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Autumn holds Winnipeg under siege.
The university's majestic tree-lined
boulevards bleed crimson with strife.
Pillaged leaves sink or swim through
the crisp atmosphere, bullied by a cheeky twister
at the entrance to my first class.

New Horizons

Horizons
Originally uploaded by Michael Tyas

I just love this photo! Amanda took it for me over the summer but I haven't been able to get a copy of it until now. I feel like it describes me: The razing of the old giving way to the possibilities of something new. The razing of the old, but I'm still here.

Update:

Check out this song by the Great Lake Swimmers, it will have you shimmying your shoulders before it's over.

Cross Season

I've been having a little fun with Photoshop. This is a picture from my favorite hike in the world, taken over two seasons in the same position!

Here are a few links to my Flickr album where you can see more seasonal cross sections.
Pine River
The Lookout

Lost Fall

As you may remember, autumn is my favorite time of the year. I brought my friends to my favorite hiking spot for the first time last fall, but I didn't edit it right away because the timing wasn't right. I wanted to savour the memory and wait for a miserable rainy day in the spring to recall our wonderful day together.

The video is purposely large because I wanted to capture in quality the beauty of the season.

Update: Mehrnoosh beat me to the vlog months ago. Here is her take on the day.

Update 2: The video took place over three regions. The first hike was at Mono Centre. Secondly, we visited Superburger in Shelburne. Lastly, we took in the sights on "My Hike" at the Pine River Provincial Fishing Area.

Update 3: I find it so funny that I exclaim "Winnipeg, whatever that is!" I had no idea I would love it here to much!

Garbage Pants

It was pouring rain this evening, and it was the first time I had to walk home in the pouring rain since I ditched my car and hit the beat.

I put on a pair of plastic pants (garbage bags glorified with an elastic band) to stay dry. The only part of my entourage which got particularly soaked was my backpack, which stuck out of the protection of my liberated umbrella, and my shoes, which served as a gathering lake for the streams of rain cascading down my garbage pants.

Before, when I had a car, I planned for oil changes and replacing wiper blades. Now, I'm thinking about a trench coat and waterproof winter boots.

Update: October 2006

Click To Play

I've been digitally different the past while, some of you might have noticed. The month of October can do that to you. It sure did it to me. Autumn colours, awful viruses and altered surroundings abound.

Here's an update of October 2006. Where I'm at, recent decisions, excuses and a tour!

See Vous Play is on it's way, I promise. That's explained in the update.

P.S. When I say "I've started typing," I meant 'typewriting'. You know, with a typewriter!

Look Closely

One week is all it took to strip most of the leaves from my favorite hiking spot. I really would have liked to enjoy what remained of the season, but today is the first since I got the flu that I picked myself out of bed at 8 AM and ventured outside. There's always something.

The forest is brighter now, sunny even. I can see many more birds and little critters than I could before, when they concealed their lives behind curtains of green.

Noosh Evolved - Revlog

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Noosh Says: My friend Mike is taking a group of use to a hike he has been going on for weeks. I have wanted to blog for a long time, but I just didn't know how to edit with a PC, and some people... ahem, Mike... thought they would never see the day I post my first blog, but here I am. Just in time too! I'm about to go to Paris!!!

Wish me luck!

Love Delivered

My wonderful friend (whom I've never had the chance to meet), Lozza, sent me a little sumthin sumthin to make me feel like a million bucks, and a million pounds.

You are awesome!

P.S. You can still see the hospital band on my arm.

http://thorntons.co.uk

This video is licenced Public Domain

Autumn Love

Autumn is my favorite time of the year, and today I went on a hike with five friends to drink in the delicious brilliance of the season. Each of us was armed with a camera. It's truly the digital age.

Enjoy the album!

If you please, it would be my pleasure to send you a waxed leaf so you can enjoy a little piece of this season. Let me know soon! We've only got a week and a half left till the colours fall away!

Friends:
Renee (this is more like a joke, add her for kicks)
Matthew
Tobin
Noosh
Justin (no myspace)

Damn! My friends are so attractive!

See Vous Play Hike

On day two after my procedure, I am feeling fine and enjoying my favorite time of the year. Then a tree almost falls on my head, which would explain why my video ends so abruptly. If a tree almost falls on my head in the woods, do I hear it?

