Brad 🇨🇦

This is hardly a unique observation, but based on the amount of "engagement" I get for saying something slightly off-the-cuff political or controversial compared to what I get for the creative work I actually put time, effort, love and energy into... it reminds me why I social media sucks so hard.

Loop and Loop Perhaps if you have been reading along, sensing that something is building here in my labs and behind the scenes, you will be wondering wherein all this creative energy is distilling. I am far from a breakthrough, but after two full evenings of creative musical play following the so-called completion of my musical set up, […]

Loop and Loop

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This is Pi Day (1) My three panel black and white strips were published over the course of a mid-week posting spree, and through them I tried to tell a (still short) but longer arc story. For that reason you’ll see a (number) in the title because each is part of a trilogy of strips on the same topic. The […]

Thanks for checking out some of my old #webcomic series. I spent a lot of time making these a few years back.

Here's another one from my revived archives...
This is Pi Day (1) - https://piday.8r4d.com/this-is-pi-day-1/

Right Wrong I want you to disagree with what you read or hear on this project. I’m not trying to write cozy aphorisms to make you comfortable in your creative pursuits. I want you to squirm a little when I tell…

Perfection is the pursuit of the placid and flaccid.

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Chilly hilly run. We kicked off our annual hill training and it’s only March! The temps dropped back below zero after a warmish day tho, so there was more slippy than sloppy…

Opinionated Facts My opinion is not fact. Elsewhere, I do a lot of writing about critical thinking and evidence-based inquiry. That is to say, I am curious about curiosity and the mechanisms by which we learn, know,…

A lot of us making and creating and sharing find it easier to do so without the burden of evidence or absolutes.

MIDI Controller I broke, and I finally bought a dedicated MIDI controller. It was not an expensive one. Nor is it a toy. It is, rather, a very basic and simple twenty-five key computer keyboard that has piano ivories instead of numbers and letters. It makes no sound of its own. It just sends electronic signals to […]

MIDI Controller

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This is Board Games (1) My three panel black and white strips were published over the course of a mid-week posting spree, and through them I tried to tell a (still short) but longer arc story. For that reason you’ll see a (number) in the title because each is part of a trilogy of strips on the same topic. The […]

Thanks for checking out some of my old #webcomic series. I spent a lot of time making these a few years back.

Here's another one from my revived archives...
This is Board Games (1) - https://piday.8r4d.com/this-is-board-games-1/

film: scott pilgrim vs the world My quest for an Actually Good Movie Critique Podcast has been temporarily achieved. After nudging through an uncounted dearth of film discussion pods that seem more interested in trying to make jokes…

...back then I would have told you that half the appeal to my sad little brain was the aesthetic of this film, wrapped as it was in this eight-bit echo back to my own gamer youth.

A review:
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Wet Sounds Recent forays into musical experimentation with various electronic devices has taught me a new concept: wet and dry sounds. As I understand it, and simply, dry sounds are raw, clean and unprocessed audio coming directly from an instrument while wet sounds are sounds that have been enhanced with reverbs, echos, delays and other effects. The […]

Wet Sounds

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Shoelaces For as much as I tried to be a good dad, I was selfish about my running. It was my ticket to a bigger group of friends, a support team, and a healthier life that wasn’t me stuck at a desk doing work (or drawing comics) all the day long. Leaning into a sport and […]

Thanks for checking out some of my old #webcomic series. I spent a lot of time making these a few years back.

Here's another one from my revived archives...
Shoelaces - https://piday.8r4d.com/shoelaces/

Dabbling The risk when taking on any new project is that it might all too quickly become another notch on one’s chalkboard of failed projects. The risk of dabbling is that often, ultimately, boredom sets in and you find yourself moving on to something else new. If being a dabbler bothers you, how does one stop […]

Dabbling

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Commercial Success Personally, creatively and professionally I’ve always been a technology guy. The Kid benefited from an abundance of toys and games and gadgets in the house and it often led to interesting moments balancing parenting with the allure of distraction, media, the internet or otherwise. Often when I came up with an idea for comic there […]

Thanks for checking out some of my old #webcomic series. I spent a lot of time making these a few years back.

Here's another one from my revived archives...
Commercial Success - https://piday.8r4d.com/commercial-success/

Developing Vocal Technique I want to get better at recorded voice work. Maybe for the purposes of making a podcast. Maybe because recording an audiobook from my stories is on my dream list. Maybe just improving my microphone presence seems kinda important if ever I need to do another video job interview. I consulted the wisdom of the […]

Developing Vocal Technique

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This is Pi Day (1) My three panel black and white strips were published over the course of a mid-week posting spree, and through them I tried to tell a (still short) but longer arc story. For that reason you’ll see a (number) in the title because each is part of a trilogy of strips on the same topic. The […]

Thanks for checking out some of my old #webcomic series. I spent a lot of time making these a few years back.

