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joelf — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:05:15 +0000

Hey everyone. I’m adding in all my links for the old blog into this shiny new “wordpress” thing. In the mean time…

It’s likely that you came here looking for one of these things:

Why You Should Continue to Date Me; a Series of Charts and Graphs

A magical journey of flirting using PowerPoint. A set of charts and graphs I created to convince a girl in Toronto to date me. Now a book with a PowerPoint presentation included!

See Why You Should Continue to Date Me

Live Action Scotland Yard (LASY)

A giant game of Hide and Seek in Toronto. Live action Scotland Yard was a giant game of hide and seek I invented and organized, based on the classic board game “Scotland Yard”. I thought it was fun. I hope you think it’s fun too!

Live Action Scotland Yard

Ninja Bake Sale

Dressing up as Ninja, selling cake. Selling cookies in the shape of throwing stars, cakes with the Japanese word for “Poison” on it… All in a days work for the fund raising ninja.

Click here for the Ninja Bake Sale

Toronto Zombie Walk

The 2005 Toronto Zombie Walk. I helped organize the 2005 Toronto Zombie Walk, and it was MEGA. Hundreds of zombies, a giant grave yard, marching through the Biggest Mall in Toronto, the chief of police!

Shuffle on over to the 2005 Toronto Zombie walk

Interview with George Lucas

joelf — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:17:20 +0000

Wow. I am stunned. No, shocked that this has happened.

Through some connections with a friend of a friend who works a Lucas ILM, and my uncanny ability to impersonate just about anyone I please, I was granted an email interview with George Lucas! (more…)

The Subway

joelf — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 17:11:39 +0000

When I first moved to Toronto last April, I got to see the subway for the first time. I’ll admit, I didn’t know what to make of it, or what to expect. To be honest I was a bit afraid it was an evil lair of thieves and muggers, I thought I could easily loose my wallet on the subway. After hearing stories about New York’s subway, like the roving gangs of Mexican organ traders, you could understand my apprehension.

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Deep Sea Fish!

joelf — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:10:10 +0000

An Australian - New Zealand team of scientists have been studying deep sea fish. From May to June they have been dredging the bottom of the ocean to report on the “nature and potential vulnerability of these unique habitats and their biodiversity”.

I’m completely fascinated by these things. The Rat Fish has a drum machine in it’s swim bladder to attract a mate. The fish on the right is a Humpback Anglerfish. It can’t swim, her mate’s the size of a jellybean, and she can eat anything up to three times her size because of an inflatable stomach. The Fangtooth’s teeth are so large, when it’s mouth is closed they actually sit inside it’s head, straddling it’s brain.
There are lots of other fish squid crabs and ’things’ in the hard to navigate creature feature. I have found that by clicking the link then going back and clicking a new link is the best way to go through it. All the images are large, but have been shrunken down by HTML. If you want to see them, drag the photo into IE’s address bar and it will bring it up full-size.

Crazy Puppet Art

joelf — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:06:01 +0000

Like something from a dark nightmare; these are the puppets that Satan would use if he liked hosting little girl’s birthday parties while reenacting scenes from dawn of the dead. Scott makes scary puppets, but his skills aren’t limited to tethered homunculus’. He also enjoys long walks on the beach and carving out life sized nudes in the earth itself.
Listing influences from Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, to the Brothers Quay. He’s pretty much nailed down his artistic style. It seems to me that an obvious inclusion would have been Brian Froud who has also designed puppets, but maybe that’s just a given.