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
I developed another five rolls of film last night – no surprises any more – it’s all recent stuff. I like this photo a lot. It’s somehow such a Canadian thing to do, to go play hockey in the middle of the summer.
I am trying to purge my links-to-blog folder. Here is a set of completely unrelated things.
The first two links come courtesy of one of my favourite websites – kottke.org.
On the day Albert Einstein was to be buried, only one photographer was allowed to witness proceedings, Life Magazine’s Ralph Morse. The photos were not published for 55 years at the request of the family, but they are available now. Check them out.
If you were a dictator, what would your private jet look like? You can take a peak inside the jets of some of the world’s dictators here courtesy of an enterprising photographer Nick Gleis.
Really nice work from various Japanese illustrators at Tokyo Illustrators Society website.
As somebody who photographs corner stores, I really, really, really like these whimsical photographs of small train stations in former East Germany by Schilling Holger.
Don’t miss Stephen Doyle’s unique paper sculptures or Margaret Shepherd’s beautiful calligraphy art.
Croatian word of the day: željeznička stanica train station [zhe lye znee chka stan itza]