Beards, oh yes, oh my.

Since January, I have been growing a beard, I said it was my  ‘playoff beard’ because it was the start of our last semester.

I love growing beards. I first did it when I was in South Africa and have on occasion done it again, and again,and again… I find it is a fun, hairy,and scary experience.

My old roommate at university and I had tremendous fun shaving my beard down to handle bars, a gotee and a mustache. She was a photographer and took pictures of the ‘take down’, but had a hard time taking a picture of me with the mustache because she was laughing way so hard.

Beards are fun, every man should grow one.

Please don’t make fun of anyone who is trying to grow a beard and it looks patchy–it takes time. Oh yes, time, a beard is like a garden and it needs to be cultivated, you have to let it grow then prune it before it manifest its true glory.

Please think of beards as hat’s for chin’s . A simple accessory

Here is a link to back up this post…

http://www.biggerbetterbeards.org/

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Kevin Parnell

Toronto’s hippest shutter bug

Kevin Parnell takes Toronto’s independent music scene by storm.
Kevin Parnell one of the leading photographers and videographers of Toronto’s independent music community whose work is visionary. He is constantly pushing himself to find new and interesting ways to shoot Toronto independent music community. Kevin took it upon himself to break the mould for how bands were to be filmed and photographed. For instance, the typical ‘standing against a brick wall with their instruments’ photo shoots.
His method was to create a scenario or a story in the picture and allow the bands to be seen as he told me “…like showing more personality, showing them that they are more then beings on a stage.” It is that playfulness, that uniqueness that is indicative in all of Kevin’s work. Once he completed his arts degree at the University of Toronto, he found himself going to many independent music shows and taking pictures wondering what he was going to do with all of them. As he puts it, he went “Hey, I’m a photographer this is what I can contribute, photographing bands and I started a website (Aperture Enzyme) and got like instantly welcomed into the community.”

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Assignment 1
The Walrus
www.walrusmagazne.com

When entering The Walrus website, immediately you see the RSS feed and their blog/media icons displayed beneath the masthead. As you scroll down, on the right hand side you encounter a side bar entitled Latest Post that provides the most recent blog post and pod cast. All linked by RSS. When you click on the RSS link, it directs you to a list of five options to subscribe. The homepage, excluding the sidebar, has three other RSS links that are positioned at the top right hand corner, one halfway down to the left of the page and the last at the bottom right hand corner.
The social networking tools are located in the websites articles in between the heads and decks and the text. The social networking tools listed are Share This, Buzz up!, Facebook, Stumble and RSS. Stumble and RSS is also located at the top of the Article Tools on the right hand side, quarter way down the page. No social networking tools are found on the home page.

Spacing Toronto
http://spacing.ca

The first window for spacing.ca displays a slide show on the right hand side. No RSS link is present, but at the bottom of the page, there is a link to join their Facebook group. At the top right hand corner there is a link to their blogs for Toronto and Montreal. Below that, they have a link to their current issue that takes you to Spacing Toronto.
Spacing Toronto you see under the masthead the RSS link and the social bookmarks on the right. The social bookmarks reappear at the bottom of the articles, with the option to email the post. The social book marks are: Facebook, del.icio.us, digg, hugg, Stumble Upon. This site has a bar at the top to help search the site by monthly archive, category and author. When browsing through different articles, some had video clips to accompany the story, also providing links to related articles.

Atlantic FRANK
www.atlanticfrank.ca

FRANK website is not very elaborate, but on the left hand side underneath the links to on stands now and about us etc. are the social book marks. Changing the names FRANK social book marks are Frankbook, Franktube and frankss, that direct you to their sites on Facebook, Youtube and RSS. What is most remarkable, above these three icons, the site has a ëshareí icon that allows the user to choose from 43 different social bookmarks.
In the just for fun section, under hall of fame is a slideshow of various pictures and the section separated at birth has a list of picture that are thumbnails that are enlarge.