My hard drive containing all my photos crashed. Backups saved my life. A few new pictures didn't make it through, but they do make for some interesting artifacts.

If we can find beauty in film's imperfections, will we ever appreciate digital shortcomings?More...

I’ve switched all but 8 incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) in my house when I moved in a few months ago, but didn’t know what to do with the old bulbs. I kept them in a box, wondering if there were local ordinances regulating their proper disposal – all 31 of them in one shot at that.More...

A few interesting graphs from Last.fm's Playground, showing my music listening trends.

Fun fact:

• Number of photos on hard drive: 15,581
• Number of photos on flickr: 116
• Percentage of photos on flickr: 0.7%.

I received a video art assignment that read:

Though relatively young, the use of video as a medium has already developed into various genres… Each of these has established a certain format that is readily acceptable by a board public in a smooth uncritical way… All I am asking you in this project is to look at one of these traditions and cast doubt on them through disruption.

Basically, I needed to find one or more points in a use of video and replace the element with something else to find out the results. Initially I wanted to use footage from Friends and replace the dialogues with something unintelligible to the common people but preserving the annoying laughing tracks. But I did not really like the idea, because I needed voices of various people. More...

One project outline for an art class I attended read:

Suitcase Project: Find a suitcase (any size) or it can be a typewriter case or any other case with handles etc. You are to alter/transform/change/perform with/document/whatever you want, it’s up to you. It’s your idea. Create an environment inside/outside do something strange/silly/unusual/new/great/stupid/OK.

Ideas began to pour through. While sorting through my trash, one idea caught on – to convert egg trays I collected for another project into a suitcase. I decided to paint each side of the egg tray wells in different colours. I thought it was worth exploring what was possible when one applies a chaotic combination of colours onto an organized pattern. More...

A 100x time-lapsed video of a sunset over Ambassador Bridge, the bridge that links Detroit, Michigan, USA to Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

The background music is Steven Cravis - Falling Leaves.