Enric Miralles passed away in 2000 at a young 44, leaving behind a rich body of architectural work and a wife, Benedetta Tagliabue. Her along with their studio EMBT, organized Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada to have tribute paid to Enric at a picnic for his friends and family in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of his passing. It’s a beautiful sand-painting, the very nature of which is fleeting serving as a wonderful memento mori.

[Photos by Ana Alvarerz-Errecalde]

We return to Pacific City in Crackdown 2, the sequel to 2007’s open-world crime smashing game for the Xbox 360. Ruffian Games and Microsoft Game Studios have taken the original and tried to see if they can push it a little further without breaking their winning formula resulting in a mixed bag and some inner conflict. continue…

We’ve checked out some of the previous incarnations of Flip Video camera when they hit Canadian store shelves and had seen a lot of potential in the product line early on. Recently, we got a nice surprise bit of news though: A new Flip Video camera is hitting shelves. It’s a new generation of the Flip MinioHD and it’s worth checking out. continue…

Alright, so we know what you’re thinking: Another cookie-cutter Iraq war movie. Explosions, guns, tension, half-baked and loosely interwoven love story, helicopters crashing, Matt Damon. But, hold the phone! We are quite happy (and pleasantly surprised!) to report that director Paul Greengrass’ latest offering, Green Zone, (inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s novel Imperial Life in the Emerald City) only has but half of these thriller-action clichés. And, much more substance beneath its Hollywood veneer. continue…

Untitled, 2007. Erick Swenson. Polyurethane resin, acrylic paint, MDF, polystyrene 30″ X 181″ X 280″

Considering the numerous types of protest that will occur in Toronto over the next 48+ hours, here’s something that could be interpreted as stop BP and save the whales ‘climate activism’ art. Don’t be fooled by Erick Swenson’s hyper realistic polyurethane resin, polystyrene, MDF and acrylic sculptures. Check out Ne Plus Ultra, a decaying deer with a skeleton covered in a scrimshaw of ancient mariner charts. Who comes up with this stuff?! …Erick Swenson…