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Ottawa: Development Research
Apr. 9th, 2023 10:56 pmBeen looking at assorted development applications for sites around Orléans tonight, in addition to the other stuff I've been up to. I think it's become an offshoot of my old job search habits, my most recent contract's focus on document review, and a few other old habits. I loved clipping zoning notices out of the Leader-Post when I was a kid, partly because of the maps usually included by city hall. Nowadays, the city hall website provides so much more stuff to read with each application. Which makes for fun reading, because I like looking at blueprints in general, too. If I can't get out of the neighbourhood much for physical exploring, this is a good substitute.
Radio: Liminal Spaces
Mar. 1st, 2022 08:08 pmhttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/liminal-space-popularity-1.6365390
Inspired by this subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/
Inspired by this subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/
I got about an hour's walking exercise in this morning wandering around eastern Orléans. Some new street-name coverage taken care of there, too. Hoping to get some of those pix uploaded later tonight.
Updated the apps on my cleverphone.
Ignored an invite to interview with a company flagged by one of the job-search websites as a potential bad actor (because said website removed the ad I'd initially responded to and told me why they did so). Not naming any names here, at least not for now.
More later...
Updated the apps on my cleverphone.
Ignored an invite to interview with a company flagged by one of the job-search websites as a potential bad actor (because said website removed the ad I'd initially responded to and told me why they did so). Not naming any names here, at least not for now.
More later...
I got out of the house for a while today. Took the bus to Beechwood Cemetery to inspect the family plot, and it turned into a walking tour of the cemetery as a whole. From Poets' Hill to St. Laurent Boulevard took me roughly an hour.
The weird highlight was seeing two wild turkeys wandering quietly through the RCMP section. I did take pictures, and I hope to upload the imagery to Flickr at some point.
The weird highlight was seeing two wild turkeys wandering quietly through the RCMP section. I did take pictures, and I hope to upload the imagery to Flickr at some point.
Some pix from neighbourhoods I haven't visited in a while. I don't know the photographer personally, but I recognize the neighbourhoods.
Elmvale Mall:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51419740897/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51419740922/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51421470250/
The former site of both the Torah School, and Heartwood House (AKA OC Transpo Lost and Found), and other community organizations on Chapel at Rideau Street:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51421470215/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51421249304/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51420484471/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51420484501/
Elmvale Mall:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51419740897/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51419740922/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51421470250/
The former site of both the Torah School, and Heartwood House (AKA OC Transpo Lost and Found), and other community organizations on Chapel at Rideau Street:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51421470215/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51421249304/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51420484471/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51420484501/
Urban Type Exploration
Sep. 26th, 2020 08:26 amA thing going on with Typewknd this morning.
https://typewknd.com/presentation/typewalk-in/
I've been running something similar with my Flickr group "Ottawa-Gatineau Street Signage"...
https://typewknd.com/presentation/typewalk-in/
I've been running something similar with my Flickr group "Ottawa-Gatineau Street Signage"...
OTTAWA: Weird Nightclub Names
Apr. 17th, 2020 03:04 pmThese two are still around. Whether they survive the pandemic of 2020...?
The first time I ever spotted any of their locations was when when I was passing through the Laurel/Loretta intersection on my way from somewhere else to another elsewhere. I think the Laurel Street site was their first ever.
Someone of you remember a more recent image of Blair Station's interior, one of the sites along the O-Train network where they've agreed to rent space from OC Transpo and/or the Rideau Transit Group, I think.
Someone of you remember a more recent image of Blair Station's interior, one of the sites along the O-Train network where they've agreed to rent space from OC Transpo and/or the Rideau Transit Group, I think.
