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Winterbashing With Zack Taylor
Celebrity blogger Zack Taylor hosted Winterbash, a night of bands, booze and babes Saturday night at Lee's Palace.
The party included Canadian Playboy models, members of MTV's Laguna Beach and cast members of Degrassi: The Next Generation, along with musical acts such as Anna Cyzon, Mary Rose Obsession and God Made Me Funky.
The Playboy models pretty much just sat behind a table, trying to hawk Playboy magazines for $25 all night. Yawn. Except for the one time they got up on stage with Taylor for an introduction, which got hecklers yelling "too much clothes!"
The music more than made up for it though, with God Made Me Funky (pictured below) really getting the crowd going with their brand of Nu Funk once the evening got going.
Anna Cyzon's set was pretty rockin' too, with lots of rockstar poses by guitarist Mike Schlosser in a journey t-shirt.
A persuasive Thea Barber from Sparkulz got attendees to get temporary tattoos that sparkled.
(From left) Michelle Price, 23, Nir Spivak, 21 and Rebecca Marman, 21, were all too eager to show off their Sparkulz tattoos on their navels and nipples (below).
With the $25 admission ticket, everyone had the chance to win a Gibson electric guitar. It took about four tries for someone to claim the prize, but it went to a guitarist in the end. Why people didn't stick around for this raffle is beyond me.
More photos of the band, babes and wannabe stars below in a mini photo slideshow:
Photos by Roger Cullman.
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Looks like an Epiphone electric guitar to me.
Isn't the Epiphone company part of the Gibson family of brands?
It is the same parent company, but it's the same as saying a Honda is the same as an Acura.
^A honda is the same as an acura. But I understand what you are trying to say :)
No doubt, Zack Taylor is the BEST thing that happened to Canada. This kid is an entertainment genius both on the blogs and the club. More power to Taylor! I was there. Never enjoyed such a cool gig in a long time!
Winter Bash was some really good live music, with a live feel. Mary rose obsession really surprised me great rock, god made me funky was really great too! WTG zack taylor!
I tried following Zack's blog for a bit, but there never really was anything of substance, so I dropped it eventually.
Perhaps that puts him in the wannabe star category you were referring to?
Still, it looks like he assembled a great cast of folks to warm up an otherwise cold month (with the exception of the ones that were there just to pander their stuff).
Zack is a liar and a plagiarist. He claimed in an interview that his site gets "millions" of hits in a day when, in fact, there are no .ca sites that get millions of hits a day. He posted something saying Winter Bash was almost sold out but they were hawking tickets at the door and the venue wasn't exactly full. And he's been busted for plagiarism (one example is at http://popgoesthenews.blogspot.com/2009/01/blogger-plagiarizes-popgoesthenewscom.html). Not to mention that Jossip named his site one of the worst blogs online. He's a Perez wannabe with no originality or creativity.
Okay, please let's not turn this Winterbashing With Zack Taylor story into a Bashing Zack Taylor story.
Maybe Zack himself would care to comment?
I just want to thank Roger for writing a great little review about the event, and thank everyone who came out!!
As for the other messages - If you don't like my site, nobody is forcing you to read it. There's not much else to say.
In life there are lovers and haters - I accept both :)
Thanks again,
Zack Taylor
zacktaylor.ca
You're right Zack the haters don't have to click on your site...but that's not a credible excuse for plagiarism or lying about your traffic. That reader is right, no ".ca" sites do millions of hits a day! And yes a lot of what I have read on your blog is pilfered from other sites or is just plain wrong (i.e. reviewing a Jessica Simpson show before it happened; Avril Lavigne pregnant). Maybe you should work harder at building credibility instead of building yourself up.
