Adobe Systems is about to begin a difficult — but smart — transition.
The full interactive Digital Drum website is finally here! Join DigitalDrum.ca now! We want to hear your stores.
Carved Book Land Scapes
Now here’s a good read… er ah, a good look?
Some Hard Core Speed Painting!
I would sure love some information on this guy. Wonder if anyone would know what the deal is with this painting?
Call for Submissions - Aboriginal Music Week 2012
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 (in office – not post marked)
Aboriginal Music Manitoba will be producing the fourth annual Aboriginal Music Week in Winnipeg from October 30 - November 4, 2012 and the organization is currently accepting applications from Aboriginal and Native American recording artists for performance spots.
The 2012 festival schedule will include five nights of concerts in downtown Winnipeg. Artists will receive performance fees but travel funds are limited.
To be considered for a performance spot, you must:
• Have a current or upcoming professional release (EP / full-length)
• Have at least two professional print resolution photographs
• Have a professional website
• Have a music video on YouTube or a quality video of yourself performing on YouTube
Please submit the following in person or by mail:
• One-page biography in Microsoft Word format (.doc) on CD
• Two print resolution digital photos on CD
• A performance history with dates, venues, city/community and venue capacity for the last 12 months in Microsoft Word format (.doc) on CD
• One copy of your current professional release on CD
• Your website address
• Links to your video(s) on YouTube
• Your contact information (full name, mailing address, phone number, email, website)
Please send submissions to:
Aboriginal Music Manitoba Inc.
C/O AMW2012 Programming Committee
1-376 Donald Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
R3B 2J2
Please feel free to contact alan@ammb.ca for more information about our Call for Submissions.
Please visit www.aboriginalmusicweek.ca for more information about the festival.
Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Any and all material submitted will not be returned.
Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature!
http://www.ted.com Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make us more careful about what we use and what we waste? Think of Pavan Sukhdev as nature’s banker — assessing the value of the Earth’s assets. Eye-opening charts will make you think differently about the cost of air, water, trees …
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate
The MONSTER ENGINE
The Monster Engine is a book, a demonstration, lecture and a gallery exhibition. The premise for all three came from one single question: What would a child’s drawing look like if it were painted realistically?
An awesome Rube Goldberg Machine. Check it out. It took 6 months to build this, but it was well worth the wait. See how they take a picture.
This is the week that was the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
A brief look at some of what takes place at imagineNATIVE.
It was an amazing festival this year in this new facility and every day had amazing screenings, media, and events.
Wapos Bay: Long Goodbyes is a great film! Based on the longtime series on APTN, the movie filled audiences with delight and did not dissapoint. The World Premiere was broadcast across the globe with isuma.tv and had further strengthened the popularity of the family stop-motion animation series.
To watch the movie, tune in to APTN December 3rd 2011 for the Network Television Premiere.
Radio personality Bob Phillips of AVR Arts Review giving a shout out to Digital Drum after he interviewed Digital Drum’s Brett Huson.
