tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54534662024-02-07T03:16:15.512-05:00Bigge IdeaHello. I'm Ryan Bigge, a Toronto-based content strategist and cultural journalist. I also dabble in creative technology.
And just like Roman on Party Down, I have a prestigious blog.Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comBlogger573125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-90909042062813660022016-12-30T19:12:00.001-05:002016-12-30T19:12:22.273-05:00Toronto Vernacular<div class="MsoNormal">
Is there a 416 equivalent to the Vancouver Special? Sure. I call it Toronto Vernacular, and it dates back to <a href="http://www.blogto.com/city/2016/11/what_honest_eds_used_to_look_like_back_in_the_day/" target="_blank">Honest Ed’s</a>. I don’t know what else to call our uniquely lo-fi retail aesthetic.</div>
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I read <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/learning-las-vegas" target="_blank">Learning From Las Vegas</a> many years ago. My garbled, taken from memory summary is: seemingly ugly signage can communicate effectively, which means <i>maybe it isn’t so ugly after all</i>.</div>
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What I can say with confidence is that I’m not the only person who thinks Toronto Vernacular is meaningful:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Let’s Be Ready</i> by The Wooden Sky and <i>E P L P</i> by Teenanger<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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</style>Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-60704507326896433712016-12-30T17:47:00.002-05:002016-12-31T12:41:18.982-05:00Analog FacebooksI finished David Sax’s book <i>The Revenge of Analog</i> over the holidays. I could have written the book, maybe. I don’t say that to be arrogant — I was obsessed with <a href="http://physidigital.com/" target="_blank">physidigital</a> objects from 2011 to 2013.<br />
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I don’t think I could have written this, however:<br />
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“Tabletop gaming creates a unique social space apart from the digital world. It is the antithesis of the glossy, streaming waterfalls of information and marketing that masquerade as relationships on social networks. A Twitter conversation is nothing more than a chain reaction of highly edited quips; a Facebook friendship is more like an electronic Christmas card exchange than a real interaction; an Instagram feed captures just the shiny highlights of life.”<br />
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There are valid critiques to be made of social media. I read such critiques all the time. David Sax, you’re no JFK.<br />
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Now that I have my requisite cheap shot out of the way, some praise. Sax has a clear and easy-to-grok argument, and he does the hard work of reporting and research. There are moments of grey (digital needs analog, and vice-versa) but his thesis requires a lot of black and white. I suppose a book called <i>Watching Atoms and Bits Make Sweet Love</i> would be more difficult to market.<br />
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(Want to see a far more intelligent person explore the necessary symbiosis of digital and analog? <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/review-david-saxs-the-revenge-of-analog-extols-the-superiority-of-real-things/article32675146/" target="_blank">Read this review by Navneet Alang</a>.)<br />
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Sax is a solid writer, but I almost returned <i>Revenge of Analog</i> to the library after sentence number four: “The place smells like hot metal, sour water, and the sweet poison tang of warm plastic.”<br />
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Writers of the world! Please don’t use Whitesnake lyrics to describe a record pressing factory.<br />
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Thankfully there isn’t much purple prose in <i>Revenge</i>. And I might be the problem — perhaps no one else cringed at: “This wasn’t just a bookstore opening up. It was a symbol of hope, a lone flower poking up from the spring frost after a long, brutal winter for bookstores.”<br />
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I’m grateful that <i>Revenge</i> introduced me to Adobe’s <a href="https://kickbox.adobe.com/what-is-kickbox" target="_blank">Kickbox</a> and Stack’s <a href="http://www.stackmagazines.com/" target="_blank">indie magazine rando-subscription</a>. But despite my analog sympathies, I’ve realized I’m more interested in <a href="http://reallifemag.com/every-place-at-once/" target="_blank">the revenge of digital</a>:<br />
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“Moving through the dining hall, I passed the notice boards bearing photographs of the church youth. I take a cursory glance and spot my sister’s face. I wonder if Facebook is merely digital scrapbooks. Or if the recent resurgence of scrapbooks are merely analog Facebooks.”Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-30594364928385872632016-10-31T09:19:00.001-04:002016-10-31T09:28:59.428-04:00Cartoon Illogic and Collaborative Delight at Hand Eye Society Ball 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
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Cuphead at the 2016 <a href="http://handeyesociety.com/">Hand Eye Society Ball</a>
held on September 24 at the Masonic Temple. In part because it was projected
onto a movie theatre sized screen, making it hard to ignore. Also, Cuphead is
basically a playable cartoon from the 1930s, making it far more visually
compelling for spectators than a typical videogame.*<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The only problem with sustained observation
is that eventually you start to spot flaws.** The most obvious is that <a href="http://cupheadgame.com/">Cuphead</a> is a run-and-gun*** bolted to a
surreal, Fleischer brothers, dream world. The result is a visually inventive game
powered by standard-issue game mechanics. You might fight gourds, onions and
carrots, but they’re still bosses, a trope that dates back to the 1980s.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">It might seem cruel to critique an independent
game maker, especially since I’ve seen the risk and struggle involved in DIY via
<a href="http://buy.indiegamethemovie.com/">Indie Game: The Movie</a>. But I
found the cartoon aesthetics without cartoon illogic to be constraining and unsatisfying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Park</a>, meanwhile, will never be described as beautiful. But it only took two
minutes with this 10-player, cooperative game before my dear friends Surprise & Delight appeared. The right amount of unpredictability and spontaneous
problem-solving, coupled with group communication and strategizing, made this
my favourite game.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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mention that I attended Society Ball last year, which featured multiple lineup
snafus. (To their credit, Hand Eye apologized rapidly and thoroughly.) This
year the organizers worked so hard not to repeat mistakes that it felt like a
bizarro-world parody of 2015. During my time at the Society Ball, there were
no lines of any kind (bar, bathroom, tickets, coat check). Yes, lineups to play the games, but that’s to be expected.</div>
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this sentence I realized there’s a cottage-industry built around people
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">***This is not a hot take: the creators
