walking around downtown vancouver on march 1st smelt and tasted like waking up in your house after a party during which you’d ended the evening being carried off to bed while strangers enjoyed the contents of your refrigerator and cupboards. the feeling had to be expressed.
where are Mukmuk and the gang now? is there some retirement home for ex-olympic mascots? are they sipping tea and playing bingo with Misha and Waldi? do they compete for the image consulting contract for the as yet unknown Sochi 2014 mascot (although who was that large blue creature at Sochi house?) how many young Vancouverites are waking up, and sadly placing their new, favourite marmot at the back of the closet?
this rather partisan video should be interperted as such, and recall that it was completed prior to the release of the actual 2010 provincial budget. rather than accompanying it by writing yet another informative article about the impact of the Olympics on the provincial budget released this week, here is an abbreviated list of informative discussions:
the budget documents themselves
and the NDP‘s response
Wow stew. I have to say, the video is cute and puts the Olympics in a different perspective.
One question this post did leave me with though, is why you and other architects refuse to use capitals…
thanks kurt!
for me it is strictly a flow thing — the eye moves over the words, pausing only where it wants. a kind of participatory reading experience.
why do comic book writers use all caps?
why do a lot of contemporary writing not use the, “…” to mark conversation?
perhaps this all-lowercase (which is actually more a graphic designer/advertising thing) is a consequence of the exploding words and meaningless/fulness of 1980′s french structuralist/post-structuralist thought finally making its way down to the masses in some bastardized form. or maybe it is because the computer keyboard does not express flow in the same way the hand on the paper can? or maybe the shift key on my laptop is broken?
= )
Interesting explanation stew. One final query though – do you submit your architectural proposals, papers, etc sans caps?
kurt
Hmm…depends on the recipient and the subject at hand. At times a more traditional writing style is appropriate.
I also note that one of our more recent profiles was written in lower case — Virginia Wheeler. She is a Vancity Board Member and a pillar of many communities, and looks to be a generally all-round great person. Why does she use all lower case?
The shadow of internet chatting is also cast on the lower case world — not that I am much a chatter, but definitely for some folks this could be transferred into the larger world of text. Thinking more abstractly, in some way the all-lowercase is more democratic. You are not forcing meaning on to the reader, but rather they can pick and choose their meanings. Perhaps the next test would be to remove all punctuation? The reader then must really get involved. Phew, sounds like a tonne of work for both writer and reader!!