@stevenforth.bsky.social
Resident of Vancouver, writer, translator, explorer and connector of ideas.
Is ICE what it portrays itself to be?
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#US #immigration #ICE
Design books
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #urban
1st lines
Simple enchantress, wreathed in summer blooms
Of slender bent stalks topt wi feathery down
Heaths creeping fetch and glaring yellow brooms
And ash keys wavering on thy rushy crown
...
John Clare around 1820
#1stlines #poetry #England #winter
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Jeff Wall
#Booksky #2books #BC #Vancouver #VancouverSchool #Art #photography
Read these three books this month. Very good with concrete analysis #democracy #climatechange #Publictransportation #activetransportation #Climatejustice #transportationjustice #Womenssports @sgoodyear.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @wagesofwins.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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Wonderful new book out from Harbour Publishing. Wish it was Salish Sea rather than the Straight of Georgia, but there is a lot to learn from this book.
harbourpublishing.com/products/978...
#Canada #BC #SalishSea #fish
Design books
Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes by Frederick Law Olmsted
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #urban #landscape #Olmsted
1st lines
From huddling nights embrace how chill
The winters walking days begin
Dull reddening oer the easts blea hill
And creeping sad and shyly in
Now gilds the sun each bear treetop
And pale peeps thro each window light
John Clare around 1820
#1stlines #poetry #England #winter
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
#Booksky #2books #BC #Vancouver #VancouverSchool #Art #photography
1st lines
How fond the rutics ear at leisure dwells
On the soft sounding of his village bells
As on a Sunday morning at his ease
He takes his rambles just as fancys please
Down narrow baulks that intersect the fields
Hid in profusion ...
John Clare around 1820
#1stlines #poetry #England
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
#Booksky #2books #BC #Vancouver #VancouverSchool #Art #photography
Notebook Jan. 17
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Calligraphy Jan. 18
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Latest notebook calligraphy.
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Notebook
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Paul Wong
One of the deep connectors in Vancouver art.
paulwongprojects.com
#Canada #art #Vancouver #Chinatown
Canada's current approach to immigration and the reliance on temporary foreign workers reminds me of the Ursula Leguin story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One...
#Canada #immigration #morality
Many interesting and informative visualizations here, that go into topics like dithering to a level that works well for me.
visualrambling.space
#visualization #design
Earth and the memories we put into it.
Very much want to see this Sylvia Safdie installation. Hope is comes to Vancouver.
Somehow this reminds me ot Etel Adnan.
www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exh...
#Canada #art #earth #NationalGallery
A Startling Account of Migrant Workers in Canada by Ximena Gonzalez via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
#Canada #immigration #migrantworkers
Quote lovely and contemplative investigation and visualization of flow. ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
Worth a slow read.
#flow #design #turbulence #visualization #computation
Stones and healing
A part of The Black Notebook series.
Written at home after surgery.
foldingnotes.substack.com/p/stones-and...
#poetry #haiku #notes #haibun #cancer #VGH #Vancouver
Design books
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
#Booksky #design #books #designbooks #urban
1st lines
MH
If this be a man...
don't mistranslate him into
a single language,
a single landscape of loss,
claim there's one story only.
He steeps black tea. She
...
From Water to Water: Gaza Renga Marilyn Hacker & Deema K. Shehabi 2025
#1stlines #poetry #Gaza #renga
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
#Booksky #2books #BC #Vancouver #VancouverSchool #Art #photography
In case you missed it, this essay by Anthropic founder Dario Amodei is framing the debate about AI risk and ethics.
www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...
#AI #ethics #fairness
Buy the banned books
Versions of '1984' and 'Book of Genesis' Banned in Alberta Schools by Jeremy Appel. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
#Canada #Alberta #censorship #bookbanning
"There’s good reason for Canadian data infrastructure to be a priority. We don’t want a menacing United States snooping on our private information, and we don’t want our digital systems to be vulnerable to being scrambled or unplugged by a tantrum-throwing president."
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Reading What is Intelligence: Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing and Minds by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Illuminating, highly recommend.
whatisintelligence.antikythera.org
#books #design #AI #intelligence #evolution
Design books
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #software
