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New Cinema Du Parc
Venerable ‘Cinema Du Parc’ finally has a new owner, a new web site and once again I here people saying… ‘I’m going to go see it at parc’. They are…
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Paranoid Park
Gus Van Sant’s ‘Paranoid Park‘ is looking like it might have some potential. So many movies ‘do skating’ badly and miss the reason/feeling/culture of skateboarders, when trying to use it…
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Surfing in Liberia, Africa
Surely many of my surf inclined readers have seen this; “Sliding Liberia”. Funny thing, when I told some I was going on a surf trip last fall and that I…
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The American Star
Found this great link/image from Google maps of a famous ship that wrecked and ran aground in Spain. Since the Google photo was taken the ship has “… listed to…
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Beautiful losers
This looks great. Ed has been a hero of mine since since high school and his path always inspired me. The movie features an original score by Money Mark ta’…
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Warren and the Plank site
I’m happy to announce that Warren has finally started blogging on the Plank site. It might seem small, but Warren is a smart guy who is the foundation of Plank….
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PHP/MySQL Developer needed at Plank
We just posted a new job ad and I thought I’d share it to get the word out. We’ve already gotten a bunch of responses within minutes of posting so…
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Roof riders
Being idiots at the cottage (this is Jes’s turn – I admit I did it too). The side house/garage roof had a good foot and a ½ of snow on…
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Wind blowing palms
Always liked this little clip of some palms blowing in Costa Rica. The offshore winds there are great!
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Elder Surfboards prepping for another custom run
If you’ve thought about buying a surfboard; Now’s the time to get in touch with Johan over at Elder Surfboards in Montréal. He’s prepping to do another custom run of…
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Spacing does St. Annes
Spacingmontreal.ca recently did a nice little piece on one of my hometowns; St Anne de Bellevue. Nice to see it getting some recognition as one of the most unique parts…
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Dr. No and Maurice Binder
I’ve been on a James Bond kick lately, slowly watching my way back to the very first bond movie (1962; Dr. No with Sean Connery) The opening struck me right…
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To remind myself daily
“The best things in life aren’t things” — Art Buchwald
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Time Lapse in HD using a SLR
Some great HD video (except for the terrible music) on VIMEO made using a Canon 20D to shoot time lapse night shots. Here’s the authors checklist on how to do…
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Ghostbusters
Feeling a bit under the weather (somehow I only get a cold at Christmas), TIVO caught Ghostbusters on one of our ‘movie wish-lists’, that brightened up my day. Stands up…