This is a little thing where we listen to the two lads i think are the best this country has right now… for those that aren’t up here in downtown Canada - they probably never heard of them. So share it with your friends in all parts, it deserves it… in the meantime lets just call it a tie and hope that they keep with the good stuff.

SHAD

and 

K’naan

shot in and around Toronto’s Rexdale neighbourhood…

– But then for the more commercially minded there is always also DRAKE.

Trevor Browne aka eatdrinkpaperink is one hell of an illustrator and one of City Spk’s chief designers — and part of the originating crew. brrrup! Big shout outs to him and his imposing clydesdale sized calves.

He just finished one hell of a three month coast to coast Canadian bike ride. He kept a photo and narrative blog called cog blog. By some estimates he could have biked to the moon and back a jaw dropping 14 times. That makes him 7 times better than Neil Armstong — by my, rather informal, calculations anyhow.

Throughout Quebec he used the best and most extensive system of bike paths in NA called Route Vert. In Cape Breton he met up with friends and fellow designers Soyouz, who trek the globe on their bike and keep lovely photo logs of their journies on their stellar web site.

In a related piece from WIRED magazine blog: The loverly Gina Trapieri’s bike is one of a small fleet of GPS- and cameraphone-equipped bicycles that Flickr has deployed in several cities around the world. Flickr + GPS + solar power + bicycles = how can I not be utterly charmed? It automatically maps photos to the web. Sounds like some secret stealth military thing that just teleported from the future.

And finally, in the above thumbs, i leave you with some striking examples of why Trevor is probably, hands down, one of Canada’s, nay the Western Free World’s, most talented young illustrators for hire. Make sure to check out his site for a wide array of his artistic stylings.