Posts Tagged With "culture"

The Hollow Echo Chamber of Modern Cultural Review

opinions & venting | pop-culture 

[11 Jan 02013 | 525 views | 8 minutes of your time ]

Isn’t critical review all just a big popularity contest anyhow? Consumers doing what they do, consuming, and then scraping varying levels of fame from the chaff of greater things?

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That Annual Heritage Adventure Recap

city & culture | food & drink 

[7 Aug 02012 | 384 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

…shortly before lunch we file out to the bus stop just across the street, board the packed shuttle, and make our way down to the land of food and tents and tens of thousand of peoples in Hawrelak Park where the Edmonton Heritage Festival is in full swing.

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To Forget: Random

abstract & thinking | life happens | meta & methods 

[26 Jun 02012 | 274 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

I “want to forget” seemed like a good idea. The problem is — I realized, and I encountered this last year, too — is that forgetting is an odd sort of request.

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Indoctrinating Canadiana: Log Driver’s Waltz

city & culture | fatherhood | pop-culture | skepdad 

[1 May 02012 | 759 views | 7 minutes of your time ]

I offer a few meager glimpses into the efforts of this Canadian father to impart fragments of a culture less imported and more reflective of the stewardship my daughter, Claire, will one day inherit.

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Running and Interface

running | writing 

[4 Nov 02011 | 762 views | 6 minutes of your time ]

A Random Find? I was poking through some old (Google Docs) documents and found this essay on running I’d written back in 2009 for a project I’d started and never completed. It’s not polished, but it’s complete, and I thought …

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e-Relics

history & archives | meta & methods | technology 

[31 Oct 02011 | 312 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

Have you ever lost something and then found it again? I’m always doing that sort of thing with my data. And isn’t that to be expected? After all, with nearly eleven years of blogging under my belt, and another six or …

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We’re All Warhol

art & code | photography | pop-culture 

[10 Aug 02011 | 1,362 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

Thinking about the whole concept of pop culture art in the context of the internet, it’s tough not to look across the breadth of modern design — particularly in online indie-style art — and see the historic influence of Andy Warhol. …

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Second Chances

informology 

[19 Nov 02009 | 124 views | 6 minutes of your time ]

A gray November afternoon in Alberta is punctuated by the creep of an inevitable idea. I consulted with the echos of my experience dabbling in the technological wellspring that feeds us here and I found that there was hope for a second …

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art & code | city & culture | home & garden | informology | scatter | writing 

[25 Feb 02007 | 190 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

I could write a full blog entry, but it’s Sunday morning and I don’t feel like it. Instead, some updates to touch upon the various tidbits of excitement1 here.
:: on writing ::
Progressing at a different pace than I expected. I …

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