Personal/Travel

Personal reflections after another shooting in a queer bar. Colorado Springs, in 2022. Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post So much changes and also stays the same. Some queers have incredible reach and inclusion in mainstream media, increased positive representation & visibility and (geographically depending) legally protected human rights yet queer bars are still the ...

It’s been 4 years since the last time I went backpacking and I’ve been itching to do it again ever since. Three summers ago I had a plan and a permit for a week-long trip to a different piece of the JMT but that year had seen a ton of rainfall and my intended ...

This is the third and final installment detailing my Kings Canyon/Sequoia first-timer, solo backpacking trip – the original plan was here and here are the first and second posts about what actually happened. Day 4 Remember what I said in the original planning post?  That part of my interest in doing this trip was that I had heard “once you hit ...

This is the second post about my Kings Canyon/Sequoia first-timer, solo backpacking trip – the original plan was here and the first post about what actually happened is here. Day 2 Woke up from the stressful fighting with ex dream, checked on food & other things I had left near the bear canisters and everything was fine ...

My last post now stands as the “before” version of my overly ambitious goal and this next series of posts will give the “after” details of what I learned from attempting such an intensively long and difficult backpacking itinerary and ultimately, changing the goal. First of all.  Let’s talk about itinerary planning.  My experiences until last week included 8 ...

I’m about to do something a ton of things I’ve never done before.  The major features: I’ll be hiking 15+ miles a day For 11 days In the mountains (elevation 7000′ to 13000′) By myself The idea for this trip started when I read (and then watched the movie adaptation) of Into the Wild in 2007 and was further compounded by a slideshow in Yosemite I ...

I’ve been in Release Management for 1.8 years now and in that time we’ve grown from one overworked Release Manager to a team of 4 where we can start to split out responsibilities, cover more ground on a particular channel, and also…breathe a bit. With some of the team moving focus over to Firefox OS, ...

I’ve created an event for the first meeting of Women Hacking Glass in SF at the Mozilla public space. Since I posted in G+ a few weeks ago things got busy and I didn’t have time to lean on Google like I’d planned to ask for hardware but then a pair of Glass practically fell in ...

Not too long ago I first heard of Tomahawk at one of our Mozilla Monday meetings – they’ve been working with our WebFWD initiative which supports open web projects that are moving the web forward.  Tomahawk definitely fits the bill for what the future of the web should be: music just plays.  Social, distributed, easy ...

Last Thursday night about 8 women arrived at Noisebridge to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia.  Several things led to this gathering: An article in the New York Times back in October drew attention to the lack of women contributors to the Wikipedia knowledge base and that got me thinking. Having organized other spontaneous “women get together ...

Short version: If you love women, or even like them just a bit, go right now and donate to the Ada Initiative to show the women in your life that you value their contributions past, present, and future to the wonderful world of Open Source. I’m going to make a donation in my grandmother’s name ...

On November 18th, 2011 I jumped into the deep end of the Bay Area startup culture I have been lurking on the periphery of for the past two years of living here. After going to my first Geek Girl Dinner at Microsoft a month ago, and preparing to talk about women in open source at ...

June in Paris – 2011, a set on Flickr. So here’s the most recent set of images from our last week in Paris. We’ve been settling in, and while there have been some low points where things seemed too overwhelming here we’re really having a great time getting into a little routine here and finding ...

Arm Tatoo, a photo by Ludovic Hirlimann on Flickr. Just found out about this photo on Flickr cause it’s gotten a lot of views in the past few days. Such a great shot of the Hopey hound, makes me miss her more than I already do.

Last Saturday started with a little last-minute cleaning of the apartment for our summer Airbnb renters before we hit the road and headed North. In the past week I have been in 3 States (CA, OR, WA), 3 Provinces (BC, AB, ON), and am now in Paris, France in the heart of the city on ...

 Last month I went to see Rufus Wainwright perform with the San Francisco symphony. The performance itself was mediocre due to being a very new piece and, I suspect, affected by the recent loss of his aunt. I still enjoyed the evening and also saw some amazing outfits during intermission. There was a group of ...

Today is the anniversary of the December 6th massacre in Montréal.  When this happened  I was 14 years old, growing up in Ottawa which is only a couple of hours from Montréal.  This hate crime had a devastating impact on the feminist community, and on young women considering studying in technical fields. This morning I was ...

BP’s attempt ($50 million ad campaign: http://bit.ly/9teR0o) to pass the blame. Reminds me of Eddie Izzard’s gun joke: Consumers standing there shouting “I need OIL!” doesn’t cause oil spills, being the oil drilling company with faulty equipment and no safety plan does.

Play this song while you read this – it’s what I was listening to this morning while thinking about this post. One of my favourite things about being part of a queer community is participating in the way we perform for each other as both performer and audience. Camp, drag, drama, dance, and even the ...

After moving to the United States just over six months ago I started driving a car again. Spending a lot of time commuting has given me a whole new view of car culture – California car culture to be precise. Highway 280 running from SF to the Silicon Valley has shown me a whole ...

