visual madness

During my early teenage years I listened to a lot of what I now consider to be sub-standard music – I won’t name any particular artists for fear of trampling on anyone’s tastes, but let’s just say that for the longest time I was perfectly content with the onslaught of whiny voices, unimaginative power chords and love/above rhymes that dominated the charts at any given moment.

Then came the event that changed everything – in 2005, my friend Sean made a mix CD for me that compiled a plethora of music by Indie Rock artists, most of whom I’d never heard of before. Within a few weeks I had abandoned most of my prior music library, replacing it with the songs that Sean had given me.

Out of the hundreds of new tracks that I had added into my iTunes playlist, the ones I ended up listening to the most were Raw Sugar, Combat Baby, Hustle Rose and Calculation Theme – all songs by Canadian band Metric. The combination of masterful lyrics, playful yet pensive synth chords, as well as Emily Haine’s beautiful, mesmerizing voice just completely sucked me in and they’ve been my favorite band ever since. » Read the rest of this entry «

So it’s been over a week since I last updated the site – been meaning to get around to it for a while, but I’ve just been busy with, well…

Still, somewhere in the midst of all the Easy Mac, Peter Serafinowicz and just plain ol’ lying-around-and-doing-nothing, there have been a few notable events that have taken place since you last heard read from me. With that having been said, here we go: » Read the rest of this entry «

Music: “Chemical Burn (Extended)” (Non-extended version on iTunes)

History:

For our second assignment in Advanced Filmmaking, our teacher told us that we were free to do whatever we wanted. So of course, the first thing that came to my mind was ‘Subliminal Propaganda Film!”, the results of which you see above. The entire video is made up of stock footage I found online, plus a few photographs and movie excerpts here and there. » Read the rest of this entry «

Music: “Winning Style” by Propellerheads (iTunes)

History:

My first semester of Filmmaking class during my junior year of high school went by so well that the following year, I decided to take the Advanced Filmmaking course that was offered by the same teacher. » Read the rest of this entry «