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June 5, 2013

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

https://i0.wp.com/technosociology.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Cnn-international-versus-CNN-Turkey.jpg?resize=402%2C404 — 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)…”

February 18, 2013

Flick teaches video journalism at VIVO

Learn on-camera reporting, off-camera interview skills, documentary shooting techniques, polished journalistic writing skills, and documentary editing.

February 23, 2013 – 12:00pm – 5:00pm

February 24, 2013 – 12:00pm – 5:00pm

Video Journalism

At VIVO Media Arts 1965 Main St @ 4th

To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337/ext.1

Participants will develop a documentary concept (or bring one you have in mind) and shoot footage that will be analyzed and edited over two workshop sessions. You are welcome to use VIVO’s video cameras, or you can bring your own.

1. Camera Skills & Interviewing: Saturday, February 23, 12-5pm
Learn how to set up a great interview with lights, camera, and appropriate questions. In this session we will also cover documentary shooting and sound skills. Homework: Shoot some footage!

2. Documentary Editing: Sunday, February 24, 12-5pm
With footage you’ve shot as homework from session one, we will learn to cut together a short news story with a voiceover, on-camera introduction, and develop a solid structure.

Make docs that ring true!


	Prerequisites:		Suitable for participants who have previously attended Camera, Lights, Sound! and Video Editing workshops, or those familar with the basics of video production and post-production.

	Duration:		2 sessions: total 10 hours

	Schedule:		Sat/Sun, February 23 and 24, 12-5pm

	Cost:		$200 or $160 with VIVO Producer Membership (Extended)

To sign up email us at education@vivomediaarts.com or call 604.872.8337/ext.1

Instructor: Flick Harrison

Flick Harrison is a self-made nobody, a renegade artist, an underpreneur, a premiere Vancouver poorfessional, and now a member of the Sunset Community artists-in-residence “Something Collective.” His film, theatre, video, acting, writing and camera work has been seen by millions, been nominated and won awards internationally, and slipped into, under and through almost every Canadian funding niche. Chretien’s chief strategist Warren Kinsella called Flick “offensive” and “unfair,” the Globe and Mail called him “hilarious,” and the Georgia Straight called his work “gorgeously sophisticated.” His work includes teaching media art to kids, engaging community through art, designing projections for theatre and dance, and international journalism and criticism. http://www.flickharrison.com

November 8, 2012

Anonymoose at VIVO this Friday!

Catherine Falkner and I made an avant-garde propaganda film in Newfoundland with the Tordon Players during our residency at Black Bag Media Collective… The first public screening will be this Friday! Check it out:

IN MEDIAS RES

A short film festival featuring artists living and working in Mount Pleasant.

Graciously supported by the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Small Grants Project, the Vancouver Foundation and VIVO Media Arts.

// DOORS AT 8:30PM | SCREENING BEGINS AT 9PM //

We are excited to be featuring the following artists:

Continue reading “Anonymoose at VIVO this Friday!”

October 29, 2012

Parade of Lost Souls 2012

This was my video installation for the Secret Souls Walk at Parade of Lost Souls 2012.

Thanks to Nahid Karimaghalou and Reza Shahidi-Nejad who were my awesome volunteers! Without them I’d be wetter, and would have had far more TV’s short-out in the rain – there were enough of those as it was! More of them were working when the day began… Andrea Maylone was the awesome volunteer wrangler who hooked them in with me…

Also thanks to Tim Furness, Kat Single-Dain and Ari Lazer for bringing me on board. It was an awesome show and all kinds of fun. Yes, as the hippies said, it was cool to see so many people having fun and freaking out, getting spooky etc in the rain.

and for TV’s and offers, Step Carruthers, Jackie Dives, Tim Carlson, Diva Mercedes Gould…
Barb Dearing, Derek MacDonald, Kellie Ann Benz and Jessica Orlowski…
And thanks to Catherine Falkner for errands, feedback and loading up tellies in the late night rain…

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The TV at the bottom of this one actually burned out in the rain:

October 5, 2012

Video Journalism workshops at VIVO

Learn on-camera reporting, off-camera interview skills, documentary shooting techniques, polished journalistic writing skills, and documentary editing.
Participants will develop a documentary concept (or bring one you have in mind) and shoot footage that will be analyzed and edited over two workshop sessions. You are welcome to use VIVO’s video cameras, or you can bring your own.

1. Camera Skills & Interviewing
Learn how to set up a great interview with lights, camera, and appropriate questions. In this session we will also cover documentary shooting and sound skills. Homework: Shoot some footage!

2. Documentary Editing
With footage you’ve shot as homework from session one, we will learn to cut together a short news story with a voiceover, on-camera introduction, and develop a solid structure.

Make docs that ring true!

Continue reading “Video Journalism workshops at VIVO”

July 12, 2012

Extraction is in the works

After two years of research and planning, Theatre Conspiracy is digging into the creation of the documentary-style play Extraction. Our international cast and team of theatre artists are in residence at The Cultch in Vancouver for the next couple of weeks to experiment before a work-in-progress presentation at Your Kontinent: Richmond International Film & Media Arts Festival on July 21. Continue reading “Extraction is in the works”

May 23, 2012

The Cultch presents Extraction

Here’s a little taste of the show I’m working on for Theatre Conspiracy. Our workshop performances will happen in July at the Cultch and at the Richmond Int’l Film & Media Arts Festival.

The Cultch presents Extraction – YouTube.

“Through the biographies of four performers, the bilingual, documentary-style play Extraction looks at lives transformed by the rapid growth of Beijing and Fort McMurray, Chinese investment in Alberta’s tar sands and the evolution of Canada/China relations.

Extraction, directed by Amiel Gladstone, will run March 5-9, 2013, as part of the season at The Cultch in Vancouver. Theatre Conspiracy was presented with the annual Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, a $60,000 prize that will support the development and production of Extraction.”

February 18, 2012

Online surveillance bill opens door for Big Brother – CBC News

Terry Milewski

Politics

Online surveillance bill opens door for Big Brother – Politics – CBC News.

“Essentially, [this law] says that government agents may enter an ISP when they wish, without a warrant, and demand to see absolutely everything — including all data anywhere on the network — and to copy it all. If that seems hard to believe, let’s walk through it.”