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January, 2010

99 Most Influential Style Blogs

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Signature 9 have released the 99 Most Influential Style Blogs, according to them. The top 10 listings come as no surprise but scroll through the rest and boost your blog reader with some new sites.

 

Haiti Art Benefit

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 5:00pm
Shoot Studio
6330 St. Hubert Suite 300
Montreal, Quebec

A bunch of Montreal photographers are banding together and donating a piece of work for a silent auction to benefit Haiti survivors.

Converse Slim Ox

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Lovin' these new leather kicks from Converse - Chuck Taylor Slim Ox at $85. Saweeet.

Now available at Mile End Kicks (5403 Park Ave). Game on.

 

Kitsune!

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Gildas Loaec and Masaya Kuroki and their Paris based fashion / music label Kitsuné embody the sophistication and avant-garde spirit of both French and Japanese culture.

We're all gonna die - 100 meters of existence

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Simon Hoegsberg shot a piece over 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse, Berlin, 2007. The image is 100m long and there are 178 people in the photo.

7000 Words

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7000 Words presents 7 pictures every week contributed by an outstanding contemporary. Very nice site!

 

Australian man to crack longest freefall record

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Aussie Felix Baumgartner is preparing to break the record for the longest freefall. The record was set in 1960 at 31,333m by American Joe Kittinger. People have attempted to break it since; Nick Piantanida actually died in '69. 

Newfoundland gets colourful

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The town of St. John's, Newfoundland, has re-invented itself in recent years, painting rows and rows of houses in bright colours. Cool.

The Presets secret playlist

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Australian band The Presets have just been featured on My Secret Playlist. Check what they're listening to here.

 

Natural humidifier

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It's winter, the heaters are pumped to 25c and the air is dry. I'm loving the look of this natural humidifier made from Japanese Cypress.

 

Light Touch

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The new Light Touch is the total business!

Martin Luther King Day

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It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day yesterday. He was one dapper chap!

 

Pic from The Impossible Cool

Fail Blog

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Fail Blog is always good for a few cheap laughs. Here are some funnies.

 

Name Option Fail:

Tattoo locations and what they say

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Ha ha - this is pretty funny! What do your tattoos say about you?

From here via This Isn't Happiness

Sarah Blasko - We Won't Run

Australian singer Sarah Blasko is someone to keep an eye on. If you haven't heard her yet, watch this song!

SNAP! Photo Competition deadline extended

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SNAP! Photo Competition Deadline Extended
Entries due on or before Friday January 22nd
shayl@snapme.ca or snapmagazine@gmail.com

What boys and girls search for on Google

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Ha ha - what girlfriends and boyfriends search for on Google. Interesting.

 

Via Predictably Irrational

 

Top 10 fonts of 2009

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You Work For Them has released the Top 10 selling fonts of 2009. I was pretty excited to see my namesake 'Hannah' come in first place. Nice one.

Nouvelle Vague are coming to Montreal!?

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 8:00pm
L'Astral
305 St. Catherine W
Montreal, Quebec

Nouvelle Vague are coming to Montreal!? Woah woah woah! The group is supporting their new album "3", which features collaborations with Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore, Ian McCulloch of Echo and The Bunnymen and more

Portraits 2 by Richmond Lam

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 7:00pm
Ctrl Lab
3634 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

SNAP! Magazine contributor Richmond Lam is set to exhibit the second installment in his series of portraiture.

Wooden Sky to play Montreal

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Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 11:00pm
Il Motore
179 Jean Talon W
Montreal, Quebec

Toronto folk rock band Wooden Sky have recently released their second album and are set to play Montreal.

 

Rubble of Love - by Ultra Mega


Ha ha - this music video is awesome and was made entirely in Microsoft Paintbrush by Ultra Mega drummer Ben Jones.

One Frame Of Fame

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There are so many fantastic projects out there! One Frame Of Fame invites viewers to submit a webcam picture of themselves and this is then inserted into a music video. Viewers are shown a pose which they must imitate and the video is updated hourly. Wow.

 

Photos by Gordon Welters

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Feature Shoot has gotta be one of my favourite photography sites. Whenever I get the chance to check it, I'm always well impressed.

 

I'll Honk your Tonk!

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Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 10:00pm
Le Divan Orange
4234 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec

Eddy Blake and the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers are launching their first EP at Divan Orange! Get your arse out and into the warmth of some rockabilly goodness!

Typographic playing cards

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Each card in this deck of playing cards uses a different typeface. It was a personal project of Jim Sutherland from Hat-Trick Design. His rules were simple - don't use a typeface more than once. "It was like solving 54 micro design problems."

Samesies

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Samesies: A project started to highlight how different people can essentially take the same pictures.
 

The Colour

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Our friends across at Lost at E Minor have just launched a new site called The Colour - a reader submitted collection of Australian images.