31 Sunday Jul 2011
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In May of this year the city of Toronto started doing “edge walks” around THE OUTSIDE of the top of the CN Tower. As I used to live in downtown TO and had a fabulous view of the tower from my 26th floor apartment, the edge walks piqued my interest. To give you an idea of exactly how tall this baby is, watch the short video above.
Done? Okay, now watch this video of an edge walk done this past week. I sweated all the way through it. People actually pay $175 to do this??
29 Friday Jul 2011
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This was tweeted by Stephen Fry the other day – Jim Meskimen performing Clarence’s speech from William Shakespeare’s Richard III as a number of different celebrities. It’s pretty amazing.
25 Monday Jul 2011
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Slideshow of Vincent Van Gogh’s work set to the song “Vincent” by Don McLean, part of an art and creative writing lesson plan for the patients at Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield. Compiled by artist Anthony DiFatta, who also suffers from mental illness and teaches art to other adults with mental illness.
07 Thursday Jul 2011
Posted in animals & pets, video
06 Wednesday Jul 2011
After posting those photos that I took on my way home last night I remembered this short video I took walking home with Susan a couple of years ago. It’s called “almost that blue” because we’d just missed the moment when the sky is the colour shown in yesterday’s pics. For about ten minutes every night the sky turns the most fabulous blue just before the sun sets…
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