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Watch: "Under the Lake: Next Time Trailer - Doctor Who: Series 9 Episode 3"
"“It’s terrific,” Mr. Keate said, reiterating that property values will go up, not down, in a heritage conservation area, a point made in a city consultant’s report."
A luxury neighbourhood of grand old homes and lush greenery is being designated as Vancouver’s first-ever heritage conservation area in an effort to halt a tide of demolitions and assuage fears that the city is being wrecked by a brash new group of home buyers who do not care about its history.
Vancouver designates First Shaughnessy a heritage area
Let me get this straight; a weathly, historically white neighbourhood, with little historical value is being saved, but Chinatown, an area of rich cultural and historical significance for the Country, not just the city, is being torn down down and rebuilt.
That pretty much sums up Vancouver for you.
Watch: "Cutting the Edge: Freedom in Framing"
A few thoughts;
While the author acknowledges that mixing aspect ratio’s predates digital, they under play how old of an idea it is. Cinematographer Robert Richardson was experimenting with this in the early 90’s. Long before even digital editing was the norm.
How many films today mix aspect ratios as a reality of having limited access to the IMAX format? IMAX is very expensive. Most American films that shoot IMAX only do so for select scenes.
"CEO Hubert Lacroix says the CBC has healthy ratings, but is crippled by a broken funding model."
"For 80 years, the government has funded the CBC. It has given it a set mandate that the CBC has to comply," she said. "For Mr. Harper to suddenly say the problems are not a result of his funding cuts boggles the mind.
"The CBC is in a funding crisis. It has all these programming responsibilities and it just can't keep doing them with the funding at the level that it's at."
CBC boss disputes Harper comment about broadcaster's low ratings
"Top 10: Errol Morris"
Errol Morris, the reverred documentary filmmaker, has revealed his top 10 programme for this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Nov 18-29).
Each year, the festival invites an important figure in the world of documentary to compile a list of ten important works of factual film, all of which will be screened as part of the programme.
Top 10: Errol Morris
Here’s Errol Morris’ list;
• Bright Leaves (USA, 2002) dir. Ross McElwee
• Fata Morgana (Germany, 1971) dir. Werner Herzog
• It Felt Like a Kiss (UK, 2009) dir. Adam Curtis
• Land Without Bread (Spain, 1932) dir. Luis Buñuel
• Let There Be Light (USA, 1946) dir. John Huston
• Man With A Movie Camera (USSR, 1929) dir. Dziga Vertov
• One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (France, 1999) dir. Chris Marker
• Tales of the Grim Sleeper (USA/UK, 2014) by Nick Broomfield
• The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Japan, 1987) dir. Kazuo Hara
• Welfare (USA, 1975) dir. Frederick Wiseman
They are also screening a retrospective of his work, including one of my all time favourite films, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control.
An animal trainer, a gardener specialised in converting yew hedges into animal figures, an expert in the field of mole rats and a robot technician are the protagonists of Errol Morris’ playful philosophical exercise about the relationship between man and animal, culture and nature.
Watch: "Noël Carroll on the paradox of horror"
There are entire industries dedicated to delivering frights, thrills and gross-outs. So why do audiences line up and pay up in droves to experience horror and disgust – two emotions almost universally thought of as negative? In this Aeon Interview, Noël Carroll, distinguished professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), dissects why horror fiction gets its hooks so deeply into audiences despite putting them in states of discomfort.
Noël Carroll on the paradox of horror
"Foreign investors would be able to challenge -- and TPP arbitrators could then review -- a decision by a government, a legislature, or a court. The usual principles of Canadian law requiring such disputes to be decided in a Canadian court do not apply."
On the other hand, a foreign company could not itself be sued and ordered to pay Canada under the TPP. The trade and investment treaties are structured one way. They give exceptionally powerful rights to foreign investors without any actionable responsibilities.
This imbalance is a political choice.
Any treaty can be written to put enforceable responsibilities on foreign investors; for example, to avoid corrupt activities or respect workers' rights. But the governments driving the treaties -- in Washington and Brussels but also Ottawa -- have not done so.
Ten ways TPP gives too much power to foreign investors
"A Liberal government would invest $380 million in new money into the country's cultural and creative industries"
During a campaign stop in downtown Montreal, Trudeau told supporters and members of the Quebec arts community that culture and creative industries generate jobs and help to strengthen the economy.
Justin Trudeau promises increased funding for the arts, CBC/Radio-Canada
"the current model, contemptuous of the reader and disrespecting of the art will not long last."
"If you believe that you’re somehow morally entitled to an ever-increasing industry pie, reality is going to be a merciless teacher."
"Everyone is getting paid except the people whose work moves product. It just feels wrong."
This sort of marketing just feels gross to me. I understand that people love brands and love sharing photos to show off their latest looks. Where it starts to feel weird is when companies capitalize on that without compensating the people who are helping sell their wares.
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"It’s not at all clear how to help people navigate a world where the seemingly trivial act of accepting a friend request can have life-altering financial implications."
"There are all sorts of obvious, extreme harms that come from being a nation at permanent war."
But perhaps the worst of all harms is how endless war degrades the culture and populace of the country that perpetrates it. You can’t have a government that has spent decades waging various forms of war against predominantly Muslim countries — bombing seven of them in the last six years alone — and then act surprised when a Muslim 14-year-old triggers vindictive fear and persecution because he makes a clock for school. That’s no more surprising than watching carrots sprout after you plant carrot seeds in fertile ground and then carefully water them. It’s natural and inevitable, not surprising or at all difficult to understand.
Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock: the Fruits of Sustained Fearmongering and Anti-Muslim Animus
Watch: "Everything is a Remix Remastered"
Kirby Ferguson;
In the five years since the series launched, Everything is a Remix has been viewed over two million times and produced a popular TED Talk. Amazingly, Remix continues to change the way people think about creativity, originality, and copyright.
"One thing is clear: public scarcity in times of unprecedented private wealth is a manufactured crisis, designed to extinguish our dreams before they have a chance to be born."
We declare that “austerity” – which has systematically attacked low-carbon sectors like education and healthcare, while starving public transit and forcing reckless energy privatizations – is a fossilized form of thinking that has become a threat to life on earth.
The money we need to pay for this great transformation is available — we just need the right policies to release it. Like an end to fossil fuel subsidies. Financial transaction taxes. Increased resource royalties. Higher income taxes on corporations and wealthy people. A progressive carbon tax. Cuts to military spending. All of these are based on a simple “polluter pays” principle and hold enormous promise.
the leap manifesto
"What, no youtube?"
Rankings calculated by total takedowns by Google, based on requests by content owners and/or their agents. Infringing sites and urls published by Google as part of its Transparency Report, which lists all takedown requests (and compliance to those requests), as well as the requesting companies and organizations.
Noticeably missing from the list; Youtube.
"The writing was done 6,000 miles apart, which I think was to its benefit"
"In a way it's the opposite of what musicians do when they tend to write with other musicians, which is get everyone in a room together and 'jaaaaaaammmmmm.' That's the enemy of all creativity as far as I'm concerned, cause when you 'jaaaaaaammmmmm' you tend to pick a chord or pick three chords and all stay on the same bloody thing again and again and again until you're not just sick of music, you're sick of living.“
FFS: Inside the Franz Ferdinand / Sparks Collaboration by Tom Avis for exclaim.
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