Kyle MacDonald

Bran Van 3000 - Discosis

2012-09-12T12:14:00.001-04:00

WANTED: Greatest Public Speaking Promo Reel Ever OF ALL TIME

2012-05-07T23:12:00.003-04:00

Hi, my name's Kyle. When I'm not eating cheeseburgers at the beach with my shirt off or surfing wolves I'm trading red paperclips for houses. My two least favorite things when I was a kid were writing and public speaking but I've somehow wound up as a published author and professional public speaker. Life's weird.But here we are.

The internet is full of treacherously boring speaker promo videos. It's time to create the future and change the game forever via a next level video throwdown. Its time to unleash the Greatest Public Speaking Promo Reel Ever. OF ALL TIME.

Yet.

But I need your help.

Think Epic Meal Time crossed with that Lithuanian bottled water commercial crossed with Taxi Dave doing an impression of Napoleon Dynamite doing an impression of Anthony Robbins....holding a cat...but not just any cat, Keyboard Cat. Google that stuff if you don't know about it yet.

I've got lots of speaking and interview footage, but I'm willing to create a completely new production. Contact me if you make videos that melt peoples faces off.

I'LL GO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD TO WORK WITH THE RIGHT PERSON.

Kyle
514-833-3980

THE OFFICIAL RULES OF BURGHINDER

2012-04-10T12:06:00.005-04:00

The name of the game is Burghinder
It's just like Punch Buggy, but involves Burgundy Dodge Caravans.
Which are called a "Burghinder" ....or a "Ghind" for short
(The ‘h’ is silent)(The 'ind' is pronounced like INDia)

When you see a Ghind you yell out "Burghinder!" or "Ghind!" and get to punch somebody in the shoulder.

1 Punch - Burgundy Dodge Caravan (Any model from 1984 - present)
2 Punches - Burgundy Dodge Caravan pre-1991 model with original body shape and all-ghind interior
3 Punches - Turbo Ghind
5 Punches - Any custom designed Ghind (ex motorhome Ghind)
6 Punches - Woodghinder (wood panelled Ghind)
20 Punches - Convertible Ghind (extremely rare)

BUT, if you mistake the following for a Ghind, another person gets to punch YOU the following number of times:

2 Punches - Ghind sighter fails to yell out "Burghinder!" or "Ghind!"
3 Punches - any color not burgundy (Purple, Black Cherry, Red, etc.)
4 Punches - Other make/model of burgundy minivan (ex Toyota Sienna, Ford Aerostar)
5 Punches - Plymouth Voyager
6 Punches - Volkswagen Routan
8 Punches - Chrysler Town and Country

Happy Ghinding!

Caine's Arcade

2012-04-09T20:51:00.002-04:00

A 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade in his dad's used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life. Help Caine's Scholarship Fund: http://CainesArcade.com

The World's Longest Receipt™ is for sale for $18,871.93 on Etsy

2011-12-22T19:43:00.000-05:00

What happens when you walk into a store and buy every single item? On May 20th, 2011, a group of artists walked into Hercules Fancy Grocery in New York City with a briefcase filled with $20,000 in cash and bought every single item for sale in the store. The total purchase price of everything in the store was $18,871.93

The sale price of the receipt is the exact total cost of all items in the store: $18,871.93

For sale now on Etsy, click here to read more.

One Red Paperclip Inc. Etsy Store

2011-12-22T19:40:00.002-05:00

The Original Store Buyout receipt

2011-10-19T11:23:00.003-04:00

DDP PROMO VIDEO!!!!!!

2011-10-05T01:42:00.001-04:00

GO TO THE KICKSTARTER AND DONATE IF YOU WANT THIS PARTY SAFARI TO HAPPEN!!!

DDP EASTERN CANADA PARTY SAFARI ANNOUNCED!!!! Please donate / buy merch to make these parties happen!

2011-09-26T18:10:00.002-04:00

DDP Party Safari 2011 Stop #1 = Vancouver + Bikes

2011-09-06T23:14:00.001-04:00

Help make the Decentralized Dance Party Safari a reality!

2011-09-06T05:16:00.002-04:00

Times Square Slip 'n Slide during Hurricane Irene

2011-08-31T15:11:00.002-04:00

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall LIVE.

2011-08-03T04:12:00.002-04:00

We walked into a store and bought EVERYTHING.

2011-06-07T20:59:00.000-04:00

StoreBuyout.com

What colors do you mix to make the color burgundy?