Here's another one from my revived archives...
This is Pi Day (1) - https://piday.8r4d.com/this-is-pi-day-1/

Slow Down Cowboy I spent nearly three hours this morning working on recording audio for my project and the end result of all that work is what probably amounts to only about three minutes of usable audio. Let me back up. I am working on a new novel, and a side-project part of that effort has me attempting […]

Slow Down Cowboy

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Sound Logic Often when I came up with an idea for comic there was not enough material to build up into a full multi-panel joke. An offhand comment, a captured moment, or a simple glimpse at parenthood made for enough material to explain itself. In the tradition of single panel comics I often jumped into this format […]

Thanks for checking out some of my old #webcomic series. I spent a lot of time making these a few years back.

Here's another one from my revived archives...
Sound Logic - https://piday.8r4d.com/sound-logic/

Keyboard Reps Creativity is kind of a muscle.  I drove the kid to the community recreation centre this evening and, if only because I pulled a muscle in my back and need to rest it, I brought my computer instead of my own gym gear. Usually I come to this building to literally work out my body. […]

Keyboard Reps

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Creative Positive I need to routinely remind myself that every time I don't post something positive in my feed it leaves a gap for something negative to slip in and take up the space I left for it. Our feeds, all of…

Our feeds, all of them, are filled to the brim with algorithmically pushed trash.

Do you contribute? Or try to add something interesting and unique?

pi dayrectory An independent web comic about fatherhood, running, video games, science, art, independence, integrity, imagination and just generally … family adventure. This is Pi Day was published weekly online…

I've been going through and trying to slowly restore my webcomic website. I drew a weekly (sometimes more frequent) comic strip from about 2017 to 2019 and published it. It was all online until it was hacked in 2021. I've been trying to get it all back up:

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This is Dance (2) My three panel black and white strips were published over the course of a mid-week posting spree, and through them I tried to tell a (still short) but longer arc story. For that reason you’ll see a (number) in the title because each is part of a trilogy of strips on the same topic. The […]

Thanks for checking out some of my old #webcomic series. I spent a lot of time making these a few years back.

Here's another one from my revived archives...
This is Dance (2) - https://piday.8r4d.com/this-is-dance-2/

Impossible Summit It’s easy to aim too high when we start a new project. It’s easy to think that anything we create should be a final, salable product to hold up to the whole world for judgement. It’s actually pretty tough to recognize that almost everything we make should start off as something just for our own […]

Impossible Summit

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Shibuya Crossed - Day 1 in Japan [Captioned] We didn’t get into the city until well into the evening, but not for lack of trying: it was 8am the previous day that we left! Out first hotel is in Shibuya so wandering over to check out…

We went to Japan in November and I made a video every day. They are not influencer-style videos by any stretch, but just a collection of sights and sounds from our trip. Check out the playlist if you are interested:

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This is Winter Running (3) My three panel black and white strips were published over the course of a mid-week posting spree, and through them I tried to tell a (still short) but longer arc story. For that reason you’ll see a (number) in the title because each is part of a trilogy of strips on the same topic. The […]

Thanks for checking out some of my old #webcomic series. I spent a lot of time making these a few years back.

Here's another one from my revived archives...
This is Winter Running (3) - https://piday.8r4d.com/this-is-winter-running-3/

Standards Unpracticed There was a realization about music that I recall having when I was younger.  See, when I was in my teens and twenties I listened to a lot of punk and metal from the 80s and 90s. And I remember finding it odd that most music from these genres still usually followed the rules of […]

Standards Unpracticed

https://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/02/standards-unpracticed/

A poster with two Events: 1. Moonstruck: A night of poetry, photography, and music celebrating the moon Featuring: poets Sheri-D Wilson (The Celebrated "Mama of Dada"), Jessica Coles, Jannie Edwards, Kathy Fisher; musician Mark Edwards; photgrapher Valary Noward; and artist Nicole Bodnaresh Saturday, February 28 - 2. Writing Beyond - Master Class with Sheri-D Wilson, the Celebrated "Mama of Dada" Sunday, March 1, doors at 9 AM, class 9:30 AM to 11:30 am. Fully accessible venue, Address in Old Strathcona to be sent with Pre-registration Enrollment limited, preregister: jannieedwards@gmail.com Both events are free, donations gratefully accepted

Oh hell I just wrote one sad little moon poem to kick off my set. But listen, the moon is a lot of things, and some of my poems are even romantic...

I've been doing some informal A/B testing between Bluesky and Threads, and this place is definitely more chill. I don't know why, so don't ask for analysis. I just know that I sometimes feel like I've got a firehose of gasoline directed at a hot flame when I post there, and here? Just people hangin.

Routine Reminder Make something. Just make the damn thing and post it. Share it. Push it out into the universe. Will people judge it, love it, hate it, mock it, share it? With they laugh, cry, ignore, overlook,…

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Make something.

Will people judge it, love it, hate it, mock it, share it? With they laugh, cry, ignore, overlook, steal, copy, complain, and all too often respond in a hundred other unpredictable ways? Yeah. Of course they will.

state of the blog, two: re-socialized I haven’t been giving this poor blog the attention it deserves, I admit it. Other shiny things have captured my attention for the moment, tho the cycle of indifference will inevitably circle back arou...

I haven’t been giving this poor blog the attention it deserves, I admit it...

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I don’t usually do corporate noodles but a shout out the @longandmcquade.bsky.social for excellent online customer service today and standing by their price matching policy. I’m spending way too much on audio gear lately and they are definitely locking in as my dealer of choice.