Mondoville Daily Scroll: November 25
Today on the Scroll: how to stalk celebrities and repudiate people; online television in Canada almost catches up to 2006; rich kid starts record company with a conscience; Degrassi-spawned rapper answers a few questions; and the tabletop architect recalls his history of pedagogic arson.
When Winona Ryder is filming in Toronto’s Union Station — I’m shooting. IT’S NEWS [Shot7.com]: Local paparazzo Richard Budman shows off his technique to fend off officious production assistants requesting that he not shoot the celebrities — posting that video in lieu of scoring a snap of his target: “And I’m going to, uh, unfortunately decline, uh, the request.”
Rogers Gives Canadians Their ‘TV Everywhere’ With New VOD Service [paidContent]: Launching next week, the first closest thing to a Hulu for geo-blocked Canadians, although you need to be paying a Rogers bill to access it. Available will be content from the 15 channels owned by the company, plus some justification for their investment in Michael Eisner’s new webisode company, Vuguru. [Previously on Mondoville]
The Bed-Stuy Bronfman [New York Observer]: Flattering portrait of the future Mr. M.I.A. from the newspaper owned by Ivana Trump’s husband. Ben Bronfman, however, is also a scion of the Canadian bootleg liquor legacy — he went by his mother’s maiden name when pursuing an indie rock career to keep it real: ““It wasn’t the Strokes. It wasn’t a bunch of posh kids. It wasn’t New York City private school. That’s not who we were.” Now he’s out to bridge the gap between “quote-unquote hipster culture and the environment” through his very own quote-unquote record label Green Owl.
Doin’ Lines: Drake fills in all the blanks [XXL]: Forest Hill native Aubrey Graham reveals to hip-hop teen magazine that he likes to put “lox and light cream cheese” on his bagel, feels “so far away from my dreams” when away from Toronto — and the rumours of him dating Rihanna were “semi-true.”
Renegade architect schools Rye [Eyeopener]: Hot new teacher in town, Will Alsop, delivers his first lecture at Ryerson University by recalling his past instruction methods back in the U.K.: “If I didn’t like someone’s project I’d set fire to their model.”
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