Chris Blog

Hello Earth, Goodbye Battlestar

'...It's perfection, that's what it's about. It's about those moments when you... When you can feel the perfection of creation. The beauty of physics. The wonder of mathematics, you know, the... elation, of action and reaction. And that is the kind of perfection that I want to be connected to.'

-Sam, Battlestar Galactica, 2009

Breakfast blends

Brunch and espresso at Boom Breakfast

1036 St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto

San serif lust

My top 5 san serifs fonts:

Toronto Subway by Quadrat:

Trade Gothic Condensed by Adobe:

Gotham by H&FJ:

LTC Twentieth Century by Lanston Monotype:

Neutraface by House Industries:

Spring has sprung!

Sunday cuteness

"Nice camera. Now where's the treats?"

-Cheddar

Stereotypes made FUN!

Found these kids in The National Post years ago, and always loved them.

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"Where the underworld can meet the elite..."

While digging through some old stuff, I found my first set design drawing - a backdrop of Times Square for the musical 42nd Street, done in Grade 9.

If these floors could talk...

Grandmother's linoleum

Wild about Wilde

'Nature is no great mother who has borne us. She is our creation. It is in our brain that she quickens to life. Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that have influenced us.'

-from Oscar Wilde's 'The Decay of Lying', 1889

(photo taken at the magnificent Winter Gardens Theatre)

Sisters

My Grandmother and her sister Helene, May, 1955

My Grandmother and her sister Gisele, February, 2009

Memories, 1966

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Family heritage

'It's too bad that things have changed so much, and yet people today are not as happy as we were then with the little we had. Unfortunately, people today seem to need and want so many things and so many distractions. Perhaps it is time to think about what is really most important in this life. Is it what you have that is important? Or is it more important to be thankful for what we do have, and to remember our beginnings and what it is that helped us become who and what we are today?'

(From the memoir of my great grandfather, Edouard Carignan, written shortly before his death in 1982. Born in 1900, he and his family immigrated from Arthabasca County, Quebec to Notre Dame (Ponteix), Saskatchewan in 1910. He married my great grandmother, Marie Anna Lallier, and had 16 children between 1923 and 1945. This picture was taken in 1920.)

Grandma's house

Well-deserved

Lance Black wins 2009 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 'Milk':

'...When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio, Texas to California and I heard the story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me hope. It gave me the hope to live my life, it gave me the hope to one day live my life openly as who I am and that maybe even I could fall in love and one day get married. I want to thank my mom who has always loved me for who I am, even when there was pressure not to. But most of all, if Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he’d want me to say to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than by their churches or by the government or by their families that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours. Thank you, thank you, and thank you God for giving us Harvey Milk...'

Sean Penn wins 2009 Academy Award for Best Actor for 'Milk':

'...For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, and, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue that way of support. We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone...'

Curiosity killed the... what?

Typography = awesomeness²