OCF Soccer Game

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 9:00pm

The OCAD Christian Fellowship (OCF) is hosting a SOCCER GAME in Grange Park. All are welcome! No experience needed. Come have a great time and keep in shape! Games will be played weekly, weather permitting, until the snow flies!

Venue & Address: 
Grange Park (adjacent to the University) Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
ocadcf@gmail.com

OCF Soccer Game

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 9:00pm

The OCAD Christian Fellowship (OCF) is hosting a SOCCER GAME in Grange Park. All are welcome! No experience needed. Come have a great time and keep in shape! Games will be played weekly, weather permitting, until the snow flies!

Venue & Address: 
Grange Park (adjacent to the University) Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
ocadcf@gmail.com

OCF Soccer Game

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 9:00pm

All are welcome! No experience needed. Come have a great time and keep in shape! Games will be played weekly, weather permitting, until the snow flies!

Venue & Address: 
Grange Park (adjacent to the University) Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
ocadcf@gmail.com

OCF Soccer Game

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 - 9:00pm

The OCAD Christian Fellowship (OCF) is hosting a SOCCER GAME in Grange Park. All are welcome! No experience needed. Come have a great time and keep in shape! Games will be played weekly, weather permitting, until the snow flies!

Venue & Address: 
Grange Park (adjacent to OCAD) Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
ocadcf@gmail.com

OCF Soccer Game

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 9:00pm

The OCAD Christian Fellowship (OCF) is hosting a SOCCER GAME in Grange Park. All are welcome! No experience needed. Come have a great time and keep in shape! Games will be played weekly, weather permitting, until the snow flies!

Venue & Address: 
Grange Park (adjacent to OCAD) Toronto, Ontario
Email: 
ocadcf@gmail.com

OCF Soccer Game

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 9:00pm to 10:00pm

The OCAD Christian Fellowship (OCF) is hosting a SOCCER GAME in Grange Park. All are welcome! No experience needed. Come have a great time and keep in shape! Games will be played weekly, weather permitting, until the snow flies!

Venue & Address: 
Grange Park 100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Cost: 
Free

Stamps that skate and slither

Canadians’ love of hockey is a defining national trait. Our passion for blades, ice, sticks and pucks stretches even as far as the postage we use to mail our letters.
 


Legends of the rink

In 2012, OCAD University Faculty of Design professors Avi Dunkelman and Joe Gault — co-founders and partners of Mix Design Group — were commissioned by Canada Post to design a series of hockey-themed stamps leading up to the 100th anniversary of the National Hockey League® (NHL). Over the course of five years, that commission will total nearly 70 different stamps, including commemoratives, souvenir sheets (about the size of a hockey card) and coils.

Canada Post issued the duo’s first NHL stamps on Sept. 3, 2013. They illustrate jerseys worn by seven Canadian teams, including the Montréal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs. Year 2 — 2014 — saw stamps featuring legendary defencemen from the Original SixTM era — stars such as Bobby Orr and Tim Horton. In fall 2015, Dunkelman and Gault’s work highlighted great Canadian goalies. Among the heroes are Tony Esposito, Martin Brodeur and Gump Worsley. Themes for the final two years have been chosen, but the designers are keeping the lid on their work until the stamps launch publicly.

 

 

 

Serpentine luxury

Dunkelman and Gault’s first foray into the world of stamp designing actually began a year before they skated their way into hockey-themed design history.
 



In 2011, they won a Canada Post competition to create stamps honouring the Asian lunar zodiac’s Year of the Snake, which began on February 10, 2013. Through extensive research into Chinese cultural symbolism, Dunkelman and Gault created — with the help of calligrapher Tan Chao Chang — stunning Year of the Snake stamps. “Not every project gives you an opportunity to design using seven colours, two foils and embossing,” Gault notes. “In Chinese astrology, snakes love luxury, and that’s an element we sought to slither in to our water-snake design.”

In a short video, Dunkleman and Gault talk about their careers and collaboration, and share details about their NHL and Year of the Snake projects.

The Year of the Snake stamps have met with international acclaim. They nabbed second place in a competition organized by the Chinese Shengxiao (Zodiac) Philatelic Society (China took first prize); a Certificate of Merit from the Premier Print Awards; and second place at the 2015 Vienna International Stamp Exhibition.

 



Video produced by Martin Iskander
Author: 
Morgan Holmes

Photographer Tom Szczerbowski talks about his famous Jose Bautista bat flip photo from game 5 of the ALDS

Bautista flips his bat.
Monday, October 19, 2015 - 4:00pm

Photographer Tom Szczerbowski talks about his famous Jose Bautista bat flip photo from game 5 of the ALDS

We caught up with photographer Tom Szczerbowski to talk about the biggest photo in sports and his tips for young photographers.

