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like rachel comey and donna karan but those require some serious digging to find if it sounds like i m being hard on fabricland i m not growing up with an interior designer mother i spent more than my fair share of time wandering among the bolts of stratford ontario s fabricland fabric stores often rival hardware stores for places that are utterly uninteresting to children fabric is the raw material of creativity a seasoned eye can look at a bolt of fabric and see a couch a new pair of pants or a quilt but these stores offer no toys and no books and there are only so many patterned flannelettes one can fondle before even the most well behaved child will slide onto the floor and throw a temper tantrum just for something to do written by randy mcdonald february 28 2015 at 12 19 am posted in history popular culture toronto urban note tagged with bathurst street bloor street bloor street west fabricland honest ed s koreatown neighbourhoods shopping the annex toronto urban note urban note should we care about douglas coupland torontoist s sarah hagi reacts to douglas coupland now with an exhibition at the royal ontario museum her suggestion that his best ideas are in the past strikes me as a bit unfair might his more recent ideas still be pretty good i have to go see the exhibit regardless coupland is best known for his iconic novels like generation x 1991 which coined the term that defined 1990s youth culture but before all that he started off as a formally trained visual artist and designer taking place at the royal ontario museum and the museum of contemporary canadian art the pop art inspired whimsical exhibition everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything is where his work as a novelist and visual artist clearly intersect in one section we are shown his novels girlfriend in a coma and generation x only coupland has lovingly chewed them up into pulpy hornets nests the nests were so convincingly crafted they were hard to tell apart from the real nests he left atop the display then there s a section called the brain that takes up a large chunk of the exhibition which displays various knickknacks collected over a decade and divided into three hemispheres that hint at the brain s bilateral symmetry the piece itself is remarkable made up of thousands of objects including street signs and miniature kitchen furniture all representing different experiences in the artist s life from being born on a canadian military base in west germany to growing up in middle class vancouver spending a few minutes in the exhibit you quickly realize why its title is so broad coupland s work is anything and everything it s also for anyone with many pieces appealing to the general audiences this feels a bit too safe but the exhibit s accessibility makes sense coupland s status as a national treasure is something that couldn t have been achieved without catering to a wide audience in a culture of hot takes and unpopular opinions his pieces feel somewhat refreshing coupland isn t trying to be the first to make a statement but instead focuses on interpreting major 21st century events this message was amplified by paintings about 9 11 that were created so to only be properly seen through the lens of a smartphone camera which didn t exist in 2001 written by randy mcdonald february 28 2015 at 12 13 am posted in canada popular culture toronto urban note tagged with douglas coupland museums popular culture royal ontario museum toronto urban note link facebook flags aboriginal names as not authentic cbc s john bowman notes how facebook s policies requiring the use of actual names is after getting transgendered people harming first nations people facebook requires its users to use a profile name that s the same as the name they use in real life but some indigenous people say the social network is rejecting their real names because they don t conform to its standards earlier this month dana lone hill a member of the lakota people living on the pine ridge reservation in south dakota tried to log in to her facebook account she was met with an error message asking her to change her name the message read it looks like the name on your facebook account may not be your authentic name lone hill s name is one she shares with her mother facebook required her to send in three pieces of identification to prove that her real name is real eventually the social network reactivated her account lone hill wrote about her experience on the last real indians blog and she found she wasn t the only aboriginal person to who had run afoul of facebook s real name policy in october a number of people with names like lance browneyes and shane creepingbear had had their accounts suspended because of their names written by randy mcdonald february 28 2015 at 12 10 am posted in canada politics popular culture tagged with canada facebook first nations links social networking link ceres deepening mysteries at the planetary society blog marc rayman describes how as the dawn probe approaches ceres that dwarf planet is revealing more mysteries the dawn spacecraft is performing flawlessly as it conducts the first exploration of the first dwarf planet each new picture of ceres reveals exciting and surprising new details about a fascinating and enigmatic orb that has been glimpsed only as a smudge of light for more than two centuries and yet as that fuzzy little blob comes into sharper focus it seems to grow only more perplexing dawn is showing us