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If you are in Toronto next week, you might want to join in on some of this fun stuff organised by ARC for Bikeweek.
1. Moonlight Ride: Thursday May 27, 8:00 pm
Enjoy an almost all-downhill, off-road bicycle path through the ravines of Toronto. End up at a watering hole near Cabbagetown. Fun and easy ride. Meet at Warden Subway Station.
2. You Are A Hero! Good Fortune Friday: Friday May 28, 8:00-10:00 am
On your morning ride, keep a look-out at intersections throughout the city. ARC spreads good fortune by handing out cycling related fortune cookies to cyclists at various locations, proclaiming "You're a hero! Thanks for riding your bike!"
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3. ARC's 9th Annual Parking Meter Party: Wednesday June 2nd, 5:30-7:30 pm Join in this popular event where cyclists will transform downtown parking facilities into an open-air party room. Participants bring snacks, music, and furniture. After putting a few coins in the meter, voila! it's party-time! Wear your party duds. 761 Queen Street West. |
4. ARC's 2nd Annual Report Card
"Bicycling in Toronto 2003-04" is to be publicly released during Bike Week. This is ARC's second report card on bicycling conditions and the City's efforts to promote cycling. ARC grades the local government on its' work in areas including street safety, deaths and injury, bicycle routes and leadership. The idea behind this report card is to inspire the city to improve their cycling activities, and to provide a historic record of the conditions cyclists face on a daily basis. The grades are also intended to provoke cyclists and government into thinking about what makes a good cycling environment.
photo by Darren Stehr of Toronto Cranks
There are great photos posted online from last Wednesday's sad and lovely bike memorial (see previous post). Tino's are here, and Toronto Cranks' are here.
mail art #1
Remember mail art? There are artists still engaged with the medium, but in my life the practice has been replaced by blogs and email. Most of my old mail-art friends have quite rightly cut me out of the loop (because I no longer respond in-kind), while they continue to send beautiful, personalised objects to one another via Canada Post. Others are sharing code, posting to lists, posting to blogs, etc. In a recent root through my closet I just unearthed an old box of mail-art postrcards from friends, family, and otherwise-designated loved ones. Below is one of my favourites, sent to me during the Gulf War when I was living in an attic in Upper Gagetown, NB, right next door to the Oromocto army base (meaning that the house we lived in rocked with munitions testing all day long).
top: A side of cut-n-paste postcard depicting US testing of tomahawk missile in California,
middle: excerpt/detail from message on B side, bottom: detail of middle panel from A side.
I saw Big Fish recently, cause it was a good night for self-indulgence. Tim Burton makes interesting things to look at, and Ewan MacGregor still turns my crank. My friend S. used the word "forced" in a positive way to describe the weird fictive visuals. Father/son drama is about as loaded as it gets: hot cipher-on-cipher action. This movie was surprising and captivating except for all the other parts where it was tiresome and predictable. Why must Tim Burton work with Danny Elfman? (In fact, couldn't we do away with Danny Elfman's music altogether?) The fiction/reality flip-floppery was fun, but not quite fun enough to outweigh the long-winded, broad-stroke, get-out-the-violins crap. For a really intense, scary, beautiful , unsentimental (and short) father son film, see Collin Zipp's artist's project at Samplesize.