Let’s take a moment of silence for Remembrance Day (or Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day depending on where you’re from) and look at some gorgeous photography. The Morning After The Night Before, photographed by Jeff Hahn featuring Sam Thompson of Models 1. The Morning After The Night Before was photographed using film and Polaroid cameras for a vintage effect to capture the essence an old but modern London.
Plants and Animals is a band that’s both played and been missed at Habitat twice by myself. I also missed them JUNO weekend in Vancouver back in Spring 2009 at the Railway Club. My history with this band is less fortunate than the sounds they create. This is from their 2008 album, Parc Avenue.
Client: Personal
The Awesome Okanagan concept is a community-based event, food, culture, art, fashion, drink, etc blog. Focusing on the central area of the BC interior, we look to provide a positive spin on all happenings and to raise awareness of the amazing opportunities and creative people growing in our communities.
This is an art installation created by Mehmet Ali Uysal, displayed at the Chaudfontaine park in Belgium. The unusual park addition replicates the clip, a common smart tool used to hang clothes for drying. The giant clipper becomes the focal point of this particular area of the park shown below and looks great while adding a bit of originality to its surroundings. From what I understand, the installation hopes to raise awareness of the affect of modern art in regular situations, and I applaud. Art has the ability to transform a simple and unattractive space into an area that feels alive, and I’d love to see more installations like this in BC and Canada.
This is another sweet pick from my friends at Amazing Factory Productions Inc., and while it came out back in January, I’ll watch this video over again every few months. Great cinematography and I’m a horror buff so the genre isn’t lost. Great work guys!
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail …all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible.
George Orwell (Politics and the English Language. 1946)
How many times have I heard both guys and gals whine about woman front-persons in bands? Too often. Most of the time the excuse seems to be “Women can’t rock!” Wrong. This mixcast will be all about proving Girl Rock as I feature:
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Client: Habitat
The series of posters I created for our Winter concert promo, launched in October 2010. Unfortunately, due to liquor licensing issues some of these shows had to be canceled. Bummer.
Client: Western Canadian Music Alliance/BreakOut West Kelowna Host Committee
On a daily basis there was a 24-hour turnaround for titles, intros, communication pieces, visuals and daily recaps to play in all of the 8 venues of the BreakOut West Festival. Along with a multitude of print media, I was in charge of these motion graphics for the 2010 year of in Kelowna, BC.
“Nothing good happens online after 1 a.m.” claims Webroot, and I happen to know that’s only partially factual. However, the new Webroot Firefox plug-in aims to curb potentially harmful online behavior by giving the user a virtual field test before posting on certain social networks at certain times.
After downloading the plug-in, you basically get to set up your own “road blocks” before posting to Facebook, Twitter and more. If you try to access one of those sites within time frame you specify, you’ll have to perform one of a multitude of hand-eye coordination tests aimed at making sure you’re sober enough to post. The best part is what happens when you fail, watch the video to see what the Sobriety Test posts for you…
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Ever since I began making these Mixcasts, it was my eventual hope I would be able to co-host and co-curate some of these mixes. In some way, this small dream has come true with the Guest Mixtapes I've been able to share with you; but at the end of the day, it was still my voice. At least in the literal sense. All of that changes today as I'm joined by my friend Erik Jack (@erikstocrat). We sat down and picked some of the songs we haven't been able to get out of our heads in the past couple months, as ...
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I tried something new last year when I gave you the ...By a Fire Mixtape, an alternative—although not entirely disparate—Holiday Mixtape. An hour long, commercial-free Holiday Mixtape where only 1/3 of the tracks are actual Christmas songs. To this day, I've considered producing another Mixtape in a similar fashion. I know it's nice to be able to put some music on and forget about it. I also hate the silence between tracks on regular Holiday albums so we kill two birds with one stone. Now, enjoy ...By a Fire: Volume 2. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! by ...
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