I am a huge proponent of the multiculture. It informs my design and my world outlook. I also teach English and through my teaching have met students from literally every corner of the globe. In my artistic life, as Mikooshka (my musical alter-ego), I craft music which crosses over from genres like reggae, rock and [...]
This movie looks like a “must see.” The director, Kevin McMahon has directed some amazing documentaries, including one of my favorites, “McLuhan’s Wake” – a doc on the Canadian media communications theorist Marshall McLuhan.
Green Screens presents WATERLIFE
Directed by Kevin McMahon, 2009, 109 minutes.
Tuesday June 1 at 7pm
FREE
NFB Cinema – 150 John St (at Richmond St [...]
The annual Contact Photography Festival is taking place through the month of May. Unlike the other famous Toronto festivals, including HotDocs and TIFF, this one is completely free – so there are no excuses – check some stuff out!
This year’s theme is “Pervasive Influence: Exploring the social and political consequences of the medium of photography, [...]
Located at John and Richmond St. in downtown Toronto, the National Film Board’s Mediatheque centre is an inspiring place. You can check out all kinds of short films, animations and documentaries. Once I took a group of students there for a field trip. The presenter was amazing – it was one of my favorite all-time [...]
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This is two images layered in Photoshop – taken on Carlton St just west of College and Yonge, downtown Toronto.
Taken with Motorola cellphone.
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Toronto author and publisher Michael Redhill
Michael Redhill is a Toronto-based author and publisher. He has taught at the University of Toronto, where he is also presently the “Writer in Residence.” A few years ago, I was fortunate to have him as my instructor for a Creative Writing (Poetry) course. He has written a number [...]
Yesterday I was walking along “West Queen St. West”, the hipper cousin to the commercial strip known as Queen West, and I came across a funky furniture store with some real Canadian flavour and heavy style going on (hence the name “Style Garage” I guess!). Style Garage has been at the corner of Queen and [...]
The branding and identity work for the Olympics features some stunning illustration. Kudos to the Vancouver Olympic committee!
Today I fired up Google Chrome and saw the Olympic graphic (or “doodle”) Google created for their homepage. (It’s pictured at the end of this article). The image is subtle and appealing. It doesn’t even use the [...]
"World's Tallest" Illustration by Strongandfree.ca
From our old building we could see, through a sliver of highrises, Toronto’s downtown and the CN Tower. Now we look west to the green canopy of the west end and if we peer south from the balcony edge we have a view of the immensity of High Park, [...]
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About Mike Mike Simpson is a teacher, writer, musician and designer from Toronto, Canada. He is a new media enthusiast and has been "strongandfree" since 1996.
Mike is studying Graphic Design, developing websites and multimedia, and leading training workshops on weekends.
Please contact him at this address:
mike | strongandfree.ca
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