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Children’s clothes dry on a line outside a quaint home in Zab, Poland’s highest inhabited village. Who knew laundry could be so darling!
Photograph by James Stanfield.
 
Photo of the day is just something we’re trying out- a collection of interesting and inspiring photos from here and there. Click here for some previous posts.

When I was younger I read somewhere that the difference between an artist and everyone else was that when an artist gets those crazy brilliant brain waves out of nowhere, she doesn’t ignore them or forget them or let them slip away afraid of the mess they’d make. She gets up, even if she’s in […]

I’m studying social anthropology and my dissertation is basically investigating whether there’s any sort of notional global ‘indie community.’
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So yeah, what does the term ‘indie’ or the notion of independent music mean to you?
I discovered this call for help on Drowned in Sound, an indie music site out of the UK. I enjoyed an hour […]

Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist who collaborates with nature to produce site-specific sculpture and land art. He has created numerous works since the 80’s in areas including the North Pole, Japan, the Australian Outback, and the U.S.
Goldsworthy regards all of his creations as transient, or ephemeral.  He believes that the creation and destruction process of each piece is […]

This photo, taken by Adam Makarenko, was part of an exhibition entitled Apiaries at Pikto Gallery earlier this year in Toronto. 
A common theme that runs through Adam’s work is the human manipulation of nature. In this series, he explores the exploitation of bees in a fictitious world he’s called the Langstroth Range. 
Photo of the day is just […]

La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in a town called Buñol, in the Valencia region of Spain. Apparently the tradition started in the mid 1940’s when a food fight broke out between two dudes near a vegetable stand in the town square. […]

If you caught this interview I did with George Blott, then you know why we’re excited about Meeting of Styles, the Graffiti convention converging on Montreal this weekend. Curated by our friends at the beautiful Yves Laroches gallery, this will bring a lot of new incredible art to Montreal, not to mention quite the fricken […]

Seriously, Pop Montreal outdoes itself each year. Risa mentioned some of the great acts playing the 5 day festival this year in this post. Beyond the music, there are some great offshoot projects being offered. Kids Pop! Gear swap! Record fair! (Fixture will be there…), Symposium! with a circuit-bending workshop and a panel on open […]

After an amazing outdoor festival on Aug.23rd, FYGtS is gearin up for FROSH!!
We can not wait for this event, the forecast is for amazing weather and we cant imagine a better recipe for great vibes and tons of wicked fun.
We will be making available shortly, free of charge, our Meadowfest concert, recorded in full.
We are […]

This is a photo of a man named Omer Stringer, unwittingly, Canada’s first person to canoe solo. I did not know who Omer Stringer was prior to reading this article, and stumbled upon it while searching on a canoe rental site. Among the other photos, I found this to be so charming, and fit […]