2011-05-11T18:33:00.000-04:00

Either:

1. two parts red to 1 part green

2. two parts red to 1 part navy blue

3. red with a tinge of purple

4. red and brown

5. orange and brown

This is the JAM

2011-05-07T13:20:00.000-04:00

This is how you do it.

2011-05-03T13:01:00.001-04:00

What is a good idea?, a photo by kylemac on Flickr.

Follow Fewer People

2011-04-26T11:25:00.000-04:00

It costs nothing to follow 1 million people on twitter. But what's the cost of distraction? Following even 1000 people on twitter is ridiculous. There's no possible way you can keep track of who's doing what. Trim the people who no longer inspire you. Trim the dude who tweets whenever he buys a sandwich. Trim the COMPLAINERS. It's tough, because it feels like you're going to lose something, but you'll gain so much more. Ditch people for the sake of your own clarity. Drop the 'under performing' folks for new beginnings. And please, if you don't dig my tweets, please drop me!

What if Google is just some insane religion?

2011-04-22T13:10:00.000-04:00

This is the Google Doodle today:

It looks startlingly similar to one of those amazing Jehovah's Witness drawings:

It's Good Friday AND Earth Day today. A coincidence. Or is it? Google's motto is 'Don't be evil' and their mission statement is to organize all the world's information. Those fit in line with pretty much all the major religions. Be good to others, question nothing. God knows everything. So does Google. Or at least Google is trying to know everything.

Most people I know scoff at the idea of organized religion. They see it as a throwback to primitive times. A time when the uneducated masses believed everything that was told to them. To them, organized religion has no place in our world. We're better than that, they say. But to all you folks that will never pray at the altar of some organized religion, how many of you will ask the almighty Google a question today? And how many of you will blindly click on the first link that's served to you?

Will we one day look back on Google as some sort of insane cult? Will we shake our heads in disbelief that the masses were so unilaterally led? Will Sergey Brin and Larry Page be seen by our offspring as extremely influential nutjobs like Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard. Google's underlying technology is called Pagerank, after all. I talked to Sergey at a conference last week and he was wearing a backpack...that's always a sign somebody's up to something, right?

Anywho....

To all you sinners out there, go forth in your quest for knowledge, but be wary of the single voice who promises paradise and absolute truth.

This is the signature at the bottom of all Air Canada emails.

2011-04-18T13:02:00.000-04:00

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Dom Dom !

2011-03-17T13:43:00.001-04:00

Dom has a cookbook!

2011-03-07T17:08:00.002-05:00

Cooking With Dom by Dominique Dupuis
Brand New! More than 30 recipes. 70 pages.
larmoireduhaut.com

Dominique is a great teacher and the atmosphere of he school is amazing!

-Annabelle Marquis, Artist

We were completely elated after Dominique's cooking class.

She helped instill a desire to take care of ourselves - no small feat in itself!

-Eve Dumas, Journalist, La Presse

Buy it today! (Prices INCLUDE all taxes and shipping. That's right, FREE shipping!

Cooking With Dom - cookbook by Dominique Dupuis - L'Armoire du Haut

Think nobody wants to take a flyer from somebody in the streets? Try giving away money.

2011-03-02T22:22:00.002-05:00

Keep a Healthy Fringe

2011-02-26T13:21:00.002-05:00

The awesome thing about the internet is we surround ourselves with all our favorite things. We follow our friends on facebook and twitter. We check the news we want to read, when we want to read it. Our favorite things are always there for us. It's all very neat. But that's the problem:

It's too neat.

If you don't challenge yourself, you don't grow.

I was lucky enough to see an amazing talk by Lenny Ratchitsky at TEDxConcordia last week about serendipity. He talked about how often the most important events in life come unplanned and unforeseen. Chance encounters we seemingly have no control over often result in the most life altering things. By surrounding ourselves in digital life with only the things we love, our chance for life-changing events and realizations diminishes greatly. If we follow the advice of others too much, our experiences become generic. We share the same experiences. Instead of reading restaurant reviews, why not just go outside and eat at a restaurant you've never heard of? Why not turn off GPS and find your way by your intuition? Sure, you might eat some horrible meals and get lost every now and then, but being lost can be pretty fun sometimes.

So that's my idea for the day: Turn off the GPS on your digital life and do things on the internet that don't make perfect sense.

Keep a fringe.

Follow people you don't know. Go to websites you've never been before. Click on links that don't interest you at all. Try new things. Sure, most of the time these links will be complete duds, and some of the folks you follow will be so completely boring/annoying it hurts. But keep it up for a bit before you cut them off. The most surprising things always come from the most unexpected places.

I am a Fan of @jessedee and this revenue model!

2011-02-21T17:10:00.001-05:00

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