some farking videos

i love fark - spend way too much time there, both checking out the offerings and sifting through the comments on certain posts that i think might yield something good.

lately they added a new section to fark (well, they added a few but the best one would be) - videos. mostly a best-of for you tube they tilt toward the oddly humerous for gen xers and can be hit or miss. but sometimes there's a gem in the bunch that defies all logic and is pure gold.

like this one.

brilliant.

queen's identity - film students have the scoop!

queensidentity
Originally uploaded by bender folksinger.

so a link off the queen's main page serves to deconstruct the queen's identity. following the link provides another link and a thoughtful, introspective pic of 'symposium director' frances darwin. it seems that next week, september 18th to be exact, there'll be a big meeting of the minds down at grant hall, the iconic stomping ground of sometime graduation ceremonies and frosh week sex talks by sue johansen (side note - during the sex with sue talk a buch of overzealous theatre students whipped condoms at the audience - condoms that had but two months to go till their expiry date. The message, i gleamed from the talk, was if you're going to have sex, use a condom and do it very soon, preferably before halloween).

so the talk, on queen's identity, will revolve around 7 topics and grad students will dart about the proceedings to make sure that conversations stay on topic. The topics include the ol favs tuition and education (go figure that one eh?) as well as student apathy, queen's and kingston relations and queen's identity (i sense a theme). having queen's identity as a separate topic seems like overkill to me but what do i know?

the masterminds behind the talk tilt to the artistic side of the queen's spectrum - mostly film students who like to mention that they've traveled extensively or have performed with choclair (!?). well there is a documentary project attached to this thing so that kind of makes sense.

the interesting thing however is the fact that there is the promise of food - and i quite enjoy food. it's supplied by student clubs which could be a hit or miss proposition, but still, free is free.

they ask, if you're interested in attending, to email for info as space may be limited. you really have to look on the site to find this plea so they might have a few people show up just the same but the email is below if anyone's interested.

email

btw - the boards section is very lame. one student wrote - and i would like to state that i would love to rattle this person with something - that queen's students are apathetic because they have lots of money. tim is a genius.

no, this isn't a mock-up from 'flight of the navigator'...

biologix
Originally uploaded by bender folksinger.

it's the dented tin can from millenium (that's how they spell it) biologix... odd eh? not sure how i feel about it really. some of the other photos are less strange, but on the whole it's like nothing kingston has ever seen. we'll see how long it lasts - it did disappear for a while and really beyond the behnisch site there's nothing about this on the web.

ah kingston politics...

a gem in the whig today... councillor ed smith provided a wonderful about face when he voiced passive support for a european heritage week, then backpeddled when he found out it wasn't as progressive as he first thought.

the fun stuff is at the bottom.

the whig article

the flying a-wing is back!!!

i thought i'd see if there was an update on the progress on the clarence, the sprite-inspired housing structure in downtown kingston and found a pleasant surprise!

the milenium biologix building at the airport has been added to the behnisch site! this was the building i was looking for in the first place - the oddly futuristic (and now chrome plated) triangular fortress to overlook lake ontario out at the airport. the designs on the site are more detailed than those that first appeared on this blog last year, with landscaping plans drawn in and tiers nestling the building into the hillside. it looks like a spacecraft emerging from its underground bunker, or a boomerbang tossed by some futuristic metallic monster that has become wedged in the ground. i strongly suggest visiting the site to view all the wonderful angles and descriptions.

i must admit that i'm pretty wary of the progress on the structure though, as the behnisch site says that constructure was supposed to take place between 2003 and 2006 - obviously this is not the case (or is it?). i haven't seen any construction taking place out there.

i'll post a pic of the magic soon.

www.behnisch.com - click on the 'on the boards' link