Dusty Mancinelli is the third of four Canadian short filmmakers we’ve featured in issue#61
Caught lugging around a big, bulky VHS camcorder when he was just two feet tall—Dusty Mancinelli was a kid obsessed with cameras. “I’ve always wanted to be a filmmaker, even though as a kid I didn’t always know what that meant,” says [...]

Looking at Jesjit Gill’s poster art, it should come as no surprise that his answer to the question “What makes a good poster?” is “Fluorescent screenprinting inks.” Jesjit learned how to create hypercolour screenprints in high school so that he could make, as he humbly puts it, “dumb t-shirts.” But he soon saw that there [...]

When Brian Donnelly titled his most recent show “Blasphemies, Monstrosities and other Perversions,” he was bound to start some dialogue. Factor in his actual artwork, which consists mostly of large portraits of nude people with animal heads, and you’ll have more dialogue than a Tarantino movie. This young Toronto painter’s relationship with his work is [...]

Let us show you what’s in our browsers. Arrested Motion, Cheese or Font?, People of Walmart and Regretsy.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike Norway. With its abundant natural resources, one of the world’s highest standards of living, universal health care and subsidized university education, Norway is a bit like Canada’s smarter, more attractive, Scandinavian cousin. We know that if we just hit the gym a little bit more, maybe learned a [...]

Capricorn
It’s been a great year! You’ve successfully made yourself look amazing in your online photos and people are starting to forget that you’re a socially handicapped pole smoker with man boobs who’s incapable of receiving or giving a handjob. By uploading pictures of yourself wearing headphones, people really believe you’re a skilled DJ and are [...]

Reviews of the latest from Gift of Gab, Eugene Mirman, RJD2 and Tegan and Sara.

Hey Annie!
Two words to greet a pretty girl. But for the girl, a renaissance. Annie, the blonde beauty and mononominal pop star from Norway, emerges from the London Underground on the third day of autumn, and she’s met with those words – the very same that open her long awaited sophomore album, Don’t Stop. There, [...]

Jamie Travis is the first of four Canadian short filmmakers we’ve featured in issue#61
The Armoire is the final instalment in Jamie Travis’ Saddest Children in the World trilogy. Like the other films in the trilogy, Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner and The Saddest Boy in the World, it highlights the lives of [...]

Reviews of the latest by Michael Bublé, Echo & the Bunnymen, El Perro Del Mar and Fuck Buttons.

Tim Barber takes pictures for “Me and You.” I’m not sure if Tim knows me well enough to make a statement like that, but I’d say it’s fairly accurate. Tim’s interest in photography started at an early age and his work and subjects range from shooting fashion campaigns for the likes of Stella McCartney, to [...]