Geoff from geoffmobile.com and his friend KL visit the new location of Tossed restaurant in Vancouver BC Canada.

Located right across from the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) on Hornby Street, Tossed is a great place to try their custom-made salads, crepe wraps, and more.

Tossed Vancouver
769 Hornby St., Vancouver, BC, Canada
restaurant phone: 604-646-2440

restaurant’s web site:

www.tossed.com/

For online ordering (pick up or delivery):

www.tossed.com/locations/vancouver

Find them on facebook:

www.facebook.com/TossedVancouver

Thanks a lot to Tossed and we’ll definitely be back to enjoy more of your delicious food. The salad is a great sized portion, really delicious and satisfying while being healthy at the same time, and the Crepe Wraps are a fantastic idea. I really love crepes, and turning them into a wrap really appeals to me, especially as the crepe is not the focus of the flavor or texture, but rather compliments nicely the tasty ingredients (as shown in the video!).

Produced by Geoff from Geoffmobile.com in cooperation with Birds in the House Productions. (c) 2011.

Please visit them at:

birdsinthehouse.com

Technical notes:
Filmed with a Canon EOS Rebel T2i, using an 18-200mm IS lens. Technicolor Cinestyle picture style, Magic Lantern, Sony ECM-MS907 condenser microphone and on-camera mic. Edited using Adobe Premiere CS5.5 on a Dell PC running Windows 7 (Intel i7 and USB 3.0 for a faster workflow).

Disclosure:
Please note that the restaurant kindly provided us with the food and opportunity to interview the staff for the purposes of creating this video.

View some of my photos from Tossed on Flickr or via the gallery below:

A delicious and fun visit to a great new addition to Vancouver’s Fraser Street neighborhood. Recommended! (we went to town, as you’ll see all the amazing food we had!)

Fray on Fraser
3980 Fraser Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada
phone: 604-558-3729
restaurant web site: fray.me/

Shown in video:
-Restaurant interior and ambiance
-The menu of Fray restaurant
Appetizers:
-Portobello Mushroom Fries, served with a truffle aioli
-Fray’s Famous F Bombs (figs wrapped in bacon, marinated with balsamic vinegar reduction)
-Pulled pork sliders
Salad:
-El Proscrito (flat iron steak on a taco-style salad, very yummy!)
Entrees:
-Pacific Salmon de Orzo
-B.C. Pork Belly
-Fray Burger with the Works
Desserts:
-Orange Panna Cotta
-Chocolate Banana Spring Roll served with homemade vanilla bean ice cream!

Also, bonus footage: Behind the scenes Interview with Head Chef Antonio Martin. Thank you to Chef Antonio for inviting us into your kitchen!

Chef Antonio’s bio (from the Fray Web site): fray.me/who-we-are/

“Antonio learned his craft at the Old Bailiff, Stanley Park Pavilion, and The Boathouse, earning a Culinary Management Degree from The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) in New York, while picking up extra knowledge in the areas of pastry, desserts and wine from the Dubrulle International Culinary & Hotel Institute.

He apprenticed at New York’s 3-star Michelin, 4-star New York Times-rated Le Bernardin, under executive chef Eric Ripert, served as head cook at Quince Fine Cuisine, tournant at C Restaurant, and senior sous at Milestones’ signature restaurant in Yaletown.”

Disclosure:
-We received a discount on the food in exchange for our efforts in making this video.

Thank you to Fray restaurant for allowing us to make this video. We really enjoyed the whole experience and we’ll be back with our friends and family to enjoy the food again!

Also thank you to Katrina and Wilson for assisting me with the lighting and filming of this video.

Sincerely,
Geoff Peters

geoffmobile.com

Technical notes:
Camera:
Canon EOS T2i with Magic Lantern, Canon 18-200mm IS lens, ISO 6400 (in restaurant), ISO 1600 (in kitchen).
Audio:
Sony ECM-MS907 condenser microphone on a Rode Shotgun mic clip attached to the camera’s hotshoe, plugged into the camera directly. Manual audio gain was set. Audio was normalized in post.

Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 (5.5.2) on a Windows 7 Dell PC (Intel i7 processor). Usb 3.0 workflow makes this video very fast to edit (took about an hour to edit).

