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Joe Shuster Awards 2019
Sep. 16th, 2019 05:31 pmI just got in the door and saw this. Winners have been announced for this year's Canadian comics awards...
http://sequentialpulp.ca/2019joeshusterawardwinners/
http://sequentialpulp.ca/2019joeshusterawardwinners/
Ottawa Intl. Animation Festival
Jan. 11th, 2016 02:17 pmThis is a thing that happens here where I live every year now. Used to be even-numbered years only, but that's changed. I think that change is for the better.
If you're interested in the artform, the business or both, you might want to take a closer look.
Disclosure: I did some volunteer work one year shortly after graduating from Algonquin Animation school. Not doing it any more, but the event matters to me anyway.
If you're interested in the artform, the business or both, you might want to take a closer look.
Disclosure: I did some volunteer work one year shortly after graduating from Algonquin Animation school. Not doing it any more, but the event matters to me anyway.
Heat Warning Still in Effect...
Aug. 16th, 2015 04:11 pm...and I managed to get some shopping, laundry, and lawn-moving done anyway. I suppose I timed it well enough, avoiding the worst of it starting at 3 PM local time.
About scanner-printer combination devices: What's currently considered the best of such gear as can scan 11"x17" original boards? Opinions?
CBC's Cross-Country Checkup asks for your favourite summer reading recommendations this afternoon, heedless of the risk of trespassing on The Next Chapter's turf. Perhaps that's because The Next Chapter's on summer vacation and one of their past columnists, Randy Boyagoda, is part of the crew answering the phones today.
About scanner-printer combination devices: What's currently considered the best of such gear as can scan 11"x17" original boards? Opinions?
CBC's Cross-Country Checkup asks for your favourite summer reading recommendations this afternoon, heedless of the risk of trespassing on The Next Chapter's turf. Perhaps that's because The Next Chapter's on summer vacation and one of their past columnists, Randy Boyagoda, is part of the crew answering the phones today.
When CBC Radio asked the public at large about that pending event as a prelude to today's edition of Cross-Country Checkup, I had this to say:
Yes. I'll miss the Canadian penny if it stays gone after this. For all the talk about how we have to retrain ourselves to be a cash-less society, I'm not convinced of that yet. And besides, physical currency - in addition to its legal aspects - is an art medium as well.
Your own thoughts?
Yes. I'll miss the Canadian penny if it stays gone after this. For all the talk about how we have to retrain ourselves to be a cash-less society, I'm not convinced of that yet. And besides, physical currency - in addition to its legal aspects - is an art medium as well.
Your own thoughts?
The "5 Things" Meme
Jun. 13th, 2012 11:18 pmComment to this post and I will pick five things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
The list I was given by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ms_danson is as follows:
( What do you want to be famous for, mapping, ice cream, new vs comfortable, the look of the prairies )
The list I was given by
ms_danson is as follows:( What do you want to be famous for, mapping, ice cream, new vs comfortable, the look of the prairies )
Photography Night
Jan. 14th, 2011 04:43 pmI'll be over at Pub Italia to meet up with the Ottawa Flickr club tonight, probably getting there somewhen around 5:30 or 6:00 PM if anyone's interested. No idea how long I'll be staying.
Don Cherry: You Messed Up
Dec. 5th, 2010 01:16 pmDon Cherry disappointed me the other day.
Don, speaking as both a hockey fan and one of the "artsy people"? You blew it. Big time.
A confession I've already made to the Toronto Star's Facebook people: I got a lot of drawing practice as a kid in grade school - we're talking grades 1-3 level here - drawing people playing hockey. The figure work wasn't much improved over "stick figure" levels and their chins were almost nonexistent. But this is what inspired me as a kid to draw like a comics-artist-in-training fiend. NHL hockey.
Just sad, Don. Really...sad.
Don, speaking as both a hockey fan and one of the "artsy people"? You blew it. Big time.
