nice little tale for a quiet tea party...

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:32:48 -0700

nevver: Home sick

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:22:21 -0800

nevver:

Home sick

Outcomes theory, redux

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:59:00 -0700

Definitions and common mistakes in performance measurement.

Because not all targets are benchmarks.

http://outcomesblog.org/2007/11/27/indicators-targets-benchmarks-sorting-out-the-terminology/

pasttensevancouver: Capitol Theatre, Granville Street,...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:47:25 -0700

pasttensevancouver:

Capitol Theatre, Granville Street, 1943

Source: Photo by Jack Lindsay, City of Vancouver Archives #1184-707

R.I.P. Granville Street cinemas

pasttensevancouver: Cyclists at Brockton Point, 1890s Cycling...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:45:47 -0700

pasttensevancouver:

Cyclists at Brockton Point, 1890s

Cycling was crazy popular in the 1890s. The normal looking bikes were called “safety bicycles” because of how they compared to penny farthings.

Source: City of Vancouver Archives #Sp P15.1

Love this tumblr

pasttensevancouver: West Pender and Abbott, Tuesday 26 November...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:44:52 -0700

pasttensevancouver:

West Pender and Abbott, Tuesday 26 November 1918

Source: City of Vancouver Archives #789-40 (cropped)

Shipment of books arrived today! Finally reading Walter...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:17:01 -0700

Shipment of books arrived today! Finally reading Walter Benjamin’s “The Arcades Project”, and loving the fragmented dreamlike quality.

nevver: You look lovely

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:56:45 -0700

nevver:

You look lovely

nevver: Four decades of Police box modifications

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:54:38 -0700

nevver:

Four decades of Police box modifications

Passive Aggressive Redesign

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:17:47 -0700

Passive Aggressive Redesign:

Stumbled over this article — hot on the heels of the City’s official redesign.

A) I’m delighted to have a term to apply to this phenomenon, which takes, “I could do better” to a less abstract level.

B) Interesting “oh brother!” kind of take by the author towards these earnest (or sometimes hostile) attempts. The letter to American Airlines and thoughtful response from an anonymous AA designer (about the difficulties and different pace involved in designing for an enterprise), runs along the same lines.
C) Now I wonder if any unofficial, passive aggressive Vancouver designers would think to try their angry hand at a new new redesign.

Typographic Maps that tell a story: London Surnames

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:52:27 -0700

Typographic Maps that tell a story: London Surnames:

Great-looking maps by James Cheshire: soft documentation of diversity in London as told through the popularity of surnames found across geographic areas. http://names.mappinglondon.co.uk/

via The Atlantic

Graphic Sociology, from the Society Pages

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:47:51 -0700

Graphic Sociology, from the Society Pages:

http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/

Nice. Critiques of infographics based on social data and research.

Near-to-last act of 2011 was spent with old friends watching...

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:57:51 -0800

Near-to-last act of 2011 was spent with old friends watching this Wim Wenders film about the incredible work of late/great choreographer Pina Bausch — in 3D, no less. Achingly beautiful inspiration for 2012. Happy new year!

nevver: Garrison Architects Happy holidays, cityphiles!

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:15:31 -0800

nevver:

Garrison Architects

Happy holidays, cityphiles!

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Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:14:34 -0800

Today

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:36:27 -0800

One day too late for advance voting, which means that I now have another day to reconsider all my “maybe” picks.

Biked from Gastown shop and hop, stopped by the Astoria for beer, biked home in the first snow(?)fall of the season. Technically, it’s raining slush outside. That’s Vancouver for you. 10 years here now, so I’m not as picky as I was…even the wettest snow still looks pretty in the streetlights as it falls.

Art intervention by Juliana Santacruz Herrera in the cracks of...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:29:00 -0800

Art intervention by Juliana Santacruz Herrera in the cracks of Paris sidewalks. A beautifully deconstructed ‘yarn bomb”.

(via Trendland)

Great alley! Nice urban intervention in South Hill, East Van by...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:38:00 -0800

Great alley! Nice urban intervention in South Hill, East Van by Instant Coffee (amongst other things, the Vancouver chapter brought us the odd glossy sandwich boards and faux-yarn-bombed buses for the Main Street transit redesign a few years back).

(via OtherSights)

Referenced at Walk21. Interesting to see that so many of my top...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:11:00 -0700

Referenced at Walk21. Interesting to see that so many of my top 1st world cities to visit are in the top 10 bike-friendly cities. If I wasn’t already planning to bike when I visit, I will now.

Joy Division or Talking Heads?

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:36:00 -0700

Yeah, I love the Talking Heads. I took a letterpress course at Emily Carr a couple of years ago and made small posters of the lyrics from This Must Be The Place (the first verse alone, incidentally, took me all morning to set).

I find the quirkiness of Talking Heads to be more compelling and charming than Ian Curtis’ (also compelling) intensity.

Also, I like this question way more than Beatles vs Stones.