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Final Fantasy IX
23 years after its release here in North America, I can now proudly say with pleasure that I finished it earlier this week. I first fired up FFIX this past summer on a warm late August evening. After pulling the game out of a box from the basement and copying the four discs to my…
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A Year in Film: Canon AE-1
A YouTube video I made showcasing a few of my photographs.
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Dad
It has been 20 years. Our dad died on December 7, 2001. He died alone – a terrible and preventable workplace accident – in the darkness of an underground gold mine 1,388 kilometres northeast of his home in Grande Cache, Alberta. Dad wasn’t big on formal education, he always told a story how he left…
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Kodachrome Beach
To be completely honest, I don’t know a lot about Kodachrome film. One evening a few years ago Courtney and I were watching television and scrolled through some titles on Netflix. Up came a movie, assumably from our recommended list, with the namesake of this very famous film. A film about film. I didn’t know…
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The Power Plant and the Bridge: Learning to Relax
I thought with this post I’d provide a bit of an update where I’m at with my photography journey. At the start of the pandemic, I acquired a Polaroid SX-70. After learning a bit how to shoot instant film, I kept my eye on the Polaroid SLR 690, a 90s version of the famous SX-70.…
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The Songs in Song to Song Sing to Me
Terrence Malick’s modern films are each, in their own delivery, masterpieces. Critically acclaimed, but most audiences haven’t seemed to connect with them. Song to Song: a film about music, touches on the human condition in a big way, specifically on love and relationships. The soundtrack is wide, all encompassing of genre, and one of the…