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• Thursday, May 24, 2012

  Comedy Bang! Bang!  ||  Comedy Bang Bang is my absolute favourite podcast. If you’re not listening to it, subscribe to it right now. If you don’t listen to podcasts, start listening to podcasts and subscribe to this one right now. Every Monday you’ll get over an hour of mostly improvised conversation between host Scott Aukerman and some of the biggest names in comedy; you’ll be on the ground, screeching with laughter in no time. Comedy Bang! Bang! is now about to become a TV show on IFC, and I cannot wait for its premier next month. Luckily for us, there is a full episode available online right now! It features Amy Poehler and David Koechner and Andy Daly and other funny humans. Click!

• Friday, May 18, 2012

  

  New records and old records

• Sunday, May 6, 2012

  I think I might need to get myself a Kinect camera. One is used here to read the topography of a sandbox and project onto it corresponding contour lines. There’s simulated water too! Neat.

• Monday, April 30, 2012

  Last weekend, my friends and I headed down to Edmonton’s lovely Garneau Theatre to watch the newest installment of the Found Footage Festival. I’ve been wanting to see these guys and their videos for years, and they finally brought their tour to Edmonton. It was hilarious. If you don’t know what they do, check them out! One of the last videos they showed wasn’t “found footage”, but it was absolutely genius. Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser is a yo-yo expert who visits schools and uses his unique skills to teach children about the environment. He visited a few TV stations to promote himself, but the interviews never go very smoothly. It turns out Kenny is actually Mark Proksch, a friend of the Found Footage Festival curators. The K-Strass appearances are part of an elaborate prank, and Mark just happens to be a brilliant comic actor who is great at keeping a straight face. There are a few more great videos to be found online, and there’s one here that gives some behind-the-scene information. I love it.

• Saturday, April 14, 2012

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  Jim Guthrie  Time Is A Force  ||  Time is a force, Jim! It has sure been moving quickly in the last few weeks. I got my Iron Ring, I’ve finished up classes, and now I’m about to begin studying for the last final exams of my degree. I have a 40-day trip through Russia and Scandinavia planned for the summer. And if that wasn’t enough, I just found out that I’ll be moving to Toronto in the fall to start pursuing a Master of Design degree at OCAD University. It’s going to be an exciting year!

• Sunday, April 1, 2012

  

• Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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  Feist  Let It Die  ||  Alright, I’ve had this song stuck in my head all day. I am now unleashing it upon the internet. Be gone, earworm! In other news, I only have 16 days of lectures left. And then I have to write 4 exams. After that, I will be done my degree. Bananas.

• Friday, March 9, 2012

  

  My kind of Friday night