townscape—furniture

townscape—furniture

townscape—mallscape

townscape—gardenscape

sunflower and wild carrots in bikepath flower bed at lower sherbourne.

autumn balsam

toronto gardens

autumn raspberries at the south end of sherbourne street, october 2019.

townscape—wallscape

wallgarden on the west side of a building at college and church streets.

townscape perspective

the view from queen and leslie street down to the landfill park.

townscape—wallscape

niches and raised panel on the east wall of the laurentian cathedral.

cyril connolly—self importance

" 'dry again?' said the crab to the rock-pool. 'so would you be,' replied the rock-pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea.' " cyril connolly, the unquiet grave.



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shen fu—floating houses

"poor scholars who live in small crowded houses should rearrange their rooms in imitation of the sterns of the taiping boats of my home country, the steps of which can be made into three beds by extending them at front and back. each bed is then separated from its neighbor by a board covered with paper. looking at them when they are laid out is like walking a long road—you do not have a confined feeling at all. when yuh and i were living in yangchou we arranged our house in this fashion. though the house had only two spans, we devided it into two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room, and still had plenty of space left over. yun had laughed about our handiwork, saying, 'the layout is fine, but it still does not quite have the feel of a rich home.' i had had to admit she was right!"

shen fu, six records of a floating life. made into english by leonard pratt and chiang su-hui


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toronto naloxone kit

fernando pessoa—telling gender

that passage in fernando pessoa's book of disquiet where he makes light of the gender controversy.

84 "lets suppose there's a girl with masculine gestures. an ordinary human creature will say, 'that girl acts like a boy.' another ordinary human creature, with some awareness that to speak is to tell, will say, 'that girl is a boy.' yet another, equally aware of the duties of expression, but inspired by a fondness for concision ( which is the sensual delight of thought ), will say, 'that boy.' i'll say, 'she's a boy', violating one of the basic rules of grammar — that pronouns must agree in gender and number with the nouns they refer to. and i'll have spoken correctly; i'll have spoken absolutely, photographically, outside the norm, the accepted, the insiped. i won't have spoken, i'll have told."

fernando pessoa, book of disquiet. made in to english by richard zenith.



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wastebook—sketchbook

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autumn greens

weed greens coming up on the east side of a small wall at sherbourne and front streets, october 2019.

autumn flowers

calendula and ragweed flowering at sherbourne and front streets, october 2019.

ruins of toronto

broken wire glass at south entrance of yonge bloor subway.

alexander cozens — a new method of landscape drawing

"rule one. to make drawing ink. procure the following articles.

lamp-black, in a small barrel, from the oil shop. two or three ounces of finely powdered gum arabic, from the apothecary; keep this very dry. writing ink. half pint tin pot. a middling sized bristle brush, to be had at the colour shop.

put a little of the gum into the tin pot; add writing ink, as much as will make it a paste; mix it very well with the brush. add lamp-black upon the point of a knife, or shake it out of the barrel a little at a time, till it becomes as thick as it can be managed when mixed. add a little more writing ink, and mix it well."

alexander cozens, a new method of assisting the invention in drawing original compositions of landscape.

the entire section of alexander's cozens essay where he explains the rules of his new method of landscape painting can be read at the blog fulltable.com.



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toronto billionaire mystery

that time a toronto billionaire let a cell of anarchists live rent free in one of his domestic properties in downtown toronto. then he kicked them out and they killed him.


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lazy palms

toronto sound scape

example of influencing machine technology in use. a woman with blood on her face comes in to building lobby sits down near me and recites a poem about the microchips in her blood.


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five second sketch

cyril connolly—fruit therapy

" there are some fruits which awaken in me feelings deeper than appetite. when i contemplate the musky golden orb of the sugar-melon or the green and brown seaweed markings of the tiger cantaloupe, the scales of the pine-apple or the textures of figs and nectarines, the disposition of oranges and lemons on the tree or the feign-death coils of the old vine-serpent, i swell in unity with them, i ripen with the ripe sugar-cane, the banana in flower, ... "

cyril connolly, the unquiet grave.

video 4decades of fruit collecting


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toronto streetscape

a facade detail at ground level on a building at the beaches end of queen street. interesting for the way the single step is angled to follow the curve of the metal pipe on the wall.


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ha-ha scape

a walk along a wall on the isle of wight. a person films thits walk along the length of a muddy drainage ditch at the base of a haha wall. at the end of the walk the person seems to try and enter an opening in the wall.


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primate logic

allangardens—signscape

no no no, and no again at the allangardens.