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36 Things That Would Be Different If "Harry Potter" Were Set In Canada
The sorting hat would be a toque.
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1. Harry's Hogwarts letters would all have been lost by Canada Post.
2. Hagrid would tell Harry "Vous êtes un magicien, 'Arry."
3. Instead of being half-giant, Hagrid would be half-Bonhomme.
4. Harry's vault in Gringott's would be filled with loonies and toonies.
5. The Hogwarts Express would be a VIA train and it would take days to cross Canada to get to Hogwarts.
6. Platform 9 ¾ would constantly be under construction.
7. Hedwig would be a Canada goose.
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8. The sorting hat would be a toque.
9. Dumbledore would reward the Hogwarts houses with Shoppers Optimum points.
10. The Defence Against the Dark Arts class would feature a special unit on operating a wand while wearing mittens.
11. Wizards would use magic to remove snow from the streets.
12. Stephen Harper would be the Minister of Magic.
13. Butterbeer would be called Maplebeer...
14. ...And everyone would have to go to Quebec to drink it.
15. Harry's invisibility cloak would be a Hudson's Bay blanket.
What Happens When Everyday People Re-Create Iconic Fashion Ads
A diverse cast of non-models takes the challenge of posing in high-fashion ads for the first time.
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19 Gorgeous Floral Crowns For Fall Weddings
This pretty trend DEFINITELY works for autumn.
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This classic halo.
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And this proper topper.
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This gorgeous headband.
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This Man Has Sent Letters To The Ocean For The Last 12 Years
What better way to remind yourself of your insignificance?
For more than a decade, visual artist John Peña has sent letters to a place that doesn’t have a mailbox: the ocean.
The perpetual project began one wintry month after he and friends had been regularly sending art to one another. Peña sent so many odd objects, he was used to having his post return to him.
But when one letter came back with intriguing markings, Peña thought about how to have even more returned. The solution was simple: Send them somewhere undeliverable. “Growing up in Washington State, my experience of the ocean was shaped by how raw, cold, and unforgiving it is,” he told BuzzFeed. “Being near the ocean always made me very aware of my own fragility and insignificance, which I really liked.”
John Peña
Geological forces — a prominent influence in Peña’s work — gently and gradually erode mighty forms. And so he started writing to his new pen pal every day.
The idea: His tiny actions, when performed routinely, could cohere into something more monumental. The way Peña explains it, physics oversee everything from rocks to sentient beings. But the core difference between him and a stone is that he has a forebrain that allows him to think critically — and its realization of human smallness makes it uncomfortable.
“On the most basic level, I'm a bipedal mammal moving through the world displacing matter,” he said. “But my ego won't let me sit with that because then my mortality and insignificance are put into sharp focus.”
John Peña
The contents of the letters are usually not more than a simple journal entry.
But what he writes in those notes tend to spur what will appear in his Daily Geology drawings, a series where he posts a memorable moment from his day. The value doesn’t reside in the materials, which are otherwise mundane. Rather, it's the time devoted to the routine that charges the work.
He often worries about being a nuisance and felt especially bad when a postal carrier scrawled “PLEASE STOP IT!” on one of the envelopes. “I wonder, ‘What is point of any of this?’ But then I can't help but wonder, ‘What's the point of anything?’”
John Peña
From an existential and ontological perspective, he said, life is ludicrous — and that’s why he created his own form of biomimicry.
“It helps me relax into the uncertainty of the world and frees me up to make absurd moves like sending a letter to the ocean every day.”
John Peña
