Category Archives: Ephemera

Tracks, Traces: Engaging Algorithms

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Someone in need of digital detox?    His had been quaff’d too quickly, and he found    The dregs were wormwood; but he fill’d again,    And from a purer fount, on holier ground,    And deem’d its spring perpetual; but in vain!    Still … Continue reading →

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Recipe Cards from a Fish Company

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Francois Lachance

These two pieces of cooking ephemera were found in a second-hand book. At first I thought they were decorated with simulated coffee mug stains. On closer examination and noticing the logo of the company in the right hand corner, I … Continue reading →

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Totem Traces

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Treasures of and for the Self… A time may indeed come when the pictures and statues which we admire to-day will crumble to dust, or a race of men may follow us who no longer understand the works of our … Continue reading →

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Theatre of Succession

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Somewhere somewhen June Jacobs spoke or wrote about the succession of small businesses in a health neighbourhood. Street watchers were treated to a particularly interesting event following the closure of the Queen Video store on Bloor. A theatre troupe took … Continue reading →

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What Passes the Passed

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Edmund White Setting the life-celebrating ephemeral arts, a simple suggestive listing … [T]he new gay movement was generating a fresh take on gender politics. Simultaneously, the new gay sensibility was concocting extravagant inventions in the ephemeral arts of fashion, lighting, … Continue reading →

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A Commitment to Sufficiency

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Wendell Piez Pellucid Literature http://pellucidliterature.org/PellucidLiterature.xml * Likewise, incoming requests are never watched or tracked, to say nothing of counted or analyzed. This isn’t that kind of transaction either. Pellucid Literature does not take your name, watch your IP address or … Continue reading →

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Thrown for a Loop

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Francois Lachance

It took me a while to piece together the elements of this advertising campaign. Timed to coincide with Gay and Lesbian Pride, it ran during the month of June and into July at the corner of Church and Bloor in … Continue reading →

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In Lights

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Canadian Opera Company brochure: front and back. Gertrude Stein’s last words are reputed to be “What is the answer?… In that case … what is the question?” What Is Remembered (1963) by Alice B. Toklas And so for day 2425 … Continue reading →

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Strands and Tiles

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Interlacing two strands the picture is explained by two lines below. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Created during a residency at the Facebook Analog Research Lab by Elena Schlenker and found on the … Continue reading →

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Viola Tricolor Memento

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Browse: The World in Bookshops Edited by Henry Hitchings Reading in this collection “Bookshop Time” by Ali Smith, I was struck by this passage about what gets inserted and preserved between the pages of books We leave ourselves in our … Continue reading →

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