Delivered the bookmarks to TMU Library today. Part of their Y90s Celebration.
Tuesday, April 09, 2024
Remote Posting
Designwallah, ever the technophile (and proponent of “The Discipline of Do Easy"), has found a way to post to Blogger by email. Perfect for the flâneur! Easy-peasy...
Saturday, April 06, 2024
"Paris's beloved booksellers secure victory to stay put during this summer's Olympics"
Last night while sipping pints and eating delicious snacks (arancini, olives...) at E L Ruddy, designwallah and I reviewed the history of this site and made tentative plans to experiment with it a bit. Some of the general themes (not always captured with tags) were: photography (of various stripes); psychogeography; books; and all things parisienne (we travelled there twice during the blog's early days).
So, for today's experiment, here's something close to my bookish heart - Les bouquinistes.
©Benh LIEU SONG, 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
Article on Lonely Planet about the averted crisis with some wonderful historical photographs.
History on Wikipedia.
Friday, April 05, 2024
Reanimation?
The last three posts (not including this one) are dated 2024, 2015, 2011. That's some high-grade octane!
Maybe because I've been looking at “early” web culture through blogs, blogrolls, webrings and the like I've come to enjoy the many blogspot sites that are still out there, either preserved in amber (like this one) or still going boldly forth.
To name but one outstanding example: Ottawa poet Rob Maclennan's above/ground press blog ‑ since 1993! And his personal blog which is a wonderful period mishmash.
I thought that perhaps designwallah and I could take up the pleasurable mantle again from our younger selves (vide our earliest posts) and build something new atop the the ruins of misdirected and broken links.
We'll see...
Friday, March 13, 2015
Monday, September 05, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Ode to a Nissan Figaro
The Nissan Figaro was an automobile originally only sold in Japan. It was introduced in 1989 at the Tokyo Auto Show. This is a retro homage to a retro vehicle.
I found the car parked on Ossington Avenue, it is owned by a waiter at Union who had a bitter-sweet story. It's simply a beautifully designed (right-hand drive) auto. It can be imported into Canada by Right Drive.
View Large. More at Wikipedia.
Monday, September 06, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
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