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06
Jun
2009
Makes Me Want To Get An iPhone (Almost)
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Category: Gail at Large, Other Photogs, cameraphone
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I mentioned Dax’s current obsession of taking photos with his iPhone and using ShakeItPhoto to turn them into Polaroids. I like how it takes ordinary cameraphone pictures and turns them into Polaroids with a method that looks an awful lot like colour burn in Photoshop. ShakeItPhoto even requires you to shake the iPhone and makes you wait for the photo to get ‘developed’. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for me because iPod Touches don’t have cameras. Dax captured me taking photos of the vintage cameras below, and the bottom photo is what I saw looking through the Nikon D300.
06
Jun
2009
Sweet Flour: Heaven For Cookie Monsters
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Category: Food + Drink
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Post-Phil’s, the Friday Night Crew introduced me to the cookie heaven that is Sweet Flour Bake Shop, on Bloor West between Jane and Runnymede.
http://www.sweetflour.ca
2352 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Photo by Dax
I love cookies! I love when they come out of the oven all soft and warm. I prefer cookies over other desserts because they’re smaller and therefore you can have a tapas-style dessert spree if you so desire, if your belt still buckles after you eat at a place like Phil’s.
You can get the full scoop on the website about what’s on offer, but here’s a quick taster:
- you can custom build your cookies with choices of three different kinds of dough, plus mix-ins that include nuts, berries, and chunks of chocolate, toffee, what-have-you
- you can build cookie sandwiches with a variety of sweet spreads
- you can take home cookie dough and bake it whenever you like
- the cookies only take two minutes to bake!
- they’ve got organic Ontario milk and other beverages like coffee to accompany your cookies
Time for some pictures! I asked permission, and they gladly let me papparazzi my way around: << read more... >>
05
Jun
2009
Slow-Smoked Barbecue
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Category: Food + Drink, Mobile Blogging, cameraphone
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Phil’s Original BBQ
College and Ossington, Toronto
http://www.philsoriginalbbq.com
Dax got some shots of our barbecue feast at Phil’s with his new iPhone app, ShakeItPhoto, which he’s now completely in love with. He’s taking photos like there’s no tomorrow! A few: << read more... >>
05
Jun
2009
Happy Birthday, Hermann!
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Category: Friends, portraiture
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Helma’s not big on celebrating her own birthday (in February), but she does celebrate Hermann’s, which is only five days after David’s. Hermann would’ve turned 87 years old on June 4, and if he were still alive he’d probably be pointing out Helma’s more ‘youthful’ qualities such as launching cherry pits from her mouth as if they were torpedoes. Of course! Who wants to grow old, anyway?
Even after the silliness, I wouldn’t stop taking photos, so here are some mid-laughter ones and more Helma faces: << read more... >>
04
Jun
2009
Why You Should Tip Your Taxi Driver
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Category: Africa, Life Lessons
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Because when you drop your mobile phone in his car, he will (hopefully) make an extra special effort to get it back to you. True story, it happened to me today. He got it back to me in about half an hour!
I didn’t know if he’d find it because I had it on vibrate, so he wasn’t able to hear me phone it, anyway. My last dialled call was to Vancouver and that’s what he dialled, too, so when my cousin Tosca called and asked, “Did you get your phone back?” it took me a couple of seconds to figure out how on earth she knew it was missing in the first place!
Photo: Meknes, Morocco — a petits taxi interior, where many a prayer is sent up with white knuckles
03
Jun
2009
Markham
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Category: Mobile Blogging
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A scene from my mobile phone while motoring through the outer reaches of Markham last night after work. I was there to interview and photograph Pom Penner, the second seamstress that The Brides’ Project recommends for alterations.
It’s a sad state of affairs that I’m posting a mobile phone picture when I’ve got so many high-resolution photos queued up in my hard drive from the last couple of weeks, but I’ve done little but work and sleep since returning from PA and I’m looking forward to catching up on everything this week, including email and going through the picture folders.
02
Jun
2009
Yizkor
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Category: David
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(Taken with permission from the rabbi.)
I went to Temple Israel on May 30 for David’s birthday and to observe yizkor. Yizkor is only four times a year, so this is a very rare event to have both his birthday and yizkor on the same day. It also happened to be Shavuot. David’s mother, Mona, said the prayers at home, and I attended the full service on behalf of his family, which now consists of only his mother and me. (His Aunt Pearl passed away August 2008.)
I’ll add more about May 30 later, I have lots to say!
01
Jun
2009
This Woke Me Up
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Category: Videoclips, Volunteering/Charity, Working Life
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I arrived home from the weekend in Pennsylvania at 09:00 after driving since 01:00 and — miraculously — made it to AND through my very first working day at The Firm. If I can remember 10% of the people I was introduced to it will be an even bigger miracle. I felt fine until I got on the streetcar to go home, then I was ready to keel over!
Until I watched this video on my iPod, that is… WOW. A few years ago I went on a binge of watching BASE jumping videos but had to stop because it was too addicting. Not that I wanted to BASE jump, but it was fascinating to watch video after video of thrill-seekers hurtling to the ground.
After a much-needed snooze I plan to tackle my bloated email inbox, languishing after days of scarce internet access. I have so many people to thank for sponsoring me in Relay For Life; I’m blown away by the generosity shown by my friends!
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