The Tudor house, colonialism, white gold and toothache
“This is why we love the Tudor period so much, because it’s the age of discovery, and there’s a sense that anything was possible.” “Discovery”? That’s one way of talking about colonialism. This BBC...
View ArticleCoast Modern – preview of the upcoming documentary film
These stills were shot during the filming of Coast Modern, a documentary film about West Coast modern house architecture, spanning from LA to Vancouver, by Vancouver filmmakers Gavin Froome and Mike...
View ArticleKoolhaas Houselife
While on the topic of buildings that don’t always function the way we want them to, I was reminded of the quite hilarious 2008 documentary Koolhaas Houselife, in which a housekeeper talks about the...
View ArticleLeonard Cohen in the documentary “Ladies and Gentlemen.. Mr Leonard Cohen”
Watch the whole thing. This is a Canada so different from the Canada from the one we’re in now, the Canada that now sits in a deep, dark, chilly trough dug by our illegitimate prime minister, Stephen...
View ArticleKarl Mattson’s sour gas escape pod, Rolla B.C.
Pod at Sweetwater 905 Festival 2012. Karl Mattson, an artist and filmmaker from the town of Rolla in Northern B.C., produced this “escape pod” artwork last year. I saw it a few weeks ago on the...
View ArticleIf you think planned obsolescence of consumer items isn’t real…
“Planned obsolescence isn’t just about deceiving the consumer, it also threatens the planet through a constant stream of toxic waste… Posterity will never forgive us.” ...read more
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