While I rarely found myself sitting beside friends in classes where the teacher decided to place us in alphabetical order, I do find myself in exceptionally good company in the “M” section on the bookshelf. Three of my favourite authors are Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami and China Miéville. If you don’t already know them, come meet my neighbours!
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Spacing Out
My favourite new mag is Spacing, the print arm of the Toronto Public Space Committee that is anything but newsletter-ish. By drawing attention to the amazing and oft-ignored public spaces, it’s an antidote to our culture’s fixation on private ownership. From their beautiful subway buttons to their sticker slogans (“Everyone is a Pedestrian”), they’re doing it up right. I’m working on a new article for their past/future issue, but in the meanwhile here’s the article I did for their second issue on Parkouring, the art of street gymastics.
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Tearful Collaboration
My new DVD zine is out, nine weird and wonderful vids on the theme of Tears on the Pie–you can buy it online here [UPDATE: Sold out.]. My most interesting experience with this issue was putting together one of my own shorts with Creative Commons-licenced music. On the excellent Opsound website was an mp3 posted by a fellow in Japan that was perfect for the tone and tension of the piece. After I screened it at Splice This! I sent Yosuke a link of the finished piece, and he wrote back to thank me! Click on to see the two minute short.