A confession I've already made to the Toronto Star's Facebook people: I got a lot of drawing practice as a kid in grade school - we're talking grades 1-3 level here - drawing people playing hockey. The figure work wasn't much improved over "stick figure" levels and their chins were almost nonexistent. But this is what inspired me as a kid to draw like a comics-artist-in-training fiend. NHL hockey.
Just sad, Don. Really...sad.
Ottawa Small Press Book Fair Fall 2010
Oct. 15th, 2010 09:46 pmI'll be at this show tomorrow, running my table one more time. Sketchbooks and sketches for sale, as usual!
Details here:
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/09/ottawa-small-press-book-fair-fall-2010.html
Hoping to see as many of the Ottawans reading this as possible, and more...
Details here:
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2010/09/ottawa-small-press-book-fair-fall-2010.html
Hoping to see as many of the Ottawans reading this as possible, and more...
Nuit Blanche Ottawa-Gatineau
Sep. 27th, 2010 10:48 pmI just got home from a kick-off organizational/Q&A meeting at Arts Court in downtown Ottawa.
It was for a group that's looking to set up Ottawa-Gatineau's very own Nuit Blanche-style all-night arts/culture festival. Looks like they've thought through a great many things, have admitted to others they haven't thought through yet but are making plans for that to be done in due course. Not unlike the organizational session I sat through last week with the Can-Con organizing committee. The gathering even drew CBC's official news-gathering attention, as well as people representing independent business, arts groups, museums, City Hall, the National Arts Centre...and others whose affiliations I'm memory-blanking on right now.
Will see how things go over the next few weeks and months with the Nuit Blanche Ottawa-Gatineau crew.
More on other stuff in different postings later on...
It was for a group that's looking to set up Ottawa-Gatineau's very own Nuit Blanche-style all-night arts/culture festival. Looks like they've thought through a great many things, have admitted to others they haven't thought through yet but are making plans for that to be done in due course. Not unlike the organizational session I sat through last week with the Can-Con organizing committee. The gathering even drew CBC's official news-gathering attention, as well as people representing independent business, arts groups, museums, City Hall, the National Arts Centre...and others whose affiliations I'm memory-blanking on right now.
Will see how things go over the next few weeks and months with the Nuit Blanche Ottawa-Gatineau crew.
More on other stuff in different postings later on...
On May 31st...
May. 23rd, 2009 11:02 pmI'll be at the Ottawa SF Society meeting as one of the speakers instead of part of the audience.
Theme is "science fiction and the arts". I'll revise this post with the rest of the speaker list ASAP.
Same time and place as per usual: 2 PM, Dalhousie Community Centre on Somerset and Empress.
Further details here at Facebook for anyone who's got or getting an account!
Theme is "science fiction and the arts". I'll revise this post with the rest of the speaker list ASAP.
Same time and place as per usual: 2 PM, Dalhousie Community Centre on Somerset and Empress.
Further details here at Facebook for anyone who's got or getting an account!
Arts Funding in Ottawa
Nov. 10th, 2008 07:25 pmSeeing as I have several oxen - at however many removes here - at risk of being gored here...I have to wonder what the Hell is going on?
Details at this CBC article: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/11/10/ot-cuts-081110.html
I've read reports of similar horrifying recommendations for the transit system at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
octranspo within the last week or so, and I don't doubt that the rest of the civic infrastructure may be in no small peril here...
Details at this CBC article: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/11/10/ot-cuts-081110.html
I've read reports of similar horrifying recommendations for the transit system at
octranspo within the last week or so, and I don't doubt that the rest of the civic infrastructure may be in no small peril here...
Advise that you all check this out before it goes behind the Globe and Mail paywall:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080919.wbudget20/BNStory/Entertainment/home
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080919.wbudget20/BNStory/Entertainment/home
Pipers at Freiman
Mar. 30th, 2008 12:18 pmLive music is sometimes a "peril" of travelling downtown, and the quotes are there for a reason.
