60 things I will miss about Rochester – #1

In sixty days, I’ll be back in my home & native land (“arrhomeanatiflaaaaand” -robyn singing O Canada, c. 1986) and there is a lot of stuff this stuffmaker is gonna miss about my adopted home in upstate (or western, depending on your audience) NY.

Number one, in no particular order:

The news from Lake Wobegon with second pot of coffee, staring at my computer screen and watching peripheral Oxford street from my second story window.

 

i heart this place - found on some wall, somewhere i should have noted instead of just snapping a mobile phone shitty pic of it on May 29, 09

Will try to keep the countdown rolling. We’ll see.

Save the date – Nov. 20, 2009

Invitation -- New York & Adjacent Canada - Photographic installation by Robyn York

But their legacy remains, hewn into the living rock… Of Stonehenge

Awesome. I wish I had time to spend the weekend in Toronto.
I wonder when Rochesterhenge is…

Here is a link for the curious.

Title credit: Spinal Tap, Stonehenge

Koh projects > MAINstREetBUS

Insanely great. Germaine Koh is one of those artists that just keeps churning out amazing things.

I saw Self-portrait at the Ottawa Art Gallery in 2003/4 (?) and almost cried. Self portraits rarely have that effect on me, but the idea of all self-portraits layered onto one panel. Effing perfect. Sightings is funny and weird and makes my archive+collecting+travelling urges make a little more sense. Pledge (and other currency projects) is so simple and so smart, it frustrates the bejeezus out of me.

Yay for mid-career artists!

But what I do like about this job, is that there’s no one standing around, to bring me down

» Help name the new Douglas Coupland park

Cool. Stubbies & Corn Syrup park? Doug & Kathy’s? jPark? Don’t Fear The Gum Thief Greens? The Eleanor Rigby Memorial Park? All Families are Psych– ok ok… that one is a bit of a strecth.

Title credit: The Rheostatics, Secret Red Canoe (my vote for the park name)

Bikes Vs. Cars

Man.

Man.

Man.

I have nothing constructive to say. This is just sad and crummy.

Hopefully it doesn’t just raise tensions between the two wheelers and the four wheelers.

I swear, It sounded like a train.

Holy eff.
{Ontario residents assess damage, begin massive storm cleanup – The Globe and Mail}

Title Credit: Drive-By Truckers – Tornadoes

When I get older…

Listening to Sound Opinions yesterday during Magazine Layout Blowout August ‘09 (MLBA’09!) and I was reminded of this song, which I watched on my ma’s TV, performed live on Parliament Hill on Canada Day, with a little patriotic lump in my throat.

K’naan – Wavin’ Flag

Title credit: K’naan – Wavin’ Flag

30 Helens Agree…

This sounds like it will be worth waiting for…

Too cool for school…

Goddamn it Mr. Coupland – does everything you touch turn to primary-coloured-gold?

The giant Downy bottle… the white miniature replica CN Tower… Mousetrap as sculpture, for chrissakes? Even your pizza box looks intentionally brilliant.

I’m almost as excited about your new book as I am about the Mad Men season 3 premiere.