Ledbrow » quirky arts and misc culture http://www.ledbrow.com It's not highbrow, it's ledbrow Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:49:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 © nick@whoisnick.com () nick@whoisnick.com() stories fifty feet deep nick@whoisnick.com No no http://www.ledbrow.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Ledbrow http://www.ledbrow.com 144 144 Stuff on the radio http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/07/stuff-on-the-radio/ http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/07/stuff-on-the-radio/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:21:18 +0000 Laurie Dawson http://www.ledbrow.com/?p=2145 As a freelance broadcaster there are a few things that lift my feet right off the ground into a sprightly little yahoo jump, one of those things is getting a piece on the radio.

Especially if it’s on one of my favourite shows.

Here’s a few clips of just that; these guys made the rest of the no’s throughout the year seem like maybe’s.

]]> http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/07/stuff-on-the-radio/feed/ 1 Rock Out With Your Socks Out – Part 1 http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/06/rock-out-with-your-socks-out-part-1/ http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/06/rock-out-with-your-socks-out-part-1/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:02:02 +0000 Laurie Dawson http://www.ledbrow.com/?p=1978 Remember that movie with Frankie Avalon and original Mouseketeer Annette Funicello? Beach Party? Frankie got to surf (and was known as) the Big Kahuna. Whether my memory is making a mess out of the 1963 flick or not, I seem to remember the surfers were always on the look out for a huge wave; certain that this wave would be the one to make them a local legend and get their girlfriends’ wandering eyes…

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]]> http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/06/rock-out-with-your-socks-out-part-1/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Remember that movie with Frankie Avalon and original Mouseketeer Annette Funicello? Beach Party?nbsp;Frankie got to surf (and was known as) the Big Kahuna. Whether my ... Remember that movie with Frankie Avalon and original Mouseketeer Annette Funicello? Beach Party?nbsp;Frankie got to surf (and was known as) the Big Kahuna. Whether my memory is making a mess out of the 1963 flick or not, I seem to remember the surfers were always on the look out for a huge wave; certain that this wave would be the one to make them a local legend and get their girlfriends' wandering eyes back to adoring only them. Not to mention make'm kings at the local beach bonfire where everyone wiggles their bikini bottoms. The Rock Out With Your Socks Out Sock Hop + Art Auction is Jordan and I's Big Kahuna. We are hoping this soiree will make fundraising legend within our own smaller sized blanket weave of the year We Raised $13 000 for The Arthritis Society. It is no longer the Year We Will Run a Marathon or the Year We Eloped in a Foreign Country or The Year We Danced to Queen and The Doobie Brothers for Cheap Entertainment. Nope. nbsp;It won't even be The Year We Took a Ferry Ride to Turkey, or The Year we Adopted a Forever-Friend. No, this will be the year We Raised $13 000. It's a feat. And we've been slapping our boards on waves big and small, so far raising a couple of hundred dollars at a time bringing us to 43% of $13 000. (Which is pretty darn-tootin amazing when we look at where we started from -0%!). But the glitch and there's always at least one, is we need to raise 75% of our goal by July 1st so we can stay a bit longer overseas after the marathon and take that boat ride to Turkey and make that wedding ceremony on November 4th. If we raise the 75% we don't get penalized for lengthening our plane ticket (for free!) to squeeze in an extra week or two after the race. That's $4056 bucks we need to raise in just a few weeks. So this is the time for the miracle worker, the bikini bottom shaking extravaganza, or the Big Kahuna. And we're hoping that Rock Out With Your Socks Out will be just the bonfire we're looking for. (We're also having a bake sale and bottle drive this month too). If you're in Vancouver and want to come the sock hop + art auction, we'd love to have ya! (And if you would just like to donate to the cause, you can do so online here). And oh gosh, ignoramus confession time: The term 'Big Kahuna' is sort of like Coca Cola saying you can open happiness. "Kahuna" nbsp;is actually a word meaning "priest, magician, minister, wizard, expert in any field",nbsp;(not a huge wave you can surf). Also according to wikipedia pro surfers such as Duke Kahanamoku, have resisted the word's pop culture lure out of respect for its original meaning. Hmm. So, in our next big wave of fundraising, Jordan and I are looking for our "humpback". (According to Wiktionary under Glossary of Surfing this is a big wave that is more like two waves. It's also called "double-up". And we sure hope this fundraiser does exactly that.nbsp;Cowabunga! Big Wave Surfing Sweating,for,,er,,money.,,Vancouver,,causes,and,people,doing,cool,things,about,them,,quirky,arts,and,misc,culture nick@whoisnick.com no No Samuel Langhorne Clemens -what’s in a name? http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/05/samuel-langhorne-clemens-whats-in-a-name/ http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/05/samuel-langhorne-clemens-whats-in-a-name/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 02:23:27 +0000 Laurie Dawson http://www.ledbrow.com/?p=1718 Sarah Hyde and I recently did a CJSF 90.1fm radio show on names. Sarah renamed herself for a year and it changed her life in unexpected and great ways. That got me thinking about great people who change their names (Sarah’s pretty great). So, I thought of Mark Twain.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens ain’t a bad name, it’s actually pretty hefty in literary wit, presence and substance. So I wonder if the more flip, funny,…

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]]> http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/05/samuel-langhorne-clemens-whats-in-a-name/feed/ 0 The Secret Lives of Co-workers http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/the-secret-lives-of-co-workers/ http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/the-secret-lives-of-co-workers/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:03:51 +0000 Laurie Dawson http://www.ledbrow.com/?p=1742 Last week Sarah Hyde and I went undercover a la Barbara Ehrenreich (author of Bait and Switch) to expose the secret lives of those we work with. We hid our lapel mics under cardigans, wore wigs and asked them all about their hobbies- just what are they up to on the weekends and evenings anyway?

