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Scuderia BENZINA

Scuderia BENZINA

As the weather turns, I tend toward the work­shop, squir­reled away turn­ing wrenches and smelling of two-​​stroke motor oil. This is a world I stum­bled upon, years ago, that has become very much a part of me—despite the chal­lenges of geog­ra­phy, parts avail­abil­ity, and pre­vail­ing atti­tude towards such means of trans­port in an oil town, such as this.

A very good friend of mine has decided to have a go at a shop, and I’m hap­pily along for the ride. If you ride a clas­sic Vespa or Lam­bretta, BENZINA is here for you, from the ground up.

I hope to be able to show you more, as our ven­ture proceeds.

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Turning Point

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Spring is finally near­ing in Cal­gary. As the ground clears and the nights get warmer, my atten­tion typ­i­cally drifts to vin­tage Ves­pas and bikes that rat­tle and clat­ter and smoke, while my cloth­ing takes on the all too-​​familiar scent of Motul 800 two-​​stroke oil.

I’ll try not to neglect you, inter­net, but the sweet moun­tain air calls.

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Hand Lettered

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Westside.

Two exam­ples of hand let­tered text in my neigh­bour­hood. What a dif­fer­ence a cen­tury can make.

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Casual, Obscured

Casual, obscured.

Block, degraded.

Hand painted signs in my neigh­bour­hood.

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Spring Valley

There isn’t much to Spring Val­ley, Saskatchewan. I would hope that the owner of this truck isn’t intend­ing on ‘restor­ing’ it.

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Brickworks

A few shots from my recent trip to Toronto.

This is the Don Val­ley Brick­works, presently under re-​​construction at the hands of the Ever­green Foun­da­tion, as of Decem­ber 8th. No stranger to tres­pass­ing, I missed my chance to get inside this amaz­ing space, as the site was indeed quite busy.

Despite the pos­i­tive notion of adap­tive reuse, tak­ing form with a sum­mer mar­ket, and Evergreen’s own Cen­tre for Urban Sus­tain­abil­ity, instead of con­tin­ued aban­don­ment, or inevitable bulldozing–I did note the occa­sional dis­sent­ing (‘Ever­greed’) graf­fiti pep­per­ing the site (as have oth­ers, evi­dently.)

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Victoria Burnout

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The houses and busi­nesses of Vic­to­ria Park are slowly being felled one at a time as the vic­tims of neglect, mis­use, and encroach­ing devel­op­ment. For the last few years I’ve taken it upon myself to doc­u­ment what remains, along with their some­times gen­tle and some­times vio­lent dis­in­te­gra­tion. There isn’t much left.

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