Other Consequences of Interest
Apr. 6th, 2020 03:30 pmOn video interviews for that next job, from one of the local temp companies:
https://www.lrostaffing.com/7-tips-to-ace-your-next-virtual-interview/
On mapping your life under the circumstances. Not all of you are going to want to document that for CityLab or any other public venue, of course, but if you're of a mind to do so...?
https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/04/coronavirus-maps-neighborhoods-cities-lockdown-art/609418/
https://www.lrostaffing.com/7-tips-to-ace-your-next-virtual-interview/
On mapping your life under the circumstances. Not all of you are going to want to document that for CityLab or any other public venue, of course, but if you're of a mind to do so...?
https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/04/coronavirus-maps-neighborhoods-cities-lockdown-art/609418/
I know that it was in Toronto. The chalk artwork is long since gone, I'm sure. But would any Torontonian reading this be able to deduce where it was without putting themselves at risk for my sake?
Or maybe you recognize this particular piece of art, even a decade later?
Or maybe you recognize this particular piece of art, even a decade later?
Until the O-Train Confederation Line was built, this was normal commuter traffic as you'd see passing back and forth during rush hour on the McKenzie King Bridge. Nowadays, that particular bridge is much quieter. Less travelled.
FLICKR: Vancouver Sidewalk Art, 2008
Feb. 3rd, 2020 10:51 amI went to Nanaimo for a relative's wedding in 2008, and managed to take a couple of day-trips across the Salish Sea to Vancouver. This image ended up coming home with me, and being uploaded to Flickr. I can't remember where in Vancouver this was, though...
It's what I've started calling that stretch of both streets between Bronson and Elgin, where all the Express buses meant for rush hour service, and the main east-west cross-town routes all used to run through Centretown before the O-Train Confederation Line took over.
And at the corner of Bank and Albert, next to what used to be the Met Life Building, there's still this thing. I took the image during a spare moment.
And at the corner of Bank and Albert, next to what used to be the Met Life Building, there's still this thing. I took the image during a spare moment.
This isn't an "authorized" follow-up yet. But...some of you might remember my article on the backstory of Eastway Gardens originally "Bannermount". If not:
http://spacing.ca/ottawa/2010/09/13/ottawas-alphabet-village/
There's a bit of a follow-up nine years onward. The people living there now might have their own hopes and plans, but it's going to get (more) complicated to act upon those plans judging by this report from CBC News Ottawa:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tremblay-road-eastway-garden-development-1.5188581
We're talking here about lands bordering on the cloverleaf interchange at Tremblay Road and St. Laurent Boulevard here. When I first moved to Ottawa back in 1985, they were used by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. I don't recall what that branch of the provincial government did there. Evidently, the land fell into federal hands in the decades since then. Sandwiched, so to speak between Avenue U and St. Laurent. Does it mean we finally get Avenues V, W and X added in? I don't know right now.
Something to keep an eye on.
http://spacing.ca/ottawa/2010/09/13/ottawas-alphabet-village/
There's a bit of a follow-up nine years onward. The people living there now might have their own hopes and plans, but it's going to get (more) complicated to act upon those plans judging by this report from CBC News Ottawa:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tremblay-road-eastway-garden-development-1.5188581
We're talking here about lands bordering on the cloverleaf interchange at Tremblay Road and St. Laurent Boulevard here. When I first moved to Ottawa back in 1985, they were used by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. I don't recall what that branch of the provincial government did there. Evidently, the land fell into federal hands in the decades since then. Sandwiched, so to speak between Avenue U and St. Laurent. Does it mean we finally get Avenues V, W and X added in? I don't know right now.
Something to keep an eye on.
MAPS: Atlas of Inequality
May. 19th, 2019 08:24 pmMIT Media Lab has made this a real thing.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/atlas-of-inequality-map-micro-segregation-data-mit-media-lab/584167/
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/atlas-of-inequality-map-micro-segregation-data-mit-media-lab/584167/
2014: Camera Gear - The Best Laid Plans
Jan. 7th, 2019 08:49 pmThere was this mini-series based on a political satire novel by one Terry Fallis, and the idea was to film it here in Ottawa. So I spotted this gadget whilst passing through the University of Ottawa grounds one day during the filming process.
