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“Film Is In The Air” At Raindance Canada

March 31, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves event, indie, raindance2 Comments

Toronto native Elliot Grove, Britain’s premier independent film champion and the founder of Raindance Canada, returns to Toronto from April 20-26, to host Raindance Canada’s spring courses. The week of events will end with the intensive two day Master-Class Write and Sell the HOT Script on Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26, 2009 from 9:30am – 6pm. Write and Sell The Hot Script is a step-by-step guide to constructing the best story possible—be it a screenplay, short story, or novel. Grove, who has taught his Write and Sell the…

Edgar Wright presents a Marathon of Spaced at the Bloor

March 20, 2009March 26, 2009 drsquid Bloor Cinema, Edgar Wright, Spaced1 Comment

Edgar Wright, here in Toronto filming his version of the comic Scott Pilgrim, continues his ‘Wright Stuff’ film festival at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto this weekend with a Marathon screening of all the Spaced TV series episodes – Before Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, there was Spaced. Originally broadcast from 1999 to 2001 on the UK’s Channel 4, director Edgar Wright will be marking the series’ 10th anniversary with a marathon screening of all 14 episodes at Toronto’s Bloor Cinema — FREE for Bloor members and “The…

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

March 19, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves mashup, remix0 comment

The new documentary “RiP: A Remix Manifesto” can now be watched at The National Film Board of Canada’s website, or at the director’s website OpenSourceCinema.org… In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The films central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied…

Toronto’s own Enviroman wants Laurie David to curb his something-asm.

March 18, 2009March 26, 2009 Danny X Enviroman0 comment

Could local comedian and writer Josh Rachlis be the next Jon Lajoie? In this video we see Josh’s alter-ego Enviroman put his balls on the interwebs in the hopes of landing an engagement kiss date free dinner with former Larry David spouse and Inconvenient Truth producer Laurie David. Apparently, being an environmentalist pays a lot better than being a regular everyday normal guy, if the production value in the video is any indication. Check out Josh’s other videos on his YouTube page here. .

Ash The Potato

March 17, 2009July 25, 2009 Doug Groves 3D, Lightwave, lip sync, Magpie0 comment

This is part of an animation side project I’ve been working on. The site is finished, and the first couple of animations are in the can, so I thought I’d post the latest here for (what I hope will be) your enjoyment. The website is ashrants.com For those who are curious, the animation is done in the venerable Lightwave 3D, with an able assist in the lip sync department by a program called Magpie Pro. Magpie makes lip syncing dialogue easy, and can output for just about any 2D or…

The Return Of True Horror?

March 12, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves horror, sam raimi, trailer5 Comments

One can hope. It’s been a long time coming, but Sam Raimi is back helming a horror movie about a witch who puts a curse on a loan officer who denies her a mortgage extension. Not a sexy Wiccan witch with parent issues, but a ripped from the pages for the Brothers Grimm wart-bespeckled old hag, complete with an evil eye. Way to kick it old school, while keeping it topical. Don’t be surprised if people start rooting for the witch to win, given the current economic climate. Another point…

Beatles Go Digital

March 5, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves Beatles, harmonix, rock band2 Comments

One of the great rock and roll hold outs in the digital age has been The Beatles. Rumours of the Fab Four hitting the mp3 stores surface every year like clockwork. Surprisingly, all the speculation has been wrong. Finally, Harmonix looks to be on track to be the first to get the Fab Four online, as long as you want to play along, that is. September 9th, 2009 is the scheduled release date of an unknown number of Beatles tracks (albums?) for the popular music game Rock Band. Along with…

McG a kickass filmmaker? Get outta here…

March 4, 2009March 5, 2009 Danny X terminator9 Comments

The new Terminator Salvation trailer was released today. In it we see John Connor coming to terms with being the leader of the human resistance, the rise of the Cyborg terminator, and, most importantly, a glimpse of what appears to be a well-made, well-directed, action-packed, moving story with substance. I might have to take back some of what I’ve said about Mc “Charlie’s Angels” G, because if the film is half as good as the trailer….damn. Watch for yourself above or at Yahoo movies. .

Climatology of a Cultural Ice Age, core sample #2

February 17, 2009February 23, 2009 Paul L Apple, canada, MPAA, RIAA1 Comment

A trial is convened in Sweden, in which the co-founders of filesharing directory The Pirate Bay face two years in jail and a €100,000 fine for “assisting copyright infringement”. YouTube begins crippling the audio on all of its content, whenever it auto-pattern-matches with any audio pattern claimed by a record company, sparking fears of the ‘End of Mashup Culture‘ and reports of the first massacres of teenage digital dreams. Then, just weeks later, as if to reassure any who might be in doubt as to whether there is room in…

Psychologists [and Watchmen mock newsreel] Demo Propaganda

February 9, 2009February 23, 2009 Paul L trailer, watchmen3 Comments

Psychologists have simultaneously discovered that synchronised behaviour (like, say… marching in step) increases loyalty, and that after being shown propagandistic images, people’s emotional profiles are changed. It’s something I’ve always noticed — people are like mirrors. From the article… Interest in the idea of a herd mentality has been renewed by work into mirror neurons – cells that fire when we perform an action or watch someone perform a similar action. It suggests that our brains are geared to mimic our peers. “We are set up for ‘auto-copy’.” Of course,…

Print Cartoonists declare Armageddon; Microsoft opens up Infinite Canvas

February 1, 2009March 12, 2009 Paul L Derfcity, Diamond Distribution, Infinite Canvas, Neil Gaiman, Scott McCloud3 Comments

Sometimes two or three things come at you in the news in the same week which are such perfect expressions of opposing spirits of the times, that the connection simply begs to be drawn between those points. Take the recent rant on Derfcity, declaring a modern economic End Times for cartoons as a result of the Great Comic Axing at alternative weekly newspaper chain, Village Voice Media… OK. This is it. We’ve reached the apocalyptic final struggle for the future of cartoons. Village Voice Media is the largest group of…