Federal Reserve System.

This is the food bank, Cabinet branch.

There are two more branches located in the fridge and frizzer

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I'm done with all my mid-terms :D

Where Will I Be?

'Talk' by the Coldplay

"You can take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody has sung
Or do something that's never been done

Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how you feel?
Well I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak
And they're talking it to me"

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Imagine a boy wearing a school hoodie and a sweat pants running around the campus
with stapled papers, looking for a dropbox in the science wing. That's me.

Imagine a boy who's walking back home at 3 o'clock.
Not because he's been partying but studying. That's me.

Imagine a boy who's eating morning toasts on the way to a lecture,
while carrying a travel mug full of milk. That's me.

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By the way, new album from Coldplay just came out; 'Mylo Xyloto'.
This album got some potential.

Unexpected Face-off

What are you suppose to do when there are three racoons waiting for you at the door?

#awkwardsilence

Children are Precious.

Schedule of the week.

I started to use the iCalc and my outlook for a week became crystal clear.

*sigh* the very first mid-term in the university is imminent...

Thanksgiving Weekend.

I just came back from my aunt's in Guelph, ON

where I had a really relaxing weekend with the family and a fine thanksgiving cuisine (:

One month in the University.

I'm quiet into what I'm studying here. It's exciting to go to lectures and listen to the professors have to say.

Hopefully I can say the same thing even after the mid terms that are coming up in a couple of weeks.

My Environmental Science T.A. told the tutorial class that he did Bachelor's at the University of Ottawa;

majoring in Environmental and Physical Geography with minor on Cartography (yes!)

and spent many years doing field research around the world from Alberta to the South Asia.

I can't wait to chat with him about Ottawa and his study. 

Since the university is very research-based, most of the professors are very active in their current research

and extremely passionate about their field. A few of them seem to be living in their own world though haha.

- The followings are some of the academic journals that I particularly found interesting -

1) Hardin, G (1968). The Tragedy of the Commons. Science, 162, 1243-1248

2) Tenenbaum, D. J. (2009). Oil Sands Development: A Health Risk worth Taking? Environmental Health Perspectives, 117, A150-A156

3) Yeh, S., Jordaan, M. S., Brandt, R. A., Turetsky, R. M., Spatari, S., Keith, W. D. (2010). Land Use Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Conventional Oil Production and Oil Sands. Environmental Science & Technology, 44, 8766-8772.

4) Jackson, P (2006). Thinking Geographically. Geography, 91(3), 199-204.

5) Sachs, D (1999). Twentieth-Century Political Economy: A Brief History of Global Capitalism. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 15(4), 90-101.

Nighthawks.

Art Side Out.

How can I make my photos stand out amongst the others?

TTC: Ride the Rocket.

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

October 1, 2011

7pm to 7am. Free all-night contemporary art event in the downtown Toronto.

For a little note, I was totally blown away by all the art projects and ideas

and couldn't stop thinking about it on the subway heading home at 5am :)

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LeuWebb Projects (2011)

Installation

"Yonge Street will become a public space with furniture created from vanishing media merchants:

photoshops, record stores and booksellers."

LeuWebb Projects - Toronto, Canada

The Heart Machine (2010)

Interactive Sculpture

"How we perceive technology guides our interactivity with the machine.

Do we watch passively for the machine to react to our presence or do we take active control?

Do we reach out and explore without fear or do we wait to take the lead from others?"

Christine Irving - Toronto, Canada

Interactive Art - Toronto, Canada

Flightpath Toronto (2011)

Installation

"An interactive visual airscape, and enables hundreds of peoples,

enwinged, to re-imagine the city and the way we move through it."

Usman Haque - London, United Kingdom

Natalie Jeremijenko - New York, United States

Cardiac Combustion Chamber (2011)

Performance Installation with Live Drummers

"Car parts are suspended into space becoming a drum kit

propelled by the drummer's amplified heartbeat."

Camilla Singh - Toronto, Canada

New Dawn Fades (2011)

Installation

"New Dawn Fades utilizes light therapy technology to beckon a coming day

with the rhythmic pulse of light. Their cyclical transmission of a perpetual dawn

signals the stutter of an impending future caught by a statsis in progress."

Michal Maciej Bartosik - Toronto, Canada

I just know that something good is going to happen (2011)

Interactive Installation

"Simulated rain, lights and fog; These physical effects augment the location,

transforming an innocuous underpass into a fantastical scene."

Curtis Grahauer - Vancouver, Canada

Memorias (2011)

Installation

"The artist's broader questioning of the cylical reproduction of human

and material labour within trans-national economies"

Camilio Ontiveros - Los Angeles, USA

Barricades (2011)

Installation

"Sculputres that fail in their original purpose to guard anything,

and act instead as sources of curiosity, absurdity and faith."

Jeremy Jansen - Toronto, Canada

Niall McClelland - Toronto, Canada