Archive for the 'Meaningful Diversion' Category



Four years today…

Published on November 20, 2008

Dear Dad,
As this day was approaching, I thought a lot about what I would post here…it wasn’t really a case of whether to post or not; just what it would be about … not something morbid, just something fitting, respectful and with love.
I remember you telling me about the early days of Channel 47 when [...]


Just because: Ashes and Snow

Published on November 15, 2008

The journey of Toronto-born Gregory Colbert’s epic exhibition Ashes and Snow® began in 2002 with its installation at a 125,000 square-foot shipyard in Venice. Since that time, it has been in New York, Santa Monica, Tokyo and Mexico City. Featuring 50 large-scale photographic artworks, a 60-minute feature film and two short film [...]


Move them

Published on November 5, 2008

Mitch Joel on Twitter has been posting tweets of his reaction to President-Elect Obama’s acceptance speech, including:
Power of a great speech (or Blog or Podcast or Tweet): make it about “them” and not about “you”. Lesson: move them.)
I think the President-Elect’s speech is worth documenting … you can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/5aw63b
Mitch is [...]


Capturing Wisdom

Published on November 2, 2008

As the story goes, Filmmaker/Photographer Andrew Zukerman was inspired by the African concept of ubuntu – essentially, the philosophy of human connectedness — “I am what I am because of who we all are.” Released last month, The Wisdom Project is Zukerman’s latest book/accompanying documentary where we get to hear and share in the collective [...]


Got a minute?

Published on September 22, 2008

Imagine having just 1 minute to tell a compelling story – complete with character development, editing, sound design, setting dialogue – one that resonates beyond just 60 seconds. The international one-minute film continues to the end of this month. For this year’s Filminute® edition, festival programmers initially screened over 1,500 films and animations [...]