describe Cuphead as “A RUN & GUN GAME FROM STUDIO MDHR.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-91145375602554959452016-10-01T22:30:00.001-04:002016-10-01T22:30:44.846-04:00Do not sell to Kandy Kat. Dangerous character.I never quite found my way into Alexandra Kleeman’s novel <b>You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine</b>. But I did eagerly read every last word about Kandy Kat and his Kandy Kake obsession. Here are all the tasty bits in one convenient location:<br />
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In this new series, Kandy Kat would often successfully chase down or otherwise achieve contact with the snack cakes, but the cakes were pictured as live-action, three-dimensional objects while the cat was always a flat cartoon. The gag each time was that no matter how hard he tried, Kandy Kat could never put a Kandy Kake down his throat: the two types of matter were fundamentally incompatible.<br />
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Kandy Kakes were made of Real Stuff.<br />
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In this commercial, Kandy Kat faces off against his longtime nemesis Kandy Klown, a bulbous, Santa-shaped figure who consumes Kandy Kakes like it’s the simplest thing in the world, like it’s all he can do.<br />
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The slogan to that Kandy Kakes advertisement was off somehow. We know who you really are. It failed to sell anything, it wasn’t friendly, it sounded more like a threat than a promise. But then again, maybe it was a promise made to the worthy, that they alone would have all the Kandy Kakes they desired.<br />
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On-screen there was another Kandy Kakes commercial. In this one, Kandy Kat has become a scientist so that he can crack the problem of Kandy Kakes, find out what makes their matter so disastrously incompatible with his own. Kandy Kat guides us through a series of diagrams on the chalkboard that elucidate the basic structure of a Kandy Kake: outer coating of crispy candy shell sprinkled with crushed nuts and a patented candy substance known only as “Choco Shrapnel,” then a layer of gooey caramel followed by two layers of rich chocolate of slightly different consistencies.<br />
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At the center is the top-secret “Kandy Kore,” a dense, sugary substance whose chemical composition is known to only a few privileged individuals within the Kandy Kakes empire.<br />
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When Kandy Kat appears on two televisions screens at once, does he split in two? Two bodies with two minds pointed out at identical cartoon scenes? Two bodies responding identically, like twin machines? Or is there still one cartoon body, ribby and drained, with a doubled hunger for its double image?<br />
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Like in the commercial where an impish young Kandy Kake lures Kandy Kat on a chase through frame after frame of a happy suburban neighbourhood populated by cute yellow houses.<br />
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Then a stray claw snags on a piece of sky, and the world starts to stretch and then slump in a startling way: Kandy Kat has literally torn through the scenery, caused a widening rip in the world. He stops to look, perplexed, at the fluttering material, blown by a breeze of unknown origin.<br />
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The shot widens, and we see that Kandy Kat is standing in a studio soundstage in front of a flat, painted background that slips past him while the little Kake turns a crank. One yellow house after another scrolls by before Kandy Kat looks down and realizes that he’s been running on a treadmill the whole time, a treadmill that yanks him suddenly backward and threatens to throw him off completely.<br />
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Maybe Kandy Kat survived like that, from images of eating and images of food. Light consuming light, the desire for sustenance a type of sustenance in itself. Even if he was always paused on the narrow edge of starvation, what he was doing in pursuit of Kandy Kakes sustained him. They made his life terrible, but at the same time they made him more himself.<br />
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It was just like that commercial where Kandy Kat turns to crime in a last-ditch attempt to achieve Kandy Kakes consumption. He goes from store to store trying to buy a single, measly package of Kandy Kakes, but nobody will sell him anything. They point at a poster behind the counter that reads DO NOT SELL TO THIS KAT. DANGEROUS CHARACTER. Kandy Kat’s face is on this poster, hollow and gaunt. So Kandy Kat hijacks a freight train made up of an endless number of cars painted with the Kandy Kakes logo, and off goes the Kandy Kakes alarm, ringing police helicopters and squad cars, then military tanks. As Kandy Kat barrels toward a military blockade, he reaches back for a box of Kakes and says a final prayer before opening the box. But the box is empty, and so are all the others in the first car, and the second, and Kandy Kat looks up toward the impending collision with tears wobbling in his eyes. Strings of drool hang from his mouth as he meets his doom.<br />
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In one Kandy Kakes commercial, Kandy Kat and a Kandy Kake are dropped into the right and left halves of a split screen. Time begins speeding up as they stand side by side: seasons change and the furniture starts looking more futuristic, hands on the clocks in the background spin around dizzily. Kandy Kat’s bony body grows longer and taller and wider as it ages, though never more fleshed. Then suddenly he buckles, beginning a serene crumple inward. His knees bend and begin shaking, his head hollows out and gets skully, sinking down toward the ground where the shedding hair collects in soft, fluffy clots that blow around like tumbleweeds. His shriveled tail looks like a chewed-up rope. Occasionally he raises a skeletal paw to the stark black line that divides him from the Kandy Kake one cell over and claws at it, but he’s clearly getting tired. On the other side of the split screen, the Kandy Kake is doing jumping jacks and calisthenics, practicing the cancan, hopping around, and looking bored. No matter how much time seems to pass, it remains the same: untouchable, impassive.<br />
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As long as you leave the water-repellent fudge casing intact, your Kandy Kake is guaranteed to stay fresh for twenty to thirty years. By this time, Kandy Kat is mostly a pile of hunched bone and hide, his two round eyes blinking blearily at the audience. He holds up a sign that reads MY LAST WORDS, while the Kandy Kake, which has found its way over into his half of the screen, dances a perverse jig around his broken body.Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-91351053685661363272016-07-03T13:44:00.001-04:002016-07-03T13:54:55.892-04:00Fight your editorial urges, Jonathan Kay<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US">Even <i>contributors to his magazine</i> <a href="https://twitter.com/NabenRuthnum/status/743846831671545856" target="_blank">question his judgment</a>:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Kay seems deaf to criticism, but maybe Canadian
writers and critics have misread the situation. What if Kay isn’t a
mansplaining egoist? What if he's actually a compulsive editorializer who can’t
control his habit? If that's the case, we should try to help him with tips
for triumphing over temptation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Identify
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skipping documentaries, newspapers and podcasts altogether.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Find
other pleasurable activities</span></b><span lang="EN-US">. Search for a new
hobby that demands your full attention. Enjoy art? Take a watercolour class!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Place
