June 2012
7 posts
PAINTING THE CITY WITH PRIDE
Toronto’s all rainbows this weekend. HAPPY PRIDE!!!
Caroline
INSPIRED BY ROOKIE // MADE AT MIDNIGHT
The pramble to the following essay is this: I’m currently completely obsessed with ROOKIE, an inspired new magazine for teenaged girls. Seriously, if you’re not checking in with them three times daily, then you don’t know what you’re missing. Tavi Gevinson of Style Rookie fame is leading an amazing team of writers, artists and editors on this project, which seeks to...
BIKE BIENNALE BONANZA
The Bike Biennale was a success! Few of our wares were actually sold, which is a shame when one considers that we’d accidentally and fortuitously coincided with the massive Trinity Bellwoods Yard Sale. That being said, we all had tons of fun, looked great and ate heaps of quality ice cream! Thank you to the brilliant Amy Pettifer for inspiring the event; and thank you to Take To The Sea,...
JUDGE THESE BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS
I’ve got a thing for vintage books, especially ones with cheesy covers, fabulous retro fonts, and irresistibly enticing tag lines like “Nothing would stand in her way - not her friends, her children, her church - not even death itself!” I started collecting these beautiful yellowed books full of romance and murder, tragedy and lust at a book market in Bangkok and...
A week from Saturday, on June 16, Caroline and I are hosting a Bike Biennale! What’s that, you ask? Well, it all began in England with my brilliant friend, Amy Pettifer. Amy and I I met as Stewards for the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009. Soon thereafter she coordinated a Bicycle Biennale event in the UK, which was meant to be a community level, grassroots version of the...
MIX "TAPES" FOR MA' SUPA-DUPA FLY SISTAH!
For months Vanessa has been asking me to make her a hip hop mix. I’ve been into the hop for a long time now, so the task of making a single definitive mix was, well, impossible. I needed a focus, so I chose to make a three part mix of a lot of the hip hop that got me obsessed with the genre in the first place.
My love for hip hop happened early on. It was the summer of 1995 and I...
