Stretched out on the hot sand
This is exactly what I want to be doing right now. And how brilliantly captured by Lithuanian architect turned photographer Tadao Cern in his series “Comfort Zone”. The images are not staged and the...
View ArticleWhistle+Work x Yen Magazine
Continuing our reprieve from the snow and windchill outside, there are some more sunny news in my part of town. Whistle + Work, the shop I run with my dad was just featured by the smart & lovely...
View ArticleGirl Bike Gangs of Morocco
The title was enough to intrigue me. But when I clicked through the photographs by artists Hassan Hajjaj, my jaw dropped. The colours, the patterns, the heart-shaped shades! And beyond the high-energy...
View ArticleToronto is in the Details
My pal Joe Silveira has the ultimate Instagram. His images were collected by Colour Code in a publication titled “So So Tired”, and launched at Art Metropole this week. I love seeing Toronto through...
View ArticleAntipodes: Upside Down Worlds
Where would you end up if you were to dig a tunnel straight down from one side of the world to the other? I’ve dreamed about this very notion since I was a kid, picturing an intersecting network of...
View ArticleYokonami’s Girl Gangs
This series by Japanese photographer Osamu Yokonami sent my mind wandering… “Osamu Yokonami considers the power of dress as a symbol that alternately marks or dissolves identity. In his latest series,...
View ArticleWorld Press Photo ’14
Here are the highlights from World Press Photo, an annual showcase of the best in visual journalism. The travelling exhibit is held at Toronto’s Brookfield Place, Sept. 30 – Oct. 21, 2014 . I love this...
View ArticleRoulette’s Roads
The work of artist Alex Roulette has me dreaming of the great American road trip. His paintings, both ordinary and surprising, familiar yet otherworldly, seem like moments seen through the window of a...
View ArticleSuitcases From the Willard Asylum
When Willard Psychiatric Center in New York’s Finger Lakes area closed its doors in 1995 the staff discovered an attic full of old suitcases. They appeared untouched since their owners packed them...
View ArticleAcross From Us
For the past few weeks I’ve been transfixed by David Buchler’s instagram account, and getting serious pangs of Japan nostalgia. David catches Japanese commuters at their most unguarded; at a crossroads...
View ArticleAga Khan Museum
Last weekend we spent a few hours strolling through the newly built Aga Khan Museum, one of the most inspiring public spaces I’ve visited lately. It houses an impressive collection of Islamic art and...
View ArticleLetters from home
When I was little we lived in an unmarked building on a tucked away street. Fed up one day, my father hand-lettered the street name and number in bright yellow paint next to the entrance. Visitors...
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