authenticity, agency, tradition, community

September 27, 2010

Just juxtaposing a few things tonight, a couple of quotes that struck me… For example… I’m still reading Erve Chambers’ book, Native Tours; The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism, and in the section on “Tourism and Culture” came across this passage (pp.96-97) about tradition and authenticity: Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (1983) argue, for example, […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

September 26, 2010

Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Video on TED.com Fungi as gateway species – fascinating. tags: mit_techreview video fungi mycelium paul_stamets David Karp of Tumblr interviewed by Technology Review: Videos Tumblr founder David Karp explains short-form blogging and how Tumblr competes with Facebook and Twitter. tags: tumblr david_karp socialmedia mit_techreview […]

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Eschatology? Please just say no.

September 25, 2010

Had coffee with Elisa Yon this afternoon. We talked about a bunch of things, including her great experiences so far at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. As we talked about individualism and society (among other things), I tried (but failed) to remember the name of a French psychoanalyst whose book had impressed me […]

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Dirty Wall Project: slums and cities

September 24, 2010

I saw an amazing photograph in the temporary gallery Ryan Kane of the Dirty Wall Project has set up on Fort Street. The photo is one of many that Kane is selling to raise funds for his venture: it’s a flat, saturated, picture-edge-to-picture-edge frontal view of one small piece of a slum in Saki Naka […]

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My second evening at Toastmasters

September 23, 2010

I dragged myself out the door tonight, wishing I could avoid the rain and just veg out – I almost didn’t go. But in the end I did, and now I’m glad I didn’t shirk the commitment off. Watching some of the more seasoned Toastmasters underscored my earlier insight (that just sitting at a keyboard […]

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Barney Oldfield’s Spirit of Tomorrow

September 22, 2010

I saw the Spirit of Tomorrow sitting in a driveway today. It was designed and built by Horace Basil (“Barney”) Oldfield between 1938 and 1942. (The Spirit of Tomorrow website notes that Johnny Norton and Barney’s brother Brian were co-builders.) I saw the car today at the home of Barney Oldfield’s relatives – and also […]

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Offering hot yoga and skin care …with garbage on the side?

September 21, 2010

There’s a storefront about three blocks from my house that has been bugging me for a few years now, and tonight I’m calling it out. The frontage I’m talking about is actually at the back of the building, a narrow 2-story structure that stretches from a frontage on a main street to another (secondary) frontage […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

September 19, 2010

Dockside Green in Victoria, British Columbia : UnSprawl Case Study : Terrain.org Another article about Dockside Green (by Ken Pirie), but this one is really quite good: it covers Victoria’s history, how the city turned to tourism, the problems of dealing with brownfields/ polluted lands, and how Dockside Green fits into this picture as an […]

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A toast, mistress!

September 18, 2010

In yesterday’s entry I mentioned that I went way outside my comfort zone the other night. What could that mean? …Probably not what some may think! I attended my very first meeting of Toastmasters International, specifically the Niteshifters chapter that meets at the University of Victoria. I’ve been interested in knowing what Toastmasters is all […]

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Trespassing on Eden?

September 17, 2010

The week has been busy somehow, which is why I didn’t write a post yesterday (even though I did something wayyyy beyond my comfort zone last night – maybe more on that tomorrow?), and I won’t pretend to pen anything for the ages in tonight’s post, either. I’ll just say that I went to see […]

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