Pillars: A Play in the FLoYD Youth Theatre Festival

Pillars: A Play in the FLoYD Youth Theatre Festival

A while back I announced that I would be directing a play called Pillars in the FLoYD Youth Theatre Festival. Well, the show goes live this coming week on Thursday and Friday. Here is a synopsis for Pillars: Humans have often seen themselves as being the top species. Often they take things for granted. So much so that aliens that have been  monitoring humanity...

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Song of the Week #3

Song of the Week #3

I’m starting to get consistent with these, woohoo! Deserving? – Serj Tankian   Serj Tankian started out as the lead singer of System of a Down. He then took a break to do some solo work under his own name while some of the others did work with the band Scars on Broadway. “Deserving” is on the latest album from Serj Tankian. This new...

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Song of the Week #2

Song of the Week #2

Time for another Song of the Week! Forces of Victory – Gogol Bordello Gogol Bordello is a band from New York who fall into a Gypsy Punk genre. When I first heard of them, I had no idea who they were or what they played. I finally heard them at a friend’s house and immediately recognized the Ukrainian influence in their music. I also just found out...

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Song of the Week #1

Song of the Week #1

Decided to try something new in my blog – a favourite song of the week. First one up is back from my elementary school days… Creepy Crawling – Chumbawamba For those who haven’t heard of Chumbawamba before, they are an English band that started in 1982. Their album Tubthumper was released in 1997 and sent them mainstream, primarily with...

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Challenge Accepted: Directing a Play

Challenge Accepted: Directing a Play

My sister and her husband have been involved with a youth drama festival for 5 years now and I have been there supporting them. My support has basically been coming out to their shows and fundraising events. Recently I have also been acting as videographer and webmaster for the group known as FLoYD Fest (website). At the end of the last FLoYD Fest in the summer...

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The Travelling SMB Wallpaper

The Travelling SMB Wallpaper

In 2009 I worked at Research In Motion (RIM; aka “the BlackBerry people”) on an engineering internship. I had a desk job that had me sitting in a cubicle for the majority of my work. To personalize it a bit and reduce the grey monotony that was the fabric surrounding me on three sides, I decorated. It started simply with a bamboo plant, which I...

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