Ten
July 27, 2012
blogging & web
Most of my life seems to consist of a series of repeating events. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. It’s a good way to get things done and to have a
Favourite Films of 2011
March 17, 2012
film
While it seemed like a slow year for films (part way through the year I was wondering when the really great films were going to show up), as summer
Melancholia
December 11, 2011
film
is quite simply a film about depression that blends a person dealing with depression that expands out to the actual destruction of the
Big Day Downtown 2011
September 6, 2011
places
Last year I was lucky to be one of the bloggers chosen by the Downtown Halifax for Big Day Downtown where people were given $100 to spend and write
The Tree of Life
July 14, 2011
film
Terrence Malick makes unique and beautiful films with deliberate rhythms and a tantalizing (or some would say frustrating) ambiguity. With The Tree
Reading Things With Instaper
June 12, 2011
software
One of my favourite ways to read things is with Instapaper on my iPhone. Marco’s program is simple and easy to use and it makes me think that I
Source Code
April 22, 2011
film
The essential element in cinema is the reorganization of time and space. In the hands of a skilled filmmaker it makes you look at the world
Storing my Stuff in Pinboard
April 17, 2011
web
Keeping track of what you read online can be a challenge with the diverse ways of finding and reading things. Now there are devices everywhere to
Apple TV
March 20, 2011
technology & video
As soon as I picked up the box I thought that it seemed really small. But when I got my Apple TV out of the box it seemed almost impossibly small.
Using coffee and oatmeal to build an audience on Twitter
January 30, 2011
conferences
It started with a suggestion from Sandy Walsh in September in a tweet where he said, “#podcamphfx 2011 topic idea:”Effectively building a Twitter
Favourite Films of 2010 and More
January 3, 2011
film
The past year was a pretty good one in film and it wasn’t really that difficult to come up with a list of the ten films I enjoyed the most. It was
Never Let Me Go
December 31, 2010
film
While I haven’t read the novel, the film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go by Mark Romanek is a melancholy and beautiful science
In a Better World
December 31, 2010
film
In Susanne Bier’s film In a Better World she examines male responsibility through the interlocking stories of two disrupted families and two young
The American
December 30, 2010
film
If Albert Camus was a film director then perhaps The American is a film that he would have made. In Anton Corbijn’s second feature he creates an
Mother
December 30, 2010
film
One of the most interesting and surprising films that I saw in the past year was Bong Joon-ho’s Mother, which is a unique thriller that constantly
I Am Love
December 30, 2010
film
Tilda Swinton is stunningly beautiful and utterly captivating in the deliciously melodramatic I Am Love. In Luca Guadagnino’s film she is the fire
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
December 29, 2010
film
Ghosts aren’t attached to places, but to people.
My favourite film of the year and probably one of the decade would be Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Fish Tank
December 28, 2010
film
Andrea Arnold wrote and directed Fish Tank, which is about a 15-year-old young woman who is struggling to figure out who she is. Set in housing
The King’s Speech
December 20, 2010
film
In the modern world the idea of a monarch who has supreme power over people is a bit of an anachronism, but with the prospect of an upcoming royal
Winter’s Bone
December 19, 2010
film
I went to see Winter’s Bone not knowing anything about it and was quite amazed at the film. It’s a low-buget beautifully-shot drama set in the
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