How was YOUR weekend?

Hello Friendlies.

Another successful weekend in the bag. 

I cannot say enough amazing things about I Heart Video Art on friday night. It was an awesome night filled with some of the cities most creative people. Delicious food from Bryan at Art|Bar, drinks from Brick Brewery, and super fabulous amazeballs video complied by Rob Ring.

Luckily for you, we put together a mass array of video clips that are being pieced together for our first ever VIDEO BLOG. Hurray!

Followed that up with a star trek themed party FTW.

Did anyone else pick up a NOS energy drink? Infomercial by Marc Cameron to come.

Last night I checked out Vacuity and  The Sauce at a place I like to call Memory Lane. Known to others apparently as "The Lancastle". 

Anyways. Busy week ahead as usual! 

God that poster always makes my day. Look at it!

Great things in the works. Good job KW.

Tell me about your weekend!

Small Rant

It takes approximately 12 million barrels of oil to make the 100 billion plastic bags Americans use annually. Worldwatch Institute

Dear people at the grocery store:

Maybe you don't need to bag your apples seperate from your oranges and your bananas. And your grapes that are already in a bag, don't really need another bag. It's not just the plastic at checkout that you need to refuse.

Typography Study

Ok, so the credits at the beginning are a bit long, but will make you super jealous. This woman has mad handtype skills!!! Flawless!  I almost failed first year because my typography "ate too many  donuts" according to the most ancient college prof in history. I could never make the letters thin enough. And then I'd smear graphite all over my illustration board. But hey, Pobody's Nerfect.

I don't know. It seems like the 4 year old is trying to add a serif to every letter to match his mom. 

Either this little boy is going to be very confused at school or he's going to have the girls swooning once he passes out some Valentines come February. All those flourishes and curves. Come on! Anyways - I am jealous. And would never email anyone if my writing was like this. I would handwrite EVERYTHING. Even client invoices. 

Temptation Island

Hahahaha did any of you ever watch that incestuous reality tv show a few years back? Or am I the only loser here? Yeah that's what I figured...

Anyways- That's not what I'm talking about. 

I'm sure you know it's $2 Tuesdays at Silver Spoon.

Lemon Sorbet pour moi and Chocolate for MC.

A good 5pm snack to push us through while planning an entire YEAR OF MARKETING for a client. 

One suggestion Silver Spoon....$2 should be for a cone OR a cup, not just a cup. 

ps: lemon sorbet - v. good but SUPER sour. beware. 

Back At It.

Dear WorldWide Web.

I hope your weekend was fantastic. Maybe later Marc will give you an update on his - I know he saw Extract, the new Mike Judge film at the Princess. I spent the majority of the weekend a couple hours north of here, on the beach and with some of the worlds best friends.  

A sunburn, an arrest and a lot of skids later (don't ask), I am back at my desk ready to conquer the world. 

Or at least the week. 

I just wanted to quickly make a note about something that's happening this Friday. As CAFKA gears up for it's September 18th launch, this friday is an event in conjunction called I Heart Video Art. I will be there working the door and Marc will be drink...errr schmoozing his way around. Working the room, you know?

Here's an official blurb:

Some people think that video art is like Buckley's Cough Mixture - they don't like the taste but they watch it anyway because they think it's good for them.  We beg to differ.  CAFKA’s Artistic Director Rob Ring is serving up some tasty video libations guaranteed to fill your heart with gladness.  This will be a multi-screen extravaganza not to be missed.  This is a licensed event & may contain content that is not suitable for children.

Admission: $25

CAFKA Members and Students $20

More information here.

Wanna Test your Stress?

So.

Downtown Kitchener has a church right on King St. Well... sort of. It's a Church of Scientology, which isn't a church in the strictest sense. Today they, the Scientologists, have a table out in front of their storefront dressed with books and (wait for it)....

...an e-meter.

That's right kids, they're auditing right on the street. Grass roots style.

Now, a lot of people say a lot of things about Scientology. I frankly don't think it's much kookier than most organized religions (if you're a person of faith, that's awesome, but I expect you don't subscribe to every religious view or every creation story out there, probably because you recognize that they can't all be true). It's pretty easy to find a youtube video slamming the "belief system" that is the basis of Scientology, so here's one that's not:

A Fave.