What do we supposed to do when we are waiting in public transportation stop? Stare the subway tracks? Count the number of cars passing on the street? Interact with other people? For a few minutes we indubitably, and unconscious, start…
Um cafezinho, por favor (a coffee, please)
“Cafes are at the heart of urban myths, they are celebrated as physical places and as somehow intangible sacred halls where works of art have been produced, revolutions plotted, lives made and hearts broken” (Grafe and Bollery, 2007).
Despite what Grafe and Bollery statement, I do not feel part of this much-celebrated cafe culture. I collect many references to cafe culture through movies, books, and art. The expensive cafes of Paris, with its fancy tiny tables; the delightful view of San Marco Plaza through a cafe window; the spectacular variety of tea in a London cafe; the strange smell of the Amsterdam’s coffee shop; the cheap hot chocolate in one of the many corner’s coffee shops in North America.
Homeless++
Walking on the streets approaching everybody (no exceptions) that cross my way. I had a route, a partner and 2 hours to complete our mission: count homeless people. Scott and I walked through the empty streets of Garneau area. I…
Where am I?
The thing with mobile maps is that once you start using, you don’t want to go back. The new Apple Map App, which replaces Google Maps App in the new IOS 6 is very impressive. I am talking mainly about the…
Growing city – Open ports
I was looking for an industrial landscape to illustrate environment degradation for my sociology class when I remembered that my home city could be one of the examples. The first thing that passed through my mind was the background of…