Just a quick post – more to come. I am moving into a studio at Duboce & Church this weekend. I’ve basically been calling it “the heart of the gay”. Already, as I walked home from picking up the keys, I was thrilled to see the gay boys on every corner. ...

Now that I’m not on Facebook anymore, I’ve been noticing when I get the urge to share information. Thoughts that pop into my head, interesting things I find on the internet, blog posts I want to write are starting to pile up and I don’t currently have a lot of time to pump those ...

My friend mhoye covered everything I would say about why I’m choosing to leave Facebook (and then some, he gathers all the privacy stuff well!). I’m really hoping that by leaving Facebook I will be reclaiming some time and creative energy to revitalize this blog, make more vlog posts, re-do my website so that ...

Ran on a treadmill tonight for the 4th time in 5 days. I miss running outside where the air is fresh. Living in a hotel for 9 days in a city I don’t know is not the best idea and I have learned my lesson. However, the conference I’m at has been amazing and ...

Click to Play A quick ‘n dirty vlog featuring some of the women attending this year’s FOSDEM conference.

Click to Play This is the third time that Tracy and I have done this bit. This time we used an iPod to facilitate our acapella styles. I love how everyone started to sing along, what a great choir!

Click to Play Just a quick smash-up of the pics I’ve taken since the end of March. Lots of fun was had including Easter egg hunting, cottaging, drag shows, graduation and much much more.

Mozilla just announced Mozilla Service Week which will be held September 14 – 21, 2009. This week is a push to connect people who can help make the web work better for someone in the community with people and organization who need that help. Coming from the non-profit arts sector prior to my job at ...

Click to Play A speedy slideshow of my last 6 months. I really miss vlogging regularily, so this recipe is the best I can do between homework and assignments,

Momentarily there will be a new spring mix up here:http://avnerd.tv/sharedFiles/Music/springMix.zip Download it (110MB) and enjoy. This time I created an .m3u file which if you open that with iTunes instead of importing all the songs, should put them in order of how I set up the playlist. That order, in case you do not ...

Just want to give a shout out and some fresh eyes to this AMAZING letter written by Riese over at automatic straddle. I happened upon this from the L Word Online site and boy am I glad I did! I’ve been spitting mad about the Max character for years now and finally someone ...

Today from 2-5pm in the East end, there was a cupcake bake-off where dozens of bakers brought cupcakes to show off and more than 350 people turned up to chow down. It was a Mad. House. Things started to go awry when I realized that I was not going to get to have a nice, polite ...

This is the first post to test the new FatPlanet set up that I am now running from my home server. If all goes well, this will be up in about 30 minutes and then I can start making the page look prettier and adding more feeds.

Click to Play This is the complete song of Tonka Truck from that show.

Click to Play Today’s been a flashback kind of day…digging through old photo albums and finding little gems to put up on the internet for posterity. Here is one such clip of my old band Hussysnaxxx (I always hated that name but now it’s kind of funny). There’s ...

Click to Play It’s that time of year again. After missing last year due to illness, Joey and I (with a bunch of fellow daredevils) jump in the Pacific this year, in San Francisco. I thought it was warmer than our jumps in the Atlantic from years past. ...

Hi. It’s been a while, and no video this time either. I swear I still call myself a videoblogger, and I still think like one…just not getting any videos up to the internets. In the meantime, a quick update because I am inspired by the fact that my entire family is now blogging…which is ...

So I left California and the blog got all quiet…sorry. A lot has been happening – returning to school, working part time for Mozilla, going to the nolose conference and meeting lots of amazing activists. One of the ideas that came to me while at the conference was to start a FatPlanet. Mozilla ...

Last night I had the pleasure of eating at Ubuntu, not to be confused with Ubuntu. Apparently this relatively new restaurant is getting high praise for its vegetarian menu, which is really quite diverse and also features a fair amount of items from it’s nearby bio-dynamic garden. The following pictures are only a ...

Um, Hi! So I got a little busy… Let’s see – Andréa came to visit, so did my Mom. I’ve been working a ton and taking on lots of new responsibilities – with great responsibility comes longer hours and more tiredness. Also there was Frameline – Allyson, Christina and Amy were here from Toronto. We saw ...

Well, I missed last weekend’s update because I was out having a lot of fun with a little boxer dog named Ruby. You’ll see her in the slide show. Please do not tell my dog that I was out hiking with another dog – we didn’t really chat about opening up our relationship ...

A quick (< 4 minutes) overview of some of the new features in the soon-to-be-released Firefox 3. Check it out, then head over to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord/ and sign up to be notified when the new version comes out! read more | digg story

This morning Armen and I took the Caltrain from Mountain View to Bayshore with our bikes and then proceeded to ride them back to our apartments. When we got to the Caltrain stop and purchased our tickets, I put in $11.50 for the both of us to ride one way through 3 Zones. ...

4 weeks in, 13 left. Wow. Feels like any day now it will be halfway to done. This is where it’s at right now: I’m watching “Alice in Wonderland” out of the corner of my eye, the laptop is so hot that I have to prop it up on a pillow and tomorrow ...

