Steam Press
Scattered between the ordinary retail spaces on Queen Street East are establishments that outfit various industries, like the tattoo supply store I mentioned in a post a few weeks back. One nameless storefront...
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Clotheslines Against Blue Skies (Let’s Talk About the Weather)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s new album History of Modern is blaring from the stereo as the snow starts to fall outside my window. We’re expecting 15-40cm in the next 24 hours, which...
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Cooper’s Hawk Consumes its Prey
There’s lots of wildlife on the streets of Toronto, and not just the raccoons and rats that are common to most urban environments. This is due to the network of ravines that traverses...
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Disconnect – Canadian Broadcast Standards Council in Dire Straits
Irony is truly dead in Canada. Yesterday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, a voluntary association of radio and television stations, banned Dire Straits 1985 hit Money for Nothing for its use of the...
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Tattoo Supplies
The folks at Studio One Tattoo and Body Piercing Supplies have a bloody good sense of humour.
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My Messy Desktop
I’m diving into some very creative projects right now and that means lots of study and preparatory work. When I’m in the early stages of a new written piece, or if I’m drastically...
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It Might Get Loud
A few days ago, a friend of mine posted a link to the Kitara, a stringless touch-screen and button-based instrument in the shape of a guitar. He called it the guitar of the...
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Colour and Snow
It’s a brutally ugly Sunday afternoon in Toronto. It’s grey. It’s raining. It doesn’t feel like mid-December. But hey, there’s no such thing as global warming, right? It’s all a vast conspiracy to...
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Basketball Courts in the Snow
I’ve wanted to try some night shots of the nearby basketball courts for the last few weeks, and last night’s snow was the incentive I needed, so I took along a Rebel XTi...
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Donkeytail Spurge – Succulent
I could lie to you and tell you that Donkeytail Spurge is an obscure 80s band and that Succulent was its first album. I could tell you that the above image is the...
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