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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 [...] 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 [...] Wow. It’s been quite a week for arts and entertainment in the city. The HotDocs Documentary Film Festival opening and Contact Photography Festival mark the beginning of the many arts-focused festivals which take centre-stage during summer months. Venerable website Torontoist has a story and photographs of the founders of a new repertory theatre which will [...] Click image to view larger version. This is two images layered in Photoshop – taken on Carlton St just west of College and Yonge, downtown Toronto. Taken with Motorola cellphone. View more of my photos! 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 [...] 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 [...] "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 [...] Click to open larger version This is a design based on stills I’m working with from a “city – streets” themed video I’m making called “Step Forward.” The dancer in this scene is Andy Wye. I want to composite him at various sizes dancing across a primitive cave background with prehistoric art. [...] An interesting series is starting tonight on TVO. Here’s a description from their website: “The written word: in prehistoric times, it took the form of drawings in caves. Today it speeds past on the screens of our electronic devices at the touch of a finger. How did the simple act of reading come to be? [...] |
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 working on a hybrid music and video project called "City Symphony" and teaching at George Brown College. Check out Strong+Free for his Design and Media work. Contact him: mike @ strongandfree.ca 
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