It’s snowing in Northwestern Ontario. Like, a metric buttload. So, after being sent home from work because of the potentially-harrowing 35km drive home, I fire up the snowblower. For the second time in 16 hours. Here’s the side door, after two shovellings: Three-quarters of the way through snowblowing our driveway-which-goes-on-forever-or-so-it-seems… …I hear *THUNK* and watch… Continue reading Could I get any more rural Canadian?

I spent last week in San Francisco, doing a Video Documentary course with DV Workshops. It was amazing. Aron Ranen was the instructor, and he is one hell of an instructor. (Aron is an award-winning documentary writer, editor, shooter and producer) The course was six nine-hour days (which were usually longer than that), and it… Continue reading Dollar Optional