April 2012
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FANCOUVER! A review of FanExpo.
Vancouver finally had it’s first major comic-con this past weekend! FanExpo has organized the Mecca of Canadian comic-cons in Toronto for 18 years. Before coming to Vancouver this year, comic conventions in Vancouver were usually nothing more than glorified comic book swap meets in community halls or hotel basements.
Creation Entertainment did put on Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Gallactica,...
February 2012
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Tour de Nerdfighting 2012
The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 show in Vancouver was awesome. When John and Hank Green and fellow Nerdfighters gather what else could it be, but awesome? The sold out audience sitting in the Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC was already excited and raucous before Hank the Sock took the stage to thank everyone for coming and congratulate everyone on “being Canadian”. He then explained that...
April 2011
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A coalition government in Canada? Oh the horror!
If see, hear or read someone use the word coalition in conjunction with controversy or illegal one more time … I may just hurl. According to the constitution of Canada, multi-party coalition governments are both democratic and legitimate. It’s how the system works people - no matter what Harper may tell you.
This is not a endorsement for or against a coalition government. It just...
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How many countries have you traveled to?
3, but 2 of them are really, really big. :P
Ask me anything
March 2011
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Extremely insensitive comment on Japan quake via... →
motherjones:
“The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that” so says CNBC’s Larry Kudlow of the Japan earthquake. If you listen closely at the end, you can hear his co-anchor add, “This is good news for the US economy.”
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facebook and art censorship.
If your a fan of comic book art you’re probably aware of J. Scott Campbell already. If you’re not, then go check out his dA gallery! Do it right now - then come back and read this. As I write this he is doing a “Too Hot for Facebook” event. Why you ask? Because his amazing art is being flagged as inappropriate and banned from facebook. His art is available for purchase...
January 2011
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My thoughts on the NHL Guardian Project.
I must admit, when I heard that the legendary Stan Lee of Marvel Comics fame was going to be creating a superhero for all 30 NHL teams, I was pretty excited. I grew up reading comics, I still have rather large Spider-Man collection under my bed collecting dust (and value I hope). When you attach Stan Lee’s name to something, you automatically expect nothing but the best. You expect amazing....
December 2010
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tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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What exactly do you do for a living?
Currently I am an artist, graphic designer, character designer, concept artist, illustrator and cartoonist. Exactly.
Ask me anything
November 2010
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I choose to Remember ...
I choose to Remember men like my Grandfather, who selflessly gave up 6 years in the prime of their lives, faced death and lived in squalor, so that we may have a better today. He was, and in an inspiration to me. I choose to Remember the more than 100,000+ of those brave men who never made it home alive. Generations of Canadian lost, many of them known only to God. May their names live on forever...
August 2010
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If life were more like Star Trek.
I wish life was more like Star Trek. At the end of every day all your problems would be solved, wrapped up in a nice neat package.
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells”
– Dr. Seuss
July 2010
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Wilfred Laurier on Canadian Citizenship.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes a Canadian and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet a Canadian,...
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“Erasers aren’t for people who make errors, but for people who are willing...”
– Unknown
June 2010
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“Ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short.”
– Unknown.
May 2010
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A lesson in everyday art at the MOA.
I visited the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia this past weekend. Despite it’s location very near my residence, it was my first visit to this Vancouver jewel. If you appreciate anthropology, history and/or art, I highly recommend it. While it has exhibits from around the globe, the museum’s primary focus is on British Columbian and Canadian First...
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Summers Would Never Be The Same ...
Do you remember the dawn of the Super Soaker water gun? I sure do. It was the summer of 1990, and friends and I had gathered in the Cul-De-Sac for another water fight. We had the usual arsenal of hydro-weapons: the traditional squirt gun, buckets, water balloons and the garden hose. Our screams and laughter must have attracted some boys from just down the street, and they came running. Their...
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“An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a...”
– Vincent Van Gogh
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“Art is Man’s nature. Nature is God’s art.”
– James Bailey
April 2010
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Amazing Website!
This is one of the coolest websites on the internet today! How to be a Retronaut features stunning photography and video from years past, even colour photography from the 1800s! Absolutely breath-taking stuff. If you appreciate photography, film and history or even if you just like taking a trip back through time - this is the place to be! http://www.howtobearetronaut.com Here are a couple of my...