How did you feel when you got the shot?

The home run was obviously a big moment, but nobody could know that it would be the turning point of the game. In big games and key situations, reaction photos can be far bigger than photos of the swing itself and, in this case, Bautista made the moment more memorable by his cathartic reaction.

He is a very emotional player and I’ve seen enough of his home runs over the years to know that I better be prepared for anything in terms of how he reacts in the immediate wake of hitting the ball.

How do you stay focused when the stadium is rocking?

That’s not so hard to do because a deciding, do-or-die game demands your full, undivided attention. You have to be plugged into what’s going on or and not be distracted.

You have taken some amazing photographs - what makes a good sports photo? How does this one stack up for you?

Thanks!  I’ve also missed my share. That said, try to always anticipate a play, how it’s likely to unfold and always know if there’s a potential for your view being blocked.

A clean background or the right expression on a player can make for superb images. There is no secret sauce, but always be prepared and try to be in the right position when the play happens.  

Test your exposure, make sure your focus point is responsive, keep your composition straight, shoot tight, shoot through the play, etc. It also helps to draw on past experiences, especially when you might have shot a similar play before.

I wrote about this once on my blog.  

The Bautista photo tells a nice story all right, and there is no doubt some sentimental value is attached to it given the magnitude of the occasion, but I have to say that one of my all-time favs is a recent football photo

What's the key to your success? How would a young photographer get good at what you do?

Commit yourself fully to something because half-measures will not get you there. Be relentless. Be tenacious. Hustle. When you’re starting, don’t take 'no' for an answer from some of the entrenched interests, some of whom aren’t necessarily happy to see you competing with them. Go at it whole hog.

Invest in quality gear from the start. Buying top-tier gear can pose budgetary challenges but the last thing you want is to miss the big moment because the camera let you down. Human error can and will happen periodically.

The biggest thing is getting out there and shooting. In other words, I place a higher value on honing my craft than reading about esoteric theory or concepts of photography. The bottom line is you can’t be a good photographer if you don’t shoot a lot. At first, you should find any games or events — no matter how remote or meaningless — to cover for someone with the goal of putting together a quality portfolio. From kids’ hockey leagues to weddings or local awards shows, find something that a prospective client will want covered and pay you to cover.

 

 

OCAD U Intramural: Fall 2015

Image of a team posing for a picture
Monday, September 21, 2015 - 8:30am to Friday, December 11, 2015 - 3:30pm

‪Volleyball / Basketball / Dodgeball‬

Games are played Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays depending on the sport. They are scheduled anywhere between 4 and 7 p.m. dependent on you/your team's preference and/or availability. See the webpage for more details.

Deadline to sign up: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Games start week of: September 21, 2015

Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/intramural
Email: 
bjames@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416 977 6000 Ext. 275
Cost: 
$12.00

O-DAYS! Blue Jays!

 O-DAYS! Blue Jays!
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 9:30pm

Toronto Blue Jays vs. Kansas City Royals

Watch the Toronto Blue Jays take on the Kansas City Royals* (7:00 p.m. first pitch) for only $10.50 per ticket (seats are in the 500 level, behind home plate). This collaboration between OCAD U and our friends at Michener Institute (222 St. Patrick Street) will allow you to take part in a new O-DAYS! tradition. Make new connections with OCAD U and Michener students alike!

Want to purchase baseball ticket(s)?
Please read carefully… here’s how:

1. Go to https://www.michener.ca/current/schedule.php

2. Ignore everything else and SCROLL DOWN to Friday, August 30.

3. Beneath “4:30 PM – Toronto Blue Jays vs. Kansas City Royals (7:00 PM first pitch)” and related info, click on “Add Person”. Enter your name, followed by “OCAD U”. If you wish, add other friend/family names by clicking on “Add Person” again. IMPORTANT: remember to type “OCAD U” after each name!

4. Now click on “Purchase Blue Jay Tickets” which will take you to a secure window already populated by the name(s) you added above in Step 3. You will now enter your payment method.

5. Pick up your tickets at OCAD U Student Centre (51 McCaul Street), Wednesday, August 28, 12 noon, to Friday, August 30, 4:00 p.m.) BRING photo ID.

* This game is part of Blue Jays Summer Friday Fan Festivals. There will be a pregame licensed area (age/photo ID required), music and giveaways outside at gate 10/11 (South West side of the stadium). Gates open at 4:30 p.m.

 

ocadcampuslife@ocadu.ca

 

 

$10.50 per ticket

Venue & Address: 
Rogers Centre 1 Blue Jays Way Toronto, Ontario