Author: KeriCDN

It’s time to make a new Intro in a more fall / winter ensemble, same song but fresh footage. I know exactly what I want to wear:

september 19 2009

I’m at Original on Queen West, I’d met the owner Simon not long ago.  It’s the only place in Canada where you can get a crinoline like that… there’s 35 yards of fabric in each one, they’re not itchy, and they’re like the Porsche of crinolines.

Then I’m going to sew a little red&white striped dress to pull overtop.

I love these things, here’s one I have.  Jody took these photos, and see my face on the right?  When you put on something like this you spin around fast, that’s what you do… but who knew the thing was gonna fly straight out like that?  The salesgirl actually squealed.

When I told you recently about some emails I’d sent out, owner Jack Waldenmaier was one of the recipients.  Please say hello to:

MusicBakery.com – ‘The Official Music Supplier of The Canadian Explorer’

I’ve been at this two years and have seen 85% of the possible places to buy from (not everywhere offers classical) and always go back to Jack’s for three reasons:

1 – the website’s preview back-end is solid, so it’s smooth and easy to select tracks.  This part’s big because sometimes the episode doesn’t fully assemble in my head until I hear the correct music

2 – when it says “full orchestra” it actually is.  Some sites embellish that, like, one oboe and a couple violins does not an orchestra make

3 – the music from here has regular breaks and changes in the tempo so it’s easy to edit to

He’d emailed back asking what format I’d like the requested songs in (.AIF please) and made me a special page to download the three tracks plus a collection of 10-second diddys, classy.  Now we’re set for the next three episodes and I’ve never had this before, a new song for each.  

It’s going to make a big difference because I won’t have to get all inventive and cut up previously-used songs, trying to make them sound new.  And the footage and music really stick together in my head and make it sometimes tough to dream up new edit sequences.

Click here to check out Jack’s personal site; he’s also a composer of more than 800 commercial musical compositions and is the President of the ‘Dallas Modern Music Ensemble’, Voices of Change.

And Jack, thank you very much.

I’m in the business of life.

– KeriCDN 2009

I tweeted about it this morning. 

Today is the day I realized I need help, can’t do this alone any longer and actually, for the first time, I don’t want to.

I want a little team.  I think I got this from being on the ship.

I have drawn up a wish-list for this human: they’ll help me edit, manage things, go back and re-tag blog posts now that I know what I’m doing, insert all my blog photos into Picassa so I can launch ‘THE Map of Canada’, and I could continue this list for a good while.

Accepting resumes, apply within: Keri@TheCanadianExplorer.com  

My first TIFF movie ever.  I do appreciate my friend giving me his extra ticket, “Keri you need a TIFF post”, but to be honest this is not my thing.  

I don’t watch many movies as it is, and sitting in a theatre at noon, with so much to do, made me feel loser-ish.  I summed up my experience on Twitter here and here.

september 17 2009

On the right is where Jody and I met for dinner; we sat upstairs beside the street-view window.  

After we left we still had more talking to do when we heard some voices, looked up, and both of us froze when we simultaneously realized that if we could hear their conversation then our entire dinner chat was just broadcast to Queen Street and OMG… it was a girly dinner and there’s some things I didn’t tell you about my recent exploration.  What happens on the ship stays in my head.