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Forbidden Fruit

These are a couple of photos from a super neat photoshoot I did with my very talented friend Bia Sena! It was an 'Adam and Eve' esque theme, capturing the shift from purity or "good" to evil when I give into temptation and eat the infamous 'forbidden fruit.'

The colours, the lighting, the theme! So brilliant! Many thanks again to the lovely miss Bia. You can check out more of her photography here!

http://beatrizsenaphotography.blogspot.com/

The Wild Hunt

If you haven't heard the new "The Tallest Man on Earth" album The Wild Hunt please, for your own good, do it. When I saw Kristian in concert late April I had no clue that I was about to get my mind literally blown. Just him and his guitars, I have never seen anyone (besides maybe the infamous Sufjan Stevens) captivate and silence an audience the way he did. Kristian takes stage presence to an entirely other realm. That, combined with his beautiful finger picking and distinctive, rough vocals, he has giving me one of my most incredible concert experiences to date. His small stature aside, he truly is the tallest man on earth.

It was almost impossible to pick my favourites, but here they are:

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Also, a bloody amazing cover of Nico's "These Days." So Raw.

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CHARK CHARK CHARK

Also, CHARK MAG, has picked up some photographic steam folks!!! Check out Colleen and Lindsay's work thus far! Maybe you'll find yourself on here before you know it!

Written entries soon to come!

http://charkmag.blogspot.com

After having to watch the film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (Directed by Ken Loach) for one of my history classes, it wasn't long before my obsession with Irish actor Cillian Murphy ensued. I first saw him in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, but for some reason, the character (an Irish revolutionary) he played in Loach's film struck me differently and left more of an impression. My subsequent wikipedia research led me to the neat discovery that Cillian acted in a short film that Kevin Drew (from Broken Social Scene) directed. I was so happy to see this.

The story is told like a visual poem, in silence for the first ten minutes until Feist's song, "The Water" chimes in. The haunting beauty of the "The Water" seems to compliment the images of rural Canadian winter landscapes and that of character's faces and body language. It is certainly a work of art and subject to different personal interpretations. I am still in the midst of trying to formulate my own.

Here's the film below, along with the lyrics to Feist's "The Water." It will leave you with questions about death, life and love and I suppose it's up to you to piece it together.

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THE WATER

The telegraph cables hum
And few can decipher who the message is from
And it deliver it quietly
Cause some don't get much company

The harbour becomes the sea
And lighting the house keeps it collision free
Understand the lay of the land
And don't let it hurt you
Or it will be the first to

The water, the water
Didn't realize
It's dangerous size
The mountain, the mountain
Came to recognize
It's a steep and rocky sides
More than realized

Pale as a pile of bones
You hope for your babies
And this is how they grow
Wind-battered, knocked over
The teeth by the shoulder
Watching the grey sky
That's acting like a good guy

The water, the water
Came to realize
It's a dangerous size
The mountain the mountain
Came to recognize
It's steep and rocky sides
Came to recognize
It's steep and rocky sides
More than realized

For a brief moment in time, I forgot about you... and have been recently reminded how absolutely talented and poetic and beautiful you are Gemma Hayes.

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Please come back to Toronto.

I've recently been enjoying these songs;


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