Friday night, this is what I make of you:

Words from Sarah Manguso’s Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (2007), included with story collections by Dave Eggers and Deb Olin Unferth in McSweeney’s One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box.
Words in the last picture by Broken Social Scene and my unrelenting faith in [...]

Sometimes life feels like the act of reading and re-reading a page that has been torn out from the middle of a book. The story never reaches its catharsis and, in its repeating, becomes a photocopy of itself. A tamed, purely ornamental version of a narrative that leaves you wondering what will happen next. Tonight, [...]

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great that I thought I was in a dream.”
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler (1960)
I have been spending upwards of [...]

A very special good-bye to a very special person. ♥

Photo by IDEO.

This photo is wildly inspirational.
It sets my imagination on fire. It fuels my long-lasting love affair with documentation. It keeps the flame of my  anticipated nostalgia alive. This photo is posted here as a preview of a collaborate arts project I have in mind, which will be unveiled soon. Or as [...]

Toronto is sending its messages.

*Found during a stroll in my favorite park. No staging involved.

Internazionale teaches me things I didn’t know I needed to know. Like how well Izis’ images complement Irene Nemirovsky’s words, for example.

Il Carnevale di Nizza (1956)

Le rive della Senna, Petit Pont (1949)

Jardin de Tuileries (1950)

Despite the decision to cut off my daily supply of  recreational reading, I have been enjoying quite a few interesting things these (Porfolio) days. They include:
Neozoon’s Furry Friends series:

Simon Hejden’s trees:

Whitelines Notebooks (they had me at “Swedish” and “innovation”):

Sunday brunch served with digital cameras:

Crowdsourcing my research from various West-end cafes:

Jamming with the Jam Berries:

and veganism.
Waking [...]