The Height of Entertainment (Makers)

Photo set from Day 1 at Banff World Media Festival. Follow me on Twitter for the news. Sent from iPhone.

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Calgary Casie, Banff Bound

Driving on the Trans Canada highway from Calgary to Banff. Great flight on WestJet, picked up the car and hit the road. I met a bear. “The Trans-Canada Highway (French: Route Transcanadienne) is a federal-provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada. It is, along with the Trans-Siberian Highway and Australia’s Highway 1, one of the world’s longest national highways, with the main route spanning 8,030 km (4,990 mi).” Wikipedia Happy I packed all the clothes. It’s cool & rainy. Fully prepared with Wellies and yellow raincoat. Opened my suitcase, pulled out a vintage fur and leopard hat. Stylish and snug as a bug. Pat Hope, my Fairy Godmother would be proud! I could see what we are diving past right now. I’m gonna wake up in the Rockies. This is crazy. Can’t wait to see the @urbannativegirl, @latejuly, & the @CoralTV team. Tired/excited. Let’s do this! Hi, Calgary! Nice to be in you. Cheers to Travel Alberta for the warm welcome. Posted from iPhone!

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#Art + #Music + #Everyday + #Inspiration

Went to an awesome event last weekend with Lauren at Brickworks, FOAM – Festival of Art & Music. Such a great venue. Who doesn’t love a good warehouse party? Photos by Brian Hamilton for iChannel. Whole album on iChannel FB. FOAM is held in support of motionball (motionball.com), a not-for-profit organization that introduces the next generation of supporters to the Special Olympics Canada movement through social and sporting events. See photos from Motionball Gala 2011 & 2012. In other news, just got off the phone with Brick Bronson in LA who is behind The Weeknd about his new artist Everyday. Born in NY, raised in TO and super talented. This is his first track FIRE. I hope that some piece of it will elevate your spirit. May we all touch a heart. somehere, sometime.. — everyday (@itseveryday) June 8, 2012 ‎”Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” -Oscar Wilde — CASIE STEWART (@casiestewart) September 6, 2011  

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Lifestyle Trends This Week – June 9, 2012

This week flew by and the next two are going to b e the same. LOTS happening this month. Neutral tones & grey were popular colours in my posts this week. Not many bright colours like last week. Pinterest Viddy Instagram Came across a neat tool for looking at your Twitter stats. I love looking at this stuff. I never think about the stats when I’m publishing so looking back at trends, patterns & stats is cool. Based on my last 4,000 tweets I publish approx 59.2/day and one of my tweets is retweeted about every 10 I publish. There’s lots of sailboats on the lake today. We’re heading to the airport in a couple hours flying WestJet into Calgary about 11:30pm. I’m stoked. Had a great prep-talk with a friend I look up to last night. Ready to kill it in Banff. I’m coming for you Alberta, the world!

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The Garden of Your Mind

Creativity is waterfalling. Clear head, open mind .The next ten days are CRAZY. Banff World Media Festival, NXNE, MMVA then to Detroit with Ford and it’s July. I’ve been practising for this for a long time. Legggggggo! Mum sent me an email about this earlier today.  Such nostalgia. [<a href=”http://storify.com/casiestewart/new-story-2″ target=”_blank”>View the story “New Story” on Storify</a>]Found some other oldies today. Tie die, white jeans, long hair, this is me in Grade Nine baby. [&lt;a href=”http://storify.com/casiestewart/new-story-2″ target=”_blank”&gt;View the story “New Story” on Storify&lt;/a&gt;] Oh this too BTW.   Wore Mum’s old shirt.

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THIS: The Hot Internet Show on @CoralTV

Part one of the first episode! We’ll be filming  in the Canadian Rockies at the World Media Festival next week. I’m super stoked to head out there for my first time! Please subscribe to Coral. I can’t wait to share more of THIS with you! It’s been picked up and curated for the on the Banff World Media Festival website already and showed up in my Google Alert. Cripes! I wanted this for a long tine and now it’s a REAL THING.  No turning back now!  THIS is my life, thanks for being part of it! TV on the INTERNET FTW!!

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Fashion Friday: Wanelo, NastyGal, Sherway Gardens winners

Been loving a couple online shops lately. I don’t buy as much in real life as I do in my dreams but I like the ideas they give  me to spice up my existing wardrobe.  This image is from the Wanelo email. Wanelo is “a way to find unique products and stores you have never heard of.” I’ve been drooling a bit, figured I should share! I hate the emails from Nasty Gal, they read my mind and know exactly what I want/am wearing. The ads follow me around online, taunting me with things they know I want. JERKS! These emails are what made me cave and buy a few pairs of Jeffrey Campbell shoes. Everything they send out is so nice and they have a monthly lookbook. I think I have all these outfits on some vintage variation. I love Jane Fonda in this Pucci Pre-Fall outfit. My fav collections are Cruise & Pre-Fall almost every year. One day I’ll have a boat and get to wear the cruise collections. Until then, I’ll settle for Mum’s boat and her vintages. 😉 Some wisdom shared by two of my fav fashion blogging ladies, Gala Darling, a Kiwi blogger living in NY and Gala Gonzales, an It Girl from Spain, living in London who travels the world for fashion. I partied with Gonzales in NZ at Fashion Week once. They’re both awesome girls you should know. Follow G.Darling and G.Gonzales. On this day last year I arrived in Pensicola, Florida for work. We stayed in Margaritaville. It was beauuuuuutiful! Planking was a thing at the time and I tried to create a new trend ‘mermaiding’, it never picked up. See some pix here. There were over twenty entries for the Sherway Gardens Spring Style contest and the winner is… VANESSA GRILLONE. Thank you…

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I think I found the gold.

