June 2011
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Michael Jemtrud - McGill School of Architecture
It is with great sadness that I write this post.
Michael Jemtrud, an exemplary director, professor, and mentor will be [forcefully] stepping down from his position as the director of the School of Architecture at McGill University at the end of this month.
Throughout my undergraduate degree at McGill and the recently finished Masters degree, I have had the pleasure to witness McGill grow into a...
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Designer Logos Revisited
Click HERE for artist’s website.
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Incredibox →
Interactive musical awesomeness in a bottle. Click on title or on image for link.
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How the World Uses Social Networks
Click on image for full-scale. Click HERE for Mashable article.
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Designers and their Musical Muses
How fun! In a world where fashion, design, art, music, start coexisting and collabs between all these fields start occurring, this photoshoot is quite relevant.
10 designers and the musicians that inspire them the most capture for W magazine. Click HERE or on images for the other 7 pictures.
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The 2-meter-wide house
So what would a 2-meter-wide (and very long) house potentially look like? And of course the answer to that is given by a Japanese architecture firm (Atelier Tekuto). No shocker there. Click HERE or on image for more images and small article.
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Awesomeness! The future of magazine reading…not mind-blowingly new, but in my opinion a perfected magazine experience, at least as perfected as you can get on a hard-surfaced electronic device.
This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible...
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“Humans are nothing but walking habits.”
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The Best Montreal Summer Terraces - Les plus...
Click HERE or on image for (french) article.
If too lazy to read the article, here are the terraces that made the list:
Les Minérales
Toqué
Café Daylight Factory
F Bar
La terrasse Nelligan
Le Local
Les Végétales
Bar à vin Accords
SkyPub
La terrasse Magnétic
Le Khyber Pass
Koko
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Garance Dore in Venice Biennale
Nowness commissioned Garance Dore to go and experience (and document) the 2011 Venice Biennale. So what happens when a fashion blogger and photographer attends THE art exhibition of the year?
Click HERE or on image to find out.
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Are you a Quebecer first, or a Canadian first?
Now that St. Jean Baptiste and Canada Day are coming up, I become curious yet again about National identity. Found this short Gazette article…quite interesting.
Click HERE or on image for link.
Tumblr owner’s note: I personally feel Montrealer :) What about you?
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Grece, il y a un peuple derriere les chiffres! /...
The exact effect of the austerity measures…
Partial translation of Le Nouvel Observateur article [selected and edited by Daphne Leportois] by tumblr owner. For full French article, click HERE.
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Wait a second, we have almost forgotten it [the Greek population]. Suddenly, we realize the true meaning of the austerity measures (for which we had just done a victory prayer a few seconds...
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It's all Greek to them - The Economist
Click HERE or on the image below to read full article. A must-read.
The streets of Athens are in the grip of an ugly mood.
”[…] To have any chance of success, Greece needs a sense of national purpose. Time is short. Money is leaving the country. If the economy does not revive soon, the mood on Syntagma Square could turn even uglier.”
Article written in the Economist print...
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WatchINSTALLATION of Jean-Paul Gaultier exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts!
L’INSTALLATION de l’exposition de Jean-Paul Gaultier au Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal!
[can’t wait to see it!!!]
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“S H U T
U P
A N D
E N J O Y
T H E
M U S I C !”
– random youtube user to stupid commentators.
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Katy Perry's Rider. Hilarious.
Rider definition: a rider is a rundown of what talent requires for an appearance, be it on a talk or late night show, a movie set, a concert venue or any public appearance.
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“The book’s covers are lids of a future sarcophagus which when opened are...”
– John Hejduk
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Pas beau, pas bon, pas cher
Is Montreal architecture innovative?
Article ecrit par Marie-Claude Lortie.
Quand on parle d’architecture Montrealaise, de quoi parle-t-on? Est-elle bonne? mediocre? parfaite? innovatrice? faut-il changer des aspects? l’ameliorer? Voici les questions posees et repondues dans cette article de La Presse, par l’architecte Gilles Saucier, de Saucier & Perrotte.
Clickez ICI...
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grapefruit-with-noodles-deactiv asked: I would like to see some of your sketches :)
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Awesome House(ish) Mix - DJNick - Soundcloud
The Nix Up - Track selection for May 30th, 2011 - By DJ Nick by DJNick
My friend’s awesome house mix of the week. Must-listen!
Track list:
Raise Your Weapon (Deadmau5) Madeon mix
Bounce (Calvin Harris ft. Kelis) Lise (Arno Cost) Techno Fan (The Wombats) Afrojack mix Pressure (Alex Kenji, Starkillers ft. Nadia Ali) Alessi mix The Greeks (Is Tropical) Moonlight Matters mix Enjoy...
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Just hit 100 posts!!
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Architecture In Uniform - Domus Interview
Interview of curator Jean-Louis Cohen by Roberto Zancan, for the CCA’s Architecture in Uniform exhibition (on WWII’s mobilization efforts housed at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in more fields than one) on Domus’ website.
Click HERE or on image to be redirected to the website.
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WatchA Walk in Milan - Giuseppe Vetrano
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One Day [Movie Trailer]
You must read the book before you watch this. Made me laugh out loud [on the train], made me tear and made me giggle.
The movie trailer gave me goosebumps and got me dewey-eyed. It better not be disappointing!
In a few words, the book is the story of two friends, more precisely, it shows us snapshots of a beautifully complicated relationship, the same day over 20 years - July 15th. Things are...
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Fashion 2.0 | The Trouble with iPad Magazines
Article by Vikram Alexei Katara for The Business of Fashion. Click HERE or on image for link.
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“Life is not numbered by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that...”
– Maya Angelou
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Fashion Tumblr Blogs to Follow →
By Coco Rocha.
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'Architecture in Uniform' New York Times Review
Wartime Architects: Creating Amid Chaos
June 2nd 2011 - New York Times exhibition review (by Nicolai Ouroussoff) of the Canadian Center for Architecture’s current exhibition Architecture In Uniform (curated by Jean Louis Cohen). Click HERE (or image) for full article.
