The Fish
This was a little film project that me and my friends did together (really, Mark Gallant did all the work, musically, in terms of creative vision, and also the cat-herding-esque process of getting us not only together but motivated enough to act). We won the highly prestigious 2025 Acadia student film festival and so I can proudly say that I am an award winning actor.
It is thoroughly layered in completely inane, cryptic inside-jokes
Watch The Fish on youtube.
Miscelaneous Carpentry Projects
I don't work with my hands nearly enough these days, especially given how nice of a shop I put together during the two years I studied/worked in carpentry. While I was never that great at it I had the opportunities to work on some really cool projects and built a couple nice items on my own time. These included renovations on a circa 1910's Sears Catalogue house, and working on an off-grid cabin constructed from small scale milled lumber. My photography wasn't the greatest, but here are a few neat things.
These were some semicircular stairs we made. I forget the math involved at this point, but I remember it was surprisingly simple at the time. I appreciated how carpentry made complex mathematics intuitive and applicable- a lot of the great historic wooden structures and ships here in Nova Scotia were built by illiterate master carpenters!
Here is the raising of the walls of the off-grid cabin, using a tractor. As you can see from the dimensions of the lumber, this thing is overbuilt like an absolute tank.
This item was to serve as a holder for a 'pacing stick' gifted to a retiring senior NCO of a friend of mine in the military. I remember throwing it together on the fly using red oak and being really pleased with the impromptu design, grain of the oak, and the symmetry of the pedestal, though I screwed up the staining and varnishing as it was my first attempt, a rectifyable problem.
To be continued!