The Arcade Fire have made another entry into the history books. This time not for being the biggest Internationally recognized Canadian recording act since Celine Dion, but for making the most innovative music video since The Buggles launched MTV in 1981. Why is it so important? Because this music video is tailor-made for me.
Google announces the release of a direct competition to Skype’s web-to-phone service, Google Talk. with free calls to USA and Canada for the rest of 2010. Currently, when a call is made a charge of 10 cents appears next to your call history. My hope is that will be erased at the end of 2010, and I will no long be able to make calls until I have purchased credits to continue to make long distance calls at low rates.
I was migrating a website containing about 100 links to pdfs on one page. I didn’t have access to the old site’s ftp so I needed a utility to speed up the process, instead of right-clicking on each file and saving the link manually.
http://www.downthemall.net/
I found a link to this on a very handy utilities list [...]
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.
Osheen Harruthoonyan’s Nocturna Artificialia pays homage to the creative process. Each atmospheric print was created by spending up to 8 hours with a 4” x 5” exposed negative, treating them with an array of tools including paintbrushes, make-up remover pads, q-tips and dental tools. The intimacy of his fingerprints can be found in the chemical [...]
If you have any experience laying out websites in CSS, you know that browsers can be tricky and that layouts don’t always go as smoothly as you’re photoshop document dictates. I began working with grids a few years ago when I was involved in the Toronto SUN redesign. If you visit the site, you can [...]
The music could be playing during a make-out scene in some 1950’s teenager’s alternate reality. Falsetto harmonies bleed your heart and the electrified guitar tone that would make any parent fearful for their sons and daughters.
Director, editor and sound man Mitch Fillion makes brilliant and intimate music videos for Southern Ontario musicians. Each artist chooses a location for the video shoot. Keeping the camera close to the performers while framing interesting shots, the videos capture the musician’s personal elements that big-budget video shoots rarely can.
View the entire video series of [...]
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Egyptrixx’s bio says his music is “a shifting balance between melodic and dissonant, rapturous and antisocial.” Now magazine says it’s “dirty, sleazy bass-heavy club beats.” So I wondered, what the hell does that actually sound like? I checked out his new EP, Battle for North America, and had a quick chat to find out. Along [...]
Basia Bulat’s powerful voice and lively song writing can both inspire the imagination and heart rate of her listener. Her second full length Heart Of My Own was released on January 26th in Canada on Secret City Records with glowing accolades from critics and contemporaries complimenting her accomplishment. I caught up with her over a [...]