It’s been another fun filled week in sunny California. Seriously sunny – we had a little heat wave where the temp was about 100 degrees Fahrenheit and that’s almost 40 degrees Celsius! In the past week I’ve finished reading Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” which I did quite enjoy even though I found her to ...

Happy Friday. Last weekend, and most of this week actually, feels so long ago already. Tonight I went to see the Chronicles of Narnia – Prince Caspian with some fellow interns and assorted co-workers. I’m a little underwhelmed. The theatre itself was a little low-budget and the ceiling lights remained aglow throughout the ...

So its been a while. Hi! I’ve got lots of little documentation of my first week here in Mountain View, California. The intro: I’m doing an internship with Mozilla this summer and will be living in Mountain View for 4 months – until Aug 29. So hopefully I will not ...

Click to Play This is a video demo of the status of my current bugfixing on the bug I filed regarding the adding of Source Server to windows debugging of mozilla code.

Hi people who still check in on my blog. You’re probably sick of me appologizing for not posting video as regularly as I used to. I can see that some people have gone off to other things – the subscriptions to this site have taken a drastic plunge from 70 to 39. ...

Click to Play I could go into a list of excuses for why I’ve fallen off the vlogging wagon – or I could just post something… When you’ve been writing code and trying to figure out IIS servers for way too many hours, it’s nice to take a break. My lady love made oatmeal ...

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Wow – people, if you still watch this blog, I am so sorry to have lapsed for so long in posting. Soon, I promise – there will be more vlogs and posts. Short update – my lady and I moved in together on July 1st and we are still surrounded by boxes ...

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Click To Play Lex Vaughn does an excellent 70’s butch/hippy drag act to warm up the crowd at Lee’s Palace in Toronto for the Lesbians on Ecstasy CD launch. I HIGHLY recommend this album:

Click To Play This is something I helped Zoe edit for her book launch. It’s short and sweet and probably the funniest idea for a video I’ve seen in a long time. Zoe’s so smart. You can pick up her book through amazon.ca

Click To Play This doesn’t happen often, but when it does – boy do I feel dumb. Chelsey gave a nice long rant at the Fat Femme Mafia’s clothing swap last week in order to send a “So What?” to Tyra Banks’ show and I apparently recorded NOTHING! Except this… 10 seconds. Sorry Chelsey.

Click To Play I made this for this year’s festival. This will be on Showcase soon…crazy! Go to insideout.ca for program info – see you at the movies!

Click To Play This weekend I got back into the editing game and helped my long time pal Zoe put together a DVD for her launch. It was a lot of fun to sit and chat with her and work on her media. I hope you enjoy the trailer and buy the book too ...

Trying to set up my cross-posting on blip.tv was such a headache – no more! API: http://www2.blogger.com/apiEndpoint: http://www.blogger.com/api/RPC2

Click to Play This is my first time making pasta from scratch – it went so well that I think this might become my new “thing”. Next time: Ravioli.

Watch the video This year was my second dash into the Atlantic Ocean on January 1st. Of course with global warming this seems less and less extreme. It was warmer this year than last year even though this year the sky was overcast and it was raining a little. Many thanks to the wonderful Andr?a for ...

watching THIS all day… I would like an iPhone as soon as possible, thanks: And also, someday…a widescreen tv and Apple TV (or iTV, whatever): It’s amazing to me how quickly the folks at Apple got all this stuff up on their web store…I wish I was on that production team. Seriously, I would love to work ...

Dick in a boxhttp://youtube.com/v/4MmLsfch3oQThis is the funniest thing I’ve seen this year. I look forward to the spoofs.

Watch the video Good morning! There’s water dripping from my light bulb and i’m afraid when i get home my ceiling will have caved in. Forecast? 3 days of rain. 1201060753.3g2 You’ve received a Message from a TELUS phone. For more information on TELUS Mobility’s Picture or Video Messaging, visit telusmobility.com/snap. If you don’t hear or see the ...

Watch the video She put hearts on my walk to work.

Limahl – Never ending storyhttp://youtube.com/v/4PoQ1e2ed9QThis was my absolute favourite movie of all times – a long long time ago. Anyone else remember wanting to ride that big flying furry dog-ike thing?

I’ve mostly caught up on schoolwork, have been in Victoria, B.C. for reading week and am trying my hardest to get back some precious free time for vloggin activities. I can’t wait for a chance to catch up on what all the vloggers I follow have been up to.

Watch the video On the second last night of long crew we have a bonfire where we burn up all the scraps and crap that’s left…a bag of marshmallows is just asking to be crammed into as many faces as possible. I got 13 in, Chicken couldn’t beat me but Charles gave me a run for ...

Watch the video This was shot near the end of long crew (the 100 or so who work over a month on the festival crew) – this is a moment of inspirational improvisation…or an example of what can happen when you are deprived of t.v. for a month.

Watch the video Joey and Dawn are dancing queens. ’nuff said.

This post is inspired by Progressive Bloggers 1. Provided me with an amazingly political, non-traditional labourer, feminist, lesbian mom.2. Inspired me to believe that I can do anything I want to do regardless of my gender.3. Was the force behind the creation of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival where I get my fix ...