This bunch was just outside the Bay in the Byward Market yesterday, and while I can't speak competently to the dancers' abilities, I thought the pipers had a solid grasp of their particular artform.
Anyone know who they are?
This bunch was just outside the Bay in the Byward Market yesterday, and while I can't speak competently to the dancers' abilities, I thought the pipers had a solid grasp of their particular artform.
Anyone know who they are?
Arts in Ottawa - Some Rambling Connections
Feb. 2nd, 2007 10:04 amOne of my friendly acquaintances in local arts, Rob McLennan, recently posted something almost - but not quite - a rant on the state of arts funding here in Ottawa(the city, not the federal institution).
As you'll note in the comments following Rob's essay, I found a lot of what he wrote made sense to some extent. Not my choice of language, but there's cause for some shared concern there.
If you check my flist here regularly, you'll have also noticed announcements from the organizers of C-ACE atcace_discuss. C-ACE is a local comics convention that has been building up steam over the last half-decade. That steam may be about to run out. Most distressing. And as far as I know, they've not done much in the way of asking for governmental help with their show. They want to be as self-reliant as they can. Admirable, if impractical in the context of Canada's history with the arts in general. But we can debate that later.
Yes, I'm thinking that the two events are to some extent linked. So's this one from Ottawa City Hall, courtesy of CBC News' Ottawa Bureau. I'm not entirely certain how to connect these particular dots, save in a thematic sense.
And today, I read a letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen from one of our more notable artists, Jennifer Dickson. She not only went after several generations of city councils, but we who've elected them as well. I'll post a link to that LOC as soon as I can find it, because I think she's kicked up the argument a notch. Whether it's a useful kick or not, I don't know.
As you'll note in the comments following Rob's essay, I found a lot of what he wrote made sense to some extent. Not my choice of language, but there's cause for some shared concern there.
If you check my flist here regularly, you'll have also noticed announcements from the organizers of C-ACE at
cace_discuss. C-ACE is a local comics convention that has been building up steam over the last half-decade. That steam may be about to run out. Most distressing. And as far as I know, they've not done much in the way of asking for governmental help with their show. They want to be as self-reliant as they can. Admirable, if impractical in the context of Canada's history with the arts in general. But we can debate that later.Yes, I'm thinking that the two events are to some extent linked. So's this one from Ottawa City Hall, courtesy of CBC News' Ottawa Bureau. I'm not entirely certain how to connect these particular dots, save in a thematic sense.
And today, I read a letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen from one of our more notable artists, Jennifer Dickson. She not only went after several generations of city councils, but we who've elected them as well. I'll post a link to that LOC as soon as I can find it, because I think she's kicked up the argument a notch. Whether it's a useful kick or not, I don't know.
Cynicism: A Too-Expensive Luxury?
Dec. 13th, 2006 11:26 amI've been working on some page-inking the last little while. I'm listening to Bruce Mau being interviewed by Shelagh Rogers on Sounds Like Canada right now. Mau is arguing that cynicism is a luxury that he cannot afford personally as a designer, and also, that as a society, we cannot afford it either. He's following up here on themes he's established in an article for The Walrus that was published within the last month.
I am inclined to believe him, and that puts me in a bit of a bind as someone who's trying to make a full-time living in the Cultural Industries. Or so it appears at the moment.
In a sense, in my work at the moment, I'm playing off of some of these pro-cynicism vibes. But, by choosing to draw comics for even a part of my living, I've committed myself to the optimistic side of the fence.
Am I wrong? And if so, in what sense?
I am inclined to believe him, and that puts me in a bit of a bind as someone who's trying to make a full-time living in the Cultural Industries. Or so it appears at the moment.
In a sense, in my work at the moment, I'm playing off of some of these pro-cynicism vibes. But, by choosing to draw comics for even a part of my living, I've committed myself to the optimistic side of the fence.
Am I wrong? And if so, in what sense?
