Archive for November 2008

Available: A Very Good Day for Turtles

By Joshua Chalifour, 16 November 2008

A Very Good Day for Turtles is a fantastic children’s story, which is now available for purchase from Lulu. Wondering why turtles don’t hurry anymore? Mr. Clark’s poetic fable of a few precocious turtles offers an answer. The illustrations, a Gomez/McLaughlin collaboration, enhance the story with their imaginative light and leave the lasting impression of [...]

Aesthetic Transformation

By Joshua Chalifour, 8 November 2008

“Ugly! Eyesore! How could people think it was a good idea?” A giant slab of concrete in the middle of the outer edge of the park. For shame, city! This was no sculpture, I thought.
Why preserve and move the edge of a utilitarian-designed building to the park? If the rest of the building had been [...]