Year: 2015

“2015 is the year the old internet finally died”


“…Now, however, our articles increasingly seem to be individual insects trapped in someone else’s web. The internet has the exact opposite problem of every other medium. Instead of going from something for everybody to something for a large series of hyper-specialized niches, we’re navigating the choppy seas where once stood an archipelago and increasingly stands a continent. As TV and music and even publishing become the internet, the internet is becoming everything else — and it’s taking so much of what seemed to make it special with it.”

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/6/9099357/internet-dead-end

“There was a mailbox right outside my door, covered in graffiti. Some of these graffiti guys are amazing artists, but not this one. My neighbor and I must have called the city hot line fifty times. Nothing. So I started thinking, Ask not what your city—I’ll just buy a damn paintbrush, you know?”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/paint-job-facelift-dept-andrew-marantz

Awoke at 2 a m it’s now 3:46…

Tuesday November 3, 2015 /

Awoke at 2 a.m., it’s now 3:46 a.m. And I just figured out what the hell was bothering me about my negative experience at the end of the Artscape CSOC event yesterday.

The same observation I have about Habitat for Humanity locally here in Toronto, is essentially what my gut was warning me about the Artscape model.

Now I can go back to sleep…

“…As one last piece of evidence about the value of stories, there is a grand irony behind the saying that I started this blog post with: “The plural of anecdote is not data.” When Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Dictionary of Quotations investigated the origins of the truism, he found an interesting anecdote at its source.”


“Political scientist Raymond Wolfinger first used a variation of the common phrase in a graduate seminar at Stanford. A student in the class dismissed a simple factual statement as “a mere anecdote,” and Wolfinger snapped back, “The plural of anecdote is data.” Somewhere along the line, Wolfinger’s words got twisted into their reverse, and it has been repeated in that form ever since.”


“But of course, statistically speaking, Wolfinger’s the one who got the quotation wrong.”

http://www.nathanstorring.com/2015/05/06/how-stories-clarify-complexity/

“It’s a difficult situation: We have an affordable housing crisis in the city right now, and the priority isn’t on social justice; it’s about this aesthetic economy.”

Deborah Leslie, a geographer professor at U of T, has studied the city’s transformation as manufacturing gave way to industries in line with the “creative city” agenda. Artists, she fears, end up as a symbolic salve to nefarious process. “While Artscape is doing important work, I think it is often being used to paper over and gather support for broader processes of gentrification and real estate development in the city,”

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2013/11/23/artscape_youngplace_school_is_now_in_session.html

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