They claim that since the CRTC ensures that there’s […]