Nah, we didn’t do any of that. But we did interview people who do that.

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]]> http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/the-secret-lives-of-co-workers/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Last week Sarah Hyde and I went undercover a la Barbara Ehrenreich (author of Bait and Switch) to expose the secret lives of those we ... Last week Sarah Hyde and I went undercover a la Barbara Ehrenreich (author of Bait and Switch) to expose the secret lives of those we work with. We hid our lapel mics under cardigans, wore wigs and asked them all about their hobbies- just what are they up to on the weekends and evenings anyway? Nah, we didn't do any of that. But we did interview people who do that. No, not even close. We interviewed people. Great people. And what wenbsp;uncovered was sweet. Everyone has a secret life. They are usually made up of hobbies. And a lot of them take talent and passion. And they're really not-so-secret. We asked Journalist and although-she-doesn't-call-herself-this-I-will, photographer Kathryn Marlow all about her Photo a Day Project. We walked Jordan to work and found out about a guy he used to work with whose main motto in life was, 'we work to live not live to work.' We talk to the rocknroll librarian Tara Anderson about why librarians could all secretly be rock stars. And Sarah does a BIG REVEAL on her own secret life that her co-workers have no idea about. I'll give you a hint, it involved the word "Llama." As if I needed anymore reasons to love Sarah Hyde. It's overflowing that love and now full up with Llamas too. All this and more on Mouth2Mouth on CJSF 90.1fm ~ Thanks so much for listening! The Secret Lives of Co-workers Part I The Secret Lives of Co-workers Part II m2m,on,cjsf,90.1fm,,quirky,arts,and,misc,culture nick@whoisnick.com no No Opening the door of Grace http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/opening-the-door-of-grace/ http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/opening-the-door-of-grace/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:09:09 +0000 Laurie Dawson http://www.ledbrow.com/?p=1684 Grace is located at 2685 Maple Street in Vancouver. It’s become sort of my daily prayer in staying playful. A reminder: This is it! This is what we’ve got and ain’t it beautiful?

Owner and creator, Wendy Williams Watt is a force -full of fun, insight, and that elusive “it” quality. (What is “it”?! It’s definitely bright (as in light and smart) and something some of us wear on our sleeves and the rest of…

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]]> http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/opening-the-door-of-grace/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Grace is located at 2685 Maple Street in Vancouver. It's become sort of my daily prayer in staying playful. A reminder: This is it! This ... Grace is located at 2685 Maple Street in Vancouver. It's become sort of my daily prayer in staying playful. A reminder: This is it! This is what we've got and ain't it beautiful? Owner and creator, Wendy Williams Watt is a force -full of fun, insight, and that elusive "it" quality. (What is "it"?! It's definitely bright (as in light and smart) and something some of us wear on our sleeves and the rest of us rub up against). (Wait a second, does that make us some of us cats?) (And what's up with all the parenthesis?) Sigh. That's the thing with trying to describe "it", you get cheap and feline in the process. So, onto the short video we shot as a part of a job application. Wendy Williams Watt let us step over the threshold into a place of magic, a place full of "it" with not a cat in sight. Vancouver,,experiments,,quirky,arts,and,misc,culture nick@whoisnick.com no No the answer to learning history – cartoons! http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/the-answer-to-learning-history-cartoons/ http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/the-answer-to-learning-history-cartoons/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:35:58 +0000 Laurie Dawson http://www.ledbrow.com/?p=1616 Maybe kids nowadays are getting more from Canadian history than I did growing up: Europeans sure loved beaver hats and in the 20th century we sure loved the Queen. (Who still wears a lot of hats, none of which are made from beaver fur, I don’t think).

While I am trying to be funny, I am not trying to be snarky. I can’t remember learning about The Quebec Act of 1774 which laid…

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]]> http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/the-answer-to-learning-history-cartoons/feed/ 0 the kurt russell project http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/the-kurt-russell-project/ http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/the-kurt-russell-project/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:55:24 +0000 Laurie Dawson http://www.ledbrow.com/?p=1587 If you consult Canadian Living or Fishing or Art & Design you’ll find hobbies that interest all varieties of Canucks including gardening, ATV’ing, playing hockey, throwing a frisbee, walking the dog, shopping at flea markets and/or making fish cakes.

Jordan and I? Well aside from the fish cakes and getting our magazines mixed up, we don’t do any of those things. Our hobby?  Obsession.  Sometimes we find ourselves bonding over a mutual obsession and sometimes…

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]]> http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/aprils-fools/feed/ 1 Forget rock n roll our fundraiser was all about cake! http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/forget-rock-n-roll-our-fundraiser-was-all-about-cake/ http://www.ledbrow.com/2010/04/forget-rock-n-roll-our-fundraiser-was-all-about-cake/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:01:24 +0000 Laurie Dawson http://www.ledbrow.com/?p=1545 First off: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU  to Zulu Records (making us legit by helping us sell tickets); Pacific Cinematheque, (the people working & volunteering there are gods and saints); Videomatica (giving us a way cool prize pack and a much needed high-five); Jordan’s mom’s (baking supplies trip or should I say mission?) and the friends who iced cupcakes late into a Friday night, with no…

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