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