Naked in the Exchange

The Naked in the House concept has been brought to Winnipeg!
Here's how it works:

6 different shooters
1 camera each
1 roll of 120 film each
1 hour each
1 undisclosed location
1 nude model

a competition between the 6 of us.

Make art, be judged by your peers, winner takes the trophy.

I just finished my hour shoot. I can not believe how stressful that
was! They had a documentary crew of several people following me around
while I himed and hawed. I think having a jib arm come into my face was
more stressful than anything else!

I shoot 6X7cm format on 120. That gives me only 10 frames rather the
standard 6X6 which gives you 12 frames or 6X4.5 which gives you 15! Ten
frames, that's it!....

Oct 23 is the evening where the winner is revealed , voted by the
photographers and then the pieces are auctioned off. Proceeds go to
some sort of cancer care clinic(sorry I am not to clear on this, I am
not organizing this one at all)

If anyone is interested in tickets to the "gala event" let me know ASAP
as I understand they are going fast!
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ian mccausland photography
talk@ian.mb.ca
http://www.ian.mb.ca
1693 Dublin Ave
Wpg Man
R3H 0H2
ph 783-4275
fx 632-5210

Miles Davis: Live at the Fillmore East - PopMatters Music Review

Just another review, pretty much any review you look up on this set raves about it.

MILES DAVIS : LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST (MARCH 7, 1970): IT'S ABOUT THAT TIME

pciked this up awhile ago on a clearance, at maybe Chapters?... anyways I knew the raves for this set, so I snagged it. You have to open to it, fer sure. It's incredibley deep but very alive, a much nasty version than the studio recordings on Bitches Brew. This jazz phase I am going through is still chugging along.

SportsShooter.com Athens 2004: A Photographer's Blog. Part 2

A behind the scenes look at shooting the games. Interesting stuff.

John Coltrane - Impulse! Records

I am back into my Coltrane phase. This shit is deep as music goes and I guess it's pretty deep as Jazz goes.I have the complete recording of the classic Quartet, a 7 dsic set. But I am more intrqued by the later stage of his career where he really goes out there. When you play this stuff really loud in t he car, well it's as powerful as any rock,punk,dance, in terms of intensity

HIPTINGLE : Articles : Gettin' Swivey With It: The Legend of