I first heard Toronto’s Zaki Ibrahim perform this song on Q’s Canada Day broadcast yesterday from Canada House with Jian Ghomeshi in Trafalgar Square, London. I loved her voice and had to look her up!
Born in Vancouver to a South African father and Scottish/English/Welsh mother (very much a Canadian story right there), Zaki has a [...]

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. About Matt.

RIP George Carlin
May 12, 1967 - June 22, 2008

David used to poke fun at this music box: "My mother put me to sleep with a war song!"
Awwww.
David would have turned 41 years old today, so to celebrate, I went flying! Flying photos forthcoming.

I like the Welsh singer Duffy’s retro sound and the dancing in this video. (She’s also got a killer set of dimples.)
Long live Motown!
–as seen in my Rolling Stone’s New Music podcast.

Kittens* were crawling up into Natalia’s shirt so she extracted delivered one.
See what happens when you consume too much sugar?

“With or Without You” from “U2 Medley” by Doyle Dykes. Sungha Jung is 10 years old at this recording, believe it or not. You might be thinking “hey, anyone can learn one song really well”, but do a YouTube search and you’ll see many other uploaded songs played by Sungha, including this one — Eric [...]

I uploaded a few videos from Havana to the Flickr servers, until I have more free time to devote to post-processing photography. They’re all pretty short, and shot in this order:

riding in front of the Capitol building
riding around the Capitolio, into Barrio Chino (Chinatown)
riding in Barrio China (about 1% of Cuba’s population is Chinese)

I’m riding [...]

The long weekend isn’t over yet, but I have a boatload of pictures already. This will be a quick preview while I go through the memory cards.
First of all, the circus is in town from Saturday to Monday:
Toronto International Circus Festival 2008

A couple of short videoclips from this afternoon at the Queen’s Quay Terminal: