Where the streets have many names
Reading this book about walking 6,000 miles in New York. It’s fascinating. Spend enough time walking around a city and you see stuff like this, a car with cornrows.
NYC: no loitering!
I’m back in a New York state of mind, writing about my day in Harlem with Matt Green. Matt, you may recall, is walking every street of every borough, a quest that’ll take him about four years, during which he’ll walk about 8,000 miles. Along the way, he’s noticing all the little things that make…
It’s here!
A friendly man named Mike from Fitness Depot in Ottawa arrived a few minutes ago with a LifeSpan 1200-DT5 treadmill desk for me to test walk, with the folks at Flaman Fitness in London, Ont., helping to set up the loaner. (Correct me if I’m wrong, all you Edmontonians out there, but I believe Flaman…
Walking off the war
An inspiring phone interview today with Sean Gobin, the ex-U.S. Marine who started an organization called Warrior Hike and, in concert with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, launched the Walk Off The War program. Basically, it helps American veterans of combat find themselves — physically, mentally and spiritually — by thru-hiking the trail. Gobin, who did…
Treadmill desk!
It’s coming! Within a few days, the good folks at LifeSpan will be delivering a treadmill desk for me to test walk. No more sitting around while writing about walking. In addition to giving me material for the book, I’ll also be writing about the effectiveness of the product in Canadian Business magazine. Of course,…
Walking in The Walrus
“The Walking Cure” — my feature in The Walrus — is now online for your reading pleasure.
New York goes to Montreal
Brooklyn-based art collective Elastic City makes “its audience active participants in an ongoing poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit.” How? By commissioning artists to create their own walks. As the group’s website explains, “These walks are participatory and may rely on sensory-based techniques, the creation of new folk rituals and/or other artist-derived…
Where the wind takes you
An inspiring exhibition, Walk On: 40 Years of Art Walking, from Richard Long to Janet Cardiff, has come to a close at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland, England. The above contraption, which literally let the wearer follow the wind, was part of it. Work by internationally acclaimed artists such as Hamish Fulton…
water borne 