Video Catch Up..

I've been a little slack in uploading these things, but The last few weeks have had some good moments. The most recent video is at the top. Apologies to the BBC. And thanks, as usual to Ben Jackson for his incredible graphics. I don't know how he does it...


Keep an eye out for a special Scottish guest appearance in this one...


Ha ha ha. Silly jokes in this one.


I kind of like uploading a few of these at once... We're filming this week's today. I won't let too much on, but I sent out a 'telegram' to a few people asking them to be in it with this graphic attached:




Right. Let me know what you think.

Field trips...

We've been going on field trips recently. Three of them in a week, to be precise. The summer is such a fun time to be a parent. There's so much going on for kids to do and see (even if we're really going for our own benefit).
Last Saturday, Addie took me to the 10th annual NIX tattoo expo in Toronto for my first fathers' day. It was fantastic. There were 150 artists at work, inking some incredible things. We met the coolest couple, who make punk clothes for kids. We're hanging out with them tomorrow too. You can check out their website here.

We also met Lyle Tuttle, 'the forefather of modern tattooing'. I got a bit starstruck... Addie, of course, was indifferent, as you can see from the picture. She did enjoy getting her first bit of ink though (courtesy again of Sticks n Stones).


Going to the expo really got me even more fired up for tattooing. There's so much dark stuff out there, and I can't wait to bring some light in. Seeing so much amazing work inspired me too. So much so, in fact, that I started on my left leg again this week. On Wednesday night I set to work outlining the koi that you can see here.

Beth had been wanting to take me to the Royal Ontario Museum for some time. It turns out that entrance is half price on a Friday night, so we headed over there after I finished work. It was fantastic. They had a great special exhibition on early typewriters, and we saw loads of dinosaur skeletons.
They were my favourite bit. To be honest, I don't think I ever grew out of that boyhood phase of dinosaur fascination... Addie again seemed rather indifferent to the whole experience, although she did like the bit when she had some milk in the European armour section while listening to an audio presentation about how smelly people used to be.

Then today we went to Riverdale Farm. It's a small farm in the middle of cabbagetown, right round the corner from us. Addie slept through everything except the chickens, and wasn't very interested in them. We had fun though.

Field trips will become more and more a part of our lives over the next few years, I suspect. It's such a blessing to live in a city with so many attractions and distractions. If you have any suggestions for where we can go next, let us know!

Biting off more than you can chew?

Here's this week's announcements.
Do you ever feel like you tried to run before you could walk? We had the idea of doing a series of spoofs of famous movie trailers for the announcements. Good plan. We thought of covering different genres. Fantastic. We decided to spoof a movie that changed cinematography forever, with wild special effects and crazy camera angles.
I think that we did a reasonable job, but I suspect that trying to give the feel of a movie like this, using one camera and a low-quality microphone was a little more than I could reasonably handle.

It was fun though.