What do you do?

I wake up and
I hope that I'll get
the chance to
go to sleep
tonight.

How do you do?

Musings

Hans Ulrich Obrist with Stefano Boeri and Barbara Vanderlinden describe today's citizenship in terms of "bands of perception" - "less about belonging to a single and fixed geography but more about constructing a personal collage inflected by the various place one travers, travels to, lives in, emigrates to" etc. -- I had a conversation last weekend with Tejpal Ajji and he was telling me about his research about airport cities, outside major cities, like Heathrow, Queens, and Malton (which happens to be Tejpal's city of residence) + a conversation with Will Kwan led us into speculating about sharing a studio in Berlin or New York in the future, an outpost for our careers. I started to think about outposts and hubs and extensions this week. Sometime during the week i've been hypothesizing about the idea of a "Little Canada" --- I wonder how that could transpire in the fabric of a city like Berlin or Beijing, for instance; in Toronto we have China town, Korea town, Little Italy, Little India et al. and I'm thinking it would be interesting (and fun) to flip the idea back around and let immigrant culture come full circle - I bet there's a word for it... but what do you call an immigrant who goes back to where the hell he came from?

My father, who travels much between Canada and Poland has recently lamented to me about the migration of Polish, and now EU, citizens out of Poland to try and earn better money; many have ended up in England, Ireland, Germany etc + he says that the country has "lost" about 5 million inhabitants. I ask him if that's bad, and he says that it is, of course it is. And when I ask: How do you know? We both smile.

Image: Yesterday's Queen Street W. fire.

Johnny Chung Lee's paint balloon slingshot etc.

Johnny Chung Lee is a renaissance man. Nevermind the slingshot linked up above but also check out what he's doing with the wii remote and his other projects. I wish more people were like Johnny Chung Lee, embraced their awesome nerd powers and put it good use. I'm inspired.

overhead haiku

those three quarters
of your face gleaming, moon: white
milk clouds cover you.

Make Shows

""When I lived in Vancouver, I had nothing, I made shows in my apartment. You can make a show in your shoe if you want. Shows can happen anywhere: it can happen on the telephone, it can happen in your computer, it can happen anywhere. It's, just like, a force of your imagination willing to take place. So I just say: make exhibitions. Get them out there. However, what it is, whatever technology you need, you know? Make them in the back of that truck over there, I don't care, doyouknowhatimean? Make shows." – Kitty Scott

Reading Rainbow vs Run DMC

Gotta love Jordi with his skinny tie and matching jacket too. Wow!

Say No Go

I love the yellow neon in the back.




and i can't embed this one, but it's the best one.

Stardate Feb 7, 08

A couple weeks ago my friend told me that about weather engineering in China. I thought it was amazing. In a whole other China factoid, China is now planet Earth's third largest Art market behind leaders US & UK. The above video has nothing to do with China but it is awesome, even if you're not big time into electronic music like I'm not. Laura told me about it.