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11 questions with Daddy Mojo
Meet the man behind Daddy Mojo, the creator of custom cigar box guitars.
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A chat with Abdel Bounane of Amusement Magazine
Two weeks ago, the world's premier trade show for computer and video games, the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, closed its doors. This year's event offered a glimpse of how the industry is going to tackle the great challenges it faces due to recent gaming trends.
11 Questions with Kyle MacDonald...you know the "red-paper-clip-guy"
What started as a playful game fueled by the digital age quickly became a lesson in relative value and ended with a gesture of generosity and a man filled with insights. Kyle MacDonald...
11 Questions with Jonathan Smith of Blue Legacy
When we look back at this era three themes will most certainly dominate our collective memory: the environment, the digital revolution and the global recession. Three issues so clear and omnipresent that one can't help but feel they are fundamentally connected and meant to teach us lessons about how we can be better.
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A chat with Brian Takumi at Oakley HQ
We spent some time down at Oakley Headquarters in Orange County, California. While there, we sat down with Brian Takumi, Creative Director of Special Projects for Oakley. He's a pretty awesome dude so we thought we'd share some of the highlights from our chat.
11 questions with Dallas Clayton of the Awesome World Foundation
Dallas Clayton writes kids books. His first was called An Awesome Book . He wrote the story and drew the pictures a few years back for his 5 year-old son (kinda like a father-son manifesto) encouraging him to dream big and imagine things like "rocket-powered unicorns." He made a few extra copies and started selling them from his home. Since then, he's sold a lot and went on to create the Awesome World Foundation and donate one book for every book sold. His fans include Spike Jonze,...
10 questions with Toni Brown.
Okay, I know what you are all thinking: crazy dog lady gone crazy publicly and in print. Maybe. But maybe not. I know we interview really fascinating people in The Rake (documentary filmmakers, explorers, innovative entrepreneurs, journalists and on…) but sometimes I look at my dog and think there’s a lot of wisdom in that furry little head and some of the things I imagine she’s thinking we could stand to learn a lot from. Trust me, you’ll have a hard time disagreeing with much of what...
A conversation with Benjamin Gott – Founder of Boxed Water is Better
Interview by Justin Li Benjamin Gott is a busy, creative guy. Online, he’s the founder of blogs The Brilliance – which happens to be on Kanye West’s blog roll – and Snak Snak . Offline, he’s just launched clothing label, Benjamin Edgar or Whatever , and founder of Boxed Water is Better – a better, bottled water brand. You’ve perhaps come across it if you’ve ever stayed the night at The Standard hotel in LA, Hollywood or Miami, or perused the pages of Fast Company, I.D. Magazine or...
10 Questions with Marie-Eve Best of Lake Jane
Little Ms. Best’s last name is no accident. You can’t help but be impressed by her smarts, great taste and beauty but what really gets you is her self-effacing humour, her love of a dirty joke, her tremendous enthusiasm around fatty foods (or any food for that matter!) and general ‘I’m up for a good time, anytime’ take on life. I knew the moment I met her, she was going to be one of those people ‘I knew when’ and two years later, I believe in her more than ever. Today, she works at...
10 questions with Martine Groulx of Camaromance
This isn’t one of those ‘oh look, more Montreal music talent!!’ pieces. I am a fan of Camaromance . A fan fan. The Parade has been a constant companion for me for the past 3 months, my go-to, I relate to your lyrics, you make me happy when I want to feel happy, make me weepy when I feel like I need a good cry, come join me and my friends at this dinner party, let’s go for a nice long walk in the park with my dog, kind of album. Martine’s 1-2 punch is a voice I can only describe...
Evan Ratliff (aka Digital Houdini) chats with The Rake
photo credit: Joe Pugliese I met Evan Ratliff this summer in Toronto at NXNE. He’s a hell of a writer and storyteller. He’s most famous as “that crazy Houdini guy” in WIRED magazine who vanished for a month and challenged readers to find him. This smash-hit article is gonzo journalism for geeks at its best. For me, the biggest hook of his story is that he did what a lot of us fantasize doing: disappearing and becoming someone else. Evan and I spoke again recently and rather than...
10 questions with filmmaker Mila Aung-Thwin.
Mila Aung-Thwin is the co-founder of Eye Steel Film , a Montreal-based documentary film production company. He has produced some of the best documentaries of our time including Up the Yangtze and Last Train Home and recently produced a short fiction Mohktar that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. He is currently collaborating with us on the RBC Blue Water Project documentary series and we think he’s an awesome dude. He is, in his own way, making our world a...
Web, life and a better world: Interview with David de Rothschild
Watch our exclusive interview with the founder of the Plastiki, David de Rothschild , taken while he sails across Pacific on his boat from recycled plastic water bottles.
Graham Hill waiting for the Plastiki
Did you see Thane’s presentation at Infopresse’s RDV Web conference on April 21st? If you did, you may have noticed that due to some technical and scheduling conflicts, Graham Hill was not able to join us via Skype that day. To make up for it, he sent us a fantastic video of his adventures on the Plastiki.
MélanieRaker
Our second installment of Meet the Rakers is brought to you by Rob, who has profiled ‘MélanieRaker’. Mélanie is so many amazing things: an information architect, a painter, an interior design aficionado, a ski instructor and a mom. Oh, and she is as unassuming and humble as they come. We could go on and on about how great we think she is, but then we wouldn’t need the video, would we? ‘Manon pèse sur le piton!’
EdmundRaker
When we hire at Cloud, one of our criteria is that folks bring with them interests, passions and talents that go beyond fulfilling a given role at the agency. We think that those qualities enrich each and everyone of us and the product we put out. Edmund is a great example of that. As we’ve mentioned before he is one half of the electric pop duo Hexes and Ohs, he creates wonderful illustrations and is an art director here (not to mention an all round great guy). We thought it would be fun...