just booked tickets to japan for 3 weeks. stoked.
jibber jabber 
a collection of run on sentences mostly about travel, fashion, technology, formula 1, design and anything else that this worker bee in the vancouver ad industry feels like rambling on about
euro homer
shit yeah. homer on a euro
animal planet
my parents live on the 22nd floor of an apartment building. apparently some pigeons decided that my mother’s balcony and her many plants would make a good place to lay their eggs. my mom was not happy at first but after the eggs hatched she was pretty excited.
the little guys aren’t nearly as cute as you would expect them to be. mostly because of their lack of feathers.
now the big question is where are they going to learn how to fly? 22 stories is a big first step!
life imitates art?
if you’ve been following the news at all you’ve likely heard about the US economy and its meltdown and the impending fear of rising inflation. we’re at 2% or so and headed towards 4% or something like that. think that’s bad? how about poor old zimbabwe. their inflation rate? 2 200 000% yup you read that right 2.2 million percent. obviously if you grocery shopping, $100 bills aren’t going to get you very far so the government has just introduced the hundred billion dollar note. that’s $100 000 000 000. that’s a lot of zeroes but it’ll only get you a couple of oranges. suddenly mr. burn’s trillion dollar bill makes a lot of sense.
a sign of the apocalypse?
i went out for dimsum with my parents this morning in the suburbs and saw something that made me throw up a little in my mouth. now normally i have a pretty good tolerance for disgusting things but this one was just to much. yet there it was sitting innocently out in the open on the somebody’s table…
a bejewelled iphone.
the top right corner and bottom left corner of the screen were adorned with about 10 little jewels in a triangle shape. you could see little bits of crusty face munge and old makeup stuck in the ridges. still gives me the shivers…
i wish i could have taken a picture of it but in retrospect its probably a good thing. i don’t want to ever think about it again.
wall-e
eeee heee heee heee…. (that’s me giggling like a little school girl)
went to see wall-e on saturday night. so good. i saw one of the first trailers for the movie i think almost a year or more ago now and i was instantly struck with how cute wall-e the robot was. as more and more trailers came out i became even more convinced at how great this movie was going to be. by the time the movie opened my expectations were sky high… and i was not let down.
not just a kids movie but just a great movie with amazing characters and a timeless love story. the animation is incredible. love the underlying conservation theme and the fat humans. go see it, you’ll love it.
being a mac fan i have to point out some little bits of trivia
- wall-e makes the mac startup sound after he’s been recharged
- eve’s neck has that same rotating bar pattern that you see when you first boot your mac
- eve’s design was partially by Jonathan Ive, the mac industrial designer
- the voice of Otto is the voice from the old Mac text-to-speech program
screw you Rogers
your iphone plans suck!
sign the petition
(geez…i’m turning into quite the little activist these days…)
damn lies and statistics
decided to check up on my site stats today because i’m bored. and i actually found out some interesting things. like:
- the #1 search term that brings people here? “magnetbox and sorny” my simpsons dorkiness has found usefullness on the interwebs
- about 70% of you peace out after one viewing. sorry i bore you. to the other 30%, thanks for caring. i can feel the love.
- a lot of you also seem to come from my girlfriend’s blog. guess you got a bit of a shock huh? you should tell her to put a warning on the link.
- and only one other person besides me is looking at my site via an iphone! wtf?!? get on the program man!
load off
been a bit of a stressball of late. multiple life things going on combined with some fairly intensive projects at work. one of which passed a big milestone yesterday. completed my first producer credit for a green screen shoot for a big web project i’m working on.
having only been on set before, i never realized all the logistical stuff that i had to organize this time around. ended up with 18 people on set only 4 of who were talent. needless to say, staying on budget was pretty tough. but now that its over its a big relief.
it turned out all really good though. the day started off a little rough. the first scene, the talent just couldn’t nail his lines even with the leeway to improv. ended up doing over 20 takes for the first scene and then 18 for the second scene. put us almost 2 hours behind schedule but somehow we managed to pull it together and get it done in time. so now into post-production. i’ll post the link once its live.