Luke Painter is a Toronto-based visual artist whose recent work has explored architectural symbolism and representation through large-scaled ink drawings, print and animation. A new show at the York Quay Centre in Toronto showcases some of his animation work called ‘Fiction and Invention: Utopic Visions for the 21st Century’. The work features animations of condominium sales centres, which unfold to reveal their inner machinations.
Food deserts are defined as areas without proper access to fresh, healthy and affordable food. Toronto’s recently launched Mobile Good Food Market wants to overcome this problem by selling fresh produce on the streets in areas where people have few nutritious food options.
Passing by a pile of trash on the street you often spot stuff that is still usable. But most of the times it’s not the right moment to take it, it’s not the item that you need or you don’t have enough space to store it. In that case it would be great to tell others about it and give them the opportunity to pick it up. That’s what becomes possible with Trashswag, a recently launched app that makes collecting trash and recycling social.