January 2012
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Beauty and Style is Important on Lenzr Jan 2012
I maintain the Facebook page for The Distillery District and earlier this week I curiously followed a ‘like’ made by Wedding Girl back to a young lady named Mary Bratko in Toronto. I friended her on Facebook immediately and have been emailing her and asking her all manner of personal questions. She has been answering them. And so today I added Mary Bratko the Wedding Girl to Canada...
December 2011
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November 2011
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Casie Stewart Goes Boardwalk Empire With Canadian...
With the help of Canadian Club whiskey, Casie Stewart paid homage to the hit HBO series Boardwalk Empire and hosted an authentic Prohibition Era speakeasy at Abode nightclub in Toronto on the evening of November 3rd 2011.
Casie was in her element as a sexy flapper girl with a fur shawl and many feathered accessories. Like a gracious host she met the first guests out on the street and welcomed...
October 2011
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My Beekeeping is a Canadian Harvest Business Story...
The strange summer played havoc with the annual honey crop.
July was a drought and August was drowning in rain.
We were forced to leave the honey supers on until September and
Although you can see full boxes of honey in these pictures, the harvest was actually pretty disappointing. There was a shortage of water during the good hot July days, and things were too dry to yield much honey. Then...
September 2011
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Rob Campbell Talks Story at Word11
Word11 was a unique blogging convention (open to all platforms) held at Bathurst and Bloor in Toronto on August 27th 2011. It was created and executed by two companies, TruFinancial and Cg6. I might be wrong, but I do not think TruFinancial has a website, which makes it an odd choice to sponsor a web blogging festival. The event was preceded by an online mixer called PREFIX which was by some...
August 2011
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September Contests from Lenzr Will Challenge...
September brings a pair of photo contests that promise to satisfy any challenge-starved photographers. Though the topics are wildly different, they both require a professional and innovative approach.
Remember: both of the following contest will end on September 25, 2011.
Classy Summer Drinks
A good photographer can stir the emotions of his or her audience. Sometimes they elevate our souls...
July 2011
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Distillery District Patios, Mill Street, Tapos,... →
This is the east patio at Pure Spirits restaurant in the historic Distillery District. Its a popular tourist attraction and is rather famous for seafood pastas and oysters. Its a fact that in the summertime thousands of pounds of fresh mussels, lobsters, crabs and clams are sent here via air freight from both the East and West Coasts of Canada, daily.
In the distance you can see the eastern...
June 2011
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White Teeth Courtesy of Best Toronto Dentist
Last year, I whitened my brown smile with advanced cosmetic dental surgery.
Smile for the camera!
Dr. Natalie Archer DDS is the best Toronto dentist I have ever met. In three 2 hr sessions she installed seven anterior all ceramic crowns for my teeth 1-4 (upper right first premolar) to 2-3 (upper left canine) across top front of mouth.
The procedure was painless and not even very expensive,...
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Online Search Leads to Free Arts in Toronto
Luminato Festival In The Distillery District
The Luminato Festival had begun and I was on a search for some free programming that I could check out. There had to something for free. The historic Distillery District known for a growing artistic hub in Toronto surely had some free arts performances. My web savvy search lead me to the Young Centre and the free events to attend during Luminato. ...
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Toronto Arts Girl Experiences Meagan O'Shea
Toronto Arts Girl
Lover of ALL arts. I see art everywhere, and in everything we do in this beautiful City of Toronto.
The Atomic Weight of Happiness – Stand Up Dance
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Stand Up Dance
Toronto Arts Girl, Ruth Wilgress recently wrote about Meagan O’Shea who presented by Stand Up Dance called the Atomic Weight of Happiness.
Co created with, and directed by Andrea Donaldson, the play...
April 2011
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March 2011
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Film Crew in Distillery District for ABC TV Pilot...
Living in the historic Distillery District of Toronto lets residents to get a good look at upcoming period films and TV shows that are shooting in Toronto.
On March 17th 2011, an IATSE film crew took over the Distillery District and transformed it back in time to resemble the cobbled streets of Boston circa 1840 as the setting in TV show about the famous poet and author, Edgar Allen Poe. There...
