Another staple of Vancouver is its phenomenal improv scene. From Instant Theatre to Blind Tiger to the Sunday Service to Second Storey Theatre to Vancouver Theatre Sports League — early homes to improv legends Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles — to my own personal favourites, the Fictionals, this city is just teeming with improvisers. And …
The interview is unfortunately only available in Polish but I’m sure someday soon AI will be able to quickly parse it into whichever language you need. If you can happily nod along to Polish then go on, see if you can pick out my accent. Video clip sources and topic timestamp navigation available through watching …
A fraction of our interview is presented below, but like with the Baltic interviews prior, it too was garbled up so only the clear, important bits made it through the editing process. You can navigate through topic timestamps by watching the below directly on YouTube. Fresh out of Vilnius, our cousin took us on a …
As with our Rigan friends, Lina’s interview was largely garbled up but I was able to salvage about 15m of it to put a voice to the beaming smile below. My sister makes a presence here as well, but Lina’s voice is immediately recognizable right from the outset. Video clip sources and topic timestamp navigation …
Here is a short outtake I was able to salvage from our interview (my phone was on its last legs), where we discuss some of the main points the writeup following dives deeper into. Irina is the first voice you hear, Dace the second, and the other lady with the Canadian accent is my sister. …
Christopher Moyer is a counselling psychologist who specializes in the niche field that is where massage therapy and psychology intersect. I had already cited him in my thesis without realizing he had only started blazing trails in the field. When the RMTABC recommended I check out more of his work, I was thrilled to find …
Intouchables (1:48, 2010, 8.6, 75|93%) is a French drama based on the real events of a rich quadriplegic and his unlikely, tough immigrant caregiver. A strange name, but this is just because the original French title was left untranslated (meaning “untouchables”). This is a nod to how both the disabled and immigrants are often looked …
Black Swan (1:48, 2010, 8.0, 87|84%) is an American psychological thriller about Nina, a New York ballerina working until she bleeds to first land — and then perform — the main role of Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. The film is very heavy and quite dark, and in the end you have trouble sifting …
Wrapping up my blog series summarizing guest lectures at Leipzig University, I present Professor Paul Wright from Northern Illinois University. He teaches in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education but, with a strong background in kinesiology and curriculum design, his focus is on creating and implementing physical activity programs promoting youth development and teaching …
The Big Blue (2:48, 1988, 7.7, 63|93%) is a heavily fictionalized account of the friendly rivalry between Frenchman Jacques Mayol and Italian Enzo Majorca (renamed “Molinari”) in the top tiers of free diving. The story focuses on Mayol’s life, and the sehnsucht he yearns for throughout it. The closest he feels to fulfilling this elusive …
Kimberley Dawson is a professor in the Kinesiology & Physical Education department at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, Ontario (coincidentally down the street from where I completed my undergrad). She specializes in understanding what drives an individual to participate in exercise, and has done quite a bit of work in the field where psychology meets …
Robert Weinberg is a professor at Miami University in Ohio. He is perhaps best known for his authorship of the pivotal Foundations of Sport & Exercise Psychology text, something of a bible in our field. He is also a past president of AASP, a past editor of JASP, and a fellow of NAK. His sport …