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Balloons caught on St Catherine, Montreal

Ready, Set… OK Go.

February 5, 2012 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Today, music-video masters OK Go came out with a new video! This one clip quickly turned into a OK Go marathon. The group’s videos, like their music, are super fun and awesomely quirky. At first their style was very DIY, filming and releasing their music clips themselves on YouTube- even though they were signed. OK Go gained particular attention after one of their videos, in which they performed a hilarious dance routine on eight treadmills, went viral in 2006. In […]

Categories: Alternative, Indie, Pop, Rock • Tags: alternative, art, balloons, creative, indie, music, photography, pop, Rock, superbowl ads

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Bedouin walks past sunset in Sahara desert

Into the Wild

January 20, 2012 by snapshotsandneedledrops

I was recently commiserating with my good friend Taylor about applications; on her end: law school, on mine: employment. “Eff law school imma go live in the woods!” she tells me. This naturally prompted me to compare her to Emile Hirsch in “Into the Wild.” As recent graduates, Taylor and I can sympathize with his character in the film. We are certainly feeling the post-convocation-must-find-role-in-life stress. The job market is a fearsome place, which is why this song is appropriate. The photo […]

Categories: Alternative, Indie, Pop, Rock, Unreleased • Tags: music, photography, pop, Rock, Sahara Desert, Tunisia

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Colour sample wheel

An Indie Pickup

December 17, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

This song is a little indie-style pick-me-up for all of you currently studying for exams- as well as those just coming out of them. I don’t know if you’re like me, but after writing my last exam, my brain would always take a few days to really understand that the whole ordeal was over. All that prep work and it’s done in three lightning-fast hours? This song always makes me think of road trips to the beach. “Lust for Life” […]

Categories: Alternative, Indie, Lo-fi, Pop, Rock • Tags: colour, Girls, indie, music, photography, pop, Rock

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Water display at Place des Arts, Montreal

To the Giver of Cookie Dough

December 8, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

So I have this amazing friend Liane who is known, internationally, for her amazing cookies. Her ginger ones are my favourite, but it’s her chocolate chip that have become the stuff of legend. Regardless of the flavour, she always leaves a portion of cookie dough specifically so I can eat it raw. Did I mention she was amazing? This girl also has fantastic music taste. She’s currently finishing her final essays of the semester and preparing to jet set across the […]

Categories: Alternative, Electronic, Experimental, Indie, Pop • Tags: electronic, experimental, indie, lights, Montreal, music, Oh Land, photography, pop

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Condensation on window over Glasgow

“There’s no lions!”

December 5, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

One morning I was having breakfast with my good friend Phil, and we were discussing the mental benefits of going for a run. He talked about how his brain seems to figure stuff out while he’s jogging only to pop up later like “hey! While you were running- we were working, and we figured some stuff out for ya!” My favourite line to come out of this conversation was when he told me he always thinks his brain is confused […]

Categories: Alternative, Canadian, Indie, Pop, Rock • Tags: alternative, Canadian, Glasgow, Hey Rosetta, indie, music, photography, pop, Rock, Scotland

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Looking through a snowy window at Montreal

“Worse than….”

November 23, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Last night I arrived home from my 10 day trip in Paris and Scotland. It turns out I was just in time! I woke up at 6:30 this morning to find it had been snowing all night. It’s a magical day, that first day of snow. The world is all of sudden a completely different landscape- granted it is a landscape you’ll be tired of in five months- but for now, coupled with the newly strung Christmas lights around the […]

Categories: Covers, Dance, Pop, Soundtrack • Tags: bakewells, Canada, dance, girls aloud, jump, Love Actually, Montreal, music, photography, pop, snow, Soundtracks, winter

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Close up blonde wearing red lipstick

Bordeaux & Paris

November 18, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Paris is the only city in the world I feel I could walk out into the street in broad daylight wearing this shade, Bordeaux, of lipstick. It’s strangely empowering, I was struttin’ all day. As a thank you to my gracious Parisienne host, GB, I’m embedding one of her favourite songs. Enjoy. “Elle me dit” par Mika

Categories: Dance, Electronic, French, Pop • Tags: blonde, dance, electric, France, french, lipstick, Mika, music, Paris, photography, pop

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Carved pumpkins, wolf, jack-o-latern, Liverpool, LFC

Happy 90s Halloween

October 31, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

My close friends would be able to tell you that Halloween is not a favourite holiday of mine. Halloween was so much better in the 90s when I was a kid. The costume barely mattered because you had to put a coat on anyway and you got to run around your neighbourhood with friends getting candy. As an added bonus, I grew up in a small town, so every time my friends and I went to a house that we […]

Categories: 90s, Covers, Pop, Rock, Soundtrack • Tags: 90s, Canada, carved pumpkins, covers, halloween, jack-o-lanterns, LFC, Liverpool Football Club, memories, music, photography, pop, pumpkins, Rock, Soundtracks, Sugar Ray, wolf

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Dog nose close up

The Underdog

October 28, 2011 by snapshotsandneedledrops

Meet Rocky.  Rocky lives in Vancouver. Rocky is gorgeous. Rocky is fierce. Rocky was made for the camera. The photo here was taken by a Mr. Davidson at a high tea hosted by the ever-dashing Mr. Ting. It was well posh. The song, The Underdog has been used both wisely and unwisely by music supervisors in quite a number of projects. For instance, it’s used awesomely in Horrible Bosses, How I Met Your Mother, but awfully in 17 Again. There is an […]

Categories: Alternative, Indie, Pop, Rock • Tags: alternative, Canada, dog, indie, music, photography, pop, Rock, Spoon, Vancouver

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