Watch the video Joey and I get our matching tattoos at the end of August. A tribute to the crew we both work on at the michigan womyn’s music festival.

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Watch the video This is Allyson’s parents’ dog. I love this dainty little boston terrier. Whenever Allyson gets to dog sit her, I like to steal her and take pictures or videos. This is probably the 4th time I’ve caught her in action…

Watch the video So I love racoons, you may already know this about me, and one morning I found this little baby in the garbage bin. This happens rarely – but when it does, you can bet I’m running for the camera. I love how it growls! Immediately after shooting this, we tipped the barrel and let ...

Watch the video Here’s a little snippet of our summer fun in the worker’s kitchen at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. We get to make great food, listen to danceable music and play with each other all day! This footage was shot by my pal H.P. a fellow kitchen worker.

Watch the video Last night was the opening night of the Borat movie at the Toronto International Film Festival. My friend Nav was able to be right up front (she’s a star wrangler) and caught this 9 second clip for me. As you can see, the Borat guy is being pulled in a cart by women, while ...

Watch the video One of the many fabulous performances at this summer’s Gals Salon. Still more to come from this summer – including marshmallow eating contests, spelling bees and other crazy hijinks. For more Toshi – check out Toshi Reagon’s Homepage

Watch the video Well, I’m back from my month in the woods. Joey came to Toronto again and we walked about 10Km in one day then went and got tattoos… I’m not sure how to even begin to share my clips and stories from the summer. It might all come out in a jumbled pile… and ...

Fat Femme Mafia – Toronto Pride 2006 Watch the video I’m leaving to go live in the woods for a month. No Computer, no keys, no wallet…just woodchipped paths through the forest, women working hard and a lot of fun with good friends. I’ll be getting lots of video footage ...

Sketch – Do Something with a Blundstone Fundraiser Watch the video Christina Zeidler invited me to check out this really excellent event that Sketch is organizing. This is their third year doing this – Blundstone donates boots and artists are recruited to decorate them – an auction is held in ...

Dirty Dancing Split Screen Watch the video Just had a moment to put the Kaleb footage together with the original.

Selling out so soon? You just got here. I just enabled advertising on my blip.tv account. Apparently this means that there might be a still or a video advertising after my video plays. Blip.tv will split the revenues from advertising 50/50 with me. I can’t help it – I’m curious to see how much we’re talking ...

The Last Shot Watch the video On June 13, 2006 – I injected my last shot of testosterone. It was 50% of my normal dosage. I had been weaning for a few weeks prior. 2 shots at 75% then 2 at 50%. I’m mostly relieved that I am done shooting ...

The future of videoblogging for cash… This article talks about how some companies are trying to entice video makers to pay money to make money off the content they upload. I’m a bit at loose ends about what to make of this idea. Sure, I think that folks who make art should be compensated – I ...

How Kaleb Turned 30… Watch the video WARNING – Do not watch this if road rash and stitched and stories about stiches gross you out! This is my best friend and roomate Kaleb. You might remember Kaleb from other vlog posts I have made. ANyway. Kaleb had a very exciting Toronto ...

Toshi Reagon in Toronto Watch the video Toronto Pride 2006 – Toshi Reagon – for more info on Toshi go to www.toshireagon.com.

Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner Watch the video Kaleb’s performance at Toronto Pride 2006 at the “Insert Pronoun Here” show rocked the house! If you remember that fabulous 80’s movie, you’ll get a thrill from this genderqueered interpretation.

Back when I was a cook…. Watch the video This t.v. special aired almost 3 years ago – and every so often someone will tell me that they saw me on t.v. I had never seen this segment, and then the other day when someone said they’d seen it, I ...

5 New Toronto Vloggers! Watch the video Tonight I taught the “Videoblogging for Beginners” workshop for the 3rd time and it was a great success. The folks in the class really picked up quickly and were all very excited to go home and work with their new knowledge. This clip ...

I’ve finally been remixed! Watch the video Thanks to Rob Parrish at Hopper Video I am finally part of a remix with Chuck Olsen from Minnesota Stories. Awesome! I love it!    

not little gay girls (work in progress) Watch the video This is my 2 minute video for a show this Friday night – see here: Twenty Two Minute Performances RM asked me and Kaleb to do something, and I’ve been mulling over my feelings about gay marriage/gay weddings for quite ...

Vloggercon 2006 – Second Post – About Walking and Talking Watch the video This is a response to a comment I read on Michael Verdi’s post on innovative vlogging.Someone posted:   Jimmy CraicHead @ Demand Condom said on 4 Jun 2006 at 8:46 pm: My choice for the only exciting video podcast, ...

Vloggercon 2006 – First Post Watch the video This is the first of many posts to come on my Vloggercon ’06 trip.    I had an incredible time – and as soon as the Pride Week crunch is over, I hope to have more time to start working on all my ...

Response to the Rebel Sell (and missintensity) Watch the video This is my response to missintensity’s post about the Rebel Sell by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter.   Vloggercon 2006 posts to come soon.

Well, the funny thing is – i haven’t had the time to actually VLOG! However, I’m having an excellent time at Vloggercon 2006. Right now there’s a bit of slow moment for me as I’m in between panels that are of most interest to me. This morning I really enjoyed catching up with ...

