Archive for the ‘Arts’ Category

MJ Cyr has a beautiful voice

November 24th, 2011 | Arts, Music | Comment »

From D: Nothing can you prepare you for this.

November 23rd, 2011 | Arts, Television | Comment »

Warriors of Goja performing on an India's Got Talent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2SUaoVy_iURelated posts: Marginally more talented than other artists Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, live on KEXP From my brother: Mos Def on Letterman Read more »

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Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, live on KEXP

November 1st, 2011 | Arts, Music | Comment »

Seattle hip-hop artist Macklemore, with producer Ryan Lewis, performing My Oh My, Wings, Otherside, and Irish Celebration, live in the KEXP studio back in February, 2011: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbZqDME1C24[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3pNEOSN04[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs3jDlrVZQY[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srp81vkFkEU[/youtube]Related posts: From my other brother: Black Eyed Peas – I’ve Got a Feeling (Live on Oprah) I think Macklemore is becoming one of my favourite artists I’m ... Read more »

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USA vs China, Men’s Basketball – Live blogging the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China

Well done, Noah.

October 19th, 2011 | Arts, Music Videos | Comment »

The music video for Newfoundland and Labrador band Hey Rosetta's Bandages, off their new album Seeds, directed by Halifax's Noah Pink, with cinematography by frequent collaborator Christopher Porter. Well done, fellas. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja_Hkk9j2nM[/youtube]Related posts: Bravo, Noah. Commuter and Scooter, a photo exhibit from Shehab Illyas I’ve just discovered Plan B (the band, not the…you know) Read more »

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Tarek Abouamin’s “18 Days” – an award-winning documentary about the Egypt uprising

October 5th, 2011 | Arts, Film | Comment »

Tarek Abouamin is an Egyptian-born director from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who is a part-time faculty member in the Media Arts program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Abouamin's newest film is a short documentary, 18 Days, that won the prestigious Rex Tasker Award at the recently-concluded Atlantic Film ... Read more »

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Charting the road to the Oscars

September 5th, 2011 | Arts, Film | Comment »

Well, it's Labour Day weekend so the summer's officially over and the good stuff's about to start trickling out, leading up to the inevitable platform releases later in the year that pave the way to February's Academy Awards. Here are the films I'm looking forward to over the rest of the ... Read more »

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I’m liking everything Macklemore is putting out right now

August 31st, 2011 | Arts, Music Videos | Comment »

This is his video for The Otherside Remix, directed by Jason Koenig, Ryan Lewis, and Mr. Macklemore himself, Ben Haggerty: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvDQy53eldY[/youtube]Related posts: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, live on KEXP I think Macklemore is becoming one of my favourite artists Sabzi’s remix of Macklemore’s The Town is 17 kinds of wonderful Read more »

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I think Macklemore is becoming one of my favourite artists

August 16th, 2011 | Arts, Music | Comment »

This is awesome. So great. Kind of reminds me of Kanye West's remix of Power. And it's way better, I think, than their last song, Wings. Seattle-based hip hop artists Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's Can't Hold Us, featuring Ray Dalton: Related posts: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, live on KEXP I’m liking everything Macklemore is ... Read more »

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Dear Bollywood, This looks awesome.

August 11th, 2011 | Arts, Movie Trailers | Comment »

The trailer for RA One, a Bollywood superhero film directed by Anubhav Sinha and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, and Arjun Rampal, that is the most expensive Bollywood film ever made with a production budget of 100 crore (approximately US $20 million): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqS5ncQxP_g[/youtube] It's tough to tell from this trailer whether ... Read more »

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From xkcd – Password Strength

August 10th, 2011 | Arts, Comedy | 1 Comment »

I'm not sure how technically accurate this is, but if it's even remotely on point, then it's totally worth sharing with all those companies that force you to add capital letters and numbers to your passwords when you're creating an account, no? No, you're right. We're all too lazy to find ... Read more »

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