Vas(iliki) Bednar @VassB on Twitter has written: All this #RobFord stuff is reminding me of @andcote’s @imfgtoronto piece on “The Fault Lines at City Hall” – http://bit.ly/UePsLw #TOpoli [Click on the link in previous sentence to access the article.] The article is by André Côté. About IMFG The article notes that: The Institute on Municipal Finance […]
I’m very pleased to know that the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, has appointed its first curator of contemporary art. Contemporary art can be intimidating; a curator can provide multiple points of entry A Nov. 3, 2013 artdaily.com article highlighting the appointment notes: “Contemporary art can be intimidating, and I feel it […]
Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age (2013) provides an update regarding themes addressed in a previous, and quite widely read, Machine in the Garden blog post. Alice Marwick’s Twitter handle is @alicetiara. She is active on Twitter. The Toronto Public Library blurb for Social Media (2013) reads: Social media technologies […]
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Ward 6 Councillor Mark Grimes’ office has shared information concerning an Amos Waites Consultation on Nov. 18, 2013 at 7:00 pm at the Mimico Centennial Library. For information, click here.
Dawn McKinnon, Environmental Planner, writes (note RSVP required by Nov. 8, 2013): Hello, Please find attached an invitation to attend Community Workshop #2 for the Preliminary Design and Class Environmental Assessment Study for improvements to the QEW from Evans Avenue to Cawthra Road: QEW Evans Ave to Cawthra Rd CW 2 Public Invite emailed Oct […]
Andrew Stewart has informed me of a local entitled “Our Place… dedicated to uncover which issues matter most to you and members of your community.” “This is being built from the ground up, first in Etobicoke,” explains Andrew: www.ourplaceinitiative.com This is a worthwhile initiative; I fully support this project.
Students of filmmaking can learn many things on their own, or they can take classes, or they can do both. Hands-on exercises, analysis of scenes, and study of the history of film editing are standard ways of figuring out how films are put together. Cowboys and Aliens (2011) In a course I’m taking at Ryerson University, […]
The frame of reference that is brought to a given observation, and the quality of the evidence that is available to us, are key variables determining our perceptions. The concept that one can think of orders of frames of reference is of interest. Frames of reference can be the subject of systematic study; such study is of […]
Councillor Perk writes, in a text written on Oct. 31, 2013: Dear Friends, Today the Chief of Police confirmed the existence of a video which we have been told involves the Mayor doing and saying things that no elected official should. Additionally, a series of very disturbing documents have been released. This is sad and […]