Hello! Thanks for checking out my website.  Feels like I haven’t poured my random craziness into this blog in a while.

Winter is in full swing here in Toronto.  I’m still spoiled by the winter I spent bombing between Los Angeles and the Mexican Riviera on a luxury cruise ship two years ago.  I spent that winter away, most of that next year just hanging out in California, and I have never been the same since.  I got back just in time for last winter but I hadn’t resolved the personal issues that led me to seek a change of scenery in the first place so I was still away from Toronto and generally hiding from life.

Now I’m bringing the action and satisfaction, out in the big city, making moves and shaking things up.  I’m having fun, but I am definitely not cut out for this winter business.

It’s been a great few weeks since I moved into the new pad.  Living smack in the middle of everywhere you go downtown is pretty great.  We’ve got the green screen studio set up, have already run a few successful tests, and are almost ready to shoot a few new videos I’ve been cooking up.

Speaking of videos, this weekend is going to be the first table read of my next big movie – Julian Assange and The Double Damn Burger.  I cannot effin’ wait to hear those words come out of the mouths of the people I wrote them for.

In other work news, I’ve started working with a few new clients in just the last week or so on some really cool stuff.  One project in particular is an animation project.  I haven’t done an animation project in several years.  I’m really looking forward to putting that in front of you.  Stay tuned!

I think that about catches you up on what’s going down in my world.  But enough about me!  How are you doing??  Leave a comment and let me know what you’re up to.

And come see my Social Media Week session tonight!!!

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When I was a kid, we moved often. The average length of time we lived in any one place was probably two years.  One magnificent summer, we lived out of suitcases and the whole family – Mom, me, and sisters Laura & Lindsay –  moved 9 times in six months.

Moving so much and the complications around having to leave stuff behind, starting all over again just when I’m feeling settled and secure, and never quite knowing when the ground beneath my feet was going to come unstable, it’s made me have trouble with momentum.

That’s what I realized when I looked at where I was investing my attention, and decided to do the one year daily v-loggin’ project.

I knew that it would give me some much-needed structure, and the small day-by-day victory of getting the videos up was what I needed to get a rhythm going and get the juice to tackle other projects.

Now I’m working away on those other projects – writing scripts, plotting pages, dreaming up marketing schemes, etc. – and sometimes I feel like I want to drop the whole daily video thing and just focus on next year’s product launch.  But it doesn’t take long to realize that if I stopped doing daily videos, I would just be doing the same thing I always do – jumping from one big idea to another without staying in any one place long enough to tie them all together.

I set a goal for myself of one full year of daily vlogging.  I will admit, sometimes it’s really difficult and I have to dig deep.  I’m a private person, despite how everyone thinks I’m really extroverted.  And my artistic process is such that sometimes I need to vanish for days at a time, seeing and being seen by no one.

But at the same time, I fully credit doing the daily video project with how I was able to start answering long-lingering questions I’ve been asking myself about how I’m going to tackle the next phase of my career.  I’m very blessed to have been able to live out many of my childhood dreams.  Doing the daily videos, in a weird way, gives me the focus and deep introspection to build the confidence and refine the abilities required to tackle the next set of challenges.  And had it not been for the Daily V-loggin’, I wouldn’t have even met many of the people who are now an important part of my life and my Art.

My Daily V-loggin’ is a sketchbook, a sounding board, and a dream machine.

NEXT: Daily V-loggin’ as a portrait of a city.

I’m working on my second video for Springfree Trampoline, and I just finished the stack of drawings that are being used in it.

I needed to devote two days to finishing this off.  Drawing is something that I can’t do well when it’s squeezed in for moments at a time. To get anything good, I have to devote whole days to it and get lost in it.

If you don’t see me on Twitter for hours at a time, it usually means that I’ve gone all “Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings” on you.

Where do you go when you’re getting down to business?

The Wonder Mint and myself are very pleased to present this rendition of Antoine Dodson’s viral internet meme in the original text by William Shakespeare.

Watch Now:

And the more famous modernized version:

Yesterday, I went over to visit my friend and colleague Mister Michael J. Nus who prepared a hell of a feast for the pair of us.

Yeah, I vlogged that.

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SEE YOU NEXT TIME!!

Sometimes it’s album art, today it’s a movie poster.  You know how it goes – every so often I am captivated by an image of a woman I know and I have to make art out of it.  I recently shot a clip of this woman performing her ‘getting ready to go out’ routine and while it was not included in that day’s vlog, I was too proud of the composition to not do something with it.

Wanna see the last time I made art out of a capitvating picture?

Or the time before that?

The above photo was snapped during one of the best incidences of being recognized of my whole life.

Last week I had been listening to the Snoop Dogg album Malice N Wonderland when my favorite track came on – That’s the Homey.

I tweeted a quote from the song:

When you say my name, they goh’n say “That’s the homey!”

The next day I was hanging out in the window seat of a coffee shop on Bloor Street when a dude passed by.  I had enjoyed a ‘jazz cigarette’ earlier that afternoon so I was a little spacey when he smacked on the window to get my attention, pointed at me, and shouted “That’s the homey!!!”

I was smiling big at that point already, but then he came back to take my picture and just posted it to Twitter just now.  And there it is at the top of this post!

Spread love to Pj – visit thepeej.ca and follow @thepeej on Twitter.  He’s been holding it down since ’99.  He knows what’s up.

To all the people who think I’m over the top and hard to handle – try kickin’ it with four of us! 

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IN THIS VIDEO: Hang out with me, my sister Lindsay, and our cousins Christine and Nicole

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