This corner store on Prescott and Bond has seen better days. Today, it’s boarded up and for sale so if anybody knows any stories about it, feel free to share in the comments.
I do want to share with you an NPR story about an English village that refused to let go of their corner store. Enjoy.
Croatian word of the day: selo village
A bunch of links today and a corner store.
A strange collection of murderous cooks, waiters and bartenders.
Two websites that allow you to create “to do” lists. Teux Deux is actually quite useful for my purposes (h/t swissmiss) and NowDoThis is not so useful, but certainly more fun (h/t Minimalissimo).
Dalton Ghetti creates the most amazing sculptures from pencil stubs you’ll ever see.
And one of my favourite website, Quipsologies, went through a massive redesign.
Croatian word of the day: kuhar cook
Crazy busy at work with a major event. While I wait for hundreds of photographs to run through Aperture import here is a bunch of photo links.
The photo above is from my recent one day trip to Halifax. It’s too bad it’s crooked, it could have been a nice photo.
Here is an interview with Mary Ellen Mark on her own work these days, why she decided to stick with film and the state of photojournalism (h/t Mark Hamilton).
Photographer John Cyr has a quirky project on the go: he is photographing developing trays used by film photographers.
Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has an exhibit of Leon Levinstein’s photographs that looks interesting.
And check out this early colour film of London in the 1920s.
Croatian word of the day: crkva church [tzr kva]