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 [...]
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13Apr 10
Mark Sultan’s $ a treasure of sound
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.
7Apr 10
Southern Ontario video series from Southern Souls
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 [...]
22Feb 10
Meet Egyptrixx
http://www.myspace.com/africaforyou 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. [...]
3Feb 10
Interview: Basia Bulat
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 [...]
8Jan 10
Gather ’round, It’s Keith Hamilton!
Gather round everyone! It’s time to meet Keith Hamilton, leader of Toronto’s Rock and Roll choir Hamilton Trading Company and generally hard-working music. Armed with a guitar and his voice Keith is on average joined by 15-20 singing, clapping and stomping choir members who create the chorus and rhythm section for the original music. As [...]
23Dec 09
Set up timed changes on a website
If you need to change content on your website in the future, and are running your page on an Apache web server, you can use Apache if statements to set up timed deployments based on the server time. An example of how this can be handy is if you want to serve one include and [...]
14Dec 09
Dessine moi un objet > iPhone paper stand dock
Download and print the template PDF to do it yourself!
14Dec 09
Regular Expressions > Tools and Tips
Sometimes you are given a haystack and taxes with producing the needle. In programming language, this calls for Regular Expression! A Regular Expression works wonders if you know how to write them! Good news, looking for a match in a huge document can be as easy as knowing what you want to achieve and using [...]
26Nov 09
Interview @ Stephen Smart Presents: Scott Everingham
Whether you are an art lover, collector or simply a fan of walking down Queen West’s Gallery District, make sure to stop in this weekend to see in person the rich colours and textures of Scott’s work.