Raphael Gutteridge

I keep thinking “oh dinner time” and it’s just 5:30

I think my least favourite part of the sun setting before 5PM is that it seems to be making it impossible for me to focus on doing all the work I have to do. I just cannot concentrate on anything for the life of me and I have a major studio assignment due in two days

All political victory speeches look the same, but Mamdani’s really reminds me of the victory speeches that Canadian party leaders make when they form majority governments.

It just gives me the vibe that something is fundamentally changing in American politics. For the better

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

Look, if karma required that the Jays lose for Mamdani to win, my New Yorker-in-Toronto self is perfectly okay with that

Just when I thought my life was stabilizing again, my landlord tells me they don’t have a record of me paying a rent increase that I ABSOLUTELY have been?

So, if anyone in Toronto knows a place available in the new year that would suit a 23y/o arts worker finishing his undergrad, lmk…

In high school, my friend accurately described my type in guys as “jocks with a heart of gold”

All day I’ve been bombarded with videos of all the hot Jays players getting emotional about how much they love their friends/teammates, so you can imagine what this is doing to me

You know, once in my life I'd like to live in a city that doesn't disappoint me every playoff season.

At the very least, Toronto teams don't normally make it this far, so that was nice

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

I never really remember that I voluntarily chose to move to a Great Lakes city until it gets slightly cold out again and Toronto becomes the windiest city on the goddam planet

Wait, Europe has a different daylight savings than we do? How has this never come up before???

Genuinely, did daylight savings happen? Google says its next week, people on social media are posting like it happened last night. My analog watch was 15 minutes off when I checked it against my devices, so that didn’t clear anything up at all

Fantasy map of an expanded public transit system for Toronto, Canada showing subway lines, rapid transit corridors, and regional transit connections as well as local points of interest. The map uses bright saturated colours for the subway lines, darker saturated tones for other routes, and a light palette for points of interest and the map base.

Public transit geek 🤝 graphic designer

A sculpture of four wooden columns supporting a thick black wire with a lightbulb at the end. The sculpture is on the concrete floor of a white gallery space

Being in art school is great until you’re lugging an installation work across the city to get home in a giant ikea bag.

(The work in question)

According to my brother who studies the history of geopolitics, Carney is apparently really good at foreign affairs. However, I have not heard about ONE of his domestic policies that I remotely like. No home mail delivery? New LNG plants? Fuck off, food is still expensive even without the carbon tax

I’m out here celebrating Rosh Hashanah and apparently the evangelical Christian death cultists are preparing for the rapture tomorrow? Weirdos

Shawn Micallef: There’s a good reason why some might think Toronto’s best days are behind it. Here’s how we change their minds The best days for the city lie ahead of it, but there are things we have to get right to make sure that happens.

The Toronto Star’s City Report Card survey suggests six in 10 Torontonians believe that the city’s best days are in the past.

Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).

I didn’t know my pediatrician had that background! Vaccines are seriously the most important invention ever, it’s unimaginable just how many lives they’ve saved

After having a blood cancer I can’t get live vaccines (like MMR) anymore. I’m super grateful that my parents vaccinated me properly as a kid. Parents should ABSOLUTELY be vaccinating their children before things like that happen so they stay healthy into adulthood. Herd immunity matters so much

Building ventilation invented by ancient Persians and Romans is making a modern comeback | CBC News In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at a sun-powered strategy from ancient civilizations to bring fresh, cool air into buildings; track individual monarchs on their migration to Mex...

The Romans also perfected floor heating (‘hypocaust’). No one who has stepped out of the shower onto a cold bathroom floor on a winter morning would doubt the value of that invention.
www.cbc.ca/news/science...

A screenshot of the CBC Gem app, focusing on a thumbnail image of a short film called Sounds of Glass, part of Season 18 of the CBC’s Short Film Face Off

Hey so one of my longest friends made a short film last year and it’s available to stream on the CBC! Everyone should check it out, and maybe even vote for it by midnight (PDT) tonight so she can make even more awesome films!

cbc.ca/shortfilmfac...

I love architecture school so very much but it’s one of the few environments where I willingly make myself comb through 160,000 city business permit records (to learn about a neighbourhood)

Design: A Happening Life "When life is happening, design has meaning, and every design we encounter strengthens our recognition of the value of being alive."

bell hooks on design
www.lionsroar.com/design-a-hap...

Exterior of a yellow brick Neo-Classical building, broad and fairly low, with tall, narrow wondows and an elaborate doorway.

A large interior space with bold red and white colours and a curtained stage at the far end.

Wide shot of a large interior space with balcony seating, an empty wooden floor, and geometric and Classical architectural ornament on the walls. The paint scheme is white with Bold red articulation and light blue accents.

The same interior space viewed from the balcony, with seats and a starircase railing in the foreground, the ceiling just above, and space opening below towards a curtained stage area.

One more post for #LabourDay: The Ukrainian Labour Temple, Winnipeg, built 1918-19. Designed by Robert Edgar Davies, funded by donations, built largely by volunteers. It played an important role in the Ukrainian labour community and in the 1919 strike. Lovingly maintained to this day.

We'd better be!

Seriously, why does the Toronto air show get to practice for a whole week? It's getting really frustrating to have to put up with these military jets making so much noise around the city, and for what? So some military fan bros can get their rocks off looking at fighter jets? Fuck off

Any other Toronto airshow haters out there? Why does this military propaganda event get an entire long weekend to "practice" flying the same circles they do every year?

The point of being in architecture school is actually to make really cool database management tools to stay on top of the new school term

A mint green poster with a schedule of events written in bold black text inside boxes with rounded corners

The Fourth Annual Non-Existent Film Festival starts today! Check out the full festival guide at studioshtot.com/non-existent-film-festival

Carrying a giant flat packed IKEA table home from Etobicoke on the TTC and while I was waiting for the streetcar to depart from the high park loop, the driver came up to me to let me know that he was short turning before my stop because he didn’t want me to get stranded with my boxes