Movie Kick
Filed in discoveries, April 28, 2008, 10:47 pmI watched five movies last week. I feel like that’s almost a personal high. All of them were quite good, in completely different ways Sweeney Todd – Gore, singing, Johnny Depp. There’s little that could make this go wrong. Network – Older movie about the media industry, interesting issues. The Iron Giant – Cute animated [...]
Tweeting
Filed in discoveries, April 25, 2008, 12:21 pmI’ve replaced an addiction to texting my random thoughts with an addiction to Twitter. If you’re unfamiliar with this site, think of the “Joanna is…” updates in facebook, except all contained together. They’re short, 140 character blog updates, describing whatever you want to share. I’m finding it very entertaining, and I wish more of my [...]
SDC Website Launched!
Filed in swing, April 24, 2008, 1:08 pmThe new Swing Dance Calgary website has finally been launched! We’ve been trying to put it together for a good few months now and it’s exciting to see it in action. Robert created the top banner and colour scheme, Chuck helped us put together an affordable, easy to use template and generally made the site [...]
Glass Art
Filed in creations, , 12:51 pmLast week Kai invited me to try out my hand at glass art. Overall, it was a very fun experience and I only burned my right hand twice. Thankfully, my instinctive reactions seem to be intact as the burns are quite minor. I had a larger part in creating the paper-weight and I’m quite pleased [...]
Tuxedo’d Penguin
Filed in discoveries, April 21, 2008, 7:30 pmA week ago I went to Bee Kingdom‘s Spring Open House where I had the opportunity to peruse their glass art and watch a demonstration of their skills in action. The demo piece quickly went from being a classy blue and green milk creamer to this hilarious tacky atrocity. I’m not really sure how it [...]
