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]

So, what's next?

All over the map these days - using the the corporate/economic mess to stimulate and evolve my way of thinking/doing/living. I accept full responsibility as an [over]consumer for today's economic climate. I know that buying goods from far away places isn't good for our economy, but I still do it and pay the price in so many ways.

So what better time to hear about Montréal Urban Community Sustainment check it out. They have many programs and just launched a dinner program where people can cook / eat together.

or, what about "coworking" at Station C [french]

Just a few ways share consumption and rethink how isolated we've become...

One Liners

During the warm snap in the last week, got the chance to run around enjoying the "mild" temps of -15....ah february!

[Geek Chic]
Support canadian publishers and get something useful in your mailbox, buy 2 get 1 free on Canadian magazines.

[Creatively speaking]
Claude Tousignant - nothing like monochramatic exploration in the bleak of winter.

[Heard]
A great night of quirky pop belted out by the wee Lykke Li at Club Soda.

[Pages]
Restless - William Boyd
Ways of Seeing - John Berger

[Yum!]
Ate at Magdala/Mekdala Ethiopian Resto Lounge last week, a wonderful meal, some comments on Chowhound here.

[Ca m'interesse]
Mas - new restaurant on Wellington

Loco Lunes

[Creatively speaking]

This is brilliant in it's simplicity, won a CASSIE award (2008). Cassies winners were judged on the basis of convincing proof that top business results were substantially caused by the advertising.

Don't re-invent the wheel, turn it.





[Geek Chic]
Nomad Station - media café, adding to my 101 reasons [daily] i love this city.

[Passages]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an award-winning novel by the late Swedish author and social conscience journalist Stieg Larsson...more

[Scene]
Gran Torino - a fairly typical story à la Clint Eastwood, really not sure why this is Oscar worthy but worth a rental if the movie you really wanted to see isn't in :-)

Burn after reading - finally got around to see this, as a Cohen fan I appreciate it but not one of their strongest.

[C'a m'interesse - inbox]
Riz en folie
Entre les murs
Voix des Amerique