About wacky doodler  

***RANDOM THOUGHTS***
122207 shit... over a year in hiatus. well anyway here i go, lots to catch up on.

032406 whoopie doo! i just got my very first ever dslr!
canon digital rebel xt
canon efs 17-85mm f/4-5.6 is usm
sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6
i am still learning what these numbers and letters mean... the slope is steep.
030906 starting a new series of sets called toronto artist series i donno how far i'll take it but hey i started the first set, featuring medium
010806 "where does a painting begin, where does it end..." - ecb
120905 "what is real is the becoming itself." - deleuze and guattari
112605 i feel like a poser sitting in my armchair hiding behind the lens. i keep telling myself, tomorrow im gonna put something up... so of course, it snows today.
111405
in this world
we walk on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers.
-issa
092405 ""ihr völker der welt ... schaut auf diese stadt!" - ernst reuter. yes people, look at this city; berlin is undeniably endearing. weaved in between its grand boulevards and strange courtyards are secrets to the mind and the heart.
081705 from a fellow flickrite: "at early ages I used to scribble down empty walls/ knowing that someone would read my notes/ But do people really care on whats on/ or once its up there its already gone?" - hamed!cal
081605 graffiti at once surface and content; it is the liminal that which bonds my environment...
073105 yay! photoblogged by my fave toronto mag, spacing. spacing is about toronto's public spaces and urban landscape, and cover any and every issue that concerns life in the city's public realm. check out the site, buy the mag! :)
072105 what would it take to dethrone the automobile?
071405 milton glaser knew exactly what he was doing. new york, i heart.
062405 "whenever ideas fail, men invent words. - martin h. fischer.
060805 “far from the ruin of democratic public space, [conflict] is the condition of its existence. it is only with this recognition that a truly democratic space begins.” - rosalyn deutche
060305 "love is not love/which alters when it alteration finds,/or bends with the remover to remove./o, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,/that looks on tempests and is never shaken./it is the star to every wandering bark,/whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken." - shakespeare
052705 "the city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls." - italo calvino in invisible cities
051905 geotagging is so kick ass.
050505 vandigicam: trespassers prosecuted and prosecutors trespassed.
050105 "everywhere there is food insulting you in huge, wasteful piles; whole dead pigs, baskets of hot loaves, great yellow blocks of butter, strings of sauges, mountains of potatos, vast Gruyere cheeses like grindstones..."
- george orwell in down and out in paris and london
042705 listen, you...
042105 it's always good to see who's bloggin yor work. check at www.blogpulse.com
041805 the peeps over at flickr hq are damn good peeps!
041405 "narratives go ahead of social practices in order to open a field for them" - de certeau.
041105 "love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real" - iris murdoch.
041105 hippy-crits are obnoxious.
041105 school sucks.
033005 octopus and nude get the most views.

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psssst. there is a lot of street art/graffiti here. sets have been created based on LOCATION, but to search more specifically, use the "search TAGS" function: stencil, sticker, paste up, hitch hiker, etc... OR, "search TAGS" for specific artists: stickman swoon, skewville, wk, space invader, medium, etc...