Happy holidays from EzSez.com!
More good things coming to you in the new year.
Have a super-fine '09!
Ez
Some hemp fan created a custom remote control for his Wii video game system wrapped entirely in hemp. More pix and info.
Nice one!
Ez
You say no and I say yes
Yes again
Like a train
Guess again, it's the same
Yes again
Yes again
You are the Ez Sez reader
Thanks and read on
Thanks again
Yes again
for dropping over.
Toujours bienvenue isistsi.
Ez
This is no joke... a group of school children in the UK sent several teddy bears into space this week. They used a weather balloon, a digital camera, cute little space suits and a bit of help from a local university aerodynamics student. Read more.
I think more things like this should be tried.
Go, kids!
Go, bears!
Ez
Thanks to Ez Sez reader Mika Goodfriend from Montreal for tipping me off to this story. Mika's my cousin and edits most of my documentaries. When we were growing up together, we would play with our Paddington Bears ("Stissy" and "Moishea") and sometimes pretend they went to space. Now older and wiser, we still consult with our bears from time to time. Let me tell you, when we checked in with them today, they were as pleased to read the article about the 'space bears' as we were!
(A copy of the paper edition purchased for over $100 on eBay)
("Danger Afoot", 9/08, MTL, Ezra S.)
("Bay Street in the Red", Toronto, 10/08, Ezra S.)
Dear Reader,
Here's the new Ez Sez Hemp Rope Cellphone Holster.
Made out of necessity while multitasking.
Ez
("Gobama!", 11/4/8, Screen shot of CBC, Chicago/MTL, Ezra S.)
("Windshield Heart", 11/5/08, MTL, Ezra S. - [Thanks to whomsoever drew this on my car!])
It's a dog, it's a robot, it's a soldier's sherpa...
Have a LOOK at the latest in robotics. Pretty wild stuff to see this thing in action.
A big digital woof to all,
Ez
Thanks to Shai Agassi's blog for bringing this video to my attention.
(Reuters photo)
(Seagull Centred, 10/18/08, Toronto, Ezra S.)
("Axe to the Hedge", 10/08, MTL)
("Ideas Bubble Over ", 10/10/08, MTL)
It was a nice surprise to see my face on the cover of The Monitor today.
A bigger surprise was to see the headline: Celluloid Crush. I'm not sure what that means exactly, but it's always exciting to have word about my projects shared by a reporter and newspaper interested in what I'm up to.
The story, by Monitor columnist Bram Eisenthal, focuses on CinemaSpace, the new screening room I helped create at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts at The Saidye.
Enjoy the article. It's a juicy one with talk about our hemp seats, Cineclub film series and everything we're up to at CinemaSpace.
You can read the full article HERE.
See you at the movies... Drop by sometime!
Ez
P.S. To get on the CinemaSpace email list, drop me an email: ezra at pressuredrop dot com
The Canadian Government has just put up a web site allowing you to block your telephone numbers from telemarketers.
A handy site if you don't like your dinners interrupted or your fax machine filled with junk pages.
Click HERE for the link.
Ring you later,
Ez
My old buddy and Pressure Drop collaborator, Marc Ostrick, has launched an incredible blog for all you online video lovers. It's called Notes From An Online Video Junkie.
If you love short, sweet, often hilarious web videos but find it frustrating to surf the web to find them, Marc's blog may be just the answer. He rounds them up, adds some intelligent web-savvy context and poof, you're laughin'.
An easy way to lighten up a stressed out day at the office.
You can also see bunch of Marc's original web videos there... stuff he shot for the series "24", clips on Linkin' Park and many other videos that frequently peer into the fascinating creative process of artists.
Enjoy!
Ez
(Marc Ostrick and Ez in L.A.'s Union Station)
Here's a pic of me receiving the Ville de Montréal Prize from City of Montreal Executive Committee member Marcel Tremblay at the closing ceremony of Eurofest at Cinema du Parc this past Thursday.
The prize was awarded to my film Posthumous Pickle Party about Simcha's Grocery on St-Laurent Blvd.
Congratulations to the whole PPP team who worked on the film with me: co-producer Matt Zimbel, editor Andrew David, composer Josh "Socalled" Dolgin, and all of Simcha's customers who appear in the film: Stanley Lewis, Josh Dolgin, Barry Lazar, Sofya Raginsky, Dan Seligman, Miro Corcea, Peter Varvaro and others.
Extra special thanks to Simcha, Fanny and their family for being featured in the documentary.
Copies of the film are available for sale on DVD for all who missed the screening.
This is a great honour. I love Montreal and am pleased to have preserved another important part of it in a movie.
Pickles to all!
Ez
A Nevada bike builder grows bicycle frames in a field, with sunlight and water! They are made out of bamboo and hemp.
Wired has the full story here.
Pedal on,
Ez
("The Face of a Vegetable", 9/08, Laurentian Mountains, by Ezra S.)
("Steps Of Life", 8/08, MTL, Ezra S.)
("Trucks Upon Trucks", 8/08, MTL, Ezra S.)
(8/08, MTL, "Red Socks At Water")
("StrawHeartberry", 7/08, Laurentian Mountains, QC, Ezra S.)
("Hummingbird In Thought and Thought Alone",
(Snippet of CBC's Q Museum)Naughty pranksters recently transformed a Swedish park into more than your garden-variety flowerbed. Read the article here.
("He don't have glaucoma...
("Cashbird", 7/08, MTL/St-Adolphe, Ezra S.)
("Hot Wheels", 7/08, Ile d'Orleans, QC, Ezra S.)Hi Ez Sezzers!
Welcome back to the site.
I've got some good news...
-Just got my first digital camera... new pix to share (see last few Ez Sez postings below for a taste of what's to come!)
-Opened a cozy new cinema... CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre... come by sometime. (There's a rare early Coppola film playing this Wednesday!) More info here.
I took these three bird pix on a road trip through Quebec the last few days.
("Twisty Leaf", 7/08, MTL, Ezra S.)
("Banana Boxes at a Flea Market", 7/08, Lachute, QC, Ezra S.)
