, Paul Bausch writes that he’s reading McLuhan‘s Understanding Media. I like to know that people are still reading McLuhan – although it’s easy to just ignore old-time theory like his, at another level his (and contemporaneous theorists’) work delineates the very conceptual borders of the world we’re living in now. Like it or not.
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On that note
, yesterday I finally managed to overcome my phobia of the blank page (and my usual inability to execute the design ideas I have in my head due to sheer incompetence) and developed a solid mockup of montrealstories.org. I’m very happy with the direction things are going in now, and it looks like I can get the site launched in a few days or a week, depending on some pieces that have yet to come in.
Astute readers
will notice that I’ve upgraded the list of links over on the side there. I added Consolation Champs, David Hudson’s Rewired weblog, and (finally) Brad Graham’s Bradlands. I’d been thinking of ditching the whole list – it’s so old school – but then again, it’s useful to me. So it stays.
Montreal is one
of the weirdest and most wonderful cities on the planet. Exhibit 341 (or so): the Silophone. “Sonic inhabitation of Silo #5”. Yup – that’s grain silo #5. Doubtless the only grain silo cited by Le Corbusier as a masterpiece of modern architecture, I bet it’s also the only one that has become a massive musical instrument.
Just found a great
site about the history of Montreal, particularly about the areas surrounding the Lachine Canal. It’s called Industrial Architecture of Montreal, and it comes from the Blackader-Lauterman Library at McGill.
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