For me Hespeler Road, Cambridge, Ontario is a diorama, a sliver of a dying car culture — frozen in time. Fast Eddie’s restaurant, a local burger chain with a self conscious branding, is a cultural icon on the strip. Its blistering yellow and read/orange concrete blocks rise from the landscape like a Lego pimple.
Wooden Water Tower
My first visit to the Big Apple and this is the view from the window of my hotel room on 57th Street. Way more interesting than I expected. It's like finding a hidden city underneath the glass towers, honking horns and crowds. I glimpsed someone across the way cleaning up their dinner dishes one evening, … Continue reading Wooden Water Tower
Terminal Eye
Grand River Transit main terminal Charles St. Kitchener.
Weed lines
This is part of a series of LowFi photos of the business strip of Hespeler Rd. Cambridge, ON Canada. It reflects the unbridled consumerism that seems to be linked to automobile use.
Three trees
I pass this way on my route to work four mornings a week. These trees always seem resigned to their situation.
Digital storytelling taking root in the community
Back in June 2010 I planted some seeds at the Building Community Narratives Through Multimedia Storytelling one-day digital storytelling workshop I facilitated during the Community Arts Ontario Conference in Kitchener, Ontario. Five first-time digital storytellers joined me that day to do a storywalk from Victoria to Cedar Street in downtown Kitchener. I've put together some … Continue reading Digital storytelling taking root in the community
Visually Speaking 