As a child I explained my lack of a dad by telling people that he had been eaten by piranhas in Africa. liesdadspiranhas

Pirate Bonnie resurrection… Watch the video A long time ago…six years now…i was lucky enough to fool around in a garage with a couple of folks – and we came up with a few tunes – no vocals, we didn’t have anyone for that – just two drummers who took ...

Talking about having a Lesbian Mom Watch the video This post is in honor of Blogging for LGBT Families Day – for details go to: http://www.mombian.com/2006/05/03/lgbtfamilies/  Blogging for LGBT Families

Waiting for Tragedy Watch the video My friend Deirdre and I talk about the psychological effects of quitting smoking at Tracy’s bon voyage barbeque at Dufferin Grove park.    

Poil Watch the video At the queer film festival I just finished working, we got a lot of free pizza – for ten days I ate way too many slices of oily PizzaPizza…my pal Mark and I came up with a new word for the topping that we saw most ...

1. The drunk man throwing a carton of milk at the streetcar yesterday. 2. Me making the chocolate/peanut butter sauce on the fly last night as we scrambled to assemble a dessert that I had never seen or made before. 3. Hopey passed out under my co-workers’ desk… it’s really hot! 4. The rat running across the road ...

Checkin Watch the video Just keeping you posted.

Haircuts By Children – In Parkdale Watch the video This past weekend the art/life project by the Mammalian Diving Reflex folks (www.mammalian.ca) was in my neighbourhood.  The kids involved are also from the neighbourhood and my hairdresser was one of the trainers. I love this kind of community stuff.   Check ...

Playful Painter This is where things start to get interesting… Also I am very curious about the new MacBook, my lady friend wants one and I’m a bit skeptical. Does anyone have any knowledge of what existing software works on the Intel macs and what doesn’t?

Jumping Off Point Watch the video Meet my friend missintensity – she’s the first flesh and blood, real life friend I have who is starting a videoblog. I’m so fuckin’ excited!You are too, you know it. More queer, canadian, feminist, arts and crafty fun coming your way. This video ...

Last night when I heard of a friend’s partner getting a Chalmers grant I was curious to see who the other recipients for this year were. The Chalmers grants are distributed through the Ontario Arts Council. “Chalmers Professional Development Grants provide financial assistance to individual professional artists and arts professionals so they can ...

Going Natural… Watch the video 30 years of trying to tame this head of curly hair. Hats, products, assorted hair torture – all chasing a dream of straight hair that you can roll out of bed with and never think twice about. I grew up with my grandmother & co. telling me how much ...

‘Aunt Lois’ on teen delinquent activities… Watch the video Dana does an impersonation of her aunt…   Part II of Carribean Food Day     Donate

Why isn’t everyone fat? Watch the video Part I of Carribean Food Day. Donate

Thinking about Development Watch the video Donate

Let the games begin… Watch the video Donate

The Panel Watch the video A few weeks ago I was on my first panel, at the Q-Me (Queer Media) conference in New York City. It went really well, I met lots of new people that are interested in videoblogging, and it opened my eyes a little to the potential of ...

Fundraising – Vloggercon 2006 or BUST! Watch the video School’s out, I’m in debt and need to work as much as humanly possible in the next four months… that’s the short version.   The longer version?  I really want to fly to San Francisco and participate in Vloggercon 2006 the weekend of ...

Things are crazy ’round here with my last week of school. Videos will be coming down the pipe soon. SO much to talk about! The conference in NYC, the future of this videoblog and much much more. See you soon, Lukas

Videoblogging Week 2006 – Day 7: Snack Time Watch the video Technorati Tag: videobloggingweek2006. Donate

Videoblogging Week 2006 – Day 6: Home Silk Screening Watch the video http://community.livejournal.com/craftgrrl/3674467.html   That’s the link to where I learned how to do this.   Technorati Tag: videobloggingweek2006. Donate

Videoblogging Week 2006 – Day 5: Gentrification Watch the video Technorati Tag: videobloggingweek2006. Donate

Videoblogging Week 2006 Day 4: Talking About Losing Weight… Watch the video I’ve lost a noticeable (to me) amount of weight lately and I’ve been feeling the need to talk about it. The vlog is 23MB – just so you know.   Technorati Tag: videobloggingweek2006. Donate

Videoblogging Week 2006 – Day 3: If I was a Dog Watch the video A quick experiment with sneaky taping and subtitling…This is the "Week of Vlogging Dangerously" I am trying to take more risks – contrary to all my loud-mouthing about being anti-intellectual property, I am very scared of ...

Videoblogging Week 2006 – Day 2: Spiritual Watch the video Lately I’ve been reading about the snake handling religions in the Appalachian region. I’m finding myself drawn to extreme acts of spirituality. The Gossip played here in Toronto last week and when I go to their shows I get that ...

Videoblogging Week 2006 – Day 1: Gum Watch the video Recently my dentist told me to go ahead and eat gum (sugarless, of course) because it wasn’t going to hurt my teeth – even though for years I avoided gum because of my TMJ (term for screwed up jaw). In becoming ...