Tyler, Zack's NO WANABEE. I lived in the USA for 29 years. As a 16 year old and turning 46 this summer, I came to Canada in 2007. I started blogging a music and media gossip site. Professional bloggers like Zack spend a lot of time...even Perez to update these sites 24/7. In Hollywood, it's gotta be constantly fresh. I tell this even to the black celebrity bloggers like Bossip, Concrete loop and Sandra Rose. Zack's shyt is FRESH, real interviews on red carpets and good ole gossip ahead of others like PEOPLE magazine who is stale as shyt sometimes.Were you at Winter Bash? I have not seen such a civilized club atmosphere in a while!!! T-Pain/L'il Wayne afterparty so full of wanabees and the so called VIP's are tucked away. A waste of fockin time!! Zack's VIP's were accessible. I partied with MRO--Mary Rose Obsession and God make me Funky. I even got pics with Casey of Laguna beach and FeFe Dobson and even a Happy birthday drop for my 18 and 22 year old to be sons FROM THE PLAYBOY MODELS, Lana, Pam and Anissa. What else better can a mom give her sons??? Christopher and Tyler, lets face it, everyone knows he gets more hits than Perez even with a ton of comments Perez gets. The fact is that people are reading that site. I don't even have any comment field on Hiphossip. It's abused twice. Chill out and get with the program. No one force nobody to read any blog. There are tons of them online!! Cheers:) Kemi
Oh yeah, Tyler BTW, where is Jossip now. With the recession maybe? Jossip is on sale and they can't get a good bid!!!
Never mind all the bull#%&*, keep doin your thing Zack! Birds like Tyler are nothing but good publicity anyway ;)
I had never heard of Zack Taylor until reading this entry. I work for an ad agency and we subscribe to data from an independent company that tracks web traffic in Canada -- I just checked and ZackTaylor.ca doesn't even register in the top 100 .ca sites (and the UVs and PVs for sites in the top 100 are relatively low). Certainly, if he had the kind of traffic he claims to have, advertisers would be beating down his door to get on the site, which they are clearly not. I, for one, won't be checking the site out again because it seems pretty juvenile and I don't know who most of the D-listers are! There's nothing wrong with trying to be a Canadian version of Perez Hilton -- hopefully someone can actually succeed some day.
can we please stop this discussion????!!!! anyone with half a brain knows zack is full of crap: his site has no major ads, virtually no comments, and a .ca URL to boot! get over it!!! let the dude live in his fantasy world... who cares?!! yeah he plagiarizes and steals photos from other sites... maybe his daddy needs to explain copyright law to him but why is this anyone else's business??!! i know one of the big papers is working on a story about how zack plagiarizes, steals and makes stuff up so he'll get the publicity he craves so much soon enough. everyone else: stop reading it and get a life!
I agree with jd let's stop giving Zack Teperman (his real name) any more free publicity. Bad enough we have to see his family's name at demolition sites all over the city!
Don't you guys believe in people trying to make something of their lives? I've never seen haters like this for someone trying to give canada and their artists a bit of renown. Zack's site is fine in my books, and as far as what he's done in the past.. Who cares? People do move on and try to succeed.. live in the now people.. live in the now ..
Zack doesn't need any "Free" Publicity. He puts "city" in publicity as in the City of Toronto.
Eww!!!!
FYI, all blogs source from other blogs and I'm not Zack's Publicist BTW. He's a great friend!
That's what Im talking about!
Stop hating y'all! This came from your own National Newspaper. ZackTaylor.ca numbers are not in yet. Remember he sold the old site? Perez can't touch those numbers and his commenters are scumbags! I dont even use my comments on any of my blogs as it's abused.
Expert advice from overachievers
This Month's Lesson: Selling Your Project In A Tough Market
Jenny Wagler, National Post Published: Tuesday, December 02, 2008
As the global economy falters, you'll need to be extra savvy to keep your career moving forward. It's all about selling yourself, something that's natural for Zack Taylor. Last year, he sold his celebrity gossip website to the popular site hotornot.com, which rebranded it as zacktaylor.ca. As the "host," Taylor garners "a very large salary for a 21-year-old in Toronto." Here is his advice for creating and selling your project.
> FIND YOUR NICHE: If you're dreaming up a project, comb the Internet to see if it's been done. "There's too much of the same thing out there," says Taylor. When he launched isthishappening.com, the first all-Canadian gossip site, he got an instant response.
> DON'T SELL YOURSELF SHORT: Even in a weak economy, know what you and your product are worth. "If you think your baby is worth a million dollars, then don't go for any less," Taylor says. "Eventually somebody will pay it if you have a great product."
> KNOW WHEN TO RE-EVALUATE: Set a six-or 12-month timeline for your project to succeed. But when your personal deadline hits, re-evaluate. Taylor easily cleared his six-month time frame to sell his site when it got picked up just three months after it started. "But if you're actually working and putting all your time into it and giving it your full dedication for a year and nothing's getting picked up, put it to the side and start something else," he says.
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