QUESTION: Ottawa Artist Groups/News Sites

I know of the Ottawa School of Art, art supply shops (Wallacks, DeSerres, Michaels), some alumni group or other hosted on Facebook that's tied to Algonquin College's Media Studies division, and the Ottawa SF Society. I'm trying to find what else might be out there across Ottawa and Gatineau. Anyone have any pointers for me?

SF/SPACE TRAVEL: The Rate of Progress

Something that came up in discussion with Mark Shainblum over at Facebook:

To get to a scenario like Star Trek (where such travel has been normalized for a couple of centuries), never mind Star Wars (normalized for 50 thousand years at minimum), we're going to have to go through a phase like we see on The Expanse. We'd best get used to that idea.

And that's if we figure out something in the laws of physics that makes warp drives, hyperlight jump tech or whatever technologically possible. There's people doing that research in several places across our planet right now, yes, but their progress - if any - is going to be slow. Until the prototypes get proven out. If they get proven.

Most of you regulars reading this already know these things. What I needed to do here was remind myself of these facts.

Peacekeepers' Day

Turns out I've forgotten to attend whatever ceremonies were happening today at the Peacekeepers' Monument on Sussex.

Memory failure.

VFX Logistics and YouTube Archeology

I was doing some tag management tonight, and came across this entry from 2016:

https://dewline.dreamwidth.org/960887.html

Evidently, I wrote up the entry before I made the jump from LJ to Dreamwidth. It involves issues of "no-fly" zones complicating visual effects work on major motion pictures that probably require 3D scans of the cities' architecture. I'm just wondering which of ILM's videos on YouTube I'd have been linking to that inspired the 2016 entry that I wrote.

PHOTOS: From 2011

From Occupy Ottawa at Confederation Park, 2011:



From Labour Day, same year:



Admitting that I believe in this probably gets me in trouble with a lot of people in lots of different places. I care about that...but probably not in the way that such people would like.