I'm 29-years old and live in Vancouver, BC.
I'm a Copywriter and Digital Strategist. My client history includes Vision Vancouver, Canadian Tourism Commission, Vancity, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Knorr Canada, CTV News, Greenpeace, BC Hydro, and BC Dairy.
I am currently working for TruthFool Communications. We provide unique full-scale creative & strategic services for social change.
I'm a musician with two EPs on Warp Records under the unfortunate moniker Babe Rainbow. I am currently the touring band for How To Dress Well.
I have been the Festival Director of an independent, week-long cultural festival and a day-long annual outdoor concert. But not so much anymore.
I was the Executive Producer of a Leo Award-nominated comedy web-series & compilation album.
I co-founded a website that highlights some of the shit Prime Minister Stephen Harper has done.
I helped produce, write, and act in a short comedy series for CTV's 2011 election coverage.
I recently started writing about Canadian politics for Vice Magazine. So you should probably Google that.
I hold a Bachelor of Communication from Simon Fraser University. Whatever. Anarchy!
I'm balding and consequently own a couple hats.
Weak Men Pay This Boxing Coach To Tell Them They Are Terrible (by ANIMALNewYork.com)
This is fucking incredible. This guy is a hero.
Brand new issue of Megaphone hit the streets this morning, with a two-part feature on the importance of the right to healthy food. Pick one up from your licensed vendor today! (Taken with instagram)
What effect is Hollywood’s “safe” approach having on audiences?
The longer you keep churning out this production-line crap, the more audiences are going to like it—and need it. There’s an element of security provided by re-makes and re-hashes. We’re at the stage where audiences just want to know that everything will be the same. Maybe it’s because the world has become so diffused and unclear that people just want to go back to what they know over and over again. People need to reassure themselves that Spider-Man can still do the things he’s always done.
“Kim Kardashian is emblematic of the shallowness of American culture in the first two decades of the new millennium. While some cultural critics call her the prime avatar of the “famous for being famous” faux celebrity crowd, she along with Paris Hilton is a new breed of cat whose celebrity comes from the release of a sex tape and the canny exploitation of the resulting publicity. Like her good friend Miss Hilton (their relationship predates Kim’s “celebrity”, Kardashian is possessed of photogenic good looks but is short of any other discernible talents outside of the bedroom. Both expanded their celebrity by becoming reality TV “stars”.
Porn pioneer Harry Reems has commented how surprised he is at how porn stars like Jenna Jameson are accepted now in mainstream culture. His life was ruined by his participation in porn in its “Golden Years”. As for Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, the release (accidental or not-so-accidental) of boudoir tapes didn’t result in shame but celebration. America like ancient Rome seems to have shuffled off the moral coil of virtue of the Republic and is now enjoying its Imperial self in an orgy of ignominy. It’s always more fun on the toboggan ride down the hill than it was schlepping up it in the first place.
The backlash against Kardashian has been ugly. Commenting on Kim and her family, the stars of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”, English actor Daniel Craig told “GQ” magazine, “You see that and you think, ‘What, you mean all I have to do is behave like a [expletive] idiot on television and then you’ll pay me millions?’”
_Madmen (2007)_ star ‘Jon Hamm’ was even more direct, saying in an “Elle” magazine interview, “Whether it’s Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated. ” He went on to say, “Being a [expletive] idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture. You’re rewarded significantly.”
In the wake of Kim and her family members signing a new four-year $40 million deal for their show, Jonah Hill joined in on the pile-up, saying that, “The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like ‘Mad Men’ is disgusting.”
In the decadence that is America of the $15-trillion deficit and no serious plans from either party for a solution to the economic problems of the “Great Recession”, Kim Kardashian is welcomed to her second White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. in 2012 and made fun of not only by host Jimmy Kimmel but by the President of the United States, Barack Obama, himself and laughs merrily at the merriment. That the women’s fame rests on the February 2007 “leaking” of a four-year-old home sex (for which she ultimately received $5 million from Vivid Entertainment) is an apt metaphor for socio-economic-cultural malaise in Washington and the country beyond, where everything seems to be run by amoral prostitutes in bed with each other and merely out for a buck.”
New 2012-13 NBC Comedies
It’s worth noting that most of the characters in these promo ads don’t look like their having a very good time. Which will likely mirror the reaction audiences will have watching them.