The Saz Player: Samad Purmusavi

Samad Purmusavi was borned in Azerbaijan. Samad is an architect, a saz master player and dancer of folk Azeri music. Part of Azerbaijan territory now belongs to Iran where Azeri culture is forbidden. New generations of Azerbaijani people are progressively less linked to their millenary grassroots. Samad lives now in Canada where he is free to play, dance, and disseminate Azeri culture. The Saz is a...

Garbage Toronto: Ryerson University assignment

This is my final assignment for my Motion Picture Production course at Ryerson University. I made this film about this topic because I always have been surprised by the amount of garbage each family generates in Toronto. Despite the fact that Toronto has a good recycling program, it does not prevent this city to send thousand and thousand of trucks, full of garbage, to Michigan, USA. Here are some...

Podcast Collection George Brown College

1- Heidi Rotter – Resumes 2- Heidi Rotter – Job Interviews 3- Tarek & Aurelio – Industry Lead Projects 4- Saeed Bagheri – Universities, Colleges, and Industry 5- Duncan Jones – Technology Transfer

Heidi Rotter, Manager of Human Resources at TD Bank (job Interviews)

Heidi Rotter, Human Resources Manager, TD Bank Financial Group In one of our courses of the Research, Commercialization, and Innovation program (RCI) at George Brown College, I was assigned to research about job interviews and present my findings. I decided to deliver an audio podcast instead of developing and presenting a traditional PowerPoint presentation. (more…)

Aurelio Pimenta, Cardio Exercise and the Weight loss Process

In August 2009, I decided to start a Postgraduate program at George Brown College (Research, Commercialization, and Innovation program.) For our Human Centered Design course my classmate Aurelio Pimenta and I decided to develop a prototype of a website called “Listen to Your Heath.” As part of this project we produced an audio prototype (podcast.) (more…)

Bryan & Shannon Prince, A Shadow on the Household

Bryan & Shannon Prince (from the Buxton National Site & Museum's website) Shannon & Bryan Prince, A Shadow on the Household In 2009, I asked Bryan & Shannon about the possibility to record some of their stories. Some weeks later we were recording in the Buxton National Historic Site & Museum. Bryan is not only an excellent researcher and writer, he and his wife, Shannon, are...

Spencer Alexander, The Story of George Hatter

Spencer Alexander George W. Hatter was a house slave in the Appalachian Mountains, in what is now West Virginia, USA; his brother Frank was a field laborer. Their mistress favored George, and taught him to read, defying both her husband and prevailing custom. (more…)