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June 27, 2013

Time for a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera?

So camera upgrades come more and more often these days. I had a crap-sounding, rugged and reliable Sony EVO-9100 Hi8 camcorder from CBC which I used and abused from 1992 until 1998, then a Canon XL-1 from 1998 to 2007 (Man, that one shot a lot of video!), then I moved to an HDV Canon XH-A1 til 2011 and lately, an HMC-150 which is very cool but has some serious drawbacks.*

Right now I am starting to look for a new camera package for what I do: mostly shooting live events, some interviewing, documentary, corporate gigs etc. and, well, drama. The HMC-150 isn’t the best dramatic rig, since it has a typical video small sensor and wide depth of field.

POSSIBLE BLACK MAGIC CINEMA CAMERA ENG PACKAGE

But wow, is it ever hard to beat a dedicated ENG-style camcorder for features and function. What I need is:

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June 5, 2013

Is there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style? An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki | technosociology

http://technosociology.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Cnn-international-versus-CNN-Turkey.jpg — CNN Turkey shows cooking while CNN international covers the protests.

Guardian coverage of Turkey is pretty good but this one is from a social-media analyst in Turkey. Great summary of the history, leading up to the current events.

Is there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style? An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki | technosociology.

“So, let’s get some of the Tahrir/Taksim comparisons out of the way. Turkey’s government, increasingly authoritarian or not, is duly elected and fairly popular. They have been quite successful in a number of arenas. They were elected for the third time, democratically, in 2011. The economy has been doing relatively well amidst global recession, though it has slowed a bit recently and there are signs of worrisome bubbles. So, Turkey is not ruled by a Mubarak.

But it’s also not Sweden. The government has been displaying an increasingly tone-deaf, majoritarian-authoritarian tendency in that they are plowing through with divisive projects. (I should add that the opposition parties are spectacularly incompetent and should share any blame that goes around)…”

May 22, 2013

Vancouver Biennale exhibit on Kits Beach | something collective

Vancouver Biennale exhibit on Kits Beach | something collective.

TUESDAY, MAY 28 from NOON to 4pm

Flick has been facilitating a video installation art project with Nootka Elementary and Windermere High School, which will culminate in an exhibition on Tuesday, May 28th at the Echoes installation on Kits Beach: here’s a map. Flick will be back at it with his fixation on old TV’s!

Come see the portraits which Windermere students shot at Renfrew-Collingwood Senior’s Centre with the help of community artist Carmen Rosen.

This project is a part of the Vancouver Biennale Big Ideas Art in Action Education Program.

These pictures show the process leading up to our installation!

May 16, 2013

We Are Here – A Community Mapping Project- FINAL CELEBRATION

PLEASE JOIN
SOMETHING COLLECTIVE

(Maggie Winston, Laura Barron, Juliana Bedoya, Natalie Gan and Flick Harrison)

ON SATURDAY, MAY 18TH, FROM 1-3 PM,

AT THE SUNSET COMMUNITY CENTRE
TO CELEBRATE

Something Collective, the Artists-in-Residence team at SCC, has worked and played over the last few months engaging community members in a variety of arts activities that map the sounds, people, growth, play spaces, and movements of the Sunset Neighbourhood.

We Are Here has allowed community members to explore their neighborhood through dance, sound, video, green graffiti, puppets and photography.

Now, together, with your friends and neighbours, we’ll get to walk through a giant interactive map as we celebrate all the finished components of the project. Come and experience an interactive, living picture of the Sunset neighbourhood.

JOIN US FOR DANCE AND PUPPET PERFORMANCES, FILM AND
SOUNDSCAPE INSTALLATIONS, AS WELL AS FREE REFRESHMENTS!

This project is supported in partnership by

Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre
Sunset Community Centre
Vancouver Parks & Rec
City of Vancouver

May 16, 2013

Free Book Launch — World Film Locations: Vancouver | The Cinematheque

I wrote several articles for this book and compiled an amazing reel of scenes shot in Vancouver for the event tonight. Come down for a free discussion and screening!

Join us as U.K.-based publisher Intellect Books launches the new book World Film Locations: Vancouver (Bristol, U.K.: Intellect, 2013) and we celebrate Vancouver films and filmmakers by discussing the past, present, and future of the local industry. Attendees will hear a few words from Professor Colin Browne (School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University), watch a show reel (edited by Vancouver filmmaker Flick Harrison) of film scenes analysed in the new book, and join a discussion about Vancouver film led by a panel of film professionals hosted by Diane Burgess (Instructor in Film Studies, UBC) and including Loretta Sarah Todd (director, writer, producer at Nehiyawetan Productions) and Sharon McGowan (filmmaker and Associate Professor of Film Production, UBC). The evening will end with drinks and conversation and another chance to see Vancouver writer and critic Michael Turner’s On Location 2: Four Double Bills, in which eight well-known Vancouver-made films are edited to remove everything from them but their Vancouver locales.

