I’m finally relaxing again, and that includes catching up on the backlog of blog reading. (I could coin a new term “backblog”, but 188,000 google hits beat me to it.)
- Torontoist had a hilarious picture of a mounted police officer collecting parking tickets, courtesy of torontogal on flickr.
- Spacing Wire had a post on a video projection by Xavier de Richemont at Nathan Phillips Square. It sounds like a well-executed, simple piece of public art: project onto the facade of an interesting building (Old City Hall), and turn the building into a cartoon version of itself – like colourizing an old movie. It’s got the hallmarks of good public art: dramatic, clever, simple, and easily understood.
- Both of these blogs referenced Santarchy, who I saw milling around outside the Gypsy Co-op (sorry, “Gypsy and the Hooch”).
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Former city councillor Gordon Price wrote about a Katrina moment in Vancouver following the recent windstorm, and the CBC also had a story on the impacts to Stanley Park. - Gordon Price also posted a funny video showing what happens when traffic calming fights back…
“The Santas were relieved of their cocktails and sent on their way without incident,” RCMP said in a news release Tuesday.
(CBC)
The infamous rising bollard!
Taxis, buses, and other public vehicles have a transponder that cause the bollard to retract. Apparently several people thought they could sneak through behind those authorized vehicles. (In Cambridge, there are streets where the bollards are only raised during peak hours)