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Frankie 100: Frankie Manning Centennial Post Office Installation
View Images In spring 2014, Mandi Gould, a longtime friend, and one of several key figures in the now legendary late 1990s “second wave” Lindy Hop revival in Toronto, put out a request online for...
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Concept Art, Animatics, and Storyboards
Below is a recent grouping of concept art, animatics, and storyboards I have done for various clients and productions. I am eager to do more work of this kind, to exercise my commercial illustration...
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Comix Comix Comix
A celebration and curation of high quality, diverse work we have discovered in our passionate exploration of over a century of sequential art. Cover for Action Comics #425 by Nick Cardy, detail. TM...
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Working With The Ontario Nonprofit Network
This past year, I gladly accepted the opportunity to work with Sarah Matsushita, Communications & Network Engagement Manager of the Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN). Sarah and I have known each...
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Alex Pangman: An Appreciation
Alex Pangman, The Swan Restaurant, Toronto It was on the tiny yet always full dance floor at the revered Reservoir Lounge in early 1999 that this beautiful and energetic strawberry blonde, wearing a...
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Count Your Blessings
MTCD wishes you season’s greetings and happy “holy daze,” as Mary Margaret O’Hara calls it. 20 years ago, the seasonal music album Count Your Blessings was released on compact disc. I used to see it...
View ArticleThe Seed Of A Spark Of A Glimmer
I was fortunate enough to be asked by the folks at The Seed of a Spark of a Glimmer to participate in their documentary series that explores human creativity. I’m in episode 4. There are 6 episodes in...
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Sam Chungyampin
A friend of mine turns 30 today. I met Sam Chungyampin five summers ago, when he kindly agreed to share a creative moment with me, by letting me take photos of him at the just-opened Sugar Beach, in...
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Love Challenge
#lovechallenge As William Wordsworth once wrote: “To begin, begin.” Truer words were never spoken. One of my trusted friends is the supremely talented writer, columnist, and wellness expressionist,...
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David Bowie
What I noticed immediately, upon seeing the Diamond Dogs illustrated album cover for the first time at my neighbour’s house across the street—incidentally my first exposure to David Bowie—was the...
View ArticleYou Know What I Mean ( Phil Collins Cover ) 04.12.16
Several years ago, my extraordinarily talented friend Christopher Windom suggested I learn how to play this song. I was first familiar not with the Phil Collins original from Face Value, but with the...
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Pet Sounds Is 50!
What might be the greatest pop album ever made, has turned 50 today, May 16, 2016. How does one articulate one’s thoughts and feelings about a set of songs that forever changed and modified just how...
View ArticleSomething True ( Harry Nilsson Perry Botkin Jr. Cover )
To celebrate what would have been Harry Nilsson‘s 75th birthday on June 15, 2016, we present from The ehMTee Show Original Webcast Soundtrack a cover of one of my favourite Harry Nilsson songs, a 1975...
View ArticleFor The Good Times ( Kris Kristofferson Cover )
First things first. Happy 80th birthday to Kris Kristofferson on June 22, 2016! This cover version of Kris Kristofferson’s iconic standard, For The Good Times, originally made famous by the great Ray...
View ArticlePoint Edward Fair – The ehMTee Show
The ehMTee Show Original Webcast Soundtrack is available on iTunes! Michael Thorner: Roland RD500, lead vocal Mantler AKA Marker Starling: Wurlitzer Alex Cheung: violin – – – – – POINT EDWARD FAIR by...
View ArticleSay Something ( A Great Big World Cover )
This performance is taken from the ‘Facing Winter’ salon concert that took place on January 28, 2017. Piano, vocal: Michael Thorner Vocal: Azusa Chimura Live Sound: Mikhial Gurarie Video: The Barbato...
View ArticleMy Broadway Song – The ehMTee Show
The ehMTee Show Original Webcast Soundtrack is available on iTunes! Listen on Spotify! Michael Thorner: Roland RD500, lead vocal Kirk Hudson: percussion Alex Cheung: violin – – – – MY BROADWAY SONG by...
View ArticleDon’t Let It Go – The ehMTee Show
The ehMTee Show Original Webcast Soundtrack is now available on iTunes and on Spotify. Michael Thorner: Roland RD500, vocal Kirk Hudson: percussion Alex Cheung: violin Warren Phillips: guitar – – – –...
View ArticleTime Zones – The ehMTee Show
The ehMTee Show Original Webcast Soundtrack is now available on iTunes and on Spotify. Michael Thorner: Roland RD500, vocal Warren Phillips, Mikhial Gurarie: Magic Guitars – – – – – TIME ZONES by...
View ArticleSentimental Veil – The ehMTee Show
The ehMTee Show Original Webcast Soundtrack is now available on iTunes and on Spotify. Michael Thorner: Roland RD500, vocal Alex Cheung: violin Marker Starling (AKA Mantler): Wurlitzer – – – – –...
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