exotic scenery on a world that dates back to the dawn of the solar system more than 4 5 billion years ago craters large and small remind us that ceres lives in the rough and tumble environment of the main asteroid belt between mars and jupiter and collectively they will help scientists develop a deeper understanding of the history and nature not only of ceres itself but also of the solar system even as we discover more about ceres some mysteries only deepen it certainly does not require sophisticated scientific insight to be captivated by the bright spots what are they at this point the clearest answer is that the answer is unknown one of the great rewards of exploring the cosmos is uncovering new questions and this one captures the imagination of everyone who gazes at the pictures sent back from deep space other intriguing features newly visible on the unfamiliar landscape further assure us that there will be much more to see and to learn and probably much more to puzzle over when dawn flies in closer and acquires new photographs and myriad other measurements over the course of this year as the spacecraft spirals to lower and lower orbits the view will continue to improve in the lowest orbit the pictures will display detail well over one hundred times finer than the rc2 pictures returned a few days ago and shown below right now however dawn is not getting closer to ceres on course and on schedule for entering orbit on march 6 earth s robotic ambassador is slowly separating from its destination slowly is the key dawn is in the vicinity of ceres and is not leaving the adventurer has traveled more than 900 million miles 1 5 billion kilometers since departing from vesta in 2012 devoting most of the time to using its advanced ion propulsion system to reshape its orbit around the sun to match ceres orbit now that their paths are so similar the spacecraft is receding from the massive behemoth at the leisurely pace of about 35 mph 55 kilometers per hour even as they race around the sun together at 38 700 mph 62 300 kilometers per hour the probe is expertly flying an intricate course that would be the envy of any hotshot spaceship pilot to reach its first observational orbit a circular path from pole to pole and back at an altitude of 8 400 miles 13 500 kilometers dawn is now taking advantage not only of ion propulsion but also the gravity of ceres written by randy mcdonald february 28 2015 at 12 08 am posted in science tagged with asteroids astronomy ceres dawn dwarf planets links space science space travel link russia to keep its part of space station after its duty ends the dragon s tales linked to this associated press report suggesting russia s interest in undocking the modules it built for the iss in 2024 with the aim of using them for its own station russia s space agency expects the international space station to stay in orbit through 2024 and plans to create its own space outpost with its segment of the station after that roscosmos scientific council concluded tuesday that several russian modules could eventually be undocked to perform the task of ensuring russia s guaranteed presence in space the iss run by the united states russia the european space agency and other international partners is set to remain operational at least through 2024 russia s own mir space station was deorbited in 2001 after 15 years as moscow sought to concentrate its resources on the iss written by randy mcdonald february 28 2015 at 12 04 am posted in politics science tagged with links russia space science space travel link russian opposition politician boris nemtsov shot dead in moscow the guardian s shaun walker reports on the assassination of russian opposition politician boris nemtsov what will this mean prominent russian opposition politician boris nemtsov has been shot dead in moscow nemtsov a former deputy prime minister and a sharp critic of the russian president vladimir putin was reportedly shot four times in the chest by a killer in a passing car the killing took place in the very centre of moscow late on friday evening on a bridge near st basil s cathedral and the kremlin two days before nemtsov was due to lead a major opposition rally in moscow putin s spokesman dmitry peskov said the president would take the investigation into nemtsov s death under personal control and that he believed the killing to be a provocation putin noted that this cruel killing has all the signs of a hit and is a pure provocation said peskov he said putin offered condolences to nemtsov s family nemtsov 55 was deputy prime minister during the 1990s in the government of boris yeltsin he had written a number of reports in recent years linking putin and his inner circle to corruption and was one of the most well known politicians among russia s small and beleaguered opposition written by randy mcdonald february 28 2015 at 12 00 am posted in politics popular culture tagged with clash of ideologies crime democracy former soviet union links moscow politics russia photo the brightly colored dufferin subway station the mixed colours of the tiles represent a break from the usual pattern of ttc subway stations which tend to be monocoloured i like this one i think written by randy mcdonald february 27 2015 at 8 03 pm posted in photo toronto tagged with architecture dufferin street photos subways toronto ttc music pet shop boys and david bowie hallo spaceboy the live performance by david bowie with the pet shop boys of the latter s remix of 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