Temporarily Torontonian
I was sorry to hear this morning that Steve Jobs has died. I think he is a man who changed the world significantly, particularly in terms of how human beings and computers interact. Most of what has gotten better about computers since 1980 or so has been the ease and intuitiveness of using them, and [...]
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Yesterday, along with my father, brother Sasha, and friend Tristan I got to see Andrea Simms-Karp perform in a house concert along with Shawna Caspi and Jill Zmud. Andrea has an exciting new album coming out, and a new website to go with it.
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My brother Sasha has written and performed a rap song, along with his friend Matt. You can listen to it and download it on his blog.
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This has been a crazy evening. Everything I said before about the exceptional friendliness of NOLA deserves to be amplified. A chance encounter led to a long night of excellent free music at a place I would never have found on my own or through a guidebook. I am invited back to the same place [...]
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Not only is Apple’s iTunes application constantly crashing, stealing focus, or crashing my entire computer – it just erased all my podcasts and iTunes U files for no clear reason. This is especially maddening for someone who is careful to catalog their media well. Given that I was about to go on a long bus [...]
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Starting tomorrow, the Clay and Paper Theatre Company are performing their original show “The Pedaler’s Wager” in Dufferin Grove Park, Toronto. It sounds like quite a lively experience: This original comedy features puppetry, live music, and our very own CYCLOPS: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad. Each weekend audience members are invited to cycle from act to [...]
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Those in Toronto may appreciate knowing that my friend Rebecca is performing at Tranzac tonight at 10pm. She is promising to “play viola and sing songs to keep the bears away”. At 11pm, Lowlands is performing, featuring Doug Tielli, Tania Gill, Heather Segger and D Alex Meeks.
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I have finally processed some photos that had been too-long ignored: Andrea Simms-Karp in studio, working on her latest album My friend Tristan’s fundraiser for his trip to the Palestinian territories Now I can go get some new images – maybe some indoor portraiture, or still life stuff. Or some more ‘spring emerging from the [...]
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A friend took me to a concert yesterday, with Wilderness of Manitoba opening for Bastia Bulat. I am always nervous about asserting what musical genre something is, but both had distinctly folky elements. I would recommend giving both a listen, if you get the opportunity.
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I mentioned before how my friend Andrea Simms-Karp is producing a new album. This past weekend, I got some photos of her in the studio working on it.
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