a rubber band around your wrist</span></b><span lang="EN-US">. Every time you get
the urge to write an editorial, flick the rubber band. You will eventually associate opinions with pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">When
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activity</span></b><span lang="EN-US">. Play a game of Tetris or a few rounds of
Kubb – anything that distracts you from the urge to opine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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computer, the greater the chances that you’ll start editorializing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Exercise
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result of excessive stress or tension. Exercising regularly will help relieve this
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<span lang="EN-US">Best of luck Jonathan Kay! Struggle is a
normal part of the journey to recovery. Keep fighting and don’t give in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-10561620637071984152016-05-29T05:52:00.001-04:002016-05-29T20:19:20.887-04:00Canada Post's Deepak Chopra is a really big fan of innovationDeepak Chopra, chief executive officer of Canada Post, recently wrote a <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/the-sticky-note-that-made-canada-post-think-like-a-startup/article30191339/" target="_blank">Globe article</a> about innovation. As the following snippets indicate, he's a really big fan:<br />
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a small innovation team<br />
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so-called innovation team<br />
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inability to innovate<br />
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the need to innovate<br />
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two models of innovation<br />
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innovation labs can thrive<br />
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innovate to seize the opportunity<br />
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innovate our core services<br />
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a string of innovations<br />
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we have innovated<br />
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we had to innovate<br />
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innovation is not the natural order of business<br />
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celebrating our innovation successes<br />
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the task of innovation<br />
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extracting the maximum value from innovation<br />
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thoughtfully incorporating innovation<br />
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innovation is about more than<br />
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innovation theatre rather than innovation culture<br />
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we saw the value of innovation<br />
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we can innovateRyan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-76191195205497658532016-03-23T13:35:00.000-04:002016-06-21T12:31:57.692-04:00Get yer red hot content-first UX here!<div class="MsoNormal">
On February 20 I gave a talk entitled
“<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/biggeidea/killing-lorem-ipsum-with-content-first-ux" target="_blank">Killing Lorem Ipsum With Content-First UX</a>” at PodCamp Toronto 2016.<br />
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That talk inspired this blog post about <a href="https://labs.telus.com/blog/content-first-user-experience-how-to-design-with-words" target="_blank">how to overcome common barriers to content-first user experience</a>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Based on my PodCamp talk, I assembled <a href="https://medium.com/@biggeidea/the-super-list-of-content-first-ux-resources-e82e55a3593#.vqminsv8o">The
Super List of Content-First UX Resources</a> on Medium, which should be
self-explanatory.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US">I also put together a Medium article about <a href="https://medium.com/@biggeidea/words-on-paper-prototyping-1958d7d2a29d#.md1n5k67x" target="_blank">prototyping with content</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Finally, because demand was so
overwhelming, I gave an updated version of my talk entitled “<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/biggeidea/content-first-ux-how-to-design-with-words" target="_blank">Content-FirstUX: How to Design With Words</a>” on Monday, April 18 at the <a href="http://www.meetup.com/The-Toronto-Content-Strategy-Group/events/229439254/">Toronto
Content Strategy Meetup</a>. </span><br />
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As I make abundantly clear in my PodCamp
deck (and elsewhere), I did not invent content-first user experience – <a href="http://www.stephaniehay.com/">Steph Hay</a> did. I’m just spreading the
word(s).</div>
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Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-54898549280807851162016-02-10T18:27:00.004-05:002016-02-10T18:27:59.231-05:00Big Bang Theory Poetry<div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Fuck you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Where was the joke?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">He just fucking named </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">a bunch of shit. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">How is this </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">comedy?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Why are you </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">laughing? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Why?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/LyleMcDouchebag/status/692483069064933378">https://twitter.com/LyleMcDouchebag/status/692483069064933378</a></span></span></div>
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Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-20255880579307856162016-01-31T16:58:00.002-05:002016-01-31T17:12:26.676-05:00My Year of 2015, Summarized<div class="MsoNormal">
Chronology is for chumps. Themes are keen.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Music</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I took three months of guitar lessons from </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Michael McKenzie </span><span lang="EN-US">at <a href="http://redhousemusicacademy.com/home.html">Red House Music Academy</a>. He
did all he could, but my lead guitar skills remain meh. Still, I managed to
learn the solos for Touch Me I’m Sick (Mudhoney) and School (Nirvana).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My old drummer Stefan was kind enough to
create a <a href="http://www.subpox.com/">GeoCities CyberPage</a> for my cover
band SubPox. We played our first show (a house party) in September before Mark
Cluett, bass player extraordinaire, moved to Glasgow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I also caught a few great concerts: Weaves
at the AGO, Metz at Lee’s Palace and Dilly Dally at the Horseshoe. And after
convincing myself that Ride would never reunite, I was beyond ecstatic to see them
at the Danforth Music Hall in June.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Bike
Tourist<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’ve finally realized that my favourite
part of travelling is being on a bike. I see more of a city, at the right pace,
when I’m on a bike. And I’m in control: no waiting for subways, buses or taxis.
I love to walk, but it doesn’t always do the job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In September I biked across the Golden Gate
Bridge. The next day I rented a bike from Mission Bicycle Co. and did The
Wiggle to Golden Gate Park and kept going until I reached the ocean. Then I did
the reverse and managed, thanks to Google Maps, to reach City Lights Bookstore
with a minimum of pushing the bike up hills. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My Airbnb in Portland came with a bike, and
I rode the hell out of that thing, covering a lot of ground on both sides of
the bridges in two days. It was very difficult to return to Toronto after
experiencing bike utopia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I also discovered that Seattle now has
Bixi, although I would dissuade most people from using one to get to Capitol
Hill. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Art
Tourist<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The other big reason I like to travel is to
see stuff framed on walls. I was mesmerized by Rebirth of the World, an
enormous triptych video installation by Chiho Asoshima at the Seattle Asian Art
Museum. It was narratively and visually dense, packed with surreal, beautiful
and otherworldly landscapes and characters. I watched it three times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In May I attended a performance of <a href="http://codact.ch/gb/nylogb.html">Nyloid</a> at the Montreal Museum of
Contemporary Art. The first 10 minutes were mesmerizing and awe inducing, even
a touch scary. Then the giant triffid stopped working, and the spell it had
cast broke along with it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Art Institute of Chicago is enormous,
serene and heated – all important qualities when you visit that city in
February. The security guard at the Seattle Art Museum showed me a new route to
the ticket desk with so much enthusiasm that it set the tone for my entire
visit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Portland Art Museum seems small but
isn’t – a whole bunch of modest rooms eventually added up to a lot of art.
Similar phenomenon at the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Traditional
Tourist <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the Newseum
in Washington, D.C, and without trying, I spent almost three hours there. Also
glad that the nasty-windy walk to the Chicago Museum of History from the “L” was
worth it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I went to Alcatraz and yes, the audio tour
is great, and yes, my neighbour Matt was right to tell me to buy tickets way in
advance because it sells out. Without a doubt the most touristy thing I did
this year, except for taking the Seattle Great Wheel, which was whee!-ly fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I also had lunch at the Facebook campus. It
was delicious and free. I “liked” it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Other
Art<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I hate writing sentences like this, but the
best exhibit I saw in 2015 was “The Flesh of the World” at </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">University of Toronto Art Centre</span><span lang="EN-US">. I liked it so much <a href="http://thebiggeidea.blogspot.ca/2015/08/the-flesh-of-world-needs-tagline.html">I
created a tagline for the show to help promote it</a>. It was difficult to
determine the theme of the show based on the marketing materials the gallery
produced. I lost track of how many people I told to see that show, but I fear
my enthusiasm might have had the opposite effect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I attended three art lectures this fall,
something I’ve never done before. They were all great, each in very different
ways, and I’m grateful for the insights from Hito Steyerl, Janice Kerbel and
Taryn Simon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Technology<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I heard Micah Elizabeth Scott talk twice
this year – the first time at a poorly promoted free talk at TIFF in early
March about how she created Forest for digiPlaySpace at TIFF. The second talk,
a month later, was a not free talk at FITC. To my surprise, the FITC talk was
far more personal and revealing, despite her speaking to a larger audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This year’s Maker Faire at the Toronto
Reference Library was fun and offered an affordable, well-organized option to solder
your very own blinking LED rocket ship pendant. I admire well-planned, large-scale
experiences, because I know how difficult it is to make them function smoothly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’m not sure if visiting a bunch of 8-bit
arcade bars counts as technology, but this year I went to both Chicago locations
of Emporium, Ground Kontrol in Portland, and Shorty’s in Seattle. (I also went
to Brewcade in San Francisco, which was a pale imitation of the real thing –
that being Barcade.) And, of course, relatively frequent trips to Toronto’s Get
Well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I went to Startup Open House again this
year, and enjoyed it, although maybe a little less than last year. The
Varagesale offices were something to behold, however. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And I attended a handful of Civic Tech
Toronto hack nights before I became too overwhelmed with full-time work. A
shame, because I heard some amazing guest speakers, including <a href="http://civictech.ca/2015/10/06/civic-tech-toronto-hacknight-october-6/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Iris Ko</span></a> and <a href="http://civictech.ca/2015/08/26/civic-tech-toronto-hacknight-august-25/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Kevin Branigan</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Misc.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I did a fair amount of volunteer work with
Story Planet in 2015. Their Alpha Workshops (now called </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Storymaker Workshops</span><span lang="EN-US">) are where I seem to add the most value. That’s a weird thing to
say, but being an effective volunteer means figuring out what you’re good at.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I took my best friend’s son to Vancouver’s Science
World in June and again in December He’s 8.5 years old, which meant the outing
required zero heroics from me, but I was inordinately proud that we had lots of
fun and that I brought him back home in one piece both times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I made a t-shirt for my annual street
party, <a href="http://thebiggeidea.blogspot.ca/2015/07/my-junction-triangle-t-shirt-featuring.html">and
it’s awesome</a>. I wrote an article about dive bars, <a href="https://medium.com/@biggeidea/derridada-and-simulacrumbs-dae325ea7a3b">and
it’s also awesome</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Food
and Drink<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I travelled solo through Chicago, San
Francisco, Portland, Seattle. I’d like to extend special thanks to the waiter
at The Publican (Chicago) for treating me exactly like anyone else in the
restaurant. And extra special thanks to Colyn, the bartender at Tasty n Sons in
Portland, who gave me three great suggestions – Kennedy School, Pip’s Doughnuts
and Sen Yai.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I spent many hours at Propeller Coffee during
the first part of 2015. Great coffee, great space, cool baristas. Based on my
receipts, The 47 is my favourite local spot. I also had a great Saturday in
July on the patio of The Gaslight, enjoying a BBQ sausage dog with potato chips
and all the fixings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In terms of local craft beer, I spent
quality time at Wisebar and Wenona. The best beer I had this year was Allagash
Curieux (aged in Jim Bean barrels) at Mikkeller in San Francisco. The best
cocktail of 2015 was a <span style="color: #191919;">Glasgow Smile </span>at
Barlow Bar in Portland. (<span style="color: #191919;">Scotch, smoked rosemary,
honey, dandelion-burdock bitters, barlow cube.) The second best was a Dead <s>Something</s>
[I forgot the rest of the name] at The Matchbox in Chicago.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Summary
of 2015 in a tweet</span></b><br />
Beer, bourbon and bikes in seven different
cities. Art, 90s tunes and old video games back home.</div>
Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-29865288483874945892015-10-01T20:31:00.003-04:002015-10-01T20:31:54.864-04:00It's not the band I hate, it's their fans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-16549042678926166722015-09-07T17:05:00.001-04:002015-09-08T09:07:27.402-04:00The real mapped against the unrealI was in my favourite copy shop the other day, makin’ copies, and just as I finished, a man walked towards the exit singing (with confidence and melody): “My curiosity arose / I telephoned the service lady.”<br />
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For a moment we made eye contact. Then he pushed open the door and disappeared. And right at that instant, all I could think was, “If this was a video game, then that was a major clue. In fact, maybe I should follow him.”<br />
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Immediately after that, as I reflected on why I transposed a weird, random, meaningless moment into something of value in a different medium, I thought that if the same moment occurred in a film, singing guy would reappear, because while incidental, he was still somehow important to the overall narrative. Or, to be more accurate, he appeared for a reason, but the audience would only be allowed to discover why at a later point in the film.<br />
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When I got home, I did some Google work, even trying “My curiosity aroused / I telephoned the circus lady.” But I couldn’t find anything. Nice work, mystery melody man.Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-66789131320313922352015-08-30T20:07:00.001-04:002016-12-30T17:40:56.306-05:00SubPox was part of the information superhighwayDesigning a GeoCities CyberPage for my 90s cover band SubPox was a lot of fun. I was incredibly fortunate to have a great developer offer to build the site in his spare time. It's responsive and short and to the point. [Update: The site is gone, but the dream will never die.]<br />
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Are there animated gifs? Yes, there are many of them. Those took a moderate amount of work. Creating an <a href="https://youtu.be/Kq2meinTky0" target="_blank">ASCII video version of our Mudhoney cover</a> was a real pain in the ass. But it's done.<br />
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<br />Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-53354598414027197062015-08-22T12:57:00.005-04:002015-08-22T12:57:53.875-04:00The Flesh of The World Needs a TaglineI went to see <a href="http://fleshoftheworld.ca/" target="_blank">The Flesh of the World</a>, an amazing collection of contemporary art last Saturday at the University of Toronto Art Centre. I could pontificate about the art, but it boils down to this: <b>it's free and incredible and a must-see.</b><br />
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That said, I'm a bit sad about the lack of promotion. Part of the challenge is that it's split across three galleries (two locations at U of T downtown and the remainder at U of T Scarborough). The other challenge is that their website lacks a tagline or any other form of simple description to help people understand what the exhibit is all about.<br />
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And so, since I love the show so much, I tried to fix the problem. I settled on trying to convey two things:<br />
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- the show provokes a wide range of strong emotions<br />
- the show includes diverse, inclusive artwork<br />
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There are a bunch of other small improvements the current website could integrate, starting with more images of the art itself. But a tagline, or equivalent entry point for potential viewers, seems like the right first step. Because they can then use the tagline to better promote the show through social media and other channels.<br />
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Why did I do this? Not because I'm a marketing genius, a copywriting wizard, or a crackerjack designer looking for a reason to show off. I did this because I was genuinely moved by the artwork I saw. I did this because I'm proud of our city for supporting a collection of art related to the Pan Am & Parapan games that avoided being a room filled with watered down, up-with-people, mush. And I did this because I saw a constructive way of solving a small part of their promotional challenge, instead of just complaining.<br />
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<br />Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-11702128655763859172015-08-20T15:49:00.001-04:002015-09-08T09:05:12.523-04:00Words if necessary, but not necessarily a wordy manifesto<div class="MsoNormal">
Last week I had a pretty decent idea for a personal
creative project. I’m not going to give much away, but when I shifted from light
bulb to capturing the project on paper, I found myself doing something unusual:
I didn’t just puke a bunch of words onto the page. I love using words as a
cheap way to prototype an idea, but taglines and paragraphs aren’t always the
best approach.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This time out, what felt most natural and
appropriate for my web-based creative project was a script for a 60-second
video. Understand, however, that I’m not doing a Kickstarter or a <a href="http://megagogo.co/">MegaGogo</a> campaign. Having an explanatory video for
my creative project certainly isn’t a bad idea, but it wasn’t an obvious first
choice either.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The reason I mention my script-first
approach is that I tend to overlook video due to my print journalism
background. Despite all the digital copywriting and content strategy work I’ve
done over the past five years, my default definition of content is still words,
with the occasional nod to icons and infographics. In my defence, video can be
expensive and time-consuming if you don’t want it to look like garbage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I really enjoyed writing the script,
especially because it quickly turned into something playful and fun, rather
than yet another mini-manifesto. The script also helped me visually define the
tone and style of the project – something that might inform the look and feel
of the site design down the road. There’s also an energy and pace to the video
that would be very difficult to convey through any other format.</span><br />
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Although it’s far from exhaustive, the
script offers a concise project definition: here’s what I decided to do, and
why. And, finally, I can take the key messages from the video and use them to
develop headlines and body copy. That’s a lot of heavy lifting for a 130 word script.</div>
Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-11645144194460420042015-08-10T09:16:00.001-04:002015-08-10T09:16:07.562-04:00Sexist ChumboxGood news everyone! Conclusive proof that <a href="http://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum" target="_blank">chumboxes</a> are devoid of meaningful content and sexist to boot!<br />
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<a href="http://financeandcareer.com/10-jobs-that-pay-six-figures-without-a-college-degree/6/" target="_blank">Hot court reporter</a>? That's your file name? Really?<br />
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<br />Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-85593001152146068822015-07-30T13:00:00.004-04:002015-07-30T13:12:25.723-04:00My Junction Triangle t-shirt featuring the serpentine streets of Symington and SterlingI woke up this morning and discovered a tweet of mine was getting some attention.<br />
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I imagine there are 12 people in Toronto who will find this amusing. Maybe you're one of them? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/jtriangle?src=hash">#jtriangle</a> <a href="http://t.co/z3vlYfspcj">pic.twitter.com/z3vlYfspcj</a></div>
— Ryan Bigge (@biggeidea) <a href="https://twitter.com/biggeidea/status/622568355774382080">July 19, 2015</a></blockquote>
I have no interest in getting into the hyper-local, non-lucrative, t-shirt business, so <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/77651845@N00/20147030125/in/dateposted-public/" target="_blank">here is the jpeg</a> I used to make my shirt. I bought my shirt at H&M and went to <a href="http://www.comegetcustomized.com/" target="_blank">Toronto Tees</a> to get it printed.<br />
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At first we barely noticed the baby hobos. Their encampment on the edges of our suburb was unruly, yes, but small. Tins of Enfalac heated over small fire pits, the occasional odour of amateur s’mores wafting into our cul-de-sac.</div>
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But strength in numbers should never be underestimated, and the babies eventually reached critical mass. They migrated south, from Markham down to North York and then still further, until the toddler tribe alighted upon the Danforth. By then they were hungry for all that they had been previously denied. They squatted on patios, in dive bars. The moment they saw weakness, they would bully or intimidate.</div>
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(Inspired by a photo from <a href="http://swizzlestudio.com/" target="_blank">Rob Elliott)</a>.</div>
Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-65586296384546900382015-02-05T09:09:00.002-05:002015-02-05T09:09:56.992-05:00The Gearyfication of Geary Ave has begunStuart Berman wrote a <a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2015/02/04/geary-ave-the-secret-life-of-an-ugly-street.html" target="_blank">funny and smart Toronto Star article</a> about the gritty pluck and changing fortunes of Geary Ave: <blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.4545440673828px;">Though located just steps north of heavily trafficked Dupont St., the unremarkable, one-kilometre-long Geary Ave. — beginning at Ossington Ave. in the east and terminating just past Dufferin St. in the west — exists in the no man’s land between downtown and midtown, an area so unconcerned with keeping up appearances that its modern-furniture knock-off stores actually have names like </span><a href="http://www.modernfurnitureknockoff.com/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0072bc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.4545440673828px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Modern-Furniture Knock Off</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.4545440673828px;">.</span></blockquote>
However, as someone who uses and enjoys the Rehearsal Factory, I'm concerned that this article signals the start of rapid Gearyfication.<br />
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Or, to put it in language that everyone understands, "Stuart you ho this is all your fault."<br />
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Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-78774855628911260792015-01-31T11:35:00.004-05:002015-01-31T11:35:59.998-05:00Return on Collision: The Tony Hsieh Story<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Excerpts from “Tony Hsieh Is Building a
Startup Paradise in Vegas” by Susan Berfield published December 30, 2014 in
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Hsieh met Ashton Allen, co-founder of
Rabbit!, he called it a “serendipitous <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">collision</b>.”
That was in 2010, at a conference in Hawaii. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We’re maximizing long-term ROC and ROL,
return on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">collisions</b> and return on
luck. We’re accelerating serendipity.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We’re starting to understand what
opportunities there are that could potentially both generate profitability and
also a return on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">collision</b>,” says
Maggie Hsu, who’s focused on business development at the Downtown Project. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now there’s a consultant who advises
entrepreneurs. His company is called ROCeteer (ROC, as in Return on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Collisions</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Downs says the Downtown Project is
considering leasing some unused property to other developers. Hsieh would
become a landlord, earning a return on investment if not <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">collision</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Someone like me, I’m out in a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">collisionable</b> way three or four hours a
day, seven days a week. So I’m worth about 1,000 collisionable hours a year.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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investments that might not make money for a while. “Say we want 100,000 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">collisionable</b> hours a year from an investment.
That works out to 2.3 hours per square foot per year,” he says, with a
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into a space. It’s ‘are you going to yield those <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">collisionable</b> hours?’ If not, we can say no without judging the
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between people and their value had been Jorgensen’s job. He was the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">collision</b> scientist, until he was
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Project says: “Goal: 10 million <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">collisionable</b>
hours per year inside the llama footprint.” Llamas are Hsieh’s talisman; the
60 acres he owns roughly form the shape of one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-38025311183913348902015-01-04T12:55:00.001-05:002015-01-04T12:55:41.638-05:00The Year of 2014 for Ryan<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">My 2014 was better than my 2013. Here are
some reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Take
This Job and Love It<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I began 2014 gunning for a full-time job,
but to repurpose Hemingway’s quote about bankruptcy, I decided to go freelance gradually,
then suddenly. I was a freelance journalist for about a decade, and by the end
of that cycle I was exhausted with the lack of money, the solitude, the irregular
hours and extremely irregular payment schedule.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Content strategy consulting is a much
different beast. There are client meetings, office visits, collaboration
sessions and other social elements. And when I need to concentrate, I have the
flexibility to work from home. From January to June I was gradually busy, followed
by a sudden whoosh of projects and presentations. By the end of it all I was
tired, but also a bit smarter and a bit richer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Along with doing, I was able to augment my
brain by reading: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Why We Fail (Victor Lombardi) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Service Design (Andy Polaine) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Exposing the Magic of Design (Jon Kolko)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* The New York Times Innovation Report<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* UXPin Guide to Minimum Viable Products<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I also attended <a href="http://uxthursday.com/events/Toronto-2014">UX Thursday</a>, the best $100
I’ve ever spent on a conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Adventures
in Mid-Fi<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In June I found a bass player for my
indiepalooza cover band. Shortly thereafter I found a drummer. And by November
we were sounding pretty darn okay. More importantly, we’d agreed on a name
(SubPox). But then we had to switch drummers (amicably) and the mad rush of
December happened. But I feel 99% confident we will play live in the spring of
2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Along the way I bought a life-changing
reverb pedal and a life-affirming delay pedal. Together they cover most of my
guitar noodling requirements. Which means I’m only two more pedals away from
not buying any more pedals for a very long time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">All
The Pretty Pictures (and Pixels too)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Hearing Richard Turley, Erik Spiekermann
and </span><span style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Andrew Zolty</span><span lang="EN-US"> talk at <a href="http://www.designthinkers.com/">Design Thinkers</a>
in early November.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Enjoying <a href="http://www.macm.org/en/expositions/pulse-room-2/">Pulse Room</a> by
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in a nearly empty Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in
July.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Playing all the indie games at the AGO’s
Fancy Videogame Party in February.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Admiring all the kickass KAWS at This is
Not a Toy exhibit (Design Exchange).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Seeing the work of Tori Foster at <a href="http://parinadimigallery.com/Site/index.php/exhibitions/show/tori_foster">Pari
Nadimi</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Experiencing <a href="http://jqrs.org/">Jacqueries</a>
on a warn August evening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Nuit Blanche-ing with Between Doors plus Everything
and Nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Touching a bunch of fun stuff at <a href="http://www.tiff.net/kids-family/digiplayspace">digiPlaySpace</a> in the
TIFF Lightbox.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* Loving and not loving the Douglas
Coupland exhibit in equal measures at the Vancouver Art Gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Word
Nerd<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* I was Handling Editor for <a href="http://rrj.ca/the-rrj-takes-home-some-hardware/">an RRJ feature that won
third place</a> from the </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication</span><span lang="EN-US"> in the “</span><span style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Specialized Business Press Article</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” category.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* On June 16 I shared embarrassing moments
from my Grade 5 diary at <a href="http://www.grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids.com/">Grownups Read Things
They Wrote as Kids</a> in front of many people at The Garrison. In August my
performance was broadcast on CBC radio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* I wrote about hidden gem Black Mirror for
<a href="http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/novel-and-future-near-future">Hazlitt</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* My byline appeared in Applied Arts and
Report on Business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* I volunteered a few times at Story
Planet, but it wasn’t until I took part in an Alpha Workshop that I really felt
useful. Twenty kids collectively develop a story up to the crisis point and
then each writes their own ending. The whole thing takes two hours and somehow
it works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* I went to see <a href="http://guillaumemorissette.com/">Guillaume Morissette</a> read at The
Ossington and I’m glad I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">This
Content Isn’t Going to Strategize Itself<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">As I’m fond of mentioning ad nauseam (because
I have SEO-whore tendencies just like everybody else), I organize the Toronto
content strategy meetup. This year we were able to get Karen McGrane to give a
guest talk. She was very generous with her time and insights and I’m grateful I
was able to have dinner with her beforehand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.meetup.com/The-Toronto-Content-Strategy-Group/">My other guest
speakers were equally smart, accomplished and insightful</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The Other
Stuff<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* My friends Graeme and Nadine had a second
child in February.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* My friends Adam and Bri got engaged in
December.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* I built a <a href="http://thebiggeidea.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-cheap-and-attractive-diy-standing.html">foldaway
cabinet standing desk thingie</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* My friend Chris threw a delightful house
party in January.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* I went to the RC Harris Filtration plant
during the February long weekend for an ice-tastic walk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* I had the “SuperBeautys 2” breakfast
special during a 28-hour trip to Montreal in July. It isn’t a great year
without one of those.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* I quit Facebook on October 11. I thought it
would be a three month absence, but I now think I’ll never return to big blue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* On April 11 I reached peak Galaga at Get
Well with a score of 150,650.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">* I finally bought a super-slim Bellroy
wallet and it was worth every penny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* I’m now the sort of person who owns a
wheelbarrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-34826783151076277812014-10-25T14:01:00.003-04:002014-10-25T14:02:19.984-04:00Snackable content about adaptive content<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/The-Toronto-Content-Strategy-Group/events/197663602/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxCID-ECf-PhPx0EIqCilB85CdlSjYioFK_DSXmgMxuIiUbyPk-Ua1-CYOt7IwD5V4a_sXPKwnfBviPHUAH9sAU4sa4YjUJp00rCOnjkG9YvICcCxelC7LenuopYKcpYhOp8Q_/s1600/McGrane+-Final-Real.jpg" /></a></div>
<br />Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-79452187829323252282014-10-21T19:22:00.003-04:002014-10-21T19:22:48.844-04:00Negotiating by the wordLast week I received an email from an editor of a glossy magazine based in the U.S. Not the A-list, but not the C-list either.<br />
<br />
The editor wanted me to write a feature, about 1,800 words, a company profile. The fee was half of what I normally receive for magazine work. So I told the editor what my normal rate was, and that I would lose money writing the feature at the fee offered. (I do a lot of consulting and copywriting these days, so I’ve developed a nasty habit of calculating projects at an hourly rate.)<br />
<br />
In my email, I asked the editor if there was room to negotiate. Instead of emailing me back with a counter-offer, the editor asked “What number would work for you?”<br />
<br />
My answer was double the fee I was offered.<br />
<br />
The editor then emailed back to say my fee was too steep and explained that the magazine is “a very small family-run indie magazine … that carries very little advertising.”<br />
<br />
What’s curious to me is why the editor didn’t say that earlier in the process. Perhaps the editor was hoping my counter-offer would be within their budget. Perhaps the editor is bad at negotiating. But what if the editor had responded to my overtures to negotiate with the following:<br />
<br />
“Hi Ryan. The most I can offer is $HighNumberThanFirstNumber. I’d like to offer more, but we’re a small indie magazine without a lot of advertising. Let me know if you can make that number work.”<br />
<br />
I’m willing to bet that kind of transparency would have made me far more likely to say yes.<br />
<br />
<br />Ryan Biggehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12551084525176422054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453466.post-10319273365658578262014-10-18T08:42:00.003-04:002014-10-18T08:42:54.600-04:00Scare me once, shame on you<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I voted out of fear in the recent Ontario
provincial election. I’m not proud of this decision, but it was clear that
Hudak was willing to destroy the public sector to win some kind of ideological
bet he made with Mike Harris. Since Toronto barely survived the last
Conservative government, I voted Liberal. The fact that Andrea Horwath ran a terrible and pandering campaign made
this decision a little easier, even though Jonah Schein is clearly a good dude
who deserved better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I will not make the same mistake on October
27. It’s clear that no matter how many times I vote, Olivia Chow will not be
our next mayor. But I’m still going to vote for her. Doug Ford is a bully. We should have stood up to him four years ago, but for a variety of complicated
reasons, we were unable or unwilling. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’m not afraid of big brother. Nor should
you. Fear of Doug Ford is not a good enough reason to vote for John Tory. Doug will
be lucky if he gets more than 25% of the vote.* I doubt he has the machinery required
to mobilize supporters and get them to the polls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">John Stuart Mill believed that humans try
to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. Voting for Tory is about minimizing
pain. Our shattered city will gain no pleasure from four years of Tory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s a shame that an absence of pain is the
best Toronto can do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Through some daring and complex espionage, I
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<span lang="EN-US">* The top 10 underwater brunch spots in
Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* 5 Toronto brunch spots that even Shawn
Micallef could love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* Toronto top best 10 10 brunch best best
brunch brunch brunch Toronto 2015 1947 1867 2002<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* The top 10 late evening brunch
restaurants in Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* The top 10 brunch places in that area
south of the Junction but west of the Junction Triangle, I think the
neighbourhood is called Junc-Tri-High but I'm not entirely sure and at this
point I'm ruining our SEO which means I'm fired, aren't I, even though I don't
technically get paid for these articles in the first place, sigh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* The top 10 tattoo parlours that serve brunch in Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* Best brunch lineup in Toronto</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* 10 Instagram photos of screaming Toronto
infants in oversized strollers ruining brunch for everyone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* The best shitty brunch servers with
attitude in Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* The top 10 Liechtenstein brunch spots in
Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">* Black History Month brunch in Toronto
2015</span></div>
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