Angus’ Squirrel Epic Watch the video This is the journey of Angus’ squirrel hunt in Toronto.  We were looking for white squirrels specifically but none were spotted.  

Is that someone else with your name? Watch the video This clip is from the summer – an interesting discussion about what kind of stuff people had found on the internet that freaked them out.  This group of folks are not easily shocked…    

Tracy on Digital Cameras Watch the video I’ve been sick with strep throat lately – finally I can sit up again and try to make some posts.  So here’s a clip from a few months ago – my best friend Tracy is trying to understand why the pictures of her ...

Mich Fix Watch the video We’re rounding the bend into spring and I needed a little mich fix.  PLUS, I’ve seen a few of these speedy-photo vlog posts lately and I wanted to try it. The music is by Corner Tour, two of the members have cameos in this clip. Photos are ...

Strike Watch the video Well, the news just came in.  As of 12:01 am my teachers, and all the college teachers in Ontario are on strike.  I’m not sure if I really wanted this to happen or not – I’m having mixed feelings.  Only time will tell how this pans ...

JAM’s Beeday Watch the video My good friend Judith is one year older today, and this is a little birthday video just for her.  Anyone else can look at it, but remember – it’s for HER 🙂   Warning!!! – Use of fake blood, and some partial nudity!  – Possibly not worksafe.   

Teeth Watch the video This is a short clip about the state of my mouth. I’ve had terrible teeth for a long time, I’m constantly experiencin sensitive/painful teeth, fillings falling out and crazy root canal emergencies. This is the primary reason that I have a desire to get into a ...

Misty Mints Watch the video I love misty mints. Recently they were on sale at the grocery store and I bought this huge container of them, which I left sitting under my laptop last night. This afternoon I reached in to grab one and was unpleasantly surprised…

Walking to Work – Feb 10, 2006 Watch the video Just a little update to catch up since I haven’t posted in a while.

First time in front of a camera (circa 1989) Watch the video Well.  I’ve been transfering some old VHS tapes that my mom sent me to deal with.  Here’s the first of many little gems that I’ve discovered.  This is most likely my first time in front of a video ...

I *heart* Parody. Watch the video A friend just sent me this link and after all my ranting and raving about the "Gay cowboy movie" I just had to repost….        

Birthdays and Elections Watch the video It’s been a week or so since my last post – here’s a quick catch-up.   Oh, and it’s my birthday.   yup. 

The mail came finally! Watch the video It felt like nothing I was waiting for from afar was arriving.  As though there was a conspiracy in the post office where they would only bring me BILLS!   But it finally arrived…   Go here to get your own: http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=13479&product_id=1077061        

Tough Enough Watch the video Here it is – hot off the editing suite. My first film of 2006, may there be many more.        

TCB Watch the video It’s another productive Sunday in the Parkdale Gem.  I wish you could smell how amazing my house smells right now.  MMMmmm banana bread.    

Thoughts from the desk of Lukas Blakk Watch the video Well, still working towards a more regular update.  Now I’ve set up my video camera so that I can record directly into the computer.  This will save a lot of time.    This post is a bit rambling because it’s one take – but the ...

Train Tracks in Parkdale Watch the video For some reason this movie was giving my quicktime export a hell of a time.  I finally got it down to something reasonable (10mb) but it looks crappy…and it’s late and I don’t care right now.  The point comes across just fine.      

Cat teasing… Watch the video My roommate Kaleb enjoys leading the cat down the path to hell with the laser pointer…

Cannoli in Brooklyn Watch the video My last night in New York and we had an amazing pot roast, homecooked by Fae. This was followed by a truly unique experience…

Photogenic Watch the video My best friend tEt is one of my excellent muses. She has been in several of my short films and I love to take pictures of her and to film her. This is a rare momment of doubt on her part…

“T-Shirts!” Watch movie (Quicktime, 1.9 min, 6.5 MB) Original post, from Michael Verdi: Check out the NODE101 T-Shirt store! Help support NODE101 and FreeVlog buy buying some cool vlogger swag. Also, if you’ve got an idea for a T-Shirt that you’d like to donate, just email me and we’ll get it figured out. (Via Mefeedia)

“Inclinations has a trailer!” Watch movie (Quicktime, 1.4 min, 3.1 MB) Original post, from jensimmons: So this film I made

Off the road again… Watch the video Well it’s been a whirlwhind 3 weeks of two coasts and some fabulous adventures.  This is just a little "hi" to those who watch.  I’m re-doubling my efforts to vlog as often as I can – even with my hectic schedule.  After talking ...

Polar Dip Watch the video Hello – it’s been a long time, but here’s a quick fun clip – Rimma did the fabulous video taking – you can hear her saying "Just keep taking lots of pictures".  I haven’t been in salt water for 15 years…Judith had the excellent idea of ...

Finally back in the saddle… Watch the video Well, it’s been a long time but I finally have a second to make a small post. Today me and Kaleb starred in my upcoming short "Tough Enough" and it’s actually a super 8 film, but Chelsey took a couple of video clips ...

Gender Talk Watch the video It’s time for another discourse on my gender journey.

