I'm in town for a little work, a little down time and to see some friends. I find TO has been good for the creative juices any time I flow through. I have some much-loved friends that call this place home and do wonderful things. Lisa Pijuan-Nomura (of Girl Can Create) is one of those folk. She and her husband Dave, his sister Catherine and the circle of creatives that surround them are responsible for great things here... and a typical Sunday in TO will find me at Forest View Dim Sum with them discussing our latest endeavours, geeking out over camera gear and wandering over to Kensington market for coffee at either Ideal Coffee or Moon Beam.
To report a little more on Pop Montreal and the goodness that was the 5 days of the fest;
I did not have the fortune of catching Tune_Yards, one of the most talked about shows at Pop, but I did get to catch filmmaker Vincent Moon speak at Espace Reunion. Monsieur Moon, with awkward and endearing flourish introduced us to film after film (running off his little Mac laptop) and the one that left me most inspired (as it happened early on and caught me completely offguard I suppose) was this little diddy featuring Merrill Garbus (that's Tune_Yards, folks) and a place I really, really want to find in Austin called Sam's Barbecue (BBQ!) and some flies. And some onlookers.
Hit play!
tUnE-YaRdS: SXSW 2009 from Dig For Fire on Vimeo.
Making me extra pleased with myself this week is the mention I got on Pop's web site, just below the Sufjan video. Thanks Pop; you made me feel all giddy inside.
Now I feel as though my photos might require a seperate blog post. Perhaps between turkey and desert I will finalize my Day 4 and 5 galleries and post them here in slideshow form.
Time to go skim the sorbet again one last time before bed. 8 hours til Dim Sum!
