At the Lyceum Gallery May 1-18, (part of Contact 2026)
Can you imagine the lives lived here?
Wonderful show...
Tuesday, May 05, 2026
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Friday, February 27, 2026
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Seven Lucky Gods
A set of nesting dolls depicting the Shichifukujin (Seven Lucky Gods) in the traditional Hakone-zaiku fashion. It has been suggested that the Russian matryoshka dolls may have been inspired by them.
Friday, February 13, 2026
“A wild and free movement, street art appears without asking permission. Many have taken to photographing it. These photographers need a guide to help them identify what they see. This pocket atlas is aimed at these enthusiasts, a companion for discovering street art in the Paris region and identifying more than a hundred artists, particularly by the techniques used (painting, drawing, chalk, markers, mosaics, collages, stencils, etc.).” Éditeurs du Sud
The Cine-Tourist
The Cine-Tourist is a website about connections between maps and films, and about local cinema (also about early French and English cinema, and sometimes about photographs, and sometimes just about the Nouvelle Vague).
The Cine-Tourist only writes about places that he knows, and since he doesn't travel much this site is chiefly about films made in Paris, Geneva and London.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
A page from the Manuscript of Tashrih-i Badan (Anatomy of the Body)
Manuscript of Tashrih-i Badan (Anatomy of the Body), Mansur b. Ilyas (d. 1420s)
Iran or India, 17th century
Ink and opaque watercolour on paper
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
On loan from Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal
Saturday, November 09, 2024
Honey Bunny has Landed!
Note for the resident spymaster: watched the first episode - excellent.
Also making my way through the YRF Spy Universe (Prime has all five.) Bond + Bollywood!
The music's pretty good as well - “Banjaara” has a touch of River Dance (we're in Dublin after all...)
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
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