Cities are at their best when they are unknowable organic superstructures: fathomless depths of dive bars, crooked little cafés and dimly lit side-streets built on …
Sonic Narratives
BBC 2/All Black: The Jungle Underworld BBC 4: Synth Britannia “n the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller …
Winter Sounds/Recent Mixes
Ben UFO: Why Not Mix ben-ufo-why-not-mix.mp3 Unreleased and forthcoming from the likes of Roska, Kode 9, Ikonika & Joy Orbison. DJ Oneman: Winter 2009 Mix …
Lost Tehrangeles
Belog, which seems like some sort of subsidiary product of the excellent Bidoun Magazine, is a hot blog for all things Iranian.
Okinawa Soba
Okinawa_Soba is the nom de plume of an American fellow living in Okinawa who presides over a stockpile of 60,000 antique Japanese photographs. To the …
Black Swan Theory
I was loitering outside of a particularly well-appointed Starbucks tonight, waiting for my wife to use their bathroom, and observing the random assortment of people …
When Satire Attacks
After a rash of schoolyard attacks left scores of red-headed children beaten and bruised, parents in the US, Canada and the UK are shocked and …
12/01/09
wedmix2.mp3 Tracy Morgan: You Don’t Like To Climb Trees? Falty DL: XXXY Mike Slott: 40 Winx Sebastian Tellier: L’Amour et la Violence (Floating Points rmx) …
Vancouver Graveyard Grub
It’s 4 am, the last of the bottles has been emptied, one too many vodka red bulls to count, a bottle of brandy…what the fuck? …
Advertising Tries To Sell Itself
Every Sunday in North America, millions of viewers are tuning in to the third season of Mad Men to watch the exploits of Don Draper, …
How Y’all Say Y’all Name?
I caught Sa-Ra Creative Partners and Benji B at Gramaphone last night and, surprise surprise, the club got “thick”. What does that even mean? Shiiiiit. …
The Belsh Diet
What amazes me about Belgians is that they are on average, quite fit and healthy, but their cuisine is exceptionally unhealthy. Or especially awesome, depending …
48hrs in Antwerp
This past weekend I gave a presentation (alongside Will Brown and Easton West) at Integrated 2009, a biannual design conference that took place at deSingel …
JapanAmericana
“Japan has long been recognized as a global leader in the development of virtual realms. A land of limited physical space and, yes, very active …
A little Seoul before Sunrise
Some snaps of Vancouver’s best late-late night Korean diner – Jang Mo Jib. Many a night I’ve drug myself in here with a gaggle of …
The Product Placement Delusion
As a Canadian, it’s easy to get sentimental about the end of British television’s brand abstinence. North American media has been steadily consumed by the …
10/07/09
wedmix.mp3 DOOM: Bistro The Roots: How I Got Over Mayer Hawthorne: Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix) Miike Snow: Animal (Mark Ronson Remix) Ghostface/John Legend: Let’s …
A Japanese Image
A few years back, when I was living in Tokyo the following scene transpired before my eyes while riding on an escalator: I was standing …
The Chris Morris Re-Up
Since Nathan Barley crossed the pond a few years back I’ve been subconsciously aware of the unholy brilliance that is Chris Morris, but never took …
Colonial Ghosts
Cherished by millions, Tintin and his little fluffy white dog Snowy have enjoyed an impressive run after eighty years of publication. Lauded by critics and …
09/14/09
newmix2.mp3 Remano Eszildn: Synfinality III Mayer Hawthorne: Don’t Cry (Astronote rmx) Flying Lotus: Mom Jay-Z/Alicia Keys: Empire State of Mind Raekwon/Cappa/Ghost: 10 Bricks
McDowellism
”They’re McDonald’s. I’m McDowell’s. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We …
A Sacred Text
The world of words is currently undergoing a revolution of such magnitude not seen since one Johannes Gutenburg made type movable. The ebook device, whether …