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My Highly Subjective Osheaga 2014 Playlist

I'm blowing the dust off this blog a year later to make yet another Osheaga related post about the tunes I'm most excited to hear at the 2014 edition of the Montreal music festival.

After weeks of contemplation and related music listening, I quickly realized that I wasn't going to be able to reduce the list of highly anticipated songs down to 10 (especially considering I'll be attending the whole festival this time around). Instead I've decided to go with a considerably biased playlist that I've been building/listening to over the last little while. Maybe I'll have to give myself a point for every song on this list that I manage to hear? Wishing everyone a fantastic long weekend. Peace, love and rock and roll! (hit 'shuffle' for best results)

Look out for my Osheaga 2014 Tweets and Vines!

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My top 10 most anticipated songs of Osheaga 2013 - Friday

Here is a list of the top 10 songs I’m most looking forward to hearing this Friday Aug 2nd at Osheaga 2013 in Montreal, Quebec.  I’ll be traveling with my girlfriend for the day, and together we’ll be braving projected thunder-showers for the beginning of the sold out music festival.  I may have to also take on the personal challenge of seeing how many of these songs I can capture on Vine, my most curious new social media interest.

Alt-J (∆) - Something Good

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Phoenix - Fences

Capital Cities - Safe and Sound

Alt-J (∆) – Breezeblocks

Two Door Cinema Club – I Can Talk

Guards – Coming True

Vampire Weekend – Diane Young

Beach House – Walk in the Park

Diamond Rings – Put Me On Long-shots and Honourable Mentions:

The Cure - Close to Me

Phoenix - Love Like a Sunset pt. 1 & 2

Alt-J (∆) - Taro

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

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Nuit Blanche Ottawa 2012. These shots represent just a taste of what the Byward zone had to offer. My personal favourite installation was the interactive, LIGHTSOUNDPLAY created by SubZeroArts and hosted at SAW Gallery. I loved the event, and hope it becomes a perennial mainstay for the arts in Ottawa. #NBO12

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Excited to attend the premiere of The Critic tomorrow as part of the Digi60Seconds film festival. I'd like to express my thanks to Say Ten Productions for casting me, working on this project was a pleasure. Looking forward to all the creative submissions brought forth by Ottawa's independent film community.

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Jonathan Hobin's exhibition, Little Lady/Little Man at the Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery. The exhibition runs from May 16 to April 29, and is described as the following: This photographic exhibition reflects on the death of a husband and wife through the use of lullaby, vintage photographs and life-size deathbed portraiture. Little Lady / Little Man not only acknowledges the dichotomy of life’s seemingly simultaneous endurance and fragility, but also challenges the viewer to consider concepts surrounding their own mortality.

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Wow, the Frogman was right, It really does work!

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What if it were all possible? Vote JDL for AMS Exec

I recently came across this great campaign video created on behalf of Team JDL that showcases aspects of their political platform in Queen's University's upcoming AMS elections (Alma Mater Society - undergraduate student government).

This kind of stop-motion production is a huge undertaking, which no doubt took many hours of editing and planning.  The video also presents an excellent virtual tour through the campus of my beloved Alma mater.  It's great to see that the student political spirit is alive and well, and continuing to find creative ways of promoting itself.

I also loved the musical inclusion of Australian indie-folk artist Hudson's, "Against The Grain". Guitar tab Best of luck to team JDL

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Hello - This small masterpiece of editing by Ant1mat3rie brings together some Hollywood classics in an impressive musical themed montage. Fans of this kind of attention to editing and presentation of popular film should check out Filmography 2010 and Filmography 2011.

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Best of the web 2011 This video represents 85 painstaking hours of editing, and is Zapatou's tribute to some of the year's most popular viral videos to appear on Youtube. In it we see clips that are mesmerizing, breathtaking and just plain inspiring. More importantly it gives you an opportunity to reflect on the nature of the global community that works to capture, produce and share content on the internet for the enjoyment of others. To me the video represents a real collaborative achievement that although being mediated by technology, is still manifestly human in its essence.

While on the topic of web virality, I thought it would be appropriate to include my favourite image hosting site Imgur's Best images of 2011 in this post for good measure. If any of you are feeling a little too proud of humanity in terms of what we have been able to capture and share with others in one year, this twelve minute montage of the Best Fails of 2011(via TwisterNederland7) ought to even things about a bit. Wishing the very best to all of you and yours in 2012!

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I love seeing the kind of hard work and attention to detail that these Sheridan College students put into their filmmaking. This Media Arts Class of 2013 project manages to blend some of my favourite things into their live action remake of the intro to Disney's Recess.

For one, I've always been a sucker for 90's childhood nostalgia, especially of the Saturday morning cartoon variety.  I'm also inclined to always support Canadian student content on YouTube. Keep up the great work guys! < My fav Recess character

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Ever wanted to feel like a hacker in a 90's movie or bad television crime drama? This is just way to satisfying not to share.

Tips

Get a friend so you can double-hack

After typing a sufficient amount of code, raise your hands and in a thick Russian accent yell, "I AM INVINCIBLE!!"

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Here is a selection of production pics featuring yours truly taken on the set of 3 Kisses premiering Dec. 3. Thanks to Christina Preece for taking these!

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There's just something about the MacGyver theme that mashes up so well with these scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy.

via kalleanka71 on YouTube

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To all my friends/followers who fall victim to procrastination all too easily - This is the game you deserve!

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I feel like just about every Canadian can relate to this.

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We Got Scared - An interesting look into into the social, technological and scientific development of the human condition throughout history. I felt it brought up many intriguing views on humanity's current state in regards to scientific and rational inquiry. I'll let the video speak for itself.

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I never thought I would have been so captivated by the stories of the former host of Blues Clues, Steve Burns. I find his intelligibility to be inspiring. We get to see the human mind reflecting on questions of identity, conflict and temporality in this 17 minute monologue one-person show. The audience just eats up Steve's storytelling method that can be both hilarious and moving.

 THIS GUY!!!