I just can’t get enough. It’s magic in the air. And just like that, it was gone. I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it. Judy Garland These two are INCREDIBLE.

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Let’s Get Visual: Instagram, Viddy, Art Parties, Blondetourage

I have been loving Viddy lately. I don’t work for them but I met some of the execs at CES in Vegas and we were insta-friends. The image above is a bunch of vids I’ve made. They’re so bright and colourful. Even this GROSS is not soooo bad. Random Love Note. Heard some really good tunes at FOAM – Future of Art & Music event this weekend. This week I got a vile of sweat in the mail from El Tabador, the lucha loving Mexican midget from Koodo. I’ve been a Koodonation ambassador for almost a year. Together we donated $20,000 in my name to a charity in Malawi called Moving Windmills. Posted a TED talk with the founder last year. Last night I went to this event that featured ‘Dirty Car Art’ check this out: The night before I FINALLY met Candice, aka Edgy Veg who is also a host on Coral TV. Another one for the babe BLONDETOURAGE! Look how happy we are, cute. We both have nerdy iPhones. I’m in Mississauga for the day at a clients office teaching the ways of the web. Love it! Enjoy the day 🙂

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Drum Roll Please… The #NXNEi Winners are @ericatweetheart & @misslau!

There were a heap of entries! Thank you. I have a special code for two people to get 50% off a NXNEi pass. If you are interested, please let me know. First come, first serve! My panels are BOTH on Thursday, June 14th at 9:30am and 10:45am.  I hope you can make it! See the full schedule for details. [View the story “NXNEi 2012 Contest Entries” on Storify] NXNEi 2012 Contest Entries Giving away two passes for NXNE Interactive 2012. Enter here: https://casiestewart.com/nxnei-2012-ticket-giveaway Storified by CASIE STEWART · Wed, Jun 06 2012 17:52:30 Genuinely curious to check out @casiestewart’s Psychology of Narcissism panel @NXNEi http://nxne.com/interactive/presentations/#5289 #pickmecasieAshley Gibson I’d (also) love to see @newmindspace’s panel "never ask permission" @NXNEi because they do awesome things! #pickmecasie http://ow.ly/1N2z6JLauren Souch Oh yeah I wanna see @casiestewart’s panel @NXNEi because she is #AWESOME. http://nxne.com/interactive/presentations/#5323 https://casiestewart.com/nxne-2012-ticket-giveaway #pickmecasieMatt Vernhout Hoping to see @casiestewart talk about ‘making social giveaways win win’ http://links.visibli.com/5f50483ab7c08799/?web=b17013&dst=http%3A//nxne.com/interactive/presentations/ at @NXNEi #pickmecasieMichele Gare Hey @casiestewart! I definitely enjoy the psychology of how people think. Your @NXNE panel http://bit.ly/Kg2Lq6 looks awesome! #pickmecasieMatthew Michell Oh yeah I wanna see @casiestewart’s panel @NXNEi because she is #AWESOME. http://nxne.com/interactive/presentations/#5323 https://casiestewart.com/nxne-2012-ticket-giveaway #pickmecasieJavier Espinoza @casiestewart I really want to see you speak on Narcissism and Brands http://nxne.com/schedule/#event=49457 @NXNEi #pickmecasieErica Cresswell Oh yeah I wanna see @casiestewart’s panel @NXNEi because she is #AWESOME. http://nxne.com/interactive/presentations/#5323 https://casiestewart.com/nxne-2012-ticket-giveaway #pickmecasieJulian Shenoy I really want to see @casiestewart’s "Making Social Giveaways Win-Win for Brands & Fans" panel @NXNEi http://links.visibli.com/5f50483ab7c08799/?web=807594&dst=http%3A//nxne.com/interactive/presentations/%235289 #pickmecasieEmma J Logue #pickmecasie to attend your Making Social Giveaways Win-Win panel at @nxnei @casiestewart http://links.visibli.com/5f50483ab7c08799/?web=dbf6fd&dst=http%3A//nxne.com/interactive/presentations/%235289Maria Lianos-Carbone #pickmecasie to attend your Making Social Giveaways Win-Win panel at @NXNEi @casiestewart http://links.visibli.com/5f50483ab7c08799/?web=dbf6fd&dst=http%3A//nxne.com/interactive/presentations/%235289Caroline McGregor Oh yeah I wanna see @casiestewart’s panel @NXNEi because she is #AWESOME. http://nxne.com/interactive/presentations/#5323 https://casiestewart.com/nxne-2012-ticket-giveaway #pickmecasieVanessa Grillone I really, actually, wanna see @casiestewart’s panel @NXNEi because it’s a cool topic. http://nxne.com/interactive/presentations/#5323…

