CASIE STEWART
THIS IS MY LIFE • BLOG EST. 2005
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TIFF Screening of ‘Writers’ – Winner chosen!

TIFF Screening of ‘Writers’ – Winner chosen!

Hey friends! I have two tickets to a TIFF screening next weekend for you compliments of Orville Redenbacher’s, a sponsor of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. See below on how to enter. You must enter by tomorrow and contest is only open to GTA residents.  Film: Writers (Festival – Special Presentation)  Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Kristen Bell and Logan Lerman star in this touching comedy-drama about a successful novelist whose obsession with his ex-wife has sent his perplexed family into a tailspin. Date: Sunday, September 9, 2012 Time: 6pm-8:06pm Location: Ryerson Theatre PRIZE: A pair (2) of tickets to a TIFF screening A bunch of Orville Redenbacher’s new ready to eat popcorn in four delicious flavours Some TIFF swag (Hello!) An Orville tote to stash all the goodies IN ORDER TO WIN: Like Orville Canada on Facebook at Facebook.com/OrvilleCanada.  Tweet: “I wanna see @WritersMovie, please send me to #TIFF12 @casiestewart! http://bit.ly/TIFFCASIE“ Leave your name in comments. I would love to see ‘Writers’ movie and am going to try and catch it the following day. So many great films, so little time!  Make sure you also enter the Orville popcorn national contest through the newly launched Orville Canada Facebook page  at Facebook.com/OrvilleCanada. You could win an all-expense paid trip to a start studded TIFF event! CASIE P.S. Also, if you haven’t tried the new ready made Orville popcorn, do it. The sweet & salty is my fav! UPDATE: Winner is Courtney – @DrunkGirlTO

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Travel

‘Cause after all this city never sleeps at night

‘Cause after all this city never sleeps at night

I’m in love with “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons. It’s in the soundtrack for Perks of Being a Wallflower and I’ve purposely not finished the book so I can stay in it longer. Be infinite. Title is one of of the lyrics. I had such a beautiful weekend in Montreal. I’m uploading a bunch of photos to Pinterest here if you wanna check ’em out. Will have a video up later today. It’s lovely getting away for a few days. Being back in the city is good too, but busy. TIFF starts next week. One of my fav events is the Festival Music House put on by RockIt Promotions, there’s always a bunch of good bands and the crowd is fun. See posts from 2011 & 2010 here. Can you believe it’s almost September? Crazy! I love the way my tattoo looks in this photo I edited. It was taken w/ Cannon Rebel and messed around with in Picasa. I use my iPhone so often for photos I forget how amazing it is to work with a great camera. Listen to this song, it will uplift you! CASIE

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Events

Media Preview: X-Men: Gordon Smith Exhibit at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Media Preview: X-Men: Gordon Smith Exhibit at TIFF Bell Lightbox

[insert Jaws music]  It’s coming! TIFF is a super exciting time of year for the city of Toronto. So many international people, celebrities, films, events, and business deals. I’ve got a few things in my calendar already as it’s less than 25 days away. Today I went to the media preview of the X-Men: Gordon Smith Exhibit at TIFF Bell Lightbox. It was so cool! I’m a big X-Men fan despite not talking about comics that much. Tried to get a good 360 for y’all to see the exhibit but it was dark and there are restrictions on what you can photograph. Looks like this but bigger. If you click on the photo it will take you to 360 website for an interactive view. Gordon Smith is an Ontario native and thirty-year veteran in the film industry who has worked on some MAYJAH films (X-Men, Platoon, Natural Born Killers) . His Imdb is stacked. Mine will get crazy one day I hope! The contact lenses, so much variety. Skin of Mystique uses silicone prosthetics that could be applied directly to the skin. Has a life-like texture. It took 12 hours for each shooting day and four makeup artists to glue them onto Rebecca Romijn’s skin, then apply paint, powder, and makeup. This is the pattern. Nightcrawler had plaster moulds and they used computer graphics paired with real actors wearing 3D silicone prosthetics to make the characters life-like. The scarification on his skin, which represents his sins used Maori moko tattoo as inspiration. I always knew I had a special connection to this movie. Maori are native New Zealanders and Gordon Smith is Canadian. Anna Paquin who plays Rogue is  Kiwi/Canadian like me too! I love Wolverine. Such a babe. They used plastic blades for most the movie but these are actual metal and…

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Measuring Tape Girl Film Screening at the NFB

Measuring Tape Girl Film Screening at the NFB

On October 2nd I’m hosting a film screening for Measuring Tape Girl at the National Film Board of Canada. Screening is limited to 60 people and the RSVP details are below. The film is produced by an old friend Byron Martin whom I worked with a few years back on American Pie. (I’ve been in a few movies over the years, was on Degrassi TNG once too.)  This is the director Marco Veltri at Cannes earlier this year. Nice measuring tape jacket 😉 The film is about “society’s willingness to pour their hearts and bare their souls through a digital medium“. It’s an examination of self-image, alienation, and indecisiveness the average person is faced with today. The lead, Jessica Embro, is a video blogger.   For the record, I did not call myself a rockstar or “influential Canadian Blogger” but I am humbled by the kind works. Thank you to Vocab Communications for asking me to be their host. Looking forward to the screening & media surrounding the film. Yay, films about blogging. I’M JULIA CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLD!!! (That was for Keri and if you have never seen the blogging movie ‘Julie & Julia’ you might not get it.) Have an awesome day!

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A Real Human Being

A Real Human Being

This was the title track in Ryan Gosling’s movie DRIVE that premiered at TIFF last week. I saw it last night. GREAT MOVIE. There was lots of silence, suspense, Ryan Gosling is a dreamboat. It’s crime thriller with violence that was shocking, I wasn’t expecting it. He is tough but caring, sensitive and strong and in one scene he pushes her aside in the elevator, kisses her and (not telling the rest). I have a soft spot for a guy who can fix a car and drive it well and isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. He also wears a toothpick so well. I’m in love like The Notebook, all over again. I’d watch it again if you wanna go. I bought the entire album on iTunes just now. Here’s a sample. Have an awesome day! 🙂

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