Inner gremlin bites hand that feeds it
Saturday, March 13th, 2010A late-night tweet, a disturbing dream, and a response to the tweets resolves the meaning of the dream. But will it change my feeding habits?
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Theater of the absurd for 2010
Saturday, March 13th, 2010It’s theater month for me, with the Belfry Theatre‘s SPARK Festival leading the way. Tonight I saw Tiny Apocalypse (video excerpt here), a powerful one-woman play by Camille Gingras, in which an office drone named Rita Downenlower (“down and lower”) slowly comes undone. The play is pitch-perfect: nothing over-the-top or campy or horribly lugubrious, just […]
Vancouver Day-trip
Friday, March 12th, 2010A day trip to Vancouver included visiting the Woodward’s complex on Abbott at W. Hastings to see the exhibit Vancouverism.ca. Most impressive was the atrium, Stan Douglas’s photo-mural, and the new condo builing by Gregory Henriquez.
What is Victoria saying?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The City of Victoria is trying to gauge public attitudes as part of its efforts to come up with a renewed Official Community Plan (OCP). There’s a website dedicated just to this endeavor, Shape Your Future Victoria. There are surveys to fill out, questionnaires to answer, …and opportunities to be a jackass on camera. I […]
That magical west coast light…
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Overnight, our weather turned. After weeks of very mild temperatures and early blooms, we woke on Monday to a cold spell. The upside? Predicted rain didn’t materialize – instead we got cold, but bright, sunshine. Also on offer: a particular acuity through the late afternoon slanting light, a fullness in the colors, and some spectacularly […]
Inbetween places
Monday, March 8th, 2010Strip malls are the inbetween places produced through car-centric (mis-)planning, and will be the hardest places to bring to adaptive re-use. So ugly they can’t be directly looked at, we avoid seeing them lest we turn to stone.
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010Julia Vitullo-Martin: Don’t Wreck the Authentic New Harlem Renaissance – WSJ.com Sharon Zukin takes on gentrification (in Harlem especially), while Harlem-ites dismiss her critique. “Gentrification” v. “authenticity”? Between black and white there might actually be plenty of shades of gray (no pun intended)… QUOTE It should also be said that these talented, innovative African-Americans are […]
Guess what? Park Avenue used to be …a park
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Streetfilms has produced a great ~4minute video, “Fixing the Great Mistake: Autocentric Development,” that makes the case for taking city streets back from the automobile. As it happens, I had the same idea in the early 1970s. It’s finally getting mainstream traction!
Millennials and public engagement
Friday, March 5th, 2010Low voter turnout, boredom around local government: officials are scratching their heads, trying to design public engagement strategies that reach the disaffected, including the Millennial generation. My take? “Go where they are, don’t expect to build a site or a ‘strategy’ that makes them come to you”
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