Marching along...

March was a re-birth of sorts. Got a lot of reading done, skied on wobbly spring legs, have been re-inspired, enjoyed the most serendipitous email exchange and spent four days in a beautiful setting in good company to blow out some candles...

Here's what was going on otherwise:

[Geek Chic]
The Book Cover Archive

[Creatively speaking]
Tribal Fusion - it is one of the hardest things I've ever asked my body to do...example here [via you tube]

[Scene sur 5]
Rachel Getting Married [5]

[mediums]
The Simpsons spoof Adidas' "Celebrate Originality" house party

[inbox]
Know your Mushrooms - playing at Cinema du Parc this week

[Twittered]
Ikea car countdown (FR)
Happy Birthday to Montreal's Laika bar

Spring things

[Geek Chic]
Remember fixies? What's old is new again.

[Creatively speaking]
Open Design - Ronan Kadushin. A week after seeing "rip: a manifesto" and more discussion around the creative commons licence, happened upon this fella who designs furniture and encourages you to do it to.

Some pics here [via flickr]

[Scene sur 5]
synecdoche new york [3]
frailty** [5]
Zack and Miri make a porno [1]

**on the list of "100 movies you've never seen"

[media]
twofour54.com - "an integrated, state-of-the-art environment that supports and inspires media content creators to flourish in the Middle East and North Africa."

[inbox]
Land of Kush - playing at Sala Rossa this week

University of the Streets:latest discussions.

[Twittered]
http://twitter.com/nf_interactive

Where's my tempest?

Was hoping March would be full of snowstorms for spring skiing but warm temps are putting a damper on it. So, off we go in search of other distractions:

[Geek Chic]
Jane Walkers wanted

[Creatively speaking]
Our Daily Bread - "Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s latest documentary, Our Daily Bread, illustrates grimly in about an hour and a half how all food, crops and animals, raised in the industrial agricultural system qualify as Frankenfoods..."

[cv: this film was timely as I'm also reading Ways of Seeing - essays on perception and objectivity.]

[Heard]
Raphael Saadiq - this Tuesday at Cabaret.

[Scene]
How to lose friends and alienate people - despite a weak cast, Simon Pegg makes this a fun watch.

rip: a manifesto a fantastic and interactive doc that will give you many things including a crash course in copyright 101. Visit the site for info and the opportunity to make your mashup. The filmmaker is present for each screening running a q&a and table of promotional material including a usb with the film. brilliant.

[Ca m'interesse]
FIFA

Slave to the rythm

Last my cell phone died. Little did I know it would unleash a chain of chaos and update my own understanding of how people [no longer] communicate.

the loss begged the following:

= do you write notes anymore?
= do you wait for a late or possible no-show?
= pay phones are .50 [fyi, had no idea]
= do you use your doorbell or just ask people to ring/text

New phone is now in hand but part of me will miss the 'challenge'...

Bon weekend!

sounds
Under the Snow - indy music fest on now

sites
keeping it clean: Curb advertising [via you tube]