For the [murmur] project I choose a couple in the Richmond and Spadina area, in my neighborhood.
Queen St. Allies "Grafitti Alley"
- organized grafitti wall
- enterence between TD Bank and Starbucks Buildings on the corner of Richmond and Spadina.
- art by Elixir - grafitti artist/illustrator co-lab
- as part of "Styles and Progress" grafitti festival
Starbucks Thimble - Northwest Corner of Richmond and Spadina
- historical community market and fashion district
- neighborhood used to be all fashion/clothing warehouses
- have since moved offshore/international
- concrete/bronze tower of thimble and buttons
Fashion Building - 130 Spadina "Aklers Furs"
- story tellers worked in fur shop as young man
- dirty work, dirt and fur flying everywhere
- worked for 3-4 months a year, as was seasonal work
- job was to wet skins, mostly silver fox, learned to block furs.
9/28/08
9/24/08
Lily's Footprint
In order to help reduce my ecological footprint I intend to cut back on how often I go shopping and purchase new goods. I also plan on cutting back the amount of meat I eat weekly. This will help lower how high my food percentage currently is.
timothy lee's footprint
According to the result it would need 5.4 planet of resources o-o” to support my life style. which pretty surprised me. Overall, it’s the food and services that had have taken most of the resources. In order to reduce this effect, guess I’ll have to become a vegetarian and avoid using services that much. So I ended up doing another quiz again with the solutions that I’ve in mind and thankfully the resources reduced to 3.0 planets.
9/23/08
Sasha's Foot print calculater
To be honest, i was expecting my results to be better. Though the quiz is very interesting and nicely designed, I felt that there were flaws in some of the questions. Specifically, I felt that they should have given the option to choose "used clothing" in refrence to the clothing question. I buy lots of clothing, however everything with the exception of undies and socks is bought at thrift and used clothing stores and I feel like that may have changed my estimate mildly. However
the quiz is a true eye opener.
Some of the things i would like to begin doing to lower my global footprint :
-reduce time spent in the shower to 5 mintues
-change shower head to a low flow shower head
- recycle everything!
-Get bio-degratable doggie bags
- Used found or recycled materials in my art as frequently as possible!
Katie's Footprint
After doing this quiz I reallized how much of the worlds resources im using. I feel bad for the world because I keep hurting it, so I have thought of some ways to decrease the strain I place on the earth. I will try not to go to so many different places in my boyfriends car and try to use more public transit. I will try to use less plastic bags and purchase products that have less packaging. I will also try to eat less processed foods and eat more home cooked meals made from fresh foods and produce.
[ Mur Mur ] : Joanna Katherine Katie Stephanie Timothy
The stories were very normal neighborhood stories. It took a long time for us to decide which story was our favorite story. The stories were told by people from different nationalities. Some of the people’s accents were strange or they didn’t speak very clearly.
Our favorite story is "located" at 177 Spadina Ave. which is about the school and was the one of the first to have Chinese heritage language class, this was one of the story that we could relate to because we are Chinese students and sometimes get picked on too. This was quite an interesting and fun experience for us, since we already knew each other from before, therefore we took this as sort of a field trip and had fun. We learned some new things, and took some interesting pictures in our community, but most importantly we did some shopping!
Technical photo for Ash. Ver. Dave
The average height of these signs is 80-83 inches. I guess any higher and the numbers would be hard to read.
This story was okay, but not exactly rivetting. Our group is a democracy of 3 and we debated this story choice for several minutes on the sidewalk until it became quite personal - we made a scene, hurling insults at one another and kicking each other in the shins.
People were turning their heads in our direction. Other OCAD students were walking away trying to disassociate themselves from us, kids and seniors alike were shaking their heads.
Finally cooler heads prevailed and we all agreed to pick this story.
However, if I may - off the record -my favourite story was the one about the man who saw that one of the [murmur] signs was hanging loose, took the sign home, and returned the next day to remount it with more secure bolts.
Ashley James, Veronica Orozco and Dave
Walking through the Kensington Market area we were able to find almost all of the ears. There was one in particular that we found to be quite cute. The ear is located at 274 Augusta Av where Laura Jean who calls herself the "knitting Queen" tells her story of how she opened up Fresh Baked Goods (a sweater shop) ironically in the summer. The following week there was a heat wave and due to the stress she went to a disco party one night where she met a man named Steve. The following day Steve went to her shop and dedicated six hours to helping her get the store organized. Just five years later not only did Laura and Steve open up two other locations together, but they got married as well. We really enjoyed this story because now in days its hard to hear or even experience some what of a fairy tale. With technology as advanced as it is people have become isolated from one another and resort to e-mails and text messages as a means of communication. Kensington is one of the few places that still has a sense of community and communication.