PSA – re: the washroom Watch the video This is a really big deal in my life. It’s always been this way – I’ve experienced everything from just plain evil looks to being pushed out of the bathroom. Going into public ladies bathrooms is always a stressful experience for someone ...

Gem Sweater Bootleg – Leslie and The LYs in Canada Watch the video This week at the TAAFI gala opening, Leslie and the LYs made their Canadian debut to mass hysteria. This was a fucking awesome show. Leslie is a great performer – and she rocked the house! My friends Tracy ...

What on earth… Watch the video More fun with the two cutest house pets.  Hopey is becoming more cat-like than before.  Yesterday she pounced on an elastic band.  Imagine, a 72lbs hound dog trying to pounce.  She’s not graceful, but she’s my dog.   music – "Tango" by the Corner Tour 

I taught my first workshop this past summer and now it’s time for take 2. This time I brought my little digital camera and we shot an introduction in the class. Also, the people who signed up this time all have macs at home and they also are all camera owners. I ...

My School Pals Watch the video Okay, well Jay suggested that I get some material of the boys I’m going to school with.  I was really nervous about doing it.  I’m kind of shy that way.  But today I finally broke the ice and pulled out my camera.  The guys ...

Backseat Driving Watch the video At a friend’s birthday party this past weekend. Watching the poor DVD operator get yelled at from all corners. The funny part was that the people who were yelling were just as clueless about what to do. It was like being live on the set ...

Play Time Watch the video If you can bear with the darkness of the movie, you will see some rather cute interactions between a 76 pound hound dog and a 6 pound kitten with 24 toes.

The Commute Watch the video Today I travelled 3 hours altogether to attend 1.4 hours of class.  The fact that I spend 15 hours a week ( a part time job’s worth of time! ) on a bus and/or subway is quite new to me.  Sometimes it’s relaxing, sometimes I ...

Update Watch the video i’m in school full time now and my vlog is suffering. i’m gonna try to get back on the horse, for now – check out my new moustache and my new kitten.

What we do in those woods. Watch the video Me and my pal tEt like to perform every once in a while.  At the festival I work at we have a talent show of sorts and last year we did these same characters and an acapella version of George Michael’s "Faith".  People were peeing their pants, ...

Amazon Women Watch the video This summer at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival I recorded many clips of things that mean a lot to me. This clip is a sample from the song that is performed every year at the ceremony which opens the night stage. Every year there’s a different performance but the song is ...

Zoid’s Prison Story Watch the video My friend Zoid spent 8 nights in jail a long time ago. This little clip was just part of the story.

My macro feature at work Watch the video I shot this in the kitchen I worked in this summer at the Michigan music festival. The Olympus 500 digital camera that I bought has a really great “super macro” setting and I can shoot video with it as well as stills. This cricket quietly eating a little ...

Back from the woods Watch the video I’ve been away for a month. From computers, phones, keys, cars, strangers, my dog… it’s a very strange feeling to come back from that world – close to utopia in some ways. I’ve got plenty to look forward to though, back to vlogging and starting school in a week.

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Not for anyone afraid of needles – this is a document of how I inject testosterone into my leg.� I do this every two weeks, since April 18th, 2005 and I am documenting my changes whenever I feel like it.� So far, only my voice is changing.� No body hair yet. Watch the video ...

I’m walking towards downtown today and I am struck by the variety to garbage and beauty on the streets.� The two are not mutually exclusive, I find some garbage to be beautiful. At one point I found this long stretch of alley with some beautiful graffitti I have never seen before.� Amazing! Then I have ...

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Click on image to see movie. I took my best friend and roommate Kaleb to Canada’s Wonderland last week. It’s the canadian equivalent of Universal Studios mixed with 6 flags. We had a great time, even though there was a HUGE storm that started when we were next in line to get on the ...

Click on image to see movie. This week I got to teach a workshop on Videoblogging at the film co-op upstairs from my work. There were 4 people signed up and I showed them all the steps to starting their own videoblogs. Links to come – I hope they’ll join the community as soon ...

Click on image to see movie. For some reason this vlog entry went online immediately. Wow. That has never happened to me before. Not only was this run really exciting for me, but Josh has peaked my interest in geocaching. It’s pretty much EXACTLY what I like to do…scavenger/treasure hunts! So now I want to ...

Click on image to see movie. Just got back from being out in Victoria, BC for a 6 day visit with my moms. This year I stayed in Toronto for xmas and went home in June instead – my thinking being that I would get to enjoy summer weather and lake swimming. Instead it ...

music by Cynic Project Click on image for movie. A quick trip along Queen St. West which is the street I travel the most. I only got the south side on the way towards downtown.

music by Pomegranate – the all girl klezmer band from Toronto. This is a video pile-up from Queer Family Fun Day. I got to spend several hours applying fake tattoos to young kids, the two you see the most of are the ones I took care of last year. I was a tranny nanny…kids love ...

I’m slowly going to introduce all my friends onto the vlog. My girlfriend Sarena has already made a couple of appearances, now here’s my best friend and roommate Kaleb. He was one of the MC’s of the Rock Your Tits Off show that I posted a couple of weeks ago. ...

