Nov 28 2007
Google Maps now has a “Terrain” view. It’s not extremely useful, as it doesn’t seem particularly detailed, but hey, it’s another fun way to do your mapping.
Here’s the terrain of our fair burgh:
Click the image and look at a larger view on Flickr. Or just go to Google Maps and make your own!
(Found via Ed […]
Nov 26 2007
Inspired by Fagstein’s and Coolopolis’s various Montrealish tests, I give you this:
What appears to be missing in this photograph? (Taken on McGill-College Avenue, just below de Maisonneuve, looking “north,” as in “Montreal north.”)
(If you need help, click the image to go to Flickr look at a larger version.)
Nov 26 2007
Very early in the first year of my BFA program in photography at Concordia University, we were called upon to produce a small portfolio of new work. I had started classes a few weeks late because I’d been out of town working all summer, so I was at a big disadvantage. Anyway, the Saturday […]
Nov 22 2007
It’s 4:12 P.M., late November, in Montreal. That means it’s dark – practically night. It’s also cold and icy-rainy out there. Yet several hundred protesters are banging on drums, right now, at the corner of de Maisonneuve and McGill-College Ave. I don’t know who they are, or what they’re protesting; it’s just a bunch of […]
Nov 21 2007
I found a story on Briebart.tv about a kid in San Antonio, Texas, who tried to poison his teacher with whiteboard cleaning fluid. Well, that’s pretty nasty, but the real bad news is this news report about the incident (video).
That just makes me want to cry. The reporting, I mean. How can people put up […]
Nov 19 2007
I‘m fascinated by the various “off the grid” type homes one sees in books and magazines (like this one, which features a house in Northern California built by Martine’s friends Gaetan and Mario). It’s great to see people thinking about principles of sustainability and ecology in home building, and to actually act on them. Unfortunately, […]
