http://www.pioro.net a quill dripping pixel ink Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:08:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes, I have been known to drop projects and if you look at this past November's posts, it does seem like I just dropped the article on the Canadian Music Centre's LoK8Tr project. In fact, I was dropped. My contact with LoK8Tr sent me a message saying he was "shutting ... http://www.pioro.net/2010/03/lok8tr-left-return.shtml Quebec City and Montreal will be hosting International Cycling Union (UCI) road races this September, the first ProTour races ever to be held in North America. I not only want to attend these races, the Quebec City and Montreal Grands Prix Cyclistes, to watch dudes bike up hills faster than ... http://www.pioro.net/2010/02/organizer-serge-arsenault-on-canadas-two-protour-races.shtml Right now, two blindfolded people are singing "love, love, love" a fragment from U2's "Until the End of the World." The woman, Annie Abrahams, is in Montpellier, France. The man, Curt Cloninger, is in Asheville, NC, USA and also playing a suitcase-model Rhodes piano. They've been at it for four ... http://www.pioro.net/2009/11/double-blind-love-an-online-collaboration.shtml My article on the LoK8Tr project took me to Guelph, Ont., last Saturday and live on the radio. I met Porter Hall, the host of the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour, at the University of Guleph campus radio station. He arrived just after 3 p.m., a few minutes after the scheduled start ... http://www.pioro.net/2009/11/mannlicher-caracno.shtml Here's what Jason van Eyk, Ontario regional director at the Canadian Music Centre, told me about LoK8Tr: What I can tell you about LoK8Tr is that it's a one-off project; it's not an existing collective other than the fact that it is being formed as part of the Canadian Music Centre's ... http://www.pioro.net/2009/11/the-word-on-lok8tr-from-cmc.shtml Really, I'm not totally comfortable about blogging a print article as I work on it. Magazine articles are always released as seemingly fully formed beings, the stitches removed, the gaps tightened and any false starts tucked away.  Only the writer and editor really see the pieces and connections; for the ... http://www.pioro.net/2009/11/why-blog-an-article.shtml I'm after a composer or maybe a bunch of composers who don't want to be found. They don't want to be LoK8-ed, if you will. The Canadian Music Centre (CMC) runs a program called New Music in New Spaces, which promotes the work of CMC's associate composers by staging musical events ... http://www.pioro.net/2009/11/searching-for-lok8tr.shtml I joined the ride at about 5:10pm at Bay and Bloor. The ride went east, taking up the whole eastbound side of the road, to Yonge and then south to Queen. Riders rang bells constantly, but I opted for silence. The Toronto Star estimates that the event comprised about 1,000 ... http://www.pioro.net/2009/09/the-memorial-ride-for-darcy-allan-sheppard.shtml My story (also here) on Michel Labbé and Options for Homes appears in today's National Post. The article came out of a longer one that I had written in March. Here is the more in-depth version. The Revolution Will Not Be Subsidized Can a Toronto non-profit housing organization save the city’s construction ... http://www.pioro.net/2009/07/options-for-homes-article-in-the-national-post.shtml Watching the Tour de France is humbling. I like to think that I'm a pretty speedy cyclist and that the 40 minutes it takes me to bike roughly 13 kilometres up Yonge Street to work is a respectable time. Yet, on the first day of the race, each of the ... http://www.pioro.net/2009/07/10-things-i-can-do-quicker-than-lance-armstrong-can.shtml