Sur la pont d’Avignon OR this is the song that never ends

June 16, 2011

So…it’s been a while since my last post, hasn’t it? I’m working on a bunch of secret side projects and just trying to find that right level of balance. Also, this weather has just been too depressing. Thinking back on the glorious sunshine of the south of France really just makes me want to pack [...]

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TEDxHalifax + TEDxNovaScotia

June 2, 2011

(Floating, well-bearded Ben Caplan FTW!) Next Friday I’m taking part in TEDxHalifax at the NSCC Waterfront Campus. There will also be a TED event simultaneously taking place at Acadia University in Wolfville–TEDxNovaScotia. This is my first TED event, so I’m pretty excited. Live speakers from across Nova Scotia and beyond will share exciting ideas, interspersed [...]

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Diefenbunker Art

May 25, 2011

As promised, here are a few photos and videos from my trip to the Diefenbunker. I must say, even for someone who loves horror movies, this was a wee bit spooky. Dark hallways with peeling paint, the smell of oil, names scrawled hastily on doorways, and an abandoned bicycle all made it pretty darn creepy. [...]

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Tribute to Kate Carmichael

May 22, 2011

Sometimes, I get to work on cool projects outside of my day job. Recently, my good friends at Firefly Digital Media asked me to write a script for the Downtown Halifax Business Commission (where I was a co-op student for two semesters while going to PR school at MSVU). The result was this animated video [...]

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Le Thor

May 17, 2011

If you’ve come here because of a web search on the movie Thor: sorry to disappoint but this is a post about a town in the south of France of the same name. And big apologies to readers who were expecting vacation recap posts last week. Work + cold = not feelin’ it. Anyone living [...]

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Art Installations at the Dataville Bunker

May 17, 2011

On Saturday, May 21st, I’m taking a wee roadtrip out to Debert to see a unique art installation and run around an underground bomb shelter. A good use of my Saturday. An art show in a Diefenbunker is a pretty novel idea. Diefenbunkers are nuclear fallout bunkers built by the Government of Canada at the height [...]

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Paris, je t’aime

May 6, 2011

As promised, here begins the recap of my fabulous vacation in the South of France. Before we get there though… Cokebaby and I took a direct flight to London because when you live in Halifax you’re limited in your flight choices to Europe unless you want to backtrack to Toronto/Montreal/New York and lose an additional [...]

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Provence 2.0

May 2, 2011

Did you notice my absence from the web these past two weeks? Yeah, so, I was on vacation. Cokebaby and I spent two weeks in the south of France. It’s by far my fave vacation destination. This time, we took the Chunnel to Paris from London en route to Avignon. We then spent a week [...]

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Go see this movie.

April 27, 2011

Tonight at Park Lane a local feature is screening. Nothing too out of the ordinary, except this movie took five years to make and almost claimed the life of its director. Check out this quote from The Coast: Take the plane scene. Grady took a camera into the skies on a rickety old plane owned [...]

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Pixies Pixies Pixies

April 10, 2011

Yesterday I got to see a band I’ve liked since junior high, and unlike most of the bands I liked then, they were, and are, amazing. I showed up a half-hour before the doors opened at the Metro Centre and managed to get a front-row spot. I was a little worried I’d get too jostled [...]

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