THE ACORN - RESTORATION

My good friends at Exploding Motor Car just finished a fantastic video for Ottawa band The Acorn. Multiple all-night shoots in the middle of a soy farm utilizing painfully slow (and beautiful) stop-motion animation. Enjoy.

BEST IN FRINGE 2010!!!

Lightening does strike twice (thanks James)! Nick's one-man show has been named "BEST IN FRINGE" for the second year in a row. Once again, a massive thank you to everyone who came out and took part in the show. If you didn't get a chance to see it, keep your eyes peeled and your ears to the ground as there will be a third run of show within the next few months.

how do the angels get to sleep

when the devil leaves the porch light on...

Only Tom Waits knows. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."

Simply put, Tom Waits is one of the most important figures of the modern pop era. With a career that spans over 4 decades, he has long since emerged as an extraordinary innovative force, a singular voice whose music remains determinedly and even gloriously - well beyond the trivial fads and fashions of popular culture.

Enjoy this clip from a 1999 appearance on David Letterman.

FRINGE FESTIVAL 2010

Finished up a run of 7 shows in London Ontario, and am now in the midst of the Hamilton Fringe Festival. Most shows thus far have sold out, so many thanks to everyone who has come out. The festival continues until July 25th, so if you have not caught a show yet, there is still lots of time. Plenty of other great shows to check out as well if your not into the skinny, uber-charming magic types (unlike the young lady to the left).

Check out a full schedule here:

www.hamiltonfringe.ca

For Your Viewing Pleasure...

NEW SHOW IN 2010!!!

This summer, Nick will be debuting his new show TEN MILLION TO ONE. It is an exploration of fate, coincidence, magic, mind reading and promises to give theatre-goers a real, honest-to-goodness opportunity of winning millions and millions of dollars... really. For ticket information please follow the following links. See you there!

LONDON FRINGE FESTIVAL

HAMILTON FRINGE FESTIVAL

MORE WEIRD THEN WONDERFUL...




Mankind has just come this much closer to breaking one of my fundamental rules of life. Never create a robot that's superior to human beings or it will wipe out the human race... Matrix, here we come.

THE OWLE BIRD

The Owle Bird - Machines from Jared Raab on Vimeo.

My brother and his band "The Owle Bird" just released their first music video. Nope, thats not me with a curly wing.

MAKE YOUR OWN POLLOCK

www.jacksonpollock.org. Make your own Pollock. Its fun, easy, and no clean up.

Here is a video made by some good friends of mine for the band Ohbijou. You can check out more of there work at explodingmotorcar.ca.