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I stayed up too late scanning (old-school) some of the pictures we took at Reeve and Jessie's wedding, and then trying to get them working in flash...

You can view them here.

Reeve and Jessie - if you want copies of any (all?), we can send you some!

Long time...

I recorded a version of an REM song, just for kicks. Due to my technical constraints and lack of good software, I was able to use ALL of the following in the making of one song:

Audacity
Goldwave
Ableton Live (demo version)
Sony Soundforge (demo version)
And CDEx, to mp3 it, for your listening pleasure...

Luckily, the original song is good enough to withstand my abuse.

Colin Munroe

Local hero and hardest working man in showbiz, Colin Munroe, surprised me by showing up on Pitchfork today - for his reworking of Kanye's Flashing Lights...

If you want, you can see him play tonight at Clinton's.

With the lights out

Leah is in Guelph at the Jesuit retreat centre, for a week+. I have been busy at work, and also doing computer training on Saturdays...

Tonight I went to see Kurt Cobain - About a Son. It was a pretty nicely made movie about a very sad subject matter. If you haven't heard, the dialogue is all audio interviews with Kurt Cobain up to a year before his death, matched to images of places he lived and music of bands that he loved.

Globe and Mail

At the Skydome

High Lonesome Wednesdays

John Maeda moves to RISD

For one reason or another, I have been following the work (and blogs) of John Maeda for the last few years. I even went so far as to order one of his books from the Toronto Public Library some time last year (which I can't say about too many artists/designers). His work falls in the small region where art, programming, computer engineering, teaching and management all overlap. His recent writing on simplicity is both reflective of current trends, and will continue to influence the way organizations both design and manage.

Anyway - I just found out that the guy recently got the job of new RISD president... if there is any way at all to move UP from working at MIT's Media Lab, I guess this would be it. It will be interisting to see what happens next...

Here is a mini-sample of some work... or you can read blogcontent here.

One Big Coming of Age Story

but what does it all mean...

Changes

Hello world.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and new year. Leah and I are freshly back in Toronto from our journey to the South. I will update with some pictures once they are developed...
It was great to see the family, and lots of people that I haven't seen for a long time at the wedding... although there were others that I hoped to see and didn't get to... which is unfortunately the way it goes at weddings.
Reeve and Jessie were successfully married - it was a wonderful wedding and a very happy occasion. I am lucky to have yet another kickass sister-in-law.

In other news... I think this here blog is in for some changes. I am tired of it, and I think it might become more of a photo blog soon. Wait and see.

My Place

Miss Katherine Earl

weekend

I have to include a story from Friday...

At lunch I went to Criminal Records, to buy a CD that I've been wanting to get for a while - Wayne Petti (lead singer for Cuff the Duke)'s solo record. When I walked into the store, I looked over to the cash, and Wayne Petti was himself working there. Hilariously, a Cuff the Duke song was also playing on the store stereo. And then I walked up to the cash with his record in my hand. It was like three Wayne Petti lines randomly intersected in a single point.

The CD is good, by the way...

On Saturday, I took the long ride to spiritual direction. That afternoon/evening, we collected money for the Salvation Army outside of Holts, on Bloor. It was pretty cold (for a 3.5 hour shift)...

During the shift, and continuing through the night, and most of Sunday, it snowed. On Sunday morning, we trudged through a foot or so of snow to the laundromat (we pretty much had no clean clothes, or we would have postponed the outing...)

Church was pretty empty, and I played melodica. There was this one pretty cool part in the second last song where I totally screwed up... and Leah couldn't stop laughing.

In other news, we kept Mabel drugged all weekend, after her dental surgery on Friday. Luckily, she didn't seem to respond to the codeine in the same way she had to the morphine which the vet gave her (she was growling and woozy and violent when Leah picked her up!). She seems to be pretty much back to normal...

Where was I ?

So...

My new job is keeping me pretty busy, as you can tell from the lack of blogging (also, I'm not really feeling the blog recently, but I will try to keep it up for all the fans...) I am working on a film post-production facility, and an office building. Last week we had our client Christmas party at the Panarama.

So, what about the weekend?.. Leah and I rocked the Salvation Army collection kettle at Yonge and Bloor on Saturday. By which I mean we sat at one of those things for about 3 hours as people put money into it.

Also, we hung out with Bradley on Saturday night, and the Cumbys for brunch on Sunday. Groceries. Church.

weekend

went to Montreal
came back...

That was pretty much the weekend, aside from marking some assignments on Friday night. And the trip to Montreal was more about hanging out with the McG's than seeing the city, since all we really had time to do was eat a few meals and log some highway miles.
We did walk around old Montreal for a little while, stopped in at Notre Dame and the fishermen's church, and met up with Rob W and his girlfriend for brunch on Sunday.

I live still

Seems I skipped a weekend update...
My new job started this week - and seems to be going OK. I have been working on a commercial office building development, which is certainly different.

Last night Clayton Park played a show at the Kathedral - they sounded great and a good few people were there despite the rain.

Today it is snowing.

On Saturday we will be driving to Montreal with David and Jen McG.

Last Days

For those who haven't heard - today is my last day of work before starting a new job on Monday.

I have been spending the last week trying to wrap things up, and all of today handing off project folders to other people.

decalogue 3

decalogue 2

We have a lot of work to do if we are going to get through the next eight of these before Sunday!

Dumb but funny

Top Hip-Hop Acts of 18th-Century England

w__k_nd _pd_t_

On Friday we went over to Andrew and Bradley's for dinner, and to play some music.
On Saturday we went to a church meeting, and then we went and bought me some clothes.
On Sunday I met up with Nolan (who used to work with me) for lunch, and then went to an exhibit at the Design Exchange. After church we watched part one of Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Decalogue.