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QECVI RESIDENCY

March 19, 2013 in /by

Commenced Artist Residency at Queen Elizabeth Collegiate Vocational Institute through an Ontario Arts Council ARTS EDUCATION PROJECT. The residency will include a public art piece. Workshops and presentations to a variety of programs are also included in the residency.

MESSAGE TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF DRIVERS

January 5, 2013 in /by

The Boomers are turning sixty. We’re the largest population block in the country. We’ll never admit we’re getting older. To give up our driver’s license is death. There’s a good likelihood that we will live to be 100 so you can expect to see us on the roads for a long time yet to come. […]

CREATING DEMAND

January 5, 2013 in /by

Currently much of the effort to change transportation is directed at creating or increasing alternative modes. While I applaud and welcome these efforts, the deeper issue is to create the demand for non-car transportation. We seem to believe that just adding bus lines will make people suddenly want to ride the bus. Simply putting alternative […]

THE HARLEY IN THE TRUNK

January 5, 2013 in /by

In 1972, I was hitchhiking south to Florida and got a ride in a Caddy with two guys who seemed a little down and out. The car was definitely on its last legs. The engine was rough and rust had eaten away significant chunks of the car. Talking with them I was surprised at how […]

Swords into plowshares, Cars into sculpture

January 5, 2013 in /by

“We have met the enemy and he is us”–Pogo Somewhere along the way to “living the good life”, I realized that something wasn’t right. We lived in a solar and wind powered house, composted our waste, and reduced, reused and recycled. Yet disturbing facts about the connections between the machine siting in our driveway and […]