Liam is obsessed with Phun, a free physics game. He’s been working on making a Hummer for a few months now. Here is the screencast. Sorry can’t figure out how the audio works, which is very sad because his voiceover was so confident and precious. Talking about creativity and how he hopes it will inspire [...]
Archive | November, 2008
Sherman Williams paints has worst logo ever
Liam and I saw this logo on the back of a van this morning. We could not believe it. WTF?! What kind of bad bad drugs were the people who came up with this doing? Did no one ever say “Oh, yes, that’s nice but I wonder if some people may think it looks like [...]
Work alongside farmworkers in Florida
I had the pleasure of doing a bit of work for the Student-Farmworker Alliance for my master’s practicum. I learned about the situation of farmworkers in Florida from a 2003 article by John Bowe in the New Yorker: “Nobodies: Does Slavery Exist in America?” (download PDF). You may be surprised, but U.S. Department of Justice [...]
Designer wanted for book on urban ecology, activism, local history
Artefatica is looking for a print designer to create a 40- to 70-page book to be published in April 2009. The book, Memorial of Weeds: Wildest Dreams for Our Urban Cores, will document “Sprout Out Loud!” (an environmental art project) alongside community reflections about a controversial piece of land soon to be developed by the [...]
Contribute to the Memorial of Weeds
Memories, stories, dreams, visions, photos, newspaper clipping, city plans, archives — you name it, we want to include it in an upcoming book: Memorial of Weeds: Wildest Dreams for Our Urban Cores (working title). I’m (through Artefatica) helping Montreal artist Emily Rose Michaud, the force behind the Mile End’s Roerich Garden, to produce a book [...]
Malcolm Gladwell: Geek Pop Star
Good article in New York Magazine about Gladwell. Malcolm Gladwell’s elegant and wildly popular theories about modern life have turned his name into an adjective — Gladwellian! But in his new book, he seeks to undercut the cult of success, including his own, by explaining how little control we have over it. I love that [...]
Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 3
Final part of this report: developing a digital plan for Quebec — Un Plan Numerique pour le Québec. We decided to Collaboratively create a first draft using a wiki. The city of Melbourne, one participant pointed out, uses a wiki for Future Melboure, the community of Melbourne’s long-term plan for the future direction of all [...]