Hannah Minzloff’s camera looks like a robot. The Russian-made LOMO Horizon is smooth and bulky, with a convex viewfinder on top that looks like the Honda robot ASIMO’s head. The panoramic camera has shot over 400 black-and-white images of subways and their travellers in Toronto, Montreal, London, Paris, Munich and Barcelona. Twenty of those images […]
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The Daft Punk Tribute w/Scientists of Sound
Fans of the TV show Clone High remember the character JFK’s dig at lame, lazy hip-hop: “What if we take a ‘sample’ of a song that already exists, and then you rap over that ‘sample.’ I call it ‘song-taking!’” It was funny and all, and then Kanye West did it for real. So for ill-taught […]
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Black Keys to the city
The Black Keys aren’t necessarily black keys themselves—just the offspring of them. An often-quoted story about the origin of the rock duo’s name is that the moniker came from a guy in the Keys’ hometown of Akron, Ohio—a schizophrenic artist who used the term “black keys” to describe people he thought weren’t right (not unlike […]
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Mud Festival in South Korea
At the Lotus Lantern Festival in Seoul, with a twilight parade of 10,000 paper lanterns making its way down the old temple streets, go figure I would randomly run into a guy I rode the bus with in high school. There are only about 10 million people in South Korea’s capital city after all. He […]
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Skateboard city
For people looking to start skateboarding this summer, or to just dust off their old deck, Halifax is the place to be in the Maritime skateboarding scene. The recently renovated Halifax Common Skatepark is the de facto place in the city to skate. “The city threw down, they built it, and it’s a great addition […]
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Toca Loca and the P*P Project
Imagine minimalist composer Steve Reich with his hand in a blender. If you don’t know what Steve Reich looks like, just picture pretty much any composer with their hand in a blender. Now imagine that as music. That’s how Toca Loca pianist and conductor Gregory Oh describes a particularly challenging piece he and bandmates Simon […]
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NS Funded Short-film, The Motorcycle Succeeds
When I first met Tarek Abouamin, he was filming a man throwing a sink through the roof of a $100 Lincoln in the back lot of a KOD near the Macdonald Bridge. That was 2002. I was a journalism student and he was director of photography on a film called Mr. Pirc. Five years later, […]