At the beginning of the year in search of a new creative project, I started filming one second of every day. I had previously heard about it on a TedTalk a while ago, and forgot about it/couldn’t wrap my head around how I would possibly edit footage down to one second a day (hint: there’s an app for that). The…
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This semester, one of my classes will be taking weekly visits to known — and relatively unknown — Paris museums. We’ll be looking at the art and the collections, but moreso we’ll be focusing on what each museum is trying to communicate and how they are doing it. Every Monday I’ll come back with a report on what we saw…
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This semester, one of my classes will be taking weekly visits to known — and relatively unknown — Paris museums. We’ll be looking at the art and the collections, but moreso we’ll be focusing on what each museum is trying to communicate and how they are doing it. Every Monday I’ll come back with a report on what we saw…
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January in Paris means two things: les soldes and galettes des Rois. Once the flaky, buttery galettes are eaten and the fèves found, the city residents hit the stores for the bi-annual shopping event, where sales buckets and bins and racks fill every store. And I mean every store. And I, in desperate need of new socks to protect me…
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I don’t make resolutions*, simply because I try not to set myself up for personal disappointment. But I’ve already decided that 2016 will be the year of intentional eating: of quality over quantity, of savouring** over stuffing. (This feeds into my resistance toward dietary labels and detox diets where you can’t drink coffee or eat bread or dairy or anything delicious. You try…
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