I’m finally relaxing again, and that includes catching up on the backlog of blog reading. (I could coin a new term “backblog”, but 188,000 google hits beat me to it.)
- Torontoist had a hilarious picture of a mounted police officer collecting parking tickets, courtesy of torontogal on flickr.
- Spacing Wire had a post on a video projection by Xavier de Richemont at Nathan Phillips Square. It sounds like a well-executed, simple piece of public art: project onto the facade of an interesting building (Old City Hall), and turn the building into a cartoon version of itself – like colourizing an old movie. It’s got the hallmarks of good public art: dramatic, clever, simple, and easily understood.
- Both of these blogs referenced Santarchy, who I saw milling around outside the Gypsy Co-op (sorry, “Gypsy and the Hooch”).
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Former city councillor Gordon Price wrote about a Katrina moment in Vancouver following the recent windstorm, and the CBC also had a story on the impacts to Stanley Park. - Gordon Price also posted a funny video showing what happens when traffic calming fights back…