Trying out this Snapz program that lets me video tape what I do on my computer – also testing out the voice over feature of Final Cut Pro 4. By the way is Zadi is reading this – that’s how I switched the film from neg to pos… using “invert” in the video effects. Anyway, ...

This is the first entry that I can see a shadow of what’s coming with the testosterone. I don’t know if anyone else notices…but I think I look a little different.

Meet my roomate, best friend and co-director of the Tranny Wish Foundation – Kaleb Robertson. You’ll see more of him soon as I just taped him practicing for a performance tomorrow night. I’m super excited about having developed black and white super 8 to a negative and then reversing it in the computer. This ...

It’s a wednesday night. Instead of going out with my friends I am staying home with some buckets o’ chemicals and hand-processing a couple of rolls of super 8 that I shot last week. Results will be shown soon.

The Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in Toronto screened one of my short films last night. Here is the screening with some bonus footage of me on stage talking really fast. I need to take some lessons in chilling out, slowing down and being comprehensible.

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Click on image to see movie. This is my girlfriend’s first solo show. She was in a band called S.H.A.G. (She Has A Guitar) for over 10 years. I actually first met her back then when her band was new, I was putting together a compilation tape to commemorate Dec. 6th (the anniversary of ...

Click on picture to see movie. This is the short version of the Rock Your Tits Off fundraiser for the Tranny Wish Foundation. Me and my pal Daddy K are trying to start a charity that would help trans guys get money for top surgery. You can look at our blog.

Click on photo to see video… Finally! This is from Saturday! Okay, so many thanks to Jay who stood by me as I tried to get my shit back together. Now I have a bunch of footage on my camera that needs uploading and editing. I’m going away for the weekend so ...

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Click image to see movie. I miss Tracy. She’s my muse. I can follow her with a camera like no one else. We work well together that way. So, I re-worked this little piece of something I already have… I can’t wait until she gets back from her travels.

Click here for Stream Click on Image for MPEG-4 download I’m experimenting with compression. I was finding my 3ivx quicktime files too pixelated. So these are .mp4 files – Let me know what works for you and what doesn’t. Any tips appreciated.

Click on Image to see Movie This movie was made in 1.5 hours late last night. I spent all day out of the house, at work and at meetings, thinking about it my blue bedroom walls (courtesy of my last roommate) could function as a blue screen. I’ve wanted to play with colour keying ...

Click on image to see clip. Today I’m picking up my prescription for T. Tomorrow I’m going to learn how to inject myself. Within the next few weeks my voice is going to start changing. I’m waiting to get my legal name change certificate – and it may not come until January. ...

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Click image to see movie. Okay, serious thanks to the 3ivx Demo on Michael Verdi’s page. Only three videos in and already I have learned how to lessen that tin sounding audio that my first two clips had. It’s such a well laid out, easy to follow tutorial. I really can’t believe how ...

Click image to see movie. Be patient. I know it starts off slow but the end is worth it. To me at least. My dog and my best friend/roommate’s cat are learning to get along. They’ve lived together for 3 months now. My dog is kind of afraid of cats, well she’s ...

So, my second video clip – a much more interesting piece with my dog and my roommate’s cat (working with what i’ve got here people) is delayed because I accidentally uploaded the .jpg and not the .mov file. I’m sure I’m not the first person to do this and I’m glad it happened right ...

My First Online Video Serious thanks to Michael Verdi at Freevlog. The tutorials are fairly easy to understand. I had a few issues with the creative commons publisher, but that’s all ironed out. The Internet Archive is the coolest site I have ever seen on the internet. Having just read “Weaving ...

I am trying to learn how to video blog – I’ve been discovering fabulous sites like Rocketboom and I am inspired to do a regular video feed. The part about how people can subscribe and get regular updates is still fuzzy – but I have learned how to host my images and videos for free ...

Yesterday I was rejected for what feels like one time too many. I have been putting my irons in many fires and I keep getting burned. Still waiting to hear from the school I want to go to… but other than that, my dreams are fizzling out a little right now. I’m not ...

About the Bacon Whores. Of course once something has been created, even as a parody, doesn’t the possibility exist that someone will actually do it? Anyway, check out this page if you want to know more about what’s real and what’s not. I took the “Gullibility Tests” today and scored an average ...

Hello? Is this for real? BaconWhores – The Way Bacon Was Meant to be Served Sadly, it probably is.

I’m listening to “Ripple” right now. I love that song. My discovery of the Grateful Dead came in a roundabout way. My mom’s lesbian lover had been a follower in her younger days and at one point I bought her a tape (yes, a cassette!) that was a tribute album to them. ...

I’m feeling like a bad parent. For the past two nights my dog has been waking me up several times in the wee hours to get me to take her because she’s got the runs. She’s got the runs because she has a sensitive stomach and rawhide makes her sick, and I gave her rawhide ...

This is my first entry. I’m not exactly sure why i’m starting a blog – but i just went and checked out my friend’s blog and since i have the day off… well – i guess it’s also a nice change from diaryland. I’ve been on diaryland for 4.5 years. If you want to ...