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What started as a playful game fueled by the digital age quickly became a lesson in relative value and ended with a gesture of generosity and a man filled with insights. Kyle MacDonald...
This winter we were chatting casually with Bruno about how gorgeous Montreal looks under heavy snowfall. While this conversation may seem mundane to people who grew up here, it was enchanting to listen to a Parisian’s take on the phenomenon. So Bruno set out one morning, camera in hand, to capture the magic of our city being blanketed in the white stuff. What he came back with took our breath away, it wasn’t the snow he was watching, it was us.
When we look back at this era three themes will most certainly dominate our collective memory: the environment, the digital revolution and the global recession. Three issues so clear and omnipresent that one can't help but feel they are fundamentally connected and meant to teach us lessons about how we can be better.
We’re happy to announce we have a snazzy new feature on The Rake, The General Store. We will be filling it up with free downloadable goodies like our ‘desktop desktop’ series inspired by some of the folks we love around the office and custom Google map guides to cities we dig that you can send to your phone or copy into your travel itinerary. We will also be creating original pieces that you can purchase like...
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Paris is a city most of us have visited, if not in real life then at the very least in film, art and general culture and it certainly is a town reknown for its style. While Au Bon Marche, Printemps and Galleries Lafayette are wonderful, there is a vast network of smaller shops that are bringing new fashions into the fold. Bruno has put together his guide to the city he hails from, a real insider's tour to the spots you should hit up on your next visit. If street art, urban fashion and...
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We spent some time down at Oakley Headquarters in Orange County, California. While there, we sat down with Brian Takumi, Creative Director of Special Projects for Oakley. He's a pretty awesome dude so we thought we'd share some of the highlights from our chat.
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Here's a little video we prepared of us singing along to Edmund's rendition of MGMT's 'Kids' at CloudKitchen!
Here is our 2010 Community Edition of CloudKitchen, our food-infused fun fest brought to life in a cookbook and party how-to guide. Enjoy!
Dallas Clayton writes kids books. His first was called An Awesome Book . He wrote the story and drew the pictures a few years back for his 5 year-old son (kinda like a father-son manifesto) encouraging him to dream big and imagine things like "rocket-powered unicorns." He made a few extra copies and started selling them from his home. Since then, he's sold a lot and went on to create the Awesome World Foundation and donate one book for every book sold. His fans include Spike Jonze,...
Okay, I know what you are all thinking: crazy dog lady gone crazy publicly and in print. Maybe. But maybe not. I know we interview really fascinating people in The Rake (documentary filmmakers, explorers, innovative entrepreneurs, journalists and on…) but sometimes I look at my dog and think there’s a lot of wisdom in that furry little head and some of the things I imagine she’s thinking we could stand to learn a lot from. Trust me, you’ll have a hard time disagreeing with much of what...
We are knee deep in this year’s edition of CloudKitchen and couldn’t be more excited about it. Last year we threw ourselves into the unknown with this wee project that turned into a lasting celebration of our values and a way to give back to the clients, friends and collaborators we love. To be honest, we thought about doing something different this year, in the name of innovation, but the idea of not doing it felt weird. So we leapt back in and the enthusiasm around the office is palpable.
Interview by Justin Li Benjamin Gott is a busy, creative guy. Online, he’s the founder of blogs The Brilliance – which happens to be on Kanye West’s blog roll – and Snak Snak . Offline, he’s just launched clothing label, Benjamin Edgar or Whatever , and founder of Boxed Water is Better – a better, bottled water brand. You’ve perhaps come across it if you’ve ever stayed the night at The Standard hotel in LA, Hollywood or Miami, or perused the pages of Fast Company, I.D. Magazine or...
Little Ms. Best’s last name is no accident. You can’t help but be impressed by her smarts, great taste and beauty but what really gets you is her self-effacing humour, her love of a dirty joke, her tremendous enthusiasm around fatty foods (or any food for that matter!) and general ‘I’m up for a good time, anytime’ take on life. I knew the moment I met her, she was going to be one of those people ‘I knew when’ and two years later, I believe in her more than ever. Today, she works at...
Like any great city, Montreal is many things to many people. And depending where your likes lie and lifestyle is at, there are versions of the city that represent you best. In that spirit, we’ve asked Emilie, a member of our social media team, to curate the city based on her unique tastes.
This isn’t one of those ‘oh look, more Montreal music talent!!’ pieces. I am a fan of Camaromance . A fan fan. The Parade has been a constant companion for me for the past 3 months, my go-to, I relate to your lyrics, you make me happy when I want to feel happy, make me weepy when I feel like I need a good cry, come join me and my friends at this dinner party, let’s go for a nice long walk in the park with my dog, kind of album. Martine’s 1-2 punch is a voice I can only describe...
photo credit: Joe Pugliese I met Evan Ratliff this summer in Toronto at NXNE. He’s a hell of a writer and storyteller. He’s most famous as “that crazy Houdini guy” in WIRED magazine who vanished for a month and challenged readers to find him. This smash-hit article is gonzo journalism for geeks at its best. For me, the biggest hook of his story is that he did what a lot of us fantasize doing: disappearing and becoming someone else. Evan and I spoke again recently and rather than...
Mila Aung-Thwin is the co-founder of Eye Steel Film , a Montreal-based documentary film production company. He has produced some of the best documentaries of our time including Up the Yangtze and Last Train Home and recently produced a short fiction Mohktar that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. He is currently collaborating with us on the RBC Blue Water Project documentary series and we think he’s an awesome dude. He is, in his own way, making our world a...
Watch our exclusive interview with the founder of the Plastiki, David de Rothschild , taken while he sails across Pacific on his boat from recycled plastic water bottles.
Did you see Thane’s presentation at Infopresse’s RDV Web conference on April 21st? If you did, you may have noticed that due to some technical and scheduling conflicts, Graham Hill was not able to join us via Skype that day. To make up for it, he sent us a fantastic video of his adventures on the Plastiki.