Category: Shameless Self Promotion

  • You’re invited! (A post-layoff update)

    Getting laid off comes with its own set of anxieties but once I let go of them, it was pretty alright. I’ve got almost a full-time schedule now as a freelance editor; I’m embarking on a four-week trip through Central America on Monday. Most exciting of all, I am putting together a solo photo show…

  • Where the wild things are

    I’ve been working the Toronto Star for almost two years now, and I’ve finally written my first piece for them… a little essay about the joy of foraging for berries in the city. A pint of serviceberries is however you value an hour’s work. Grasp the branch with one hand, an open plastic bag looped…

  • Media watchdogs and all that

    Today I found out I won third place in the Consumer Magazine: Investigations and Analysis category at the 2008 AEJMC awards for my Review story on Harvey Cashore. It’s nice to know people read my 6,000 word self-indulgent (me, not Harvey) opus on a then-unknown CBC journalist, yeah? Since then he’s been featured on J-Source…

  • Career moves

    The fine boys at Stuck in the City were kind enough to give me a soapbox, which I’m always eager to stand on, to yap about my band photography. You can read it on their blog, and peruse some of the better/stranger photos I’ve taken in my day. For more, go to Former Transformer. Also,…

  • The Friendship Test

    Come or be smote by the wrath of 100 feminists.