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- Three Most Important Life Lessons
  
  Posted at 4:20 pm by Gelene Celis, on October 23, 2015
  tonysbologna : Honest. Satirical. Observations
  
  What is life without knowledge? To the delight of myself, elementary teachers, and guidance counselors nationwide I’ll follow up the previous question with the classic schoolyard cliché’ “Knowledge is power.”
  
  Somewhere a sixth grade student is rolling their eyes. Do you even lift bro?
  
  In my short but turbulent life I have experienced three main life lessons that have affected me to my core. I now consciously live my life in alignment with these lessons and am pleased with the results. This isn’t a self-help, raspberry, bullshit article where I’ll promise you the world on an ice cream cone but rather real world truths that I have lived and all of us instinctually know. Sit back, relax, grab a coke, put on a smile and enjoy.
  
  Life Lesson One: Whatever You Think About Intently Will Transpire.
  
  The older I become the more I realize that life isn’t random but rather…
  
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- Schitz – Sometimes Fingers
  
  Posted at 10:27 am by Gelene Celis, on October 3, 2015
  Divemaster/Instructor: “Alright folks we’re here at the Yapak, we’re going to descend nice and slow down to about 25 meters, completely down to 35 for some – check, double-check, triple-check, anal check with your partners and your group.
  When we get down there we’re gonna do some fish feeding. We got some bread over here so you can break them down in pieces and spread it out.
  We might also come across a school of triggerfish. If they’re around you, just kinda hang in there and chill out.
  They like to eat bread, algae, sometimes fingers so don’t go on flailing your arms around those guys.”
  
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  Test the regulator. ✔️
  Test the BCD: ✔️
  Spit on and put some water on goggles to remove the fog: ✔️
  Appropriate amount of weights: ✔️
  Tank pressure and supply: ✔️
  Identify Dory and Nemo: ✔️
  Not flailing your arms around triggerfish as warned, with signals underwater even after the low down by divemaster because you don’t know what those are with lack of reference from Finding Nemo: ✔️
  Come back with all body parts intact: ✔️
  
  #BeingAnAdult
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  Posted in Schitz, Travel | 0 Comments | Tagged asia, philippines, Schitz, scuba
- What We Do in the Shadows
  
  Posted at 12:44 am by Gelene Celis, on September 21, 2015
  …directed by Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi (New Zealand)
  
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  Watched it in TIFF (from a previous year, not 2019)
  
  Check out the IMDB here
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  Posted in Arts & Culture | 1 Comment | Tagged art, culture, film, horror, movie, new zealand, oceania
- Lip Photography
  
  Posted at 7:35 am by Gelene Celis, on August 10, 2015
  by Leann Parker (Toronto, ON)
  
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  Worked with her in an ad agency.
  
  Check out her blogspot here
  And her site here
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- Carimbó
  
  Posted at 10:29 am by Gelene Celis, on July 17, 2015
  …by Schlachthofbronx (Munich, Germany)
  
  “Carimbó is a Brazilian dance. The dance was a common dance in the northern part of Brazil, from the time that Brazil was still a Portuguese colony, originally from the Brazilian region of Pará, around Marajó island and the capital city of Belém…”
  – Wikipedia
  
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  ❤❤❤ ^_^
  
  Check out Schlachthofbronx’s Official site here
  And their Soundcloud here
  And their Facebook here
  And their Twitter here
  
  Read more about Carimbó on Wiki here.
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  Posted in Arts & Culture | 0 Comments | Tagged animation, Belém, box, brazil, brazilian, carimbo, confetti, dance, electronic, experimental, germany, Marajó, munich, music, music video, Pará, portugal, portuguese, sexuality, stop-motion, twerk
- The Aga Khan Museum
  
  Posted at 1:07 pm by Gelene Celis, on June 24, 2015
  …is a museum of Islamic art, Iranian art, and Muslim culture.
  …also North America’s first Islamic Museum right here in Toronto, ON
  
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  There were pieces from Sicily and Spain though, which got me confused, but then I read on and realized that European cultures had a pretty heavy influence on Middle Eastern & predominant Islamic nations. Duh.
  