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Can Video Games Ever Be Art?
Can Video Games Ever Be Art? If you ask famed movie critic Roger Ebert, the answer is a resounding no. Why not? Let’s take a moment to critique the critic’s latest blog.
Ebert argues “No one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great poets, filmmakers, novelists and poets. To which I could have added painters, composers, and so on, but my...
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“The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only...”
– Banksy
March 2010
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The 3rd Dimension? The future, or just a passing...
“OMG Avatar!” is a quote that could adequately sum up the hype surrounding James Cameron’s latest blockbuster from its’ release to Oscar night. I love Avatar, it was a captivating, magical thrill ride. It was the first 3D film that I wanted to see again, partly because my eyes didn’t hurt by the end of it. I was even reported that some people suffered from depression after returning to the real...
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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
– Pablo Picasso
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Own the Podium a HUGE Success!
Before the 2010 Winter Olympic Games were even over the Canadian Olympic Committee declared that the “Own the Podium” program would fall short. I think their view was far too narrow-minded. “Own the Podium” was a HUGE success! Not only did Canada finish a strong 3rd in the medal standings, we went from the only host nation to never win a gold medal to the nation with the most gold medals at a...
February 2010
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Jacques Rogge is full of crap.
Jacques Rogge, the esteemed president of the International Olympic Committee, is full of it. When I refer to “it” I of course mean crap, not to mention arrogance, snobbery, hypocrisy and chauvinism. The man could not come off as a bigger stiff if he were dead. He sits in his ivory tower, looking down on the world through Eurocentric glasses as he criticizes the athletes who make the IOC and...
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Awesome video essay - What these games mean to... →
The Globe and Mail’s Stephen Brunt on what the 2010 Winter Olympic Games mean to Canada, and how they may have redefined what it means to be Canadian.
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“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
– James Whistler
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Vancouver is Awesome!
I love being a tourist in my home town in such beautiful weather! Russia House, Robson Street, A Peter Forsberg sighting, Canada beats Switzerland in hockey, ice skating at Robson square, Ignite the Dream fireworks & lazer show, Olympic cauldron, street hockey on Granville street, Live City Yaletown fireworks, people spontaneously singing I Believe and Slovakia defeating Russia in men’s...
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“Leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.”
– Banksy
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The art of the bad movie.
Over the course of my life I’ve watched a lot of bad movies, and I do mean a lot. Especially lately, it seems to be a phase (or craze) my friends and I are going through - if phases can this long.
Why would one choose to watch so many seemingly bad movies, one may ask? Because they can be terribly entertaining. There’s definitely an art form to making a good-bad movie. First, I must mention...
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“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
– Salvador Dali
January 2010
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“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
– Baslo
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The day the laughter died.
I met a girl who sang the blues And I asked her for some happy news, But she just smiled and turned away. I went down to the sacred store Where I’d heard the laughter years before, But the man there said the laughter wouldn’t play. And in the streets: the children screamed, The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed. But not a word was spoken; The church bells all were broken. ...
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“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang...”
– Henry Van Dyke
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O National Lampoon, where art thou?
I’ve had a lot of free time lately, so I’ve had some time to watch more movies than usual. Films such as: Animal House, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Christmas Vacation and Loaded Weapon. Those movies are true comedy classics. However, if you have taken a trip to your local video store lately? If you have, and no doubt you’ve seen the garbage being marketed under the good name National...
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
– Edgar Degas
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Review: Star Trek (TOS) Remastered
I am a huge science fiction fan, especially Star Trek. However, I’ve never been able to get into the original and iconic 1960s Star Trek. I could not get passed how awful it looked. I loved The Next Generation (87-94), Deep Space Nine (93-99), Voyager (95-01) and even enjoyed Enterprise (01-05) - but not the Original Series, that is until now.
I picked up the remastered version of TOS...
December 2009
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“The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that...”
– Eugène Delacroix
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“It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes,...”
– Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
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“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his...”
– Amy Lowell
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Hardened hearts and a decade lost. →
An interesting and emotional lament by the CBC’s Neil MacDonald as he looks back on the past decade in middle east relations. “Our hearts and minds are much harder than they were on New Year’s Eve, 1999.”
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