Distant Train
It's still winter but I have my office window open a crack to let fresh air in. In the distance I heard a train horn. This is such a lonely, but calming sound on top of the general hum of the city and the nearby harbour.
The Daniel MacDonald Collection of Things
Collecting ideas and writing about them. Sometimes a photograph I made.\ Sometimes a project I am working on.\ Sometimes links to other things. curl...
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Practice Painting Highway Lines
Sometimes the folks who paint lines on the road need to practice. In Halifax, it looks like this happens on Bayne Street.
Vintage Market leave-behinds
Have you ever gone into a vintage market, antique shop, or junk dealer only to reminisce about that thing you didn't pick up? One of those items for me is this vintage space-themed lunchbox. A great illustration, good colours, and plenty of weathering to show it had a life before me. I didn't buy it, but I do have this photo as a memory.
A Sobeys Bag
In 2018 I mocked up a canvas reusable Sobeys bag, using the iconic shape. At the time it got over 10k retweets and I was interviewed by CBC Radio. I don't know if anyone from Sobeys has ever seen it. Tonight, I spotted this at Sobeys. It's pretty great. I bought one. I still like my bag shape better, heh.
All the guitars I have owned
A mental exercise to see if I could remember every guitar I have owned over the years. These all came and went throughout the years. Despite my recent post about collecting things, I do not collect guitars. I suppose I think of them as a tool. 1986 - Unknown 3/4 size acoustic guitar 1987 - Unknown strat style guitar 1988 - Yamaha RGX 612 1989 - Unknown jumbo acoustic guitar 1991 - Squire…
Clairtone Mini Hi-Fi
I enjoy collecting things. It's a hobby. While the price is one thing to consider, I also consider the cost of ownership. Does it require maintenance? How much space does occupy? Is it delicate? That's why I was excited to get my hands on a Clairtone Mini Hi-Fi AM Radio as is was low on the scale of all the things to consider. Clairtone was a Canadian manufacturer of sound electronics that had an…
Testing Template
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This is a bear
It seems fitting, but maybe a bit on the nose, that my first post on Bear is a bear. I snapped this photo from my parents deck as this black bear sat down close by and snacked on buttercups.