February 2011
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A Look At Lenzr In The Eye Of The Lens, A New...
Son of a beekeeper loves a new photography discussion forum called In The Eye of The Lens, that a man named Marc Gendron in Montreal Canada has created for the amusement of his friends and family. He has a lot of friends - he’s a graphic designer and RPG model maker and movie animation guru and part of Lenzr’s new panel of Judges. Yes, Lenzr has a panel of Judges now.
Because of the...
January 2011
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Jan 8th Rally To Demand A Public Inquiry into...
On Jan 8th, 2011 several hundred people met at Queens Park in a mass rally organized almost entirely on Facebook to Demand a Public Inquiry into Police Actions During G20 Summit in Toronto. That Facebook page has almost fourteen thousand participants, and if that number grows to 20K or 25K citizens, it might ring more bells in the halls of the Ontario Legislature. So please sign up.
The...
November 2010
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Broken Factories, Beauty School and Canadian...
Lenzr celebrates 25 contests with 3 kooky new challenges.
There’s a potpourri of prestigious prizes to be won in eight different competitions on Lenzr. The five challenges that launched earlier in October features prizes like Apple iPads, soy based cosmetics, and even a red electric snow blower - this month’s sponsors include erp software, designer swimwear and a beauty school and...
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Boy's Boarding School Makes Eight Incredible...
Enrollment is up at most Ontario private schools, and that’s because the standard of education is much higher here than in any public school in the province. Yes, I said it, because it’s just so obvious now… Public schools can’t compete. Private schools have more money to spend on advanced programs, technological toys, state-of-the-art facilities and top notch teachers, and...
October 2010
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Cafe Culture: Balzac's, Toronto
Balzac’s Coffee Roasters has two Toronto locations — one in Liberty Village and one in the Distillery District. Both are great spaces that have been around for quite awhile, but it’s the Distillery spot I really dig. It’s in an old building with high ceilings and tons of character. Think exposed brick, wicker chairs, a giant antique looking chandelier, and a staircase to...
Lenzr offers three new chances to win an iPad
Following the success of last month’s contests, Lenzr just started five new contests for October/November, three of them with iPads as prizes. All the contests close Dec. 1, 2010.
The Backyard Critters photo contest is looking for the best shots of the animals you see out your back door. Do you have a family of pesky squirrels that try to steal birdseed? Or deer that stop by for a graze?...
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My friend Sheryl
An old friend of mine just started a mom blog and is trying to become more acquainted with online communities. Her name is Sheryl and her website is www.sheryltips.com. She has two wonderful children — Sam, 5, and April, 3 — and prides herself on being a domestic goddess of sorts. Part of her idea for starting a website was to share the mountain of tips she has collected over the...
September 2010
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SPOTLIGHT on Hayley Sales, Micah Barnes, Kellylee...
SPOTLIGHT Unplugged, Up Close and Personal in 2010
SPOTLIGHT is celebrating its 9th year as a major fund raising event for Fife House. The proceeds from the event go to support Fife House in its efforts to provide secure and affordable housing for people afflicted with HIV/AIDS.
Don’t miss this up close and personal event, September 30 2010 For more information and to get tickets to...
August 2010
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Lenzr Builds Buzz For Three Solar Powered Sponsors
The whole world is going solar this summer, and Lenzr is busy collecting pictures for three very different solar industrial players; one company makes portable solar power generators, another uses solar power to do eco friendly deck building, while a third does solar panel installations and industrial flat roof repair. They use a white ToughRoof coating (which is especially perfect for solar power...
June 2010
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Kids in Ontario private schools have a much better...
No. Its not fair. Some people say its not what you know, its who you know.
Recent statistics hint that kids in Ontario private schools have much better and more powerful social networks that the rest of us in the public system. This advantage helps them accomplish greater things in life, like getting appointed to the Order of Canada.
One Ontario private school north of Toronto boasts eighteen...
May 2010
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Goodbye CN Tower
goodbyetoronto:
Check out this photo of the CN Tower while being built during the mid 70s. Without a doubt the most defining feature on the city skyline, I couldn’t imagine a CN Tower-less Toronto. This photo is from the City of Toronto Archives but was shot from the 401 (which is quite a way’s away). The tower was the tallest freestanding structure in the world until the construction of the...
