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brilliam
Montreal
Interests: games, music, axe murder
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I remember seeing some of this guy's stuff around. It was really fucked up when he got prosecuted, AND THEN some advertizing agencies latched onto his ideas and did the same thing, and didn't get arrested. That shit really made me mad. Seeing art get exploited by telecommunications companies who APPARENTLY didn't have to abide to the same rules that a not-for-profit artist did? Fuck.
Roadsworth - a documentary about art and expression in public spaces
In what looks to be a really interesting documentary, Roadsworth tells the story of the Montreal street artist of the same name and his struggle when the city prosecutes him for his enlightening artistic contributions to the city's streets. Given the contemplative and clever execution of his wor...
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Apr 30, 2009
Oh my! It is so good. Boy I like that I can reply to this and then you will be notified about it and then it will also be sorta "thready!" I bet whoever made this comment system is both clever AND charming. AND has hilaaaaaarious awesome Canadian internet buddies.
Love this guy’s quote: ”Classic men’s style inspires me. Black is always a good choice. It suffices.”
Haha. Indeed, sir. It suffices. (Also, I like dude’s haircut.)brilliam
I try here so I don't have to try here.
Oh this is WONDERFUL! I am totally using these. THANKS HOMEY!
The Future Stack - Ultra subtle retro mac 512k game wallpapers
A little more than a month ago I posted about the sad disappearance of a favorite abandonware site, the Macintosh Garden. The post has been quite active in the comments section since, many reporting updates to the status of the site as well as alternative sources to the bygone garden of goods...
awesomeness, i watched the segment last night. i have no frame of reference (i have yet to play the game) but it looks like mad fun! what kind of beer was that? it looks EXACTLY like this budget canadian beer but surely you're not drinknig lakeport honey!
Hey Ma, I'm on Internet TeeVee!
Area 5 TV is made of win and awesome, or in other words, made up of the fellows who were once behind the (much missed) 1up Show. I've brushed elbows with members Ryan O'Donnel and JayFresh at various points in my game journo past, and was nothing less than ecstatic when they asked me to join t...
Bah, who needs Oscars? They're silly anyway. LETS MAKE OUR OWN AWARDS. The Briffys. See cos it's Brill and Tiff. Briff. We'll work on the name.
Let The Right One In. No question.
the clone-stamped landscapes remind me of soem of those knife videos. i was gonna say last night when i was talking aobut them but i forgot so now i am typing it here.
THIS ISN'T ME HAVING AN AGENDA I SWEAR
Petra Cortright
I actually ffffound Petra Cortright's works a long time ago, but it wasn't until this weekend that I visited her personal site and saw the full breadth of her work. In the same vein as out_4_pizza's work, Cortright's art flirts with artifacts of ye olde web 1.0 through a collection of abstrac...
THANK YOU THIS HAS BOTHERED ME SO MUCH SINCE EPISODE ONE. Seriously I can't not focus on it. It almsot makes it MORE SCARY (i mean that sound IS scary) by giving the whole thing a "not-quite-working-oh-shit" feel. like my brain or tv is breaking each time.
Hey Lost, can you fix your pixels please?
Alright Lost, you've wrangled me into your fifth season of smoke monsters, mystery islands, and Sawyer's muffin top (whoops, spoiler!), but over the course of these five years you've continued to neglect a rather blatant and irritating glitch: Since day one of your opening sequence I've notice...
you're like a mix of me and my roommate. he really wants a french bulldog and i am pretty sure i don't ever want kids. (at least, not with my genes.)
this week's drawings (and a meme)
There's been this meme floating around my Facebook newsfeed where folks write a note where they list "25 random things" about themselves. Once someone's written their 25 random things, they tag 25 friends who they want to read 25 random things about, and so on and so forth. Yes it's meme-y, a...
basically it will be two nearly identical photos: one of my smiling, looknig thoughtful, and one of me where the smile has melted into mild disgust and shame.
also, plz do me a favour and google berlin, and read the google description of the wikipedia link and tell me if it's... weird to you.
Vampire Vacation
I was pretty sure that I had my heart set on Berlin as my next destination for adventure, and The Propeller Island City Lodge looks to be the icing on the cake. A rendition on Hotel Fox's theme in Denmark, where each room is styled by one of 21 different designers, this lodge has 45 different...
Like I said before... so many of these rooms I was like "I WANNA SLEEP THERE" until I realized "wait this room is acutally really PERVY." Fuckin' cage room and mirror room, why did you have to be so aesthetically interesting?
Vampire Vacation
I was pretty sure that I had my heart set on Berlin as my next destination for adventure, and The Propeller Island City Lodge looks to be the icing on the cake. A rendition on Hotel Fox's theme in Denmark, where each room is styled by one of 21 different designers, this lodge has 45 different...
random things that jump out at me:
1) I like how there's like a bandana phase in the first fifth but then there's no more bandanas. Fun story: my roommate has a t-shirt with a screenprinted red bandana around the neck and since he got it he has been accosted TWICE, a haitian guy started pointing at it and screaming in french and at another point a young hispanic kid (like, 8) tried to rip it off of his neck.
2) aren't R6C5 and R6C10 from the same day/time? or am i on POWER PILLS aka narcotics :( :( :(
3) in yr old age are you getting less TUFF? there's a lot less I AM TUFF pics as it progresses!