Joanna's footprint
After I took the footprint quiz I find out I used up to 4 planet to provide enough resources, and I also created 17.6 tons of carbon dioxide to support my lifestyle. I would like to change my lifestyle in order to help the earth. I will try to recycle as much as I can and try to save more enough when I do not need to use it. I know if I'm the only one that doing it won't make much change, therefore I will also ask my family and friends to help save the earth =]
MurMur - Alfred, Stewart, Steven, Guia
After listening to many MurMur throughout Spadina, we found the most interesting one is the one on the corner of Dundas and Spadina, the North East corner. There was the Victory Burlesque, which is the last holdout for strippers in Toronto. Many well known people worked there in the field. Richard Flohli told us that the stripper buissness weren't doing too well in that time, so actually many band played in the Victory Theater. Rush played in that theater and even KISS played at the theater. The most memorable show Richard talked about was a new year eve show with the band called Mechanical Medals and Mainstream. They played the show with strippers that were topless and was actually aired on TVO. That was pretty funny, we found.
Stephanie's footprint
My current lifestyle will need 4.6 Planet Earths to maintain with. In order to reduce my ecological footprint, I would like to change my lifestyle and use as few global resources as I can.
One of the problems is I have been driving a lot after I got my driver license. I will start helping the planet out by driving less.
To make this work, I will travel more with public transit and also get more people on the car whenever I drive since I tended to drive alone.
stephanie's carbon footprint
According to my results, if everyone lived like me we'd need 3.8 planets to support and provide for us.
With these results, it got me thinking of ways to change my lifestyle to benefit the environment, My largest consumption is the use of services, so I will try to cut back on that and try to stop splurging on trends, and goods. If I were to cut back on the consumption of meat, purchase items that use eco-friendly packaging, and use the bus more than I use a car I can bring down my carbon footprint from 3.8 planets to 3.2, which is a start.
[Murmurs] - Aleks, Haomin, Kaylyn
We've listened to most of the [murmurs], and the one that attracted our interest was the Far East Theatre on 270 Spadina. It was an old theatre that showed mostly Chinese movies from HongKong cinema that featured actors like Jet Li, Chow Young Fat and Jackie Chan.
The movies were quite cheap, $6 for 2 showings. The theatre had a small lobby, and had a table top Pacman game. It was very much a place for families in the community to gather and socialize.
As imports of Chinese movies increased and with the improvements of technologies like DVD, the theatre slowly lost its popularity and was eventually shut down, which was a shame as the community lost a place to socialize.
Maxim P.
According to the carbon foot print I require 3.5 planet earths to keep my kind alive. However, if you try to cheat, and fill in all the most morally responsible answers you still end up with 2 planets. I guess this implies that just for living on this continent you're already doomed. According to the site, in order for me to improve my footprint I need to become a vegetarian and make enough money to live in a environmentally sustainable home. One day.
Steven's Footprint
It would take 3.8 earths to support my lifestyle. Now that gives something to think about. I guess it's because i usually go back to my home-country every year, and it is quite far from Canada. What we can do is recycle more, and eat locally grown food.
Murmur- Alex, Daren, Joe & Mariz
While we were walking through Spadina st. listening to all the [murmur]s, the one that really struck us as a group was the Graffiti-related by Spadina and Queen Street. As a group we found it very interesting since we all already had the appreciation for street art and because we do see these massive murals of graffiti by groups of artists all the time in Toronto. The history behind each mural that the person explained through the phone and learning about them was a cool experience, especially getting to know where previous graffiti artists used to meet downtown to chill.
Alfred's Ecological Footprint
Its kind of interesting to see where my lifestyle takes the most in which productive area. I guess I do use a lot of Energy, creating 54.6 tons of carbon dioxide and also taking up 40.3 acres of land on earth's productive area. Mobility takes up more than half of my footprint, service and food comes second. I guess travelling around places is one of my main activities.
Andrey's footprint
Looks like i need 3.5 Earths to support my lifestyle...wow!
I guess i need to cut down on my electricity usage, eat less chicken and other meats and try to buy more local products.
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