Archive for March, 2008

March 19, 2008

Goats On Parade

I was having lunch today with a lovely couple by the name of Courtney and Andrew, and Courtney lamented that I don’t update my blog as much anymore. This is true! As a student in mid-March, my school work is taking precedent over casual blogging, but things should return to normal in mid-April.
But now that [...]

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March 15, 2008

What’s on your mind grapes?

Most unnecessary, yet awesome, site ever? Mindgrapes.net. What is this website doing? Not a ton. But who cares?
Jack: Jack Welch has such unparallelled management skills they named Welch’s Grape Juice after him, because he squeezes the sweetest juice out of his workers’ mind grapes.
Liz: That doesn’t even make sense.
Jack: No, it doesn’t, does it. I [...]

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March 14, 2008

I hate you so much, Insider Tips

Bad idea: planning a social night/art happening on the Friday of March Break. You’d wonder, wouldn’t parents take their kids to the ROM in the daytime during March Break? Apparently not, especially when the flipping ROM website explicitly tells you to come after 3 p.m.
ARGHHH!
Okay, so Docent Jam is being rescheduled. Well, the docent part [...]

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March 13, 2008

“That’s how you roll, bro!”

I first came across this video on YouTube in November of 2006, and it has since found a warm place in my heart and the hearts of others. In fact, if you ever hear me or one of my friends yelling, “WHOooaAHH! That’s how you roll, bro!” in a situation that very self-consciously badass, we’re [...]

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March 12, 2008

James Jean’s Illustrations Inspire Prada’s Spring Line

Pretty, n’est-ce pas? It’s taking the Spring trend of “go graphic” to a softer, more delicate place.
Chris Butcher points out that Jean’s involvement with the Prada line is going mostly unnoticed in the fashion industry, even though “[his] palette, visual style, and even his actual illustration, is present across almost the entire line.” That’s [...]

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March 11, 2008

Flying Down To Ocho Rios…

When I get married, I want a catamaran rescue to be the backdrop of the ceremony. These people in the background got stuck out at sea and had to be towed back in by the resort staff.
The excitement was only mildly distracting from Scott and Amanda’s Jamaican wedding ceremony, which was lovely. Unfortunately, most [...]

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March 3, 2008

This Is What Art Historians Do For Fun

At least, this is what you think we do for fun. What we do for fun looks only marginally like this.
At the MOCCA for John Brown/Balint Zsako.

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Sticking It To The Much

Today, I wrote a rant about how much MuchMusic sucks on Torontoist. I have been saving up the rage to write it for a few years now (since December 2005, as I mention in the article).
I feel my “MuchMusic sucks” rant is somewhat unique in that it is not based on a disdain for youth [...]

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