All those tabs that remain open for months until “I write about them later” … they have to get purged somewhere. This is that somewhere. A website with anecdotes about the making of the original Macintosh. (Link goes to “the signing party” – about the team’s signatures on the inside of each case.) Connecting art […]| Jacob Filipp
I am a fan of Toronto’s Asian malls be they thriving, declining or already gone. So I was heartened to find my kindred spirits at the Dragon Centre Stories project. Dragon Centre was Toronto’s first Asian mall, located at 23 Glen Watford Drive. It served as the nucleus of a Chinese community that grew around […]| Jacob Filipp
Every year, I go to the Victoria College book sale at the University of Toronto. Each of the separate colleges within the University has a book sale once a year, as a fundraiser, and there are great deals there. This year, I climbed to the 3rd floor of the College which wasn’t part of the […]| Jacob Filipp
A collection of odd / interesting things I saw while walking around town in Toronto:| Jacob Filipp
Faces| Jacob Filipp
adultsonly| Jacob Filipp
Thanks for the Nightmare Fuel, Midjourney!| Jacob Filipp
One day at 1am, lying in my bed, I thought: They don’t really make middle-aged Barbies and also: I bet she goes by “Barbara” now Over the following hour my brain took off on a cinematic tour of Barbie and Ken’s “post-doll” life. By the time I fell asleep, I had outlines for the six […]| Jacob Filipp
I was reading a book about Risograph prints and saw an interesting poster hanging in one of the Riso studios. Chasing it down led me to Little Thunder’s “The Blister Exists” book: Now, what this is… is a 1,200 page encyclopedia of pole dancing moves with 1,180 individual illustrations: Look it up – it’s a […]| Jacob Filipp
I spotted the work of Tomoko Konoike in a Japanese show about modern embroidery (minute 12:20, free to watch). Storytelling Table Runner (物語るテーブルランナー) is a project where each work starts with Konoike listening to the personal stories of Japanese people. She then draws up the plans for a quilted place-mat based on the stories. The […]| Jacob Filipp