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A previous post about the Machine in the Garden aesthetic of factory design included a large number of updates. For ease in reading of the original post, I’ve removed the updates and have included them (below) as a separate post: A May 8, 2021 New York Times article is entitled: “Seeing the Real Faces of […]
This post is a follow-up to an earlier post about Cartierville School. A useful reference, regarding topics in the post, is A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998 (2004). You can access the study online at Google Books. You can do a search for “Cartierville” at the link in the previous sentence. […]
Several overviews based upon the movie American Hustle (2013) – from The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, and The Telegraph, among other sources – are available online. The IMDb overview of the film sums up the story: “A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild […]
A Feb. 7, 2014 Toronto Star article is entitled: “Changes in speech-language service will harm kids, health official says.” The subhead reads: “Head of the LAMP Community Health Centre worries that fewer preschoolers who struggle to communicate will get help after [Toronto Preschool Speech and Languages Service] revamps its program.” The opening paragraphs read: A […]
I enjoy reading things by David Bryne, author of How Music Works (2012), and listening to interviews with him including a recent one on CBC Radio’s The Current. A recent blog post that he’s written is entitled “You Are The Target.” The opening paragraphs read: A few days ago Target revealed that they’d been hacked—beginning […]
The following message is from councillor Grimes Office: Ice Storm Update – Tuesday [Dec. 24, 2013] 10 a.m. City of Toronto ice storm update on Tuesday morning The City of Toronto is continuing to provide updated information this morning on ongoing impacts and the City’s response to the ice storm. Toronto Hydro Toronto Hydro is […]
For a course, which I much enjoyed, in film and sound editing that I’ve recently completed at Ryerson University, I’ve submitted a final assigned paragraph – which I’ve broken into shorter paragraphs for posting to this website – concerning the editing of a scene from a movie that I’ve chosen for analysis. Altogether, we were […]
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, […]