Edited by Rachel Walls, World Film Locations: Vancouver features the work of Vancouver writers, artists, film-makers, and curators including Colin Browne, Diane Burgess, Elvy Del Bianco, Flick Harrison, David Hauka, Peter Lester, Amy Kazymerchyk, Kamala Todd, and Michael Turner. Through this writing, and images from the films and of the locations used, the book traces the history and diversity of Vancouver location filming. The book consists of 38 “scene reviews” of Canadian and Hollywood movies from 1927 to present, and seven “spotlight essays” on key filmmakers and film moments.

World Film Locations: Vancouver is part of Intellect Books’ “World Film Locations” series. Buy it at AMAZON.CA: World Film Locations: Vancouver

http://www.thecinematheque.ca/book-launch-world-film-locations-vancouver

April 28, 2013

A Moving @ International Dance Week, Vancity Cinema

The film I made with Rob Kitsos, A Moving, is showing at Vancity today at 2pm with some other dance shorts!

I believe it’s free…

Dance on Film: Sunday April 28, 1-3pm

1-2pm: Kristina Lemieux moderates a discussion with Josh Martin, Kat Single-Dain and Brian Johnson on the creative process of dance filmmaking from the perspective of choreographers and filmmakers. Clips for current works-in-progress will be shown.

2-3pm: Shorts Program: A selection of local works and works from the Dance on Camera Festival in New York will be shown.

2-3pm: Shorts Program

Hard Times Hit Parade
Director: Kat Single-Dain
Choreographer: Kat Single-Dain

cArtographies… featuring Crystal Pite
Director: Brian Johnson
Choreographer: Crystal Pite

PAINTED
Director: Duncan McDowall
Choreographer: Dorotea Saykaly

Evelyn’s Farm
Director: Brian Johnson
Choreographer: Katy Harris-McLeod & Mara Branscombe

Square Dance Story
Director: Jason Karmen
Choreographer: Grant Ito with Kyle Toy

A Moving
Created by: Flick Harrison & Rob Kitsos

Brighter Borough
Director: Georgia Parris
Choreographer: Caroline Pope

The Heist
Director: Andrew Jack
Choreographer: Jojo Zolina

3-3:30pm: Q&A in the Lobby
Join panels, directors, choreographers and cast members in the lobby for a discussion on the afternoons events.

April 23, 2013

SWITCH to Premiere Pro

I teach courses at VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver on SWITCHING TO PREMIERE PRO CS6 and INTRO TO PREMIERE PRO CS6 .

Here are some useful links for switching, below this rant which I had earlier posted as a blog comment or two…

One thing I want to say is that I’m not afraid of change. FCPX defenders always throw that first so let’s forget it. I moved to Premiere Pro. This was a change. I was not afraid.

Also, I’m not a hater or a Mac lightweight. I’ve been C-64, Amiga, Mac since OS9, Windows 98, XOPC / Linux, and now I’m working on a sweet Hackintosh (thank u, Nofilmschool!!).

I love Mac. But I HATE FCPX.

FCPX lovers will ask, “Why all the hate?!?” To them I reply, “WHY ALL THE LOVE?!” Are your emotions more valid than mine? Is thy love stronger than mine hatred? Canst thou empathize only with those who feel as you do?

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April 12, 2013

UNTIMELY MISSIVES : Yactac Gallery

Check out this mail art show by Penelope Hetherington, a facebook-resisting artist whom I’ve known since her days in the Hot Toddy Girls avante-garde burlesque troupe, writing for Discorder and performing in the cabaret duo Psychotic Butler. She produced this latest show by mailing out a bunch of coupons from very old magazines and collecting the responses.

U NTIMELY MISSIVES :

Penelope Hetherington

April 4 – 30, 2013

Mail Art Gallery

8165 Main Street Vancouver (MAP)

Filling out a coupon clipped from a 1964 edition of a magazine and then  mailing it in a envelope with a dime taped to a piece of cardboard requires  a kind of optimism–an innocence not so much feigned as permitted. The  process of undertaking this slightly goofy task produces affect that wants  examining. Anticipation, excitement and a pleasant feeling of destabilization  suggest an underlying reluctance to accept that the past has completely  disappeared. The slowness of the post spares us the anticlimactic flatness  of assuming that something is over and gone. Instead, we get suspense.

Untimely Missives uses the materiality of the postal system to look for lapsed time in geographical space, and the Mail Art Gallery as a place to document  the search. This project investigates the possibility that playing puckish  games with time is one way of remaining limber in relation to temporality.  It has nothing to do with nostalgia.

Visitors are encouraged to send their own untimely mail. Envelopes, scissors, coin cardboard, copies of advertisements from old publications, and a working post office are provided.

Penelope Hetherington is a Vancouver-based performer and installation artist.