Forget the Treasures of Afghanistan – the Treasures of Natasha’s Sock Drawer are quite impressive. While putting away some laundry last night I ran across a mysterious wire at the back of the drawer, which turned out to be connected to a digital camera we thought we’d lost in the move, as well [...]

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The frost was just extra-pretty the other morning, so I guess I had no choice but to break my latest picture-taking drought and get down to business.

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I took our friends visiting from Winnipeg out to the Museum of Civilization in Hull on Friday, and while the normal museum was pretty great (especially the Canada Hall), the special exhibit about Afghanistan was really incredible. Apparently the display was made possible due to the quick thinking on the part of Afghan museum curators [...]

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A few films we’ve had the opportunity to check out lately:
ZombieLand :  Superfantastic – Probably the best time I’ve had in a movie theatre in a long time, this ultra-violent action comedy was hysterically funny and totally enjoyable from beginning to end. Bonus points to the incredible opening credits with the slow-mo metal-music filmwork of [...]

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Natasha and I took some friends along on Saturday to see “The Children’s Republic” at the Great Canadian Theatre Centre, which was fantastic. It was deeply moving! The story revolves around Dr. Janusz Korczak, a polish pediatrician who founds an orphanage in order to provide emotional and intellectual healing beyond the basics he’s able to [...]

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I don’t get out to the Galeries D’Aylmer Mall very often any more, but my recent visits have been a little disappointing – I don’t know if it’s the rent or the location or what, but like a lot of malls lately they seem to have a pretty hard time courting upscale retailers despite being [...]

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I was watching an interesting texturing tutorial the other day that reminded me that my image library was pretty much out-of-date. With the incredible leaps and bounds that digital cameras are experiencing, there’s a whole world of interesting high-res images out there that would be handy for colour and texture sampling. I did a bunch [...]

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