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The opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup is taking place right now, and it’s reminiscent of the large-scale ceremonies I remember from the Vancouver and Beijing games. The stadium is ginormous and hundreds of Africans, primarily women, are performing synchronized dancing as performers do songs blended together in medleys. I just saw the singer of [...] Can my site rank higher than Facebook and Yahoo? Yes, in the right circumstances, and with a terrifically crafted post on a specific subject. The Contact Photography Festival just passed and my blog’s Google rank was higher than EYE weekly magazine and both the Facebook page for the fest and a page in Yahoo Business. The [...] 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 [...] Mike and "Driver 8" magazine – Hot off the Press! Photo by Ian Robertson I’ve been involved with publishing and DIY enterprise for a long time— almost two decades! A colleague recently scanned some negatives and I thought I’d share a cool photo with you. This was my first apartment in Toronto, circa 1990, and a group [...] 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 [...] Ferris wheel in Chernobyl amusement park Yesterday, the Metro newspaper ran a column by Julie Dimon, the resident ‘Travel Junkie,’ about the infamous Chernobyl nuclear site in Ukraine. It’s a pretty odd place to travel and reading the article reminded me about my first exposure to Chernobyl (forgive the pun) about a year ago, via [...] Martin Wong and Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot magazine I have been a freak for magazines for a long, long time. My love for mags is varied: I’ve been a subscriber to high-brow magazines like Walrus and when I was in my twenties I couldn’t get enough of Big Brother (the skateboard magazine that also birthed crazy [...] Spacing magazine's 5th anniversary and biggest issue yet! In yesterday’s Metro newspaper there was an article on the crew that founded ‘Spacing,’ Toronto’s innovative public space magazine. Matthew Blackett and Dale Duncan are two of the founding editors and they are very deserving of all the praise and awards that have come Spacing’s way. As [...] |
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