Pop & Policy was the industry conference and workshop component of the Pop Montreal festival, hosted by McGill's Schulich School of Music. My sister dragged me to the Friday afternoon panels as her law professor had suggested they attend. This cost 15$, worthwhile as I acquired three CDs (one festival sampler, two handed out by one of the ( Read more... )

Have a canned post. XD

( So it turns out I uploaded these photos for a reason XD )

I should, uh, probably pay for Flickr before my Italy pictures start dropping from the photostream. People seem to like those - I've even had a request for one to be published in a Spanish magazine, as part of a feature on Turin cafes. (In general Flickr stats confirm what one would suspect, namely that given the choice, people would rather look ( Read more... )

( x30 best. All else being equal, photographs containing hipster girls will garner more views on Flickr than those that do not. )

I have three issues of Italian JoJo, that I bought second-hand from the comics/anime convention within the Turin book fair (...so I attended a con while I was there, WHAT OF IT). Nowadays I think Italy does tankoubon like everyone else but back when JoJo was being serialized - and according to the inside cover the Italian edition started in 1994It ( Read more... )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/petronia/tags/italy2007/

( Some examples. )

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I spent the past two evenings uploading photos I took of the contemporary art biennale at the Shanghai Art Museum. moderntime, I wish I'd found out about it earlier so we could have gone together - I was there mid-morning on a Wednesday and the joint was filled with indie boys and girls. XD The people-watching was nearly as good as the art itself. I liked ( Read more... )

Something dumb I came up with over the weekend.

( the GioGio vs Ladios Sopp comparison chart )

Haven't been blogging very much for the past week or so. I do have the excuse of working on SSBB but this must be remedied as I'm getting too used to it - everyone's had this experience, I think, if you don't blog for an extended period you can't remember what you wanted to say and what you do remember doesn't seem worth setting down at all ( Read more... )