Tag: Vlogging
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I Failed at Making Joshua Weissman’s “But Cheaper Cinnamon Rolls”
While watching Joshua Weissman’s video “1 Dollar Giant Cinnamon Rolls | But Cheaper,” I thought it looked easy enough so I decided to give it a go. Turns out, I need to learn a few things before I’ll be able to make cinnamon buns worth eating.
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The Last Vlog (in this series)
In this week’s vlog, I find myself at The Beaches in Toronto. Lake Ontario didn’t disappoint. This is going to be the last vlog in this series, and in the video I share some of the things that I learned by working on this project. In the end, I think the most important thing that…
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Bending Time a bit with Long Exposure Photography | Aly walks around taking pictures of Toronto, and he talks, too
This week, I spent some time working with long exposure photography. I went out to Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Bluffers Park in Scarborough, Ontario. I got to thinking about how photography influences our perspective on the world.
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Aly walks around taking pictures of Toronto, and he talks, too | visiting Calgary
I went out to Calgary to visit my folks. While I was there, I went around and took some pictures. I never appreciated what Calgary has to offer as much as I did during this trip. In many ways, it’s the opposite of Toronto; the availability of space and access to nature is just one…
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Aly walks around taking pictures of Toronto, and he talks, too | the beginning
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Prongs on a Fork
Every time I’ve sat down to do some journalling over the last two weeks, my plans for the summer have been top of mind. I’ve been desperately trying to figure out what I want to do with the nine weeks that lay ahead of me. The practice of looking forward with no clear idea of…
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Episode 6: Lessons from Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of P. Teague’s How to Start a Podcast Book
I was more productive this week than I was last week and I’m feeling good coming out of it. I think that I made some headway but I still have a bit of work to do. Things should start picking up pace here or I might lose interest.
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Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 5: What’s the Point of My Podcast?
I didn’t make much headway with the podcast this week. I got so far as figuring out what the podcast is about, what you’ll hear on it, and who might want to listen to it. I also only read one chapter of the book I bought, and have yet to answer the question that it…
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Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 4- Narrowing My Focus to Podcasting
Last week, I said that this episode would be about advertising, because what’s the point in putting this content out there if I didn’t want people to see it? Late last week, I decided that I needed to narrow my focus when a pang of anxiety struck me as I was trying to figure out…
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Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 3: Keeping Track of Your Ideas
Anecdote In a 2013 study, researchers Kathleen Vohs, Joseph Redden, and Ryan Rahinel found the that a disorderly space can have a positive impact on behaviour. They found that people are more likely to be creative when in a disorderly space than when in an orderly one. They did this through three experiments.
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Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 2- The Structure of Each Episode
We are living in some strange times right now. COVID-19 has covered the entire globe. Here in Ontario, a state of emergency has been declared. Toronto is eerily quiet. There’s almost a 1984-type feeling to all of this with so much of the information I’m getting coming from the television. I hope that you’re all…
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Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting | Episode 1: Introduction
There’s a great quotation by Ira Glass: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is a gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s…