Bulletin – Lazy Habits
I love this video because it has the hype of a British heist flick and because it was partially shot in Taiwan, where I spent a year teaching English in 2007. The vast rows of scooters were kind of a…
Innis & Gunn Winter Treacle Porter – Limited Edition
Happy Halloween and treacle for all! Treacle conjures up memories of my childhood in Paris where I went to an international school and was taught The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe by well meaning British English teachers. Treacle…
Wii U profile / interview with Nintendo Spokesman Matt Ryan
Last week I attended Nintendo’s Wii U Holiday Showcase event and sat down with their Canada spokesman, Matt Ryan, old acquaintance that some of you may know from his involvement with Destiny Productions. In case you don’t know, or have…
Lee Fields & The Expressions – live @ The Opera House, 5/10/2012
Lee Fields is a true veteran of Motown. Having made his first recording in 1969, he’s been chugging away ever since. After a brief hiatus in the 80s, he returned in the 90s and has not stopped. His current group…
AZARI & III: DANCE ACT ARE ‘CREEPY NIGHT PEOPLE’ WHO WANT TO BE DAVID CRONENBERG
Posted on Oct 25th 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship There was much-excitement awhile back amongst fans of fast-rising dance act Azari & Illwhen British paper The Sun announced the foursome would be opening Madonna‘s MDNA world tour. Unfortunately, that wasn’t exactly the case. Madonna…
Five Things We Learned at Ray Kurzweil’s Immortality Lecture – Feat. in THE GRID
Smug, nerdy, and in full I-told-ya-so form, inventor Ray Kurzweil expounded to an audience of hipsters, futurists, and mad scientists at the Danforth Music Hall last Thursday night. Kurzweil talked about the future of artificial intelligence and a few topics…
Zombie Walk Toronto 2012
BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAAAIIIIIIIINS! The Toronto Zombie Walk 2012 was a drizzly, misty affair with many sfx nerds bemoaning their melting spirit glue and corn syrup blood. But patches of dry gray with bits of sunshine came through later in the…
Sapient Announces SLUMP – New Album Feb 2013
A little bit of a shameless plug here. No, I’m not working directly with the Sapient, the artist, but I was hired to write the press release for his new album, SLUMP, thanks to GoLightly Media. It’s actually a…
Forza Horizon comes to the streets of Toronto
Forza Horizon picks up, in a way, where Forza 4 left off, at least graphically speaking. While previous iterations of the series have been simulator focused, Horizon is actually an arcade-styled game with the high end car collector in mind….
Flying Lotus @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, Oct 13
With the release of his new album, ‘Until The Quiet Comes’, Flying Lotus is reaching new highs in his spiritual vehicle, vimana, merkaba, or just plain old cosmic chahttps://shipwrckd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/woman-traveling-in-france-2023-11-27-05-16-47-utc_Easy-Resize.com_.jpgt, I guess you could say. Inundating our eardrums with a mix…