Lunch yesterday at Daylight Factory. Delicious!!! Great little hidden patio too.
If you haven’t checked out Stars’ Do You Trust Your Friends? album featuring covers of their songs, you really should. The second track by The Dears is all sunshine and wind in your hair.
I’ve been freelancing regularly with District, a new creative/interactive shop that is being launched within Bell Web Solutions (which since January 1st has absorbed Cesart and the team of people I have been working with). Yours truly is helping to craft District’s brand and communications materials. Anyhow, I have a desk in their new space at 700 Wellington, which is a welcome change from the home office:
So this is a new category created with attention-deficit types (you) and time-challenged bloggers (me) in mind. It’s a quick(er) brain-dump format. Which means that I might actually post more often. We’ll see.
Please hold, I have to leap off a building
- [Ring-ring]
- Hello?
- Hey Tom, it’s Duncan. Got a minute?
- I’m about to jump off a 7-story building. Can I call you back tonight?
Hopping aboard Porter
I’m heading to Toronto for a meeting this week and we’re flying Porter. I’m curious to check it out. Especially since they are billing themselves as “North America’s premium short-haul carrier.” Incidentally, the Porter branding was done by Winkreative, which is headed by Wallpaper magazine founder Tyler Brûlé. I wonder if Porter is innovative enough to include carbon offsets in their ticket price…
Closing Pandora’s box
I got an email from Pandora today, the online music discovery service created by the Music Genome Project. Citing international licensing constraints, they’re forced to restrict streaming audio from Pandora for most countries outside of the U.S. So, as of May 16th, Pandora will be blocked to listeners from Canada. Why? Mostly because, as founder Tim Westergren stated in the email, “there is no global licensing organization to enable any webcaster to legitimately offer its service around the world.”