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Caught On Tweet

Social Media vs. Traditional News

The Shawinigan Handshake

Natural Selection

Toronto's Global Marijuana March 2011

Scotia Bank Contact 2011

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Caught On Tweet

@richardbranson
My other ride's a spaceship. No really. #SFOT2 http://t.co/zC4j14D
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@potashm
#Osama - Talk Abbottabad place to hide.
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@RanMarduhaev
Do you want to be yourself, or do you want to be better?
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@_khalidm
My passion is Klingon, My logic Vulcan, My greed is Ferangi, And my gangster, Cardasian. I am Picard.
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@_lannie
My code is like Lego.
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@pixel_light
#emotions are but guides. Use them wisely.
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@Sophannieta
One can only obtain betterment through the cunning of those greater...often times wicked.
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@PierreMonke
Cracker-eating contest's result: 6 crackers in 60 seconds is hard to swallow.
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@jlubey
It's a nutty explosion!
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@rojacs
to all #dhoni and #sachin haters...F*** YOU...India world Champions....
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Social Media vs. Traditional News

Throughout history individuals have been censored and restricted from sharing information. However in our modern and "free" society, we now have not only the rights, but also the means to share what we want with whomever we want. Two of the most recent examples of this freedom coming to fruition were the discovery of Osama bin Laden’s demise, and the sharing of the 2011 Canadian Election results...

The Shawinigan Handshake

Not too many people can boast that their hometown is the same hometown of a former Prime Minister. Whether you liked him or not, he definitely scored himself celeb status. So much, that he has a handshake named after him! Shawinigan Handshake is the epithet given to a chokehold executed on February 15, 1996 by Jean Chrétien, then Prime Minister of Canada, on anti-poverty protester Bill Clennett. The phrase is a combination of Chrétien's birthplace (Shawinigan, Quebec) and the name usually given to the greeting ritual of shaking hands...

Natural Selection

Are today's ad students fully prepared for life in the industry? While the schools may say yes, many agencies might disagree. One of the biggest complaints coming from agencies today is that the current generation of young ad students has limitless brilliance, but no work ethic. More and more students coming out of ad schools focus their energy on developing great concepts, but have lost the work ethic to follow through with equally great executions...

Toronto's Global Marijuana March 2011

The Global Marijuana March (GMM) is a celebration of cannabis culture that occurs the first Saturday of May in over 250 cities worldwide...

Scotia Bank Contact Photography Festival 2011

Focusing on our relationship to the environment, CONTACT 2011: Figure & Ground looks at how photographic images alter perception...

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