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April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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Do Over Day is Feb 26th which just happens to be...
Do Over Day is perfect day for quality self reflection. A genuine opportunity to better experience and retrain your brain to more effectively contain an emotional response to something that was provocative or otherwise profound.
The polls on the site detail approximately what percentage of our society has regrets and in some cases it even extrapolates on what those regrets are…
Also...
January 2010
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Toronto dentist inspires search for Kids in Action...
Kids in Action photo contest on Lenzr gives shutterbugs an overwhelming creative latitude on a wide open playing field and asks members, ‘can you make art by lensing children having fast paced adventures?’
Kids in Action is an okay theme… You know I wanted to make the contest about people eating corn on the cob or ice cream or all the things that people have trouble eating when...
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Tangled Webs Contest Showcases Office Phone...
Can you make a terrible tangled mess look beautiful?
Look carefully here at this image (originally photographed by FarleyJ on Flickr) and you can see strings and speaker wire and power feeds for electronics, coils and inputs, data lines, fiber optic cables and rubber coated copper wire. It’s breathtaking isn’t it?
If this is your kind of art, then there’s a brand new photo...
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Smojoe Follows the Toronto Blog Girls
Tumblr just got a lot more relevant for this Son-of-a-Beekeeper.
Earlier this month I met one of the most prolific pens in the Toronto Blog Girls and now I’m going to follow the group’s RSS feed on Tumblr.
And because @KeriCDN and I met and broke bread with Stephen Crooks in Starbucks one day last week,
I wrote about Keri the Canadian Explorer on Smojoe blog
which in turn linked...
December 2009
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Lenzr Photo Contest for Mobile App Developer,...
Lenzr is really hot in the cold month of December 2009, just look at these amazing contests that task shutterbugs to scour their collections in search of strange images. The competitions are really very imaginative and very compelling.
Ontario Tourist Attractions 2 comes courtesy of Kanetix.ca, an online car insurance quote finder that specializes in helping Canadians get the lowest automobile...
November 2009
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Toronto wedding cakes photo game
There was a time when I had a lot of potential to live a normal life and find a girl and marry her and have a family. The ceremony would be complete with a giant pastry from Toronto wedding cakes to eat chocolate or raspberry or peaches or sugar icing and kindness. Served on porcelain plates with savory vanilla cream sauce and little bits of shredded cheese melting into a warm sugar gravy.
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October 2009
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myCELLmyTERMS in Financial Post! →
Fresh from CBC Dragons’ Den where they did a huge deal for $400K for a third of their company, the guys from myCELLmyTERMS.com were just interviewed today in Canada’s Financial Post.
Here’s an inside look at what it takes to start a company that will no doubt revolutionize the wireless landscape in Canada. The three big cellular service provider companies are resisting change,...
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Wise New Warranty Elephant
How many new products did you buy last year? How many of them are still covered by their factory warranties? Will you remember to check these products for flaws or defects before the expiry date?
Now WarrantyElephant.com will help you remember. The free email service is perfect for anyone who buys six or more new items a year, or has a messy file system habits. Warranty Elephant is a free...
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How To Market Events in Toronto Oct 14th 2009
Everything Smojoe knows about how to market an event in Toronto will be revealed on Weds Oct 14th, 2009 starting at 6:00pm - 8:30pm inside the Spoke Club 600 King St W, Toronto. Get tickets in advance here they’re cheaper.
https://secure.gettickets.ca/?event=15422
Rob Campbell of Smojoe has lots of experience marketing live events online including the Miss Teen Canada-World pageant event...
September 2009
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New Lenzr Photo Contest: Ontario Tourist...
Ontario Tourist Attractions photo contest on Lenzr sponsored by, Kanetix insurance & mortgage rate quotes, is a search for pictures that celebrate of our province’s most interesting destinations.
This web challenge hopes people will upload shots of Canada’s Wonderland, Marineland, and Ontario Place with a shot of CN Tower in the background.
Have you ever been to Upper Canada Pioneer...
