• The idea sparked in 1972 when 16-year-old B.C. (Berg) Johnson arrived from Norway and noticed something depressing. “People in Toronto never looked up. They looked down. They never smiled too much.” The “Caretaker of Dreams,” as he’d come to write on his business cards, decided a “rainbow project” would be just the thing to cheer up dour Torontonians.

Via our friends at the Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd.

It’s been wall-to-wall Olympics coverage around here lately, so I thought I’d post something a little different. This poster for CKEY radio promises ‘good music, nice people, and solid news’, at least three of which I find sorely lacking from most contemporary radio stations. (I kind of wish I had a t-shirt with the tagline “LISTEN TO THE RAINBOW” plastered across the front in a Soviet propaganda style typeface.) (via Popular Sizes)