I'm seeing quite a bit of excitement about this actually. I know lots of people who are going to go to the opening ceremony today and ride the train free. I heard some grumbling about how it didn't open first...
created by kate | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 407 views | 6 recommendations | 2 comments
I am so tired of cultural industries being called on to justify their existence. This is not something other industries ever have to do. One look at the comments on this story in the Georgia Straight cuts right to the place of debate that we return to over and over again:...
created by kate | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 236 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
I received this email and wanted to pass along the information, as it will be voted on in 2 weeks time and is a very scary proposal. This is a dangerous - and stupid - proposal, so I hope people get it together to protest it or block it. Food should not be centralized and...
created by kate | 4 years ago 5582 views | 24 recommendations | 4 comments
I'm at 23rd Street and Lonsdale in North Vancouver at the Chevron Gas Station. There's about 10 cop cars and a fire truck and two motorcycles and everybody's sirens are flashing.
created by kate | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 322 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Actually its very internet 3.0...mmm delicioso! " Imitation, as they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. Which is why the most revealing part of a recent Wednesday rendezvous with the Kogi Korean taco truck,...
created by kate | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 288 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada has launched a new identity. It is a new logo - a circle. Shown here as a (really nice) animation. I like it, do you? "To accompany Emily Carr's brand-new university status and name change, we've revamped our...
created by kate | 4 years ago 333 views | 1 recommendation | 2 comments
Ok, disgusting!"The rat, which weighed six pounds and had a 12-inch tail, was caught at the weekend in a residential area of Fuzhou, a city of six million people on China's south coast. The ratcatcher, who was only named as Mr Xian, said he swooped for the rodent after seeing...
created by kate | 4 years ago 361 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
I'm noticing anecdotally that the recession is really hitting architects....here are another 400 laid off by Norman Foster's office."Foster & Partners shuts Berlin and Istanbul offices the day after it highlights profitability to staff Foster & Partners has announced...
created by kate | 4 years ago 159 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
My friends are doing this project. They've curated a programme of sports art films and are screening them in a custom built solar powered mobile cinema made from reconstituted shipping containers. It will be located...
created by kate | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 373 views | 36 recommendations | 7 comments
It is so scary how easily these policies are sabotaged. "Environmentalists are calling for the prosecution of a farmer who claims to have sabotaged Wales's GM-free status by secretly planting and harvesting genetically modified varieties of maize and feeding them to local...
created by kate | 4 years ago 139 views | 19 recommendations | 6 comments
I admire this so much. This is such a great initiative, kudos to these people! "Polaroid may have stopped production of its analogue instant film last summer, but such is the strength of the product's fan base that...
created by kate | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 3690 views | 58 recommendations | 15 comments
This is really exciting news. The archive at the National Film Board of Canada (the NFB) is pure gold and has up until now been fairly inaccessible. "The National Film Board of Canada has launched a new project to allow Canadians to see its films through online streaming....
created by kate | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 257 views | 13 recommendations | 3 comments
This is so appalling. Why isn't anyone doing anything?"Claims have been received by the BBC and an Israeli human rights group that Israeli troops have fired on Gaza residents trying to escape the conflict area. Israel has strongly denied the allegations. BBC journalists in...
created by kate | 4 years ago 132 views | 15 recommendations | 7 comments
I heard about this via Laila El-Haddad, the Palestinian journalist. The ship, in international waters loaded with crucial supplies and doctors, is being surrounded by Israeli gunships."The Free Gaza mercy ship, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, left port in Cyprus this morning on an...
created by kate | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 146 views | 26 recommendations | 0 comments
For 10 days I have heard from sources on the ground that white phosphorus is being used. Now the mainstream media is covering the issue. "HRW said the use of white phosphorus in Gaza would violate "the requirement under international humanitarian law to take all feasible...
created by kate | 4 years ago 91 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments