Enter to Win #KeriChristmas Giveaway Extravaganza

Dec 17 2011

Over $200 of gifts can be yours!

Behold this beautiful bounty.

Highlights include:

JD Honey – I take this to parties, because it’s really new and a guaranteed crowd pleaser

Marks Work Warehouse – Functional AND fashionable, which is why I like ’em, Mark’s will be keeping your hands and feet warm with their 100% Canadain awesomeness

Nella Bella Bag – Another Canadian company, made in downtown Toronto, that has reinvented classic, and in a vegan fabric to boot

Chobani Yogurt – This is America’s #1 Yogurt and has just arrived in Canada, and you’ll be on of the first to try it because you’re going to get a dozen delivered to your door. No fat, actual real ingredients, created by passion woah just realized: almost all the companies are family-run here NICE.

A 9-step pouring kit from Stella. There’s an art and methodology to pouring a Stella. I’ve been trained in it actually, and can pour you a perfect pint, then level the foam with much flourish.

To Enter: tweet the hashtag #KeriChristmas

Winners will be drawn Monday at 3pm

(PLEASE NOTE: I’m sorry, but you have to be in Toronto to win, because I have to drive it to you, unless you wanna drive here, that’s cool too)

My blog brought me a ton of fun stuff from great companies this year, and I wanted to share with you, that’s what’s happening here, because I appreciate you stopping by my blog, and thanks for pushing play.

The Studio* Lives!

Dec 16 2011

MOBILITY. I AM SO HAPPY. YES I AM YELLING.

5 months without a car, longest stretch in a decade+, and it was really getting to me. Genuinely, it was making me down.

Then two weeks ago when I was on a roof looking out, and it hit me, “I can’t get to any of that”. And I’m used to being able to get to that, designed my life around being able to get to that, you know?

BEHOLD!!

Check out the keyed entry.

The odometer readout is more for me than you, to document. Miles though, funny eh… The Canadian Explorer drove an American car, shhhhh.

I can’t turn on radio though, I’m being defeated by the anti-theft system.

You can’t see the display to enter the code to turn on the radio. It’s my new game: you get two tries then it locks for an hour. It’s possible this is impossible to win, because the radio might no longer works. Half the windows don’t go down. No one knows.

Funny I posted the radio security code online eh, not for the first time either. Security is relative.

Driving home.

This happy face is brought to you by Claus of Frontenac AutoBody in Kingston, Ontario.

Remember when it all started, my car broke down and I left it under a cel tower in Kingston?

I got news last week Claus and his gang had been tinkering, and YES got it up and running again YES Claus YES Frontenac AutoBody. And another YES to you for not having a website, and making me link to the YellowPages ahaha for real.

Their specialty is making high-end cars in wrecks, look like they never were. As well as Extreme Studio Maintenance. Actually, if you smashed your pretty car here in Toronto, I’d flat bed it here.

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For those of you just meeting me, ‘The Studio’ is my car, which was an integral part of my show, The Canadian Explorer, which I will explain further here, in song.

A Good Haircut Grows Out Well

Dec 14 2011

That’s how you know your hairdresser has given you a quality cut.

This is 4 weeks old and still symmetrical.

(these are stills from my Volkswagen Art Heist video)

He’s been my hair guy for years, and he never says anything about me doing things like this to his creations:

Hey. It’s a look :/

Appreciate it Brennen, and I made you into an animated gif as thanks ha.

GO TOO!

Brennen Demelo Studio
416 301 1072
316 Adelaide St. West

Have a Great Saturday Night

Oct 8 2011

Neat sun trick eh. I’ll show you my mug when I get it.

Thanks, Brennen!

Both male and female cuts, attend his BlowDry Bootcamp… plus Best Blonde in Canada.

Go too.

Brennen Demelo Studio
416 301 1072
316 Adelaide Street West

We’ve been a hairdresser/blogger duo forever, here, I dug out our first video from 2008.

Usually here I’d suggest you go see Lisen to get toned between cuts, but you can’t; ready, she leaves this week for 6 months in Thailand, by herself, YES Lisen! Here’s to an unforgettable trip, see ya soon, no dreads xo

We Lost a Magical Man #ThankYouSteve

Oct 6 2011

I knew it was coming, and it was just as sad as if I didn’t.

I’ve had a Mac since I was 7, a Apple Macintosh, and I’ve looked up to him since then.

I wrote school reports about him in elementary school, and I always liked how he was exacting, tough and true to his imagination.

Look what came out of his imagination….. GUI / the mouse / iPod….. omg just to even list all of them is a daunting task, imagine dreaming it up and making it happen?

Can you imagine life without Apple? Exactly.

Gawker has some good retrospectives here, here and here.

(a PowerBook 170 circa 1991)

You can still send him good wishes, I’m pretty sure most of the world’s belief systems agree that you don’t just zoom out of your body onto the next, it takes time. So follow the instructions in the below video.