This explicit (and large scale) co-opting of an entire city block — and subsequently affecting the greater area around the site — for the filming of a movie provides a moment of disturbance to think about one's relation to the city.
As meeting point
December 24th, 2008
The following slides are from an October presentation dealing with developing a personal definition of design.
Copenhagen Airport
Pas$w0rd-2008
November 1st, 2008
Ever since signing up for my first email account sometime in the mid-90's, my password has been under constant scrutiny every time I've signed up for a new web-based service (now up around fifty or so). It's been twisted, warped, stretched, condensed, pinched, punched, cut, and finally massaged into a highly-refined form that is longer-than-six-but-less-than-sixteen upper and lowercase alpha-numerics and including its fair share of "special" characters. It's perfect. With years of practice through entering it in countless times a day, the act itself is a thing of beauty. Fingers, working in unison, fly over the keys to their temporary destination to tap out an audible but ambiguous pattern as the password field is completed in under a second.
Espresso high-street
October 24th, 2008
Strengthened by the recent arrival of Wicked Cafe as an anchor at Smithe, the Hornby Street area is quickly becoming quite the cross-section of major Vancouver coffee offerings.
