Posts by: Sam

ON WINNIPEG DURING THE HOLIDAYS

Winnipeg. It’s a gritty kind of beauty. Slapping on my layers, heading out for a run on the slippery, packed snow. A rosy glow illuminates beautiful frost-glazed trees. A stark contrast against the filthy snow and salt piles and random…

MARATHON, AND ON, AND ON

MARATHON, AND ON, AND ON

To start, I’ll put this out there: I have always wanted to run a marathon. Even years ago, when I was just running 3 miles a day on the treadmill, I always pictured myself finishing a marathon at the end…

PARDON THE MESS

We’ve interrupted your regularly scheduled website for an important update. Hoping to clean things up and have everything looking shiny and new real soon, folks! Harder, better, faster, stronger, my work is never over…

TEA TIME

TEA TIME

Imagine my surprise when I wandered into David’s Tea and saw this! So pleased to see my work on an excellent design and quality product like this. Would love to work with the company in the future, wondering about collaboration…

FEATURED ILLUSTRATION ON ISTOCKPHOTO.COM

FEATURED ILLUSTRATION ON ISTOCKPHOTO.COM

Just a screen capture to prove that I had the Featured Illustration on istockphoto.com this past week. I would’ve posted it sooner, but well, I am lame. And this past week was a bit ridiculous. The image that was featured…

HYPOTHERMIC HALF MARATHON 2012

HYPOTHERMIC HALF MARATHON 2012

Since this was the first time I’ve run this race, I thought I’d post a little breakdown of how the race went. The Weather: After pretty much an entire winter of beautiful weather- very little snow and Sunday runs that…

A REQUIEM FOR WHEELS

So by now I’m sure you’ve all heard the distressing news: The actor who played “Wheels” on the various Degrassi series died 5 years ago and no one noticed. I read this news earlier this morning and to be honest,…

EVERYTHING CAN BE FIXED

EVERYTHING CAN BE FIXED

This illustration was inspired by a couple of friends who had to have heart surgery in the last few months. It was a surprising thing, as both are around my age (under 30), however luckily both of them are on…

DOIN’ THE PECHAKUCHA CHA-CHA

DOIN’ THE PECHAKUCHA CHA-CHA

What’s this? Finally a breakdown of my PechaKucha presentation and only one month after it occurred? Why Sam, you are on the ball, I tip my hat to you… I wanted to post about this much sooner, of course, but…