August 2009
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Time Management Guru at Bristall.com
Steven Prentice is Toronto’s best time management guru, author and public speaker. His company is the official sponsor of Lenzr’s third photo contest, Emergency in Toronto
The challenge tasks local photographers to submit pictures of Toronto’s emergency workers in action. This contest is a really difficult challenge, probably the hardest on the site this summer. It requires...
July 2009
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Summer in Toronto Photo Contest for Smart Phone
Take pictures of Summer in Toronto and you could win a smart phone! This contest is wide open on Lenzr.com and unlike other challenges anything goes in this event. The winning image will probably be a magic moment on very summer day somewhere in Toronto, and it will definately be a photo that everyone really likes and gives a generous thumbs up.
Contest ends midnight August 31st, 2009 . On...
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Lenzr = Photo Contest
First Lenzr Photo Contest
The first photo contest on Lenzr.com asks public to upload their best shots of Toronto’s skyline. Contest ends midnight August 31st; the winning photo, the image with the most green thumbs up, wins the prize. The prize is a new digital camera, a Pentax Optio P70 is a 12 megapixel super compact camera with a wide-angle 4x optical zoom lens (27.5-110mm equiv.). It...
June 2009
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The Complaints Website As Citizen Journalism
Angry content is good content, and few categories are as compelling or infectious as user submitted complaints.
Because such a large percentage of Canadian society now has a voice, its only logical that a truly canuck customer service website should appear to harvest opinions and data from people when they are the most emotional.
Right after a customer snaps, they need to vent. When Canadians...
May 2009
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Miss Teen Canada And Her Blog Army
Things are different this year at The Search For Miss Teen Canada World.
This year each of the contestants must keep a personal blog. In fact they are graded 10% of their final score on the quality of their web journal.
And that’s because social networking is breathing new life into the beauty pageant.
And now the pageant director actually depends upon the reigning champion to be able...
Beekeeper Turns Blogger On Sugar
A beekeeper’s blog! Don’t miss this amazing 75 year old blogger as he describes his day to day existence as a Canadian beekeeper. Barehugs is the boss at Campbell’s Honey , which is located near Dartford Ontario Canada. Each summer this apiarist and his family unwrap their beehives, feed medicine and add supers to help the honeybees harvest the sugars from local flowers and...
April 2009
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2009 Toronto Bottle Show
Terry Matz of TorpedoBottle.com was all smiles when I pointed the camera at him. He collects torpedo bottles of all colours and nationalities. He’s my newest friend. You can see his interview here, and read all about the 2009 Toronto Bottle Show on Dumpdiggers.com.
This scene from the 16th annual Toronto Bottle Show in the gymnasium at Humber College on 19th August, 2009.
March 2009
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Understanding Umbilical Cord Blood
United States is poised to become a world leader in embryonic stem cell research, passing Canada by leaps and bounds.
On March 9th, 2009 US President Barack Obama reversed the federal opposition to Stem Cell research, and overturned an order imposed by former President Bush that both financially and legally limited the science. The best Canadian minds will probably migrate south, following the...
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Virgin Mobile says Screw You Recession
Virgin Mobile is now targeting frugal teenagers. A funny web site called Screw You Recession encourages visitors to message money saving tips and interact with a funky custom built recession panic meter. All joking aside, that’s actually where I learned about Freecycle and that site looks amazing, a place where good karma is currency.
February 2009
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Z.O.S. TV Show Website Has Breakthrough Flash Game...
Would you trust this beautiful woman? Follow her into that seedy bar and she will lead you to a criminal warlord who gives you a needle and an ounce of heroine.
Zone of Separation is a new Canadian TV show which airs Monday nights at 10 PM EST on The Movie Network (TMN), Movie Central. The show details the troubles had by international peacekeepers in the Balkans in the 1990s. Last Tango in...
Dance Marathon At Harbourfront Starts Tonight!
Put on your best shirt and dancing shoes, and don’t forget to apply lots of underarm deordorant…
Yesterday, Dead Robot wrote about a marathon dancing event that starts tonight!
On the evening of Weds Feb 4th there’s interactive, duration-based performance dance event at Toronto Harbourfront Centre. Come dance with me at the Toronto Dance Marathon.
This planned activity is...