The Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal is free. This means you don’t have to pay, (except for some temporary exhibitions). That and the collection is quite astonishing – including the likes of Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, etc… There is also a serious ancient Greece exhibit which, unlike the ROM’s, doesn’t pretend that Roman [...]
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Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Posted in Art, Capitalism, Philosophy, Picturesque, beginning on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A swimming hole at Allouette Lake
Posted in Picturesque on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This evening my mother and I took advantage of the new Golden Ears bridge to visit Allouette lake. While the day use area at the south end of the lake is not terribly interesting, we found a wonderful spot near the north beach campground:
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This protected inlet is a wonderful little swimming hole, with [...]
Cycling in Vancouver
Posted in Picturesque, Pragmatics, Technology, bikes on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cycling in Vancouver
Both yesterday and today I’ve been taking advantage of Vancouver’s various cycle paths to put a good deal of enjoyable kilometers under my tires. It’s hard to compare Vancouver cycling with cycling in Toronto, but I can put it this way – in Vancouver, I actually look forward to getting on my bike.
In [...]
Serra’s Shift
Posted in Being, Body Phenomenology, Capitalism, Ethics, Philosophy, Photography, Picturesque, Pragmatics, Technology, Things, beginning, global warming on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday morning my father, myself, and a few roomates and friends piled into my new one dollar van to drive north of Toronto to see Richard Serra’s early site-specific work, “Shift”. Although I first heard about the piece four years ago in a course on late Heidegger, a lack of private transportation meant this was [...]
What is Representation?
Posted in Art, Being, Capitalism, Ethics, Philosophy, Picturesque, Pragmatics, Technology, Things, beginning on April 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What is Representation, how does the WTP turn truth into a value, and how does the inadequacy of that value require another value, and what does this allow us to say about the essence of Art?
Representation is not, at least in its purest form, the determination of the manifold of intuition as an object, [...]
Kingston Pictures up
Posted in Photography, Picturesque, Uncategorized on October 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve uploaded pictures from my thanksgiving trip to Kingston. Here they are in slideshow format.
*Hint – turn captions “on”.
Picasa
Posted in Art, Photography, Picturesque, Things on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent a bit of time recently organizing and uploading my better photos from iphoto to the internet, using the handy Google inbuilt software which allows within program uploading to Picasa. Here are some of the galleries:
Winter Scenes
Trip to Germany
Saturna Island 2002
Pictures of People in the world
Toronto in the Snow
Posted in Art, Photography, Picturesque on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Much ado is made about cameras. Which has the best resolution, which has the best colours. What is really interesting about cameras is what kind of pictures they allow you to take. One of my favorite cameras is a 25 year old rollei 35 LED which has the simplest light meter in the world, and [...]
Snow
Posted in Picturesque on November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the first day of snow in Toronto, for winter 2008. (It’s still 2007). I called Cate, and I think some others, to say “Welcome to Toronto”, in the sense that what Toronto really is is a blizzardy wasteland. Which is of course false (Toronto is also smog, 40 degree summers, and a [...]
