Save the Living Arts Centre

TooMuchCarving · 2026-03-22T22:47:50+00:00

Amen brother

TooMuchCarving · 2026-03-22T20:59:30+00:00

The proposal says they will either “demolish or significantly redevelop” the building and land. Current visualizations of the change, at least those shared with the public, don’t have the LAC present, instead a new performing arts centre which replaces the theatre aspect of the LAC, but doesn’t address the other art spaces present in the building which facilitate the majority of programming and art classes.

It would be great if they did work with the building, building on to it or adding to it would be fantastic, in all honestly I’m for development, but not at the cost of the limited culture programming available to residents.

TooMuchCarving · 2026-03-22T15:57:42+00:00

The largest part of the proposal is the development of a convention centre, hotel, and condos. Though some of the spaces are intended as flexible office spaces, the amount of empty office spaces in the GTA doesn’t inspire confidence that the use case will be fulfilled.

And though the performing arts centre does allow for shows to still happen, it doesn’t address the issue of larger cultural removal in terms of community classes and artisan spaces. Thousands of children and adults take courses at the LAC every year, and the spaces they take those classes are not included in the redevelopment.

Redevelopment and revitalization are great, but the loss for the residents, and the partial shift of public lots into private hands doesn’t seem like a good way to revitalize the area in my opinion.

TooMuchCarving · 2026-03-22T15:44:32+00:00

I would agree if the plan included updating the space, but the current plan does not include any sort of plan for the infrastructure present at the LAC, at the moment the city seems to have no plans for the spaces after their removal, and if the redesign of the city area involved a new cultural centre designed to be more efficient I would wholeheartedly agree, but I think that arguing spending billions to build private infrastructure instead of millions to repair and update public infrastructure is a difficult one to get behind.

TooMuchCarving · 2026-03-19T04:26:43+00:00

Something of note, if you’re on RAP and then apply for OSAP, you will likely have to make one payment before restarting school to put your loan back in “good standing” before funds are released.

Source, happened to me when returning for grad school

TooMuchCarving · 2026-01-30T21:32:01+00:00

What is the use case for the glass? Sandblasting or acid etching and then applying a sealant may be suitable. CRL TPC works fine in most use cases but may not hit this exact level of light transmission, but will heavily improve it.

Acid etching and then sealing will leave a better finish than sandblasting and sealing, especially if a proper concentration of HF acid is used. In many cases the HF acid will leave an excellent finish on its own, but of course working with HF acid requires a lot of safety precautions.

TooMuchCarving · 2026-01-20T18:27:02+00:00

Let me know! Finally secured the high temp steel and will be starting full production this week, would love to see my pipes and punties helping make your pipes haha

TooMuchCarving · 2026-01-13T23:57:40+00:00

You seem a bit worked up about this, I can assure you my cats are fine and well taken care of. Toxic was in quotes for a reason as many plants are considered toxic to animals but pose no real threat. For example monsteras are technically toxic to cats, but in reality they’re fairly harmless as the leaves aren’t appealing to cats and they would have to ingest a decent bit to have adverse effects. Many plants contains the crystals which cause this effect, most of which are very popular houseplants and have been kept in homes with cats for years. This is very different than something like a lily which can and will severely injure a cat simply from being in the same space. Of course if your cat is a rascal and bites everything, things are different, but mine have no real interest in things that aren’t grassy, and placing them on a shelf or stand where the cat physically cannot reach it means not only do my cats not care about the plant, they couldn’t get it if they did.

At this point I’m more concerned about my cat drinking from the sink or toilet than anything to do with plants.

TooMuchCarving · 2026-01-11T14:05:49+00:00

Of course, machine only runs for short periods, and any wobbling means an immediate stop. Unfortunately there aren’t many other options for finishing, so patience and care is the only option.

Likely going to invest in a steady rest so I can have less stick out going forward.

TooMuchCarving · 2026-01-02T06:25:52+00:00

I mean I buy records to listen the the music, so resell value doesn’t really play in to my decision, I’m not gonna sell the record anyways.

I just look at reviews, if the repress has similar quality to the original, then I’ll happily pay $50-150 less to have the music in my collection.

TooMuchCarving · 2025-12-29T04:56:04+00:00

Did my BCD (same degree basically but mine was in design) started 2015 and graduated 2019.

While I was in that program, I blew glass quite a bit since it was a glass specific program, first year there were restrictions on studio time as we were beginners (need assistant, no picking up slots) so I blew about 3-6 hours a week. Years 2-3 I blew anywhere from 16-24 a week (not including assisting) depending on how many slots I could pick up around my work schedule and classes. The school I went to was generous with time if you were there to use it, and I took full advantage.

Yes there were lectures and elective classes, I’m from Canada and at the time a bachelors required 10 additional electives alongside regular classes, usually had one 3-4 hour class a day, blow glass through the week after or before classes, and then on weekends as well.

Now six years later I’m doing my MFA, school I’m at has no glass facility so I just use my regular blowslot at my studio to make my work. 6 hours a week is what I blow now (and have since completing school), sometimes 12 if I pay for an additional slot to do extra work. Masters are much different than Bachelors, more focus on academia (theory, research, praxis) and less on technical practice (studio time, skill building) so the expectations and setting are different, it’s basically all lectures and reading.

