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Pandemic Report #2

May 5, 2020by neath Leave a comment
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Film, Montreal, Urban, Whales

I Yam What I Yam

January 24, 2020by neath Leave a comment

A film by Bryan Konefsky TRT 16.5 minutes, Bryan Konefsky 2005 In 1929 monocular vision was not limited to the gaze of telescopes (Edwin Hubble) or movie cameras (Dziga Vertov). […]

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Movies, Urban

Election Selfie

November 16, 2017by neath 1 Comment

On November 5th Montreal elected its first woman mayor, Valerie Plante. I was volunteering that day and spent a couple of hours in the De l’Eglise Metro handing out voting […]

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Montreal, Photographs, Urban, Whales

Roadsworth Mural in Little Burgundy.

September 13, 2016by neath Leave a comment

Stumbled on to this large mural that was apparently completed yesterday in Little Burgundy. The guys you see in the picture are applying anti graffiti coatings to the work and […]

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Community, Little Burgundy, Montreal, Urban

Walk # 15 – The Point Part 2

August 25, 2016by neath Leave a comment

“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” ― Søren Kierkegaard It’s true, walking will […]

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Montreal, Photographs, Urban, Walking

Buffy Sainte-Marie

June 5, 2015by neath Leave a comment

“”You talk about all the foster home kids, some of those parents they grew up without parents. They never knew a parent. How were they supposed to know how a […]

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News, Whales, Words

Mammoth Miners Memorial, Mammoth, Arizona

April 6, 2014by neath 2 Comments

Came across this remarkable art in honour of dead miners. “The Mammoth Miners Memorial honors 55 miners who lost their lives over the years in the San Manuel, St. Anthony […]

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Art, Community, Photographs, Sculpture

Walking Tour Of 60’s Activism In Montreal

July 5, 2010by neath Leave a comment

“In April and May of 2010, Sean Mills, the author of The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal, led walking tours of some of the places […]

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Activism, Montreal

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