…the most prolific documentarists are no longer to be found in film schools and TV stations. In some European and American cities, every street corner is under constant surveillance using recording closed-circuit TV (CCTV) cameras. Such cameras are typically operated by local government, police, private security firms, large corporations and small businesses, and private individuals, and may be automatic or controlled (zoomed and panned) from a remote control room. Filmmakers, and in particular documentarists of all flavours, should reflect on this constant gaze. Why bring in additional cameras, when much private and public urban space is already covered from numerous angles?
May 13, 2008
The documented activity of the protagonist
May 10, 2008
So You’ve Decided to Survive the Apocalypse
Containing practical advice, oil paintings, cartoons depicting primitive percussion-drilled wells, and - my favourite - a chapter on “Scoundrels, and Defense therefrom,” A Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse blends survivalism and whimsy to delightful (and informative) effect.
Download the imposed version for printing and folding, or the web version (both PDFs).
May 3, 2008
Mic. Check - Spoken Word Anthology
I was asked to contribute two pieces to Mic Check, the first published anthology of Candian Spoken Word. It’s out now, printed by Quattro Press. I’m honoured to join spoken poets from the one coast over there to that other one yonder, including (among many others) Barbara Adler (also of Fugitives fame), R.C. Weslowski, Ritallin, and the Dot’s own (and my former national slam team-mates) Leviathan and Amanda Hiebert.
The publishers themselves don’t seem to be selling books online, but you can easily order it elsewhere, so go and Mic Check it out.
May 1, 2008
Cut the nose, strike the face?
Why TTC’s right to strike is in our interest
To riders, the TTC is a point of rare intimacy between us and city. But it’s also the TTC ferrying us to jobs we hate, handing down the costs of neoliberal underfunding, peppering us with ads that belittle us, and averaging our urgencies out to a schedule and rhythm no one likes but everyone has to follow. On the other side of that intimacy is a profound alienation.
So You’ve Decided to Survive the Apocalypse
Containing practical advice, oil paintings, cartoons depicting primitive percussion-drilled wells, and - my favourite - a chapter on “Scoundrels, and Defense therefrom,” A Steampunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse blends survivalism and whimsy to delightful (and informative) effect.
Download the imposed version for printing and folding, or the web version (both PDFs).
May 3, 2008
Mic. Check - Spoken Word Anthology
I was asked to contribute two pieces to Mic Check, the first published anthology of Candian Spoken Word. It’s out now, printed by Quattro Press. I’m honoured to join spoken poets from the one coast over there to that other one yonder, including (among many others) Barbara Adler (also of Fugitives fame), R.C. Weslowski, Ritallin, and the Dot’s own (and my former national slam team-mates) Leviathan and Amanda Hiebert.
The publishers themselves don’t seem to be selling books online, but you can easily order it elsewhere, so go and Mic Check it out.
May 1, 2008
Cut the nose, strike the face?
Why TTC’s right to strike is in our interest
To riders, the TTC is a point of rare intimacy between us and city. But it’s also the TTC ferrying us to jobs we hate, handing down the costs of neoliberal underfunding, peppering us with ads that belittle us, and averaging our urgencies out to a schedule and rhythm no one likes but everyone has to follow. On the other side of that intimacy is a profound alienation.
I was asked to contribute two pieces to Mic Check, the first published anthology of Candian Spoken Word. It’s out now, printed by Quattro Press. I’m honoured to join spoken poets from the one coast over there to that other one yonder, including (among many others) Barbara Adler (also of Fugitives fame), R.C. Weslowski, Ritallin, and the Dot’s own (and my former national slam team-mates) Leviathan and Amanda Hiebert.
The publishers themselves don’t seem to be selling books online, but you can easily order it elsewhere, so go and Mic Check it out.
Cut the nose, strike the face?
Why TTC’s right to strike is in our interest
To riders, the TTC is a point of rare intimacy between us and city. But it’s also the TTC ferrying us to jobs we hate, handing down the costs of neoliberal underfunding, peppering us with ads that belittle us, and averaging our urgencies out to a schedule and rhythm no one likes but everyone has to follow. On the other side of that intimacy is a profound alienation.