The Toronto Symphony Orchestra Music Director Peter Oundjian during a Q&A with Owen Pallett before the Première of Pallett’s Violin Concerto.
Literally everything cool happens in TO while I’m away.
(via thesideofalpentine)
a selection of things - mostly historical malarkey, poetry, and images - that i like. i traverse spaces and make homes where i can.
• true life stories
• things about toronto
• music musings
• art & art histories
• the leeds chronicler
• ask me
smalltalkers°
• true life stories
• things about toronto
• music musings
• art & art histories
• the leeds chronicler
• ask me
smalltalkers°
An outdoor classroom at Notre Dame High School in Norwich, UK, with two chesterfield sofas by Rodney Harris.
(Source: Guardian)
Adelaide, Berlin 2013
Another coooool one, hanging out with a giant squid kite.
Adelaide, Berlin 2013
Photos of my sister, taken by her very talented flatmate (hello!). I haven’t seen her in 13 months now, but we’ll get to hang out in London in two and a half weeks. She looks good at work.
My boyfriend got offered his dream job running political theatre workshops for youths - looks like the adieu to the beard was worth it (this picture is post-“shave”). It feels surreal to be included in somebody else’s future plans when he talks about his future vacations in Toronto - also trying to process that he won’t be moving to Canada in the fall after all. Strange day, strange emotions, but at the base of it all is some sort of happiness.
Devendra Banhart - Mi Negrita, study music for a cloudy, quiet Wednesday.
Obsessed with this album.
I’m going to shave/trim my boyfriend’s epic beard today. Never done it before. Very exciting but also really, really really really sad to see it go. There will be blood/tears/carnage/pictures
Charles Sims, What are these to me and you who deeply drink of wine, 1895, Leeds City Gallery.
William Holman Hunt, The Shadow of Death, 1870-73, Leeds City Gallery.
“He made himself no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant, and being found in fashion, as a man; he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.” (inscription on frame)
Probably my favourite painting from today - Christ’s shadow casting onto the wooden plank on the back foreshadowing the Crucifixion is too good, as is the crown of thorns inside the chest by the Virgin Mary.
John William Waterhouse, Lady of the Shallot Looking at Lancelot, 1894, Leeds City Gallery.
