Geophone Seismic Survey.

Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Basse-Ville de Québec.

Rue Sainte-Angèle.

Hitchhiking to Quebec City.

From Montreal to Quebec city. 5 Cars. 5 Different stories. 

Transition from 'this is never going to work' to a rediscovery. 

Amaze.

September 28, 2014.

The New Age of Exploration.

"Not all of us ache to ride a rocket or sail the infinite sea. Yet as a species we're curious enough, and intrigued enough by the prospect, to help pay for the trip and cheer at the voyagers' return. Yes, we explore to find a better place to live or acquire a larger territory or make a fortune. But we also explore simply to discover what's there."

July 4, 2014.

Care Package.

May 7, 2014.

May 3, 2014.

Habitat 67.

Vieux-Port de Montréal.

McGill Bike Shop.

GIS and Remote Sensing.

Steamwhistle Pilsner.

"Style and flavour of the great Pilsners of Europe, yet is brewed fresh locally at our independent brewery in Toronto. Characterized by a floral hop aroma, sweet graininess with distinctive grassy notes, and balanced by a clean, crisp finish and pleasant lingering bitterness."

February 22, 2014.

"A couple of years ago, a woman comes into Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre for a surgery. Beth Israel's in Boston. It's the teaching hospital for Harvard- one of the best hospitals in the country. So this woman comes in and she's taken into the operating room. She's anesthetized, the surgeon does his thing- stitches her back up, sends her out to the recovery room. Everything seems to have gone fine. And she wakes up, and she looks down at herself, and she says, "Why is the wrong side of my body in bandages?" Well the wrong side of her body is in bandages because the surgeon has performed a major operation on her left leg instead of her right one. When the vice president for health care quality at Beth Israel spoke about this incident, he said something very interesting. He said, "For whatever reason, the surgeon simply felt that he was on the correct side of the patient."

"This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often is not reliable guide to what is actually going on in the external world."

- TED talk given by Kathryn Schulz 'On Being Wrong'

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Abstract appreciation of fallibility. Feeling of rightness, ultimately leading to error blindness. It's important to share and run ideas with peers and professors. Along with in-depth research on abstract ideas.

February 12, 2014.

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

Canadian Club.

Produced since 1858 by Gooderham and Worts, the Distillery District of the Toronto Waterfront.

 During the years of Prohibition, one of the distillery's most important clients was Chicago gangster Al Capone. 

He smuggled in thousands of cases of Canadian Club via a route from Windsor to Detroit. 

Amtrak 350 Wolverine.

Amtrak Wolverine Service from Chicago to Detroit;

After being stranded in Chicago for three days due to severe weather condition,

managed to return to Toronto via rail and transferring Greyhound at Detroit.

State Street.

Flamingo.

Flamingo (1974) by Alexander Calder

Found in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building, 

which turned out to be designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,

 the same architect who designed the Toronto Dominion Centre

International Style; Expression of volume rather than mass,

the emphasis on balance rather than preconceived symmetry,

and the expulsion of applied ornament.

Windy City.

Metropolis.

January 3, 2014.

Rookery Building.

"Making prodigious use of light and ornamentation, Root and Burnham designed a central light court to serve as the focal point for the entire building and provide daylight to interior offices."

University of Chicago.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Madison/Wabash.

Cloud Gate.

"What I wanted to do in Millennium Park is make something that would engage the Chicago skyline ... so that one will see the clouds kind of floating in, with those very tall buildings reflected in the work. And then, since it is in the form of a gate, the participant, the viewer, will be able to enter into this very deep chamber that does, in a way, the same thing to one's reflection as the exterior of the piece is doing to the reflection of the city around."

- Anish Kapoor, Sculptor

Art Insitute Chicago.

American Gothic.

Santa Fe Building.

"A street level two-story enclosed court designed in a symmetrical Beaux-Arts style was surmounted by an open lightwell which was surrounded by a ring of offices. By the formal arched entrance on Jackson Boulevard, a large staircase led to shops and a second-floor balcony. White-glazed terracotta sheaths the exterior facade and interior court and the lightwell is lined with white-glazed brick. Classical designs were used for the ornamental dentils, balusters, and column capitals."

Chicago.

15 hours of Greyhound through London, Windsor, Detroit, and to Chicago.

 American Midwest. Wonderland for architecture and urban planning enthusiasts.