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The Land Conservancy of BC held an open house today (Canada Day) for the iconic Binning Residence in West Vancouver. JP and I got there early accidentally but they let us in right away. We got some good photos before the place eventually became overrun.
You can find all my Binning Residence photos here.
I passed through Edmonton on the way to Jasper recently, and managed to snap a few shots of the new Art Gallery of Alberta. You can follow it to completion on their live webcam. There’s also a fly-through available (maybe mute the sound).
Sandwich
Salad
Hivelogic has a great tutorial and backup script to make a local copy of your Flickr uploads.
During early design development, it’s not uncommon to let your SketchUp file get out of control with a multitude of options. Speed it up.
Notwithstanding the fact that this dude probably has a salary at least tripling mine, what is it about him? The glasses? The goatee? The mini ghetto blaster? Or the shirt? (I think it’s an image of Tom Cruise.)
My companion, upon visiting the second Fido store completely sold out of 32GB black iPhone 3GS’s:
“But I don’t want a 16GB one. It’s the poor man’s iPhone.”
How to make s’mores: a video.
Slang at englishdaily626.com. Pay close attention to the etymology for each entry.
A short piece by Lisa Rochon at the Globe & Mail recounting a recent pilgrimage to Finland. She latches on to Aalto, but of course one could write books on the topic of Finnish architecture. Some nice photos in the gallery….
Birdapres @ Myspace (check out the newest single, “Toothpaste”)
Birdapres @ CBC Radio 3
Birdapres @ Peanuts & Corn Records
Archfarm‘s newest installment is a decent piece on the element of risk in the public realm and the risks taken in designing varied environments that entertain the whole of human behaviours. (Don’t worry. It’s short.)
“Stimulating the Sense in the Public Realm” by Iain Borden argues that the risk is well worth it, since the results are often far more interesting and unexpected than we might anticipate. For Borden, these vital spaces acknowledge four types of difference that “are all about risk-taking, about allowing for the uncertain, unpredictable and not-wholly-programmed to occur.”
This track has been keeping me occupied on/off for about a month now. Hamilton’s Junior Boys do “Hazel”
Yann Arthus-Bertrand‘s new film Home is on YouTube. I read it was only available until 14 June, but perhaps it will still be available for a while. In any case, you can get more info at goodplanet.org.
I enjoyed it for the most part. It was incredibly sad at some points. It’s hard to be optimistic about the state of environmental things sometimes…
Looking forward to Food Inc.
Update: Check out Bertrand’s photo archive. Over 2000 amazing images from around Earth.
I ended up at some friends’ “cabin” (i.e. giant house) in Lions Bay this past weekend.
It was so sunny I couldn’t actually see the photo I was taking with my phone.
A product of the generally fantastic Record of the Week Club, “Keewatin Arctic” is a collaboration between John K Samson (of the Weakerthans), Nikki Komaksiutiksak (an Inuit throat singer) and Blunderspublik (electronic artist). Have a listen.
Lovely essay about large numbers. (via Kottke)
A good piece from Scott Boms at A List Apart on everyone’s favourite topic: Burnout.
An e-mail, from a friend in Holland:
Subject: “Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About”
you prolly have seen some of these…
- http://infosthetics.com/
- http://flowingdata.com/
- http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
- http://benfry.com/writing/
- http://www.formfollowsbehavior.com/
- http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/
- http://blog.many-eyes.com/
- http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/
- http://simplecomplexity.net/
- http://leebyron.com/how/
- http://eagereyes.org/
- http://accuracyandaesthetics.com/
- http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/
- http://diuf.unifr.ch/people/bertinie/visuale/
- http://well-formed-data.net/
- http://www.numberpix.com/
- http://www.mentegrafica.it/blog/
- http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/
- http://informationandvisualization.de/
- http://designnotes.info/
- http://perceptualedge.com/blog/
- http://shiffman.net/
- http://abeautifulwww.com/
- http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/
- http://www.bestiario.org/blog/
- http://www.tom-carden.co.uk
- http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org/
- http://www.imitateinformate.com/
Enjoy!
My wife sent me this link the other day about haircuts. I’ve always had an unthoughtful hair regimen (excepting up until about grade 4 and a year and half near the end of highschool) and tend toward the $10 barbershop. My current shop changed its name from “barbershop” to “hairstyling” a couple years ago and now the price is going with it (i.e. up).