New addition to the expanding design scene on Dundas West. HIDE is my current L. Project initiative. I am very jazzed about collaborating with the talent of sisters and co-owners Sandra and Susana Erazo to create a strong online presence for their new location on 789 Dundas Street West. I nearly missed their studio / [...]
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LOVE OF MINE: Located Love on Queen West
March 17, 2012 – 6:27 pm
Looking for love in all the right places! At LOVE OF MINE one cannot stick to just a sneak peek. Here one lingers and luxuriates. This, my friends, is space where magic exists in 3-D. You can see the magic, pick it up, touch it then take it home. Owner Anna Damelin’s eye for curating [...]
THE ARTIST PROJECT TORONTO: Opening Night Party
March 2, 2012 – 10:20 pm
Inspiration abounds this entire weekend. I almost didn’t make it! I have been struck with that cold that has been going around. I was knocked out in the afternoon and with little time to spare, after much too short of a cat nap I got up and got out. It was definitely worth it! (but [...]
AND THAT’S A WRAP DEAR: Habibi @ TIFF
March 1, 2012 – 4:37 pm
The voices speaking in these films from my series on Toronto Film Fests have been Indigenous & European, Arab Christian, Jewish Arab, African from the North, South, East, West. The voices also include a deaf Korean-American artist whose first language was sign language in a home where two Korean speaking parents struggled to learn the [...]
REEL ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL: Great Art Docs @ TIFF
February 22, 2012 – 7:12 pm
William Kentridge and “Anything is Possible” Some of last year’s RAFF Doc on South Africa’s brilliant William Kentridge. Canadian Art’s REEL ARTIST FILM FESTIVAL is now upon us and I am super excited. Last year’s lineup of fantastic documentaries was incredible and this year’s promises to be as good. You can download the full REEL [...]
STEPHEN BURKS’ MAN MADE @ DX: The Readymade Process
February 16, 2012 – 6:04 pm
The Readymade Process Discussed and Demonstrated. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
MASHUPS, REMIXES & READYMADES: STEPHEN BURKS @ DESIGN EXCHANGE
February 14, 2012 – 5:28 pm
Exploring Process & Prototypes with Stephen Burks On until April 1, Stephen Burks Man Made is an exhibit at Design Exchange put on in collaboration with Wedge Curatorial Projects. This exhibit is about exploring where cultural hybridity can take us in design. Sunday’s event was a workshop about working the “readymade process of bricolage using [...]
IDS 2012, TORONTO DESIGN OFFSITE, DESIGN EXCHANGE: The week for design in Toronto is here!
January 23, 2012 – 2:27 pm
If design is your business, your love, your passion, then really, this is the week to be in Toronto. As design is my business, my love, my passion this is my week to overindulge my sweet tooth for all that is DESIGN. And from the looks of the programming at IDS, the opening of Stephen [...]
TWO ROOMS WITH A VIEW BUT WORLDS AWAY
December 11, 2011 – 7:46 pm
The CN Tower and Gardiner Expressway, Toronto. Photo by Leah Snyder. Oddly enough when I snapped this view from my living room in Toronto I saw a tweet that my cousin in Johannesburg did exactly the same thing. Do shared genes = telepathy? As I work away at my desk I have a great view [...]
TEDxRyersonU: SOME SHARED INSPIRATION
November 21, 2011 – 2:24 am
I had forgotten how much I love this TEDtalk by Elizabeth Gilbert, writer of Eat, Pray, Love. Thanks TEDxRyersonU for the reminder and for throwing a great event! “Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a [...]
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