Tune in to the See Vous Play concert, streaming live on Sunday, October 1 2006!

Links:

http://www.bandeapart.fm/
http://radio3.cbc.ca/

Jill's Story

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It was a beautiful September day when Jill, Darryl and I took a short trip to the streets of Brampton so Jill could talk about what it was like to be homeless for four days as a teenager.

Why is this a story? Four days on the street in September isn't that long to suffer any setback, is it? But imagine if she was there for five days. Or two weeks? Or three months, growing more desperate and willing to give up anything for the necessities of life.

This is a first hand account of a rescue operation. Jill was saved from taking the wrong path in a fork in the road, a road that if she had continued down would have ended in tragedy. Instead, the experience has made her stronger and ignited a passion for social justice.

Today Jill leads a ministry in my church called 'Bags of Blessings', a Christmas time initiative that delivers care packages to the homeless in Toronto.

In The Bedroom

In The Bedroom

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In an attept to convince myself to study French, I promised myself one vlog for 4 hours of solid homework. It's a happy compromise.

Subliminal Slideshow with extra tags

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I'm really excited about you watching this video.

I was inspired by Josh Leo's recent creative discovery. Josh calls it a 'Subliminal Slideshow.' Clever Josh! I've never seen this done before using every day, unorganized photos of seemingly unrelated, disjointed locations. In theory it should't work, yet it does!

Have you ever heard the term "a picture is worth a thousand words?" If that's the case, this video is worth over 4,000,000 words. There are over 4000 photos in 3 minutes.

You'll never think of a retake the same way again.

Some photos are by Jeremy.

subliminal slideshow

Fab Fall in Ontario 2005

That's it folks, we've officially said goodbye to fall and welcomed in, begrudgingly, winter. But with the changing of a season comes the conclusion of an old flickr photoset and the bright beginnings of a new one. Check out captureasilverlining.blogspot.com to see all my photosets, or go directly to 'fab fall in ontario 2005' for the brilliant colours of my favorite season!

A reduced minute

A reduced minute

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I took chewy out again on Sunday morning for 1 minute.

Chasing Chewy

Chasing Chewy

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I hang out with Chewy after a day working at Price Chopper. I asked him for the frisbee but he wanted the ball instead. Chewy is a Border Collie/Australian Shepherd and is one of the most inteligent dogs I've ever met.

Stuck in Singhampton

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I feel like I'm entitled to an occasional splurge vlog. I present to you a 19 minute episode of my life yesterday. I don't expect you to lay down 19 minutes of your life if you don't have the time, either. And I won't feel bad if you decide to skip through the video to the highlights. However, if you do have the time, I'm quite confident that you wouldn't mind missing Sienfeld or spending Lunch in front of your PC.

Please leave a comment, they make my day!

It started out like any other Sunday and I had no plans at all. The wind was howling at a gusty 90 km per hour, fuel'd by a storm that had killed 22 people in indiana earlier in the morning. I made my way in to church and met up with Toni, Renee, Francois, and Steph. We sat together.

Afterwards Renee, Toni and I went for lunch at Swiss Chalet and we discussed out future married lives. Renee wants to be a Christian hermit, wanna come? My hat blew off in the wind, and I was lucky that it didn't get run over.

On a whim, I packed up Renee, Toni, Adam and Chewy and we went north of Shelburne to Singhampton to go caving and explore the caverns. Adam got stuck, and we had to yank Toni up the mountain to keep her from dying. Chewy thoght he was in heaven, and I had quite the experience lifting a dog in subterra cavities. We were all wearing Remembrance Day Poppies, but I lost mine. We had an immediate answer to prayer. You can clearly see Renee's butt crack in one shot.

It was such a great day.

The leaves have fallen

So far two of my packages to the ends of the earth have been vlogged!

Check out Becca in Hawaii, and

Barbara in the United Arab Emirates.

***Note. They called their posts the exact same thing. Original.

I'm still waiting for news from California and Johannesberg!

For reference, check out the posts that inspiried this little activity.
Leaving for Posterity
Waxing for Posterity

Leaving for posterity

Leaving for posterity

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I go on a mini adventure to collect and keep some fantastically coloured leaves from this autumn that are all around my house. I find leaves of every different colour. I catch them as they're falling for the first, and last time. I find a leaf that reminds me of Joy. A storm picks up and almost blows me away.