Solitude | Ale Núñez + andrewmarzotto | Clarence Square | 2025-08-02: Solitude by Ellington 1934, popularized by Billie Holiday + Eddie Heywood 1941. Casual gig #AleNunez + #AndrewMarzotto. Concluding 4th day #TODowntownWest, new wood deck. (Toronto) youtu.be/ehmJIqQuIiA

Like Someone In Love | Ale Núñez + andrewmarzotto | Clarence Square | 2025-08-02: Song by Van Heusen + Burke 1944, sung by Dinah Shore. #AleNunez + #AndrewMarzotto, child off camera. Concluding first week Series #TODowntownWest, new wood deck. (Toronto) youtu.be/9ErsxBZwDwA

City Centre Drive, Mississauga: From the C Banquets hall on the 12the floor, view east sees the curvy Marilyn Munroe condos (Phase 2 Absolute World towers 4 and 5) completed in 2011-2012. The scale in the western suburbs is no so walkable. (Mississauga City Hall)

Art Gallery of Mississauga: End wall #WinsomWinsom + daughter #TaraDarrall (2025) From Them We Came, mixed media with cowrie shells by #MisbalAhmed. Part of the exhibition on The Search for the Black Madonna and Green Tara, connecting spiritual and earthly experiences.

Tommy Thompson Park: Natural tree tunnel midway down the path from northern entrance and bridge, with bicyclists riding near dusk. Easy ride on two wheels, with a few serious runners traversing the 3 km each way. Quiet end to a holiday weekend. (Leslie Street, Toronto) 20250804

In Toronto, Aug. 14 6:30pm, Professor #MartinJBunch will be speaking at #SystemsThinking Ontario on Interconnected Interventions and Systemic Resilience: Development Programming in South Sudan. See wiki.st-on.org/2025-08-14

Logan Avenue, south of Gerrard Street East: Looking southbound, east side of bridge (south of Gerrard Street, north of Dundas Street) completed. The west side of bridge being demolished and reconstructed, to accommodate extra tracks for Ontario Line. (Toronto) 20250806

You | Avery Raquel | St. James Park | 2025-08-07: Evening show for Avery Raquel at Old Town Toronto . Song You released in 2024, Scratching at the Surface album. Introduced new keyboard player, first performance with group. (Toronto, Ontario) 20250807 youtu.be/hqWJGxvqx-k

Hard to Stay | Avery Raquel | St. James Park | 2025-08-07: Evening show for Avery Raquel at Old Town Toronto . New song Hard to Stay just released, composed last year at Berklee Valencia. Selected to be produced by #ChristianLohr. (Toronto) 20250807 youtu.be/7HgJJf-xpvk

Like the Rain | Avery Raquel | St. James Park | 2025-08-07: Evening show for Avery Raquel at Old Town Toronto. New song just released, metaphor for finding love where you don't expect it. Produced by #JMattMcCormack, bass player. (Toronto, Ontario) youtu.be/X5B6M_GS6f0

My Heart Away | Avery Raquel | St. James Park | 2025-08-07: Evening show for Avery Raquel at Old Town Toronto. Song My Heart Away released in 2018 on third solo album . Songwriting based on personal experiences. (King Street East, Toronto, Ontario) youtu.be/cme-aDjBOQk

Extended medley from TIDE/TIED album | Thanya Iyer |Trillium Park | 2025-08-09: In theme > 18 minutes, selections from TIDE/TIED album 2025 Wavelength Music Festival. Includes (i) Doctor, (ii) What Can We Grow ..., (iii) I Am Here Now. (Toronto) youtu.be/lvcopm5iQzA

Yet We Go On | Chris A. Cummings | Wavelength Summer Thing, Trillium Park | 2025-08-09: Adult pop music from with duet of #ChrisACummings + #DorotheaPaas at Wavelength Music Festival. Sun setting finally cast shade in front of stage. (Toronto) youtu.be/4VvqVVsly6Q

Playlist for an hour of music with Ziyan Hossain , #SnowWauna, #BexyAshworth as part of summer series at #MountPleasantCemetery Toronto. Unplugged versions of #Portishead, #PJHarvey, #SmashingPumpkins, #QueensOfTheStoneAge, #Nirvana, #NineInchNails. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

"Most of thought has nothing to do with language" says Yann LeCun . LLMs are incapable of four essential characteristics of intelligent behavior. The next generation of AI has world models, predicting what might happen as consequences of action . daviding.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/202…

OCADU Graduate Programs: A talk on Interconnected Interventions + Systemic Resilience by #MartinJBunch for #SystemsThinking Ontario. Outlined variety of approaches to resilience, focus on ecological resilience (panarchy) + community resilience ( poverty trap to escape). (Toronto)

OCADU Waterfront Campus: Welcome for APF and OCAD U's SFI Program by Zan Chandler with #SuzanneStein next, as producers of nexus event. Friday afternoon start with design installations, workshops running for next 2 days. Theme of Creativity and Compassion. (Toronto) 20250815

Sherbourne Common: Under shade in park, #FuturingWithNature led by #AlexisTennent, #JoanneRenaux, #ShaunAlfonso. Pairs of participants reflect on tree, crayon rubbings of signals of change. Exercise at #APF nexus #OCADU SFI guides connections with nature. (Toronto) 20250816

Elm Place: Rooftop party with deejay #TheloniusPoon starting set of Brazilian music. Southward view along McCaul Street lines up with CN Tower and OCADU Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design upper floors. Still surprise from attendees about parents showing. (Toronto) 20250816

OCADU Waterfront Campus: Workshop on Space for Grief, led by #ZiyanHossain, #FranRawlings, #CallaLee. Toured Museum of Grief, reviewed Synthesis Map. Installation at nexus of #APF with #OCADU SFI constructed in 2 days, excerpted full work that takes 2 weeks. (Toronto) 20250817