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Award Winning

It’s official. Holly Dazed won first prize in AFCOOP’s Super 8 Holiday Party and Screening at the Seahorse tonight! More importantly, it was magically in focus. There was tough competition from filmmakers Megan Wennberg (”Tis The Season”), Cam Erais (”A Shitty Christmas”), Jamieson (”Agoraphobia”), Joel MacGregor (”Fortune Cookie”), Steven James May (”Memoria”), Josh Edmonds (”How [...]

It’s a Wrap!

Production wrapped on the no-budget, 3 minute short Super 8 film Holly Dazed. As co-producer, camera-person, light supplier and part of the creative team, I would like to thank the rest of the cast (Sam, Scott, Amanda and Markus) and crew (Lynn, Steve and Glen’s mom’s sweater) for all their hard work and dedication on [...]

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #156 (Nov 1, 2005)
Immoral theatrical performances, tomato fights and churches for sale.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Quote

“The odds of hitting the Lotto 6/49 jackpot by plunking down a toonie and picking all six numbers are one in 13.98 million.
To put that in perspective, math gurus say those odds are roughly equal to your chance of dying within 15 minutes of buying your lottery ticket - or flipping a coin and getting [...]

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #155 (Oct 24, 2005)
Enormous eggbeater, family feuds and the drinking olympics.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Tech

Why Do-It-Yourself Photo Printing Doesn’t Add Up | NY Times

TV

60 Minute’s Andy Rooney and Robert Smigel’s TV Fun House.

Religion

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Blog

A weeklong journal from a writer and director. By Judd Apatow

TV

Awesome Town

Music

From Fat Possum Records:
R. L. Burnside
November 21, 1926 - September 1, 2005
We at Fat Possum are sad to announce that R.L. Burnside died today at his hospital room in Memphis.
Blues artist R.L. Burnside, who redefined the blues genre by incorporating indie rock acts and hip-hop production, died September 1, 2005, at St. Francis Hospital in [...]

DVD

Directors Label Volumes 4-7 f/ Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer, Mark Romanek & Stephane Sednaoui released on September 13th

Music

Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en? from the North American Hallowe’en Prevention, Inc. (NAHPI) (courtesy of The A.V. Club)

Event

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #154 (Aug 15, 2005)
The “Racino” opens in Charlottetown, students build a house using phonebooks and the Canso Causeway turns 50.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #153 (Aug 8, 2005)
Beer Bandit on stage, a horse named Drop Off dies and breaking accordion records.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Film

“After the film debuted on January 24, 2005 at Sundance it was picked up by Warner Independent Pictures for distribution. The Warner Independent website had shown that the limited Fall release (I didn’t say ‘full release’) was scheduled for October 21st-with a wider release planned for the following weeks-but their Strangers With Candy page has [...]

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #152 (August 2, 2005)
Emergency bikes, voting my mail and Chapel Island goes national.

By: Iain K. MacLeod

Fake News

“In terms of who I channel, my natural inclination was Stone Phillips, who has the greatest neck in journalism…and then I also used Geraldo Rivera, because he’s got this great sense of mission. He just thinks he’s gonna change the world with this report. He’s got that early-’70s hip trench coat “busting this thing wide [...]

Photo

“I’m so pleased to be coming to Halifax. I should be in Bermuda. But who cares? I’m home,” said Nancy Shakleton (CBC Nova Scotia)

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #151 (July 25, 2005)
Playing chicken with chickens, knifed in church and lending a harp.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #150 (July 18, 2005)
Salmon cams, backyard wrestling and the gay market.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Quote

“If you are a lonely sort, as internet folks occasionally are, you will be relieved to know that, as always, there is someone on the internet a hundred times worse off than you are.” - Drew on the Insane Clown Posse Personal Ad Site (Klepto Pepto | .net)

Quote

“Some choice is better than none, but more choices don’t make things better,” - Carl Honoré (Time to switch off and slow down | BBC News)

Books

GTD: A New Cult for the Info Age | Wired
A Guide To Getting Things Done | Wired
The Sources: David, Merlin and Marc.