  Here’s my personal favorite:
  “Said the Prophet, most glorious: Abandoning the world is more righteous than any worship.”
  
  There was a cool part on the second floor too:
  “Marvellous Creatures: Animals in Islamic Art”
  
  img courtesy of Aga Khan Museum
  
  Photos weren’t allowed on the second floor, so I don’t have anything for you, unfortunately.
  
  Check out The Aga Khan Museum’s site here
  
  They’re open on Tuesday-Sunday from 10-6. Admission is $20.
  On Wednesdays, hours are extended til 8 as admission is free from 4-8.
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- Schitz: Excavator – Coffee Beans
  
  Posted at 2:53 am by Gelene Celis, on June 7, 2015
  “Yeah, I was operating a bulldozer back home. I might do the same thing here. I love what I do. I just stand from where you operate it. You sweat so much…
  
  Some people hate it…but I love it.
  
  Back home, I’d just be in my beaters, sweating…like not too much, but just enough body heat to be kind of moist… when the sweat is like dews on your skin.
  You feel everything: you feel the warm tropical breeze, the smell of the earth, the wind… on all your senses.
  
  And the ground…it all depends on the day and the kind of job, but my favorite is the kind that’s not sticky, but not like gravel either. It’s brown, but dry enough to separate, not too moist to clump…it’s like…sandy but bigger than sand grains…like…like…
  
  Coffee beans.”
  
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  😊 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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- Schitz – The Bad Tape
  
  Posted at 10:18 pm by Gelene Celis, on June 6, 2015
  “I went to audition in Canadian Idol. I slept overnight in the line-up and then I woke up with a sore throat! I was crying! I called my dad. I was like, ‘Dad! They’re going to put me in the bad audition tape!’ I was crying so much…I went back home. I didn’t audition!”
  
  Wait what? What’s bad audition tape? What?
  
  “At the end of the show, they play the worst auditions in the episode! It’s like bloopers!”
  
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  He ultimately got cast a leading role in a theatre in Madrid for almost a decade though he rooted for Hollywood in the beginning.
  
  Morals of the story:
  1. Sometimes, as we walk our paths, we are shown a different direction that is better for us.
  2. Before we get to our destination, we have to fail many, many, many times… arguably, to prepare us better for where we’re actually headed before we even know, ourselves, where that is.
  
  I don’t really care much about these things but since he’s my friend, I told him he should’ve gone to the audition anyway so I can watch it for my own entertainment… but yeah, no, had I been in his place, I would’ve done the exact same thing.
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  Posted in Arts & Culture | 0 Comments | Tagged art, canada, culture, europe, north america, Schitz, spain, toronto
- Ghislain Poirier
  
  Posted at 12:42 am by Gelene Celis, on December 15, 2014
  ...is a musician/DJ/producer/promoter from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  
  Here are a couple of my favourites:
  
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  I had a ton of posts on this guy as he is one of my favourite DJ’s/Producer/Musicians. I thought his talk, “PLAY: It’s a serious thing” is really important. A lot of people seem to think that art is all unicorn farts but like he mentioned, someone wanted to do a doc on a day of his life to which he responded, “It’s gonna be fucking boring then” ’cause all he does is sit in front of the computer at home and make music.
  I’ve hung out with musicians -> true story. Shows are where they drop it.
  
  Check out his site here
  And his Soundcloud here
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- Jaash Singh
  
  Posted at 7:10 pm by Gelene Celis, on December 3, 2014
  …is a darbouka player in Lemon Bucket Orkestra based in Toronto, ON.
  
  captured by Carlos M Gárate
  
  captured by Carlos M Gárate
  
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  Was roomies with him at one point. I’d wake up to folk music and instruments playing sometimes.
  
  Check out the Lemon Bucket Orkestra’s site here
  And their Youtube here
  And their Bandcamp here
  And their Twitter here
  
  Check out Carlos M Gárate’s Flickr here
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