OPERA! Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi June 7-10, 2012 #Vancouver
18 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, music Tags: arts, gianni schicchi, music, Opera, opera klass, Puccini, singing, the opera project, Vancouver
Woop! Less than 3 weeks away from this year’s opera production…and this year I’m actually in it…cover your ears now. I play Guccio, the dyer (who is, yes, usually a man, but hey gender bending is required in desperate times) and have approximately 5 (very short) lines.
This is an Opera Klass production, meaning that the entire cast (except me…i just do the website and flyers and stuff) is composed of students from Heidi Klassen’s voice studio. And they’re all effing BRILLIANT singers. They pay tuition to cover production costs and to develop their roles with Heidi over the course of several months…and the results are pretty darn good. If you’ve never been exposed to a wall of sound coming from a full cast of operatic singers, you’ve got to come see this show.
Tickets online (paypal) at http://theoperaproject.org or at the door (cash only).
April 16, 2012 – Big Sky Over #Vancouver
16 Apr 2012 3 Comments
in art, Photos, Weather Tags: art, autostitch, burnaby, camera+, iPhone, photography, photos, spring, sunset, Vancouver, weather
Another fun iPhone panorama captured using Autostitch app, edited in Camera+. 3418 x 1012. 
April 16, 2012 | Big Sky Over Vancouver
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April 16, 2012 – Totally Morbid Thought of the Day
16 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in Food, Health and Healthy Living, Mental Diarrhea Tags: food, free range, meat, organic, twilight, vampires, vegetarian
So I’m cooking this unfortunately oh so tasty marinated beef shank for dinner.
Poor cow.
I feel slightly sickly every time I cook meat.
So I’ve been cooking meat less and less.
I really don’t feel bad for tofu, but I do feel bad for animals, especially because of the conditions in which they are often raised.
I wonder what they think about while they are alive
I wonder what sort of hopes and dreams they have for their children
So my totally morbid thought of the day is this:
If in the future there exists a species higher on the food chain than humans, I hope that it will grow us in free range, organic circumstances, and in the end, find us very tasty and satisfying, cooking us in a multitude of different ways, before eventually going through this existential crisis on the whole whether or not to eat meat thing because it’s cruel and inhumane.
Vampires excepted.
There will be no talk of twilight silliness on this blog.
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On Pronunciation
12 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in Linguistics
From London Sunday Times, January 3, 1965
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough
Others may stumble but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead –
For goodness’ sake don’t call it ‘deed’!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)
A moth is not a moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there’s dose and rose and lose –
Just look them up — and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart –
Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I’d mastered it when I was five!
“Let’s Make A Salad!” Video for LING 480 @ #SFU
31 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in Interwebs, Linguistics, Recipes, Simon Fraser University, Tech The Crazy, TV / Movies, Vancouver Tags: 2012, 480, add, andrea, assisted, Beverly, CALL, carrot, cheese, chop, computer, cooking, cucumber, cut, dice, dressing, easy, eat, education, Educational, english, food, fraser, grate, hartley, heift, how to, imperative, Kitchen, Language, lauren, learn, learning, Lesson, lettuce, Linguistics, onion, peel, pepper, pour, puckova, raisin, recipe, salad, simon, slice, spring, teach, tear, toss, trude, Vancouver, vegetables, verbs, wash, wu
Here’s a little video shot and edited yesterday for my group’s final project in Linguistics 480, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), with Dr. Trude Heift @ Simon Fraser University, Spring 2012.
The idea was to make a content-based video on the topic of food that could be easily incorporated into an ESL lesson. Each of the members in our group then has to create a mock ESL lesson plan incorporating this CALL technology for the second part of this assignment.
There are a few simple lessons that this video could be used for:
- Introducing imperative verb forms
- Food vocabulary
- Food preparation verbs
- Reviewing numbers (eg. “Step Six: Dice The Onion”)
Total runtime: ~4 minutes.
Feel free to use this video as part of your own ESL lesson planning.
“Lettuce” know if you find it useful!
Thanks to Lauren and Andrea for being really great to work with for this project.
March 30, 2012 | Lauren & Andrea, "Let's Make A Salad" Video for LING 480 @ SFU
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