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04/2/2010

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I made this for a documentary project in what is essentially a video production course at school. The Woodwards Story is a mockumentary on the new Woodwards development that is set to open in downtown Vancouver. I take the part of jackass attorney Chad Goldstein in the video and I also did all the post-production. Starring alongside me in the film is Mike Kruk, as the bum “Tex”; Mark Coleman, as the pompous Nigel Winslow; and Jordan Manning, as hipster art student Kyle Mitchell.

Enjoy.

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01/2/2010

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Don’t know if I’ve ever seen a kid in a onesie drumming…that was young enough to still require a onesie. He clearly needs to start a band with this kid.

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29/1/2010

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I just made this for my school newspaper.

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28/1/2010

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So this iPad hate may be a bit of an overreaction...

Everyone is hating on the iPad right now, and with seemingly decent reasoning. It can’t multi-task, there’s no camera, it’s got a closed-off app system, it’s just a big iPhone that can’t make calls, etc. But Apple didn’t always get great feedback right away. Another product got some considerable hate early on.

The iPod.

Yeah, the iPod wasn’t instantly the belle of the ball. People needed to warm up to it too. Just look at these early comments after the iPod was first announced in late 2001. Here’s a few choice gems:

“$400 for an Mp3 Player! I’d call it the Cube 2.0 as it wont sell, and be killed off in a short time…and it’s not really functional. Uuhh Steve, can I have a PDA now?”

Doesn’t Steve Jobs know that the future is in PDAs? What a moron. Who needs an MP3 player?

“If the ipod is only the world’s most baddass MP3 player then I don’t know if I’m really going to stand in line to buy it, I have a cd walkman and a burner already”

Don’t worry folks. This gentleman is fine. He has a CD burner. He’d rather carry around 80 CDs worth of music instead of one 5GB iPod.

“This Christmas you will see mp3 players be commoditized. Meaning that the players from Korea will be way less expensive tha iPod. The real money is in DRM and distribution”

Yeah, the real money is going to be in selling the music. Really hit the nail on the head there.

“Gee , you’ve got music everywhere you go…oooohhh boy! =When I walk I don’t need music, when I train in Ninjutsu I don’t need music and when I jog I don’t need music. Must be rap music to give you that attitude…”

Luckily a user with the name “Beholder of Truth” got in on the action.

“The only way to go for an mp3 player now is Apple’s product. It just set the standards that everyone will try to follow/immitate/copy. And it set the standards for what people will now expect for an mp3 player, which at this point only Apple delivers.”

Well-put.

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26/1/2010

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Somebody interesting shows up on Google Street View

And if you don’t know who that is…click here.

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16:38

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Staying Sharp @ CollegeHumor

If you’ve read this blog for a while you’ve seen me post up my humour column entitled Staying Sharp With Colin Sharp from time to time. It runs every two weeks in the humour section of my school newspaper, The Peak.

I really like the website CollegeHumor. They have funny videos and articles, and I’ve been going to the site pretty much daily for 6-7 years.

I just put two and two together, and submitted an article to their website, and lo and behold it is now viewable on the site. So check it out. I’ll be going through the personal archive of columns and posting them at CollegeHumor one at a time.

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11:19

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The Rolling Stones - All Down The Line

I have had Exile On Main St. pretty much on repeat the last few days. This is my favourite song off the record, and if I could play any song perfectly on the guitar this would be the one. Keep in mind that I can currently play no songs on the guitar.

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25/1/2010

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Classified - “Oh Canada” [Official Video]

Classified is one of the best Canadian hip-hop artists out (right up there with guys like K-Os and K’Naan.) He finally got a video for one of the stand-out tracks off his last album. The video’s incredible and it’s just in time for the Vancouver Olympics.

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