Ed Robertson
Robertson received his pilot's license in 2005, and the 2007 season of Ed's Up was purportedly designed around his attempting to earn his floatplane license. He also rides a motorcycle, which he has taken on some of the band's tours in the past to ride during off time.
Robertson is fan of video games, and claims to have had almost every console system released since he was a child. He usually brings several consoles and many games on tour with him. Robertson is a fan of the popular machinima series Red vs. Blue, lending his voice to the series to voice Captain Butch Flowers, during a time travel episode. Originally for a one-off episode, Captain Flowers was re-introduced in late season 5, 4 episodes before the announced finale. Rooster Teeth Productions has also made special videos, using Red vs. Blue characters, to be shown at Barenaked Ladies shows.
Robertson has several tattoos. The first one he got was on his right deltoid — a stylized Canadian flag with a green maple leaf and diagonal red bars. The next one he got was a Mercator projection of the continents of Earth circling his left deltoid. For his next tattoo, he visited a shop in Portland, Oregon run by Matt Reed. Reed enhanced the Canadian flag, and recoloured the map. He also added a third tattoo; a jumping fish, on Robertson's left arm, above the map. At his next session, Robertson got a band of acorns and Oak leaves on his right arm, below the flag (possibly also from Reed). Robertson decided to exclusively use Reed for his tattoos, and has said that he gets a new one every time he is in Portland. Reed has also designed t-shirts for the band. He e-mailed Reed photos of both arms (each having a band and a single image, in about the same place) and asked him to design a way to tie everything together. Reed enhanced the existing tattoos by framing the fish with a nautical themed frame, and the flag with a natural wooden themed frame, and adding backgrounds. In 2004, on the Au Naturale tour, Robertson added a dragonfly across part of his chest while in Portland.
Robertson won Humber College's inaugural Euterpe Award at the close of the 2005 Humber Songwriting Workshop. In his honour, the school named a scholarship after him for their summer songwriting workshop.
Having an interest in acting, Robertson had a brief appearance in Charlie's Angels 2, which was offered to him by director McG, who had directed Barenaked Ladies' video for "One Week". Robertson quotes McG has telling him that he would hand a baby to Carrie Fisher, so he figured Robertson would want to do it. Robertson had a larger role in the independent Canadian film Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, which was directed by childhood friend Sudz Sutherland.
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References
- ^ a b c d Robertson, Ed & Frohman, Lorne (Interviewer/Host). Distinguished Artists [TV-series]. Toronto, Canada: Humber College School of Media Studies.
- ^ Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Steven Page, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart. The Barenaked Truth [Television documentary/DVD]. Take 3 Productions/Casablanca Media Television.
- ^ Moll, George (executive producer). Behind the Music [TV-series]. New York, NY: VH1.
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