4) sup w/ loom dawg?
5) wait a sec, back to point 2, ALSO R4C8??!!
6) i want R8C7 to be a little pin that says "no but seriously don't ask me about loom ok"
7) WHEN IS R9C9 FROM seriously it looks like it should be a still from a totally dope ghost movie. THAT SHADOW AAAAHHHH I LOVE THAT PICTURE.
90 self-portraits from 2008
Over the weekend I compiled a total of 90 self-portraits taken over the course of 2008 with the Mac Photo Booth application. It would have been nice if there was a convenient way to export your photos this way (*ahem* I'm looking at you, savvy programming friend), but since that doesn't exist ...
GOD I LOVE I GET YOUR FAIL. Mortifying nightmare images created accidentally? <333333s to infinity.
I Get Your Fail
I Get Your Fail pulls back the curtain on game development to reveal a surreal world of outstretched polygons and gaming glitches. I've been a dutiful subscriber since it was featured over on Off World, and aside from the fact that it's partly composed of coding jokes I'll probably never under...
I didn't finish writing that. Oops.
I meant to add that those kids were probably pretty well-to-do and living in a city where other people were singing that very song in REAL retaliation. Eng-Fr relations in this city are always weird but rich white English kids complaining about persecution is... yeah, borderline offensive? It only adds to the video though :)
Devil's Toy
Three years of high school French leave me with a very limited understanding of what's being ominously narrated in this short film. That being said, when the Devil's Toy appears at 1:29 amidst a screaming fleet of savvy looking 1960'ish Montreal skater boys your mom probably would have dated...
The last 3 minutes of part two always gives me delight-shudders.
To give it some context though... there's something kinda lame about anglo kids in Westmount singing "we will overcome."
Devil's Toy
Three years of high school French leave me with a very limited understanding of what's being ominously narrated in this short film. That being said, when the Devil's Toy appears at 1:29 amidst a screaming fleet of savvy looking 1960'ish Montreal skater boys your mom probably would have dated...
It's about a guy who hits a girl with his car and then gets haunted, in a nutshell. Don't wanna say too much about it.
Yeah, all of the movies I said were horror films. I can also recommend some non-horror Thai films though, or some Korean horror too. I REALLY love Thai film (and to a lesser degree K-film too).
blue ghost. tall ghost. banana ghost.
As this bizarre commercial puts it, "The light is your true friend". This tends to be truth of the matter when you have throes of assorted ghosts hanging around your picnic blanket.
This just reminds me of how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE Thai ghost culture (and as an extension all of the movies based on it). This summer I saw the film 4bia, which you sohuld check out if you get the chance. Also check out those directors' previous flicks, "Shutter" and "Alone." Especially Shutter. But even more than those, possibly the BEST GHOST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN is called "The Victim" by Monthon Arayangkoon. SEE THIS IF YOU GET THE CHANCE. Especially the freaking credits... oh my god best credits sequence OF ALL TIME. SO CREEPY.
blue ghost. tall ghost. banana ghost.
As this bizarre commercial puts it, "The light is your true friend". This tends to be truth of the matter when you have throes of assorted ghosts hanging around your picnic blanket.
Every time I see that Minnie the moocher video it KILLS me. One of my fave videos OAT. I wish I could dance or animate or sing or play music half as well as anyone involved w/ it.
Baby it's cold outside
After surging around in Brooklyn all afternoon fighting a wind that was as hungry as the wolf, I can fairly say that baby, it's cold outside. My first few days in the big city have been filled with feminist art exhibits, first snows, and reconnections with old friends. The most notable activit...
BY THE WAY I downloaded this at work a while ago, LOVED it, now DLing it at home, but couldn't find the link so I came back here!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for showing me this!
the very best
Blast! I'm behind on my Internets again. For the past six months or so Malawi singer Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit have joined forces to officially become The Very Best, a group producing tracks that exhibit a curious and exhilarating new trend of genre-bending afro-pop. Mwamwaya's vocals color ...
They'll have to cancel their shows in Sapporo and stuff, but I DEFINITELY think we can make it happen.
Zazen Boys
I don't know if its best practice to write a post that blatantly copies the topic and video that your friend posted only hours before, but its worth it, I promise. The friend is Brilliam, the topic is Zazen Boys, and the video is of their song "Weekend". Zazen Boys are a Japanese math rock/j...
The best practice is to always post anything related to things that are great like Zazen Boys.
Also things always worth repeating: Wind power. Bandwidth. Chinese market.
Why can't I stop thinking about 30 Rock when I post here? OH YEAH I REMEMBER NOW
- will
Zazen Boys
I don't know if its best practice to write a post that blatantly copies the topic and video that your friend posted only hours before, but its worth it, I promise. The friend is Brilliam, the topic is Zazen Boys, and the video is of their song "Weekend". Zazen Boys are a Japanese math rock/j...
I AM THE JACK TO EVERYTHING (except money) (and general electric) (and classy suits)
Oh, hi.
Thanks for dropping by .tiff. I like to know who's passing by, so if you have any comments or want to drop off a genuine, old fahsioney O HAI, please leave a note. That's right, this is some of that hot Friendbook 2.0 action you're seeing right here:
oh god why is it my real name and not brilliam
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OH HEY SO THIS IS WHERE I AM SUPPOSED TO SIGN I GET IT!
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