A Birds in the House Production

birdsinthehouse.com

“This interview is all my opinions, and not that of the Occupy Vancouver movement. I DO NOT represent the Occupy Vancouver movement”

twitter.com/OccupyVancouver

A short interview with Gabe from Occupy Vancouver protest/movement at the Vancouver Art Gallery on October 19th 2011.

occupyvancouver.com/

Filmed and edited by Geoff Peters of geoffmobile.com
A Birds in the House Production birdsinthehouse.com
Filmed on a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX7V and edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 on a Windows 7 Dell computer.

Thank you to Gabe and the members of the Occupy Vancouver movement for your tireless energy in creating this opportunity for us to think about change and making our world and society a better place.

Closing music: Trout Lake drum circle performance recorded by Geoff Peters.
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGOCrGlIYk

Note:
*** Please feel free to join in the discussion in the comments below, but please keep things civil and do not make personal attacks or the comments will be deleted. *****

Robert Taiga, 37, is a fascinating personality, inventor, renaissance man, environmentalist, and barefoot beauty from Vancouver, BC, Canada.

(starring Geoff Peters as Robert. Filmed and edited by Maxime Cyr-Morton, January 2011)

A profile of a man who combats crime in an unusual way.

Starring Maxime Cyr-Morton as Marcus.

Shot on Canon 60D with Canon 18-200 IS. Edited in Final Cut Pro.

Geoff Peters, Interviewer / Camera / Editing / Music.

Thanks to our instructor Mike Hughes, Video Journalism course at Langara College in Vancouver BC Canada. January 2011.

Produced by Birds in the House Productions

www.birdsinthehouse.com

Visit Marcus’s website about raw veganism at Eat Raw Vegan. Marcus blogged about this interview here.

Transcript:
How’s it going? Ah so, what is it like being a raw vegan in Vancouver? It’s terrific. Especially over the past year, the raw food community in Vancouver has really started growing and expanding and there’s a lot of interest. We have a few really neat eating spots. We have Gorilla Food downtown on Richards Street and then we have Organic Lives on Quebec street, and then there’s also Eternal Abundance in the Truffles Cafe on Commercial drive, and there’s a few other places where you can get some raw food. We also have a very active meetup group, so there’s usually a raw potluck multiple times a month. Everything is positive and more and more people every single week seem to be interested in this – so it’s really good and I’m glad I stumbled on this way of living, it’s really revolutionized my life. Great! And you can go to Marcus’s website eatrawvegan.com for more information, and that’s the next edition of GeoffMobile. Thanks very much.

(Youtube link)

Transcript:
Ok so what’s your favorite band? Depeche mode. Depeche mode. Ok why? Ah, I really like their lyrics, I like their sound, how they’ve changed over the years, and they have 13 albums or something and they’re all great. Yeah they’re great. They’re great. Ok, thank you!

(Youtube link)

Transcript:
Hello. Hi. Ok, so the question is, if you could change one thing about Vancouver, what would it be? Wow that’s a good question. I’d definitely create more spaces for community gardens. So because there is all this big promise of Vancouver becoming a super green city, but yet there’s been very little done in the name of it. I think we have lots of green space that can be used to improve food security in Vancouver, yet we take that land bought by the city to pretty much put up condos or do things for the Olympics, but I really do wonder what’s going to happen after the Olympics. But there’s some really great movement going on around in my neighborhood, Mt. Pleasant, one on Knight and Broadway. That’s a really good example of what community gardens can be, as well as another one on 7th and St. Catherines. Oh yeah. And so I think there’s good movement moving towards that but we do need more people to get on board and get involved with community gardens and advocate for food grown in your neighborhood. Ok! Thank you very much. This is the next edition of Geoff Mobile. Have a good day. Hope you enjoy your Korean food there.

(Youtube link)

Transcript:
Hello, do you have a question, or just a statement?

So tell me about your art. Why do you want to go to grad school.

Ah, I think I would like to develop my public practice understanding and coming from a theoretical basis I’ve been reading a lot of Jacques Rancière and thinking about the distribution of the sensible, in other words what is it that we can perceive in our world and what are the limits of that, and how can art expand the scope of our perception of reality, especially in a political sense. And so, an example of that in popular culture art is the Yes Men, in that they proclaim a reality that is within the scope of our perception and then when people realize it isn’t true the limitations of that scope become visible and therefore they can be surpassed… so that’s a good example of the methodology I am working within, which is trying to push what people will engage in a political sense.

Hmm, thank you. Very condensed in a small nutshell. Thank you, very much.

(Youtube link)