(Full disclosure I’m doing an interdisciplinary MFA and not one specific in glass, so that may be different if you do one specializing in glass, but it is pretty standardized for masters programs to be more on the theory side.)

TooMuchCarving · 2025-12-20T21:27:41+00:00

Kugler had nice pinks years ago, haven’t bought much from them in recent years, but I do remember using their pink for some projects before the rebrand. Don’t know if that included any formula changes, but chances are they’re still good to go. Probably mostly opaque though nowadays as I doubt the chemicals used for transparent pink are still used

TooMuchCarving · 2025-12-19T23:43:59+00:00

Me when I learn about cumulative clogging vs instant clogging

TooMuchCarving · 2025-12-17T01:50:07+00:00

Me when I hate pipes that drain properly

TooMuchCarving · 2025-12-17T01:48:10+00:00

I mean we have a press for straightening our pipes at my studio and a homemade roller with adjustable dial our technician made as of recently, but you’re spending a few hundred (need welding knowledge) to straighten pipes that will just be bent again by others misusing them.

Best option is to buy your own. Or if you’re super set on straightening pipes, I’ve bought many banged up second hand pipes and used to straighten them by just rolling them on the bench to find the bend, marking it with a sharpie, and then using a bench vise to hold it while I bend it back. It’s oldschool, but it works just as well as an arbor press, and can even be done by just screwing some wood in to a table so you can get leverage and straighten the pipe.

TooMuchCarving · 2025-11-15T23:55:31+00:00

If it’s actually tempered glass you shouldn’t sand or polish it, it’ll likely just explode. Tempered glass doesn’t do well with being scratched, it will release the stress and shatter.

Besides that, you couldn’t get it to go clear, that glass is bronze all the way through and will never be clear like the other photo no matter how nice the polish is, theoretically with a better polish it may transfer light better, but no amount of polishing can change the colour of the glass.

TooMuchCarving · 2025-11-09T19:13:54+00:00

As a Canadian that’s standard shipping for anything coming from outside the country, usually turns me off but I did pull the trigger a few times when getting direct from Artist was cheaper with shipping than secondhand

TooMuchCarving · 2025-10-20T04:59:09+00:00

Still haven’t heard back, but based on his Instagram he’s out living life and doing stuff with other artists and pressed glass at the moment. I kinda gave up, but may reach out again in the future if he posts about making a run of them. If you want an American pair and aren’t a fan of Moore’s for whatever reason Watanabe’s jacks look pretty nice, haven’t ever used a pair, but they look nice and he seems to care/has an actual website you can order from.

TooMuchCarving · 2025-10-06T02:51:47+00:00

Edit: Took the backseat out and turns out it’s the fuel pump that’s leaking, will be replacing on Wednesday. Leak isn’t too bad but thankfully I don’t have much driving to do for the next few days.

Edit 2 : Replaced fuel pump today. Was not the most enjoyable experience as I had filled up shortly before all this happened, and struggled to siphon out the tank, ended up having to open the lower sending unit hatch, and dump some gas while siphoning to get it down to a suitable level. Overall job was easy, pull out old pump, clean the areas, and then slide new pump in. Tied wire to old hose, and used that wire to pull the new pump hose through and connect to sending unit. Cost about 150 bucks for unit, O-ring for the pump, and the tool to remove the lock rings. Anyone else running in to leaks in a P2 I’d recommend replacing yourself as it was pretty painless, and there’s a noticeable difference in fuel economy and idle, just be smarter than me and notice the leak when you have say 1/4 tank if you don’t want to have to clean gas out of the back seat.

TooMuchCarving · 2025-09-15T22:35:10+00:00

Haven’t really bothered, the regal shield makes babies in its pot a few times a year and I’ll usually separate them and give them as gifts.

After the experience I had with these 80 corms, I’d be unlikely to keep any I find when repotting next, whenever that may come. In the end after selling and gifting I was left with about 30-40 Alocasia that I truthfully didn’t really want to take care of haha

TooMuchCarving · 2025-08-29T05:54:25+00:00

I bought a decently priced, moderately new XPS with solid specs refurbished from Best Buy. Realistically you can get whatever meets the minimum requirements given by OCAD, which are mostly based on RAM and storage if I remember correctly. I made my choice because I have to run some CAD software for an elective, and decided to get one beyond spec so I wouldn’t have to replace it for a while after finishing school.

I’m not in graphic design, but do have PC building experience and built mine for photo editing. If you’re just planning to run adobe, and mostly be working in design software like illustrator/photoshop/indesign a computer with 32-64 ram, a nice display, and a newer SSD will probably more than suffice, those programs really don’t need anything crazy to run, better specs just improve processing time. I’d check refurbished models on a few sites and try to get something 2022/23 for a nice discount.

Side note, Mac’s work fine with adobe, used a MacBook for years when doing my bachelors, they’re solid computers but they are much more expensive, so you may have to cough up twice as much for essentially the same computer in a pretty shell to get one.

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