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Some things I learned at Strombo from David Cronenberg, Robert Pattinson, and Paul Giamatti. #Cosmopolis

I loved seeing the human side of these people. It was inspiring. Attending the show was great. I know George socially but I’ve never actually been to a live taping. This was the final show of his 8th season. Yesterday was a special friends & family presentation with the cast of Cosmopolis before they walked the red carpet at the Canadian première. I should have taken a pen & paper because I forgot I wasn’t allowed to use my phone. NOTE TO SELF. These actors made me think about myself, my career, my life. It’s really quite magnificent to be in the same room and hear them candidly speak about their lives, insecurities, and work. All photos by JJ Thompson. Thanks to the lovely Erin & CBC for sending right away. He was watching a clip of himself from a movie with Reese Witherspoon where he played a very small part. Despite making millions, five twilight movies and dating K.Stew (who is on the cover of Vanity Fair July 2012), he’s lacks confidence, security.  He was modest and slightly soft spoken. He said he avoids the media because he doesn’t really know what to say and he isn’t that smart anyways.  I imagined him to be more, more strong. He was undoubtly charming and his accent had my eyes light up with hearts like an old Loony Toons character. Tempted to rush the stage, I held back. Safe to saw, I was swooning. The way Rob sat in his chair vs. David Cronenberg showed a lot about their characters. Cronenberg, a seasoned and incredible film maker, sat back in his chair, open body language, head held high while R.Patts was the opposite. George asked David Cronenberg if anyone ever tells him “it should be done this way” or “do it like this”, he paused before answering…

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Heyyyyy it’s Monday! Up early as today we start filming for CoralTV. My show is called THIS: The Hot Internet Show and it`s gonna be a mix of fashion, travel, lifestyle with a tech twist. You know how important technology is to my daily life, I`m practically a walking wifi with iPhone attached. So from ‘This is My Life’ on the blog for seven years to THIS on YouTube. I hope you’ll all tune in. It’s gonna be fun. These photos are from Bloke & 4th with Lauren last week. It’s so nice to have a best friend. We had an awesome dance party at the Future of Art & Music event this weekend (FOAM). This afernoon I’m heading to CBC for an  in-studio exclusive, interview by Strombo with David Cronenberg, Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon and Paul Giamatti, to discuss their provocative new film, Cosmopolis. Move over K.Stew, seeing your bf R.Patts at @Strombo tomorrow. C.Stew FTW! Nbd. — CASIE STEWART (@casiestewart) June 4, 2012 You know what I’m talkin’ about!   On this day last year: delivered a cookie to someone special, new kicks from @reebokcanada, glitter grafitti casiestewart.com/the-condensati… — CASIE STEWART (@casiestewart) June 4, 2012 I always try to get the most work done on Monday’s in order to start the week off right. Get yourself a big coffee, put a smile on your face and listen to some good music. You always have to choice to make the most of the day or to let something/someone else determine your happiness. Take charge. You are the director of your life. This video is pretty funny! “When I walk in the barn, this is what I see” Jiggle part cracked me up.

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But right now, we are alive and in this moment I swear we are infinite.

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.” Excited for the Perks of Being a Walflower movie. Trailer came out last night during the MTV Awards.  If you are in Canada you can not see this trailer but you can watch at mtv.ca. I have never understood why MTV Canada does not let you embed their videos. Lame guys! ‘ Song frm the trailer. So good. “I’m never changing who I am“. Lead singer is potential boyfriend Dan Reynolds, dreamboat. And I love her. And you.

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Lifestyle Trends This Week – June 2, 2012

I publish a lot of things on the Internet. I’ve been told is it’s hard to keep up with’. To me it is art. I have an obsessive compulsive obsession to make/build art/things/memories. Documentation is addicting. I’ve had days without Internet, I start scratching, yelling, freaking out, no just kidding, I do get antsy around 4pm. It happens more in weekends, sometimes I don’t feel like it then I miss it. My favorite social media sites right now are Instagram, Pinterest, Viddy and I use Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare to share them. This is what happened this week. Yellow and red were hot colours on my Instagram and Pinterest A Viddy I posted of a wizard guy with a fushingi ball was on the ‘whats’s hot page’. I used to go CRAZY using 12seconds.tv years ago, similar thing but not as awesome. Viddy is like Instagram for videos! It has filters, music, and a 15 second time clock. My profile is viddy/casiestewart. It’s intrgrated with Facebook timeline if you have’t noticed. I really love the DIY projects from Honestly WTF. I pinned this gorgeous Louis Vuitton studded collar from the 2012 Cruise Collection and a couple weeks ago I (started) one just like it. Mine’s not ready to come out yet. Weather is gloomy. About to do some work around the house and vaguely movies, currently on something about British school girls in boarding school on Cosmo. The sun came out for a few seconds, captured its soul. If you are still in the dark ages with an old phone you can browse any user’s Instaphotos in Statigram. Barbie made brekky. Beauty! Get off the couch or become the couch, do what you want! Bon weekend! 🙂

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