toronto, 2018
balsam lake, 2018
toronto, 2018
lake garibaldi, 2018
music i thought about in 2018
Here’s my futile act of resistance against posting screenshots of algorithmically generated “Your Top Songs 2018” playlists.
eli keszler - stadium
This album broke my brain during a late night subway ride. It sounds like the city more than any: the predictable randomness of machinery; the steel scrapes of the train bouncing through the tunnel; the steady, ethereal drone of electricity; a beeping that you can’t place. Two men board a nearly empty subway car, sit on opposite sides and start chirping each other like only old friends can.
read more ->pacific concrete
The Pacific Northwest has a very specific architectural feeling to it.
Dark wet concrete, sometimes pitted and rusty from the sea air, seems at home against the rippled grey sky. The damp greens and browns of parks and public spaces are a natural contrast against the monochrome palette of giant cement staircases poured over the hilly landscape. Extremely comfortable ergonomic shoes on a really hard surface.
read more ->carlsbad, california, 2018
highway 8, 2018
the truck exhaust gender reveal party
I can’t stop watching these videos. They illustrate the present era of participatory media better than anything else I’ve seen; how social media encourages us to make an event out of everything. They are America’s last grasps at two absolutes it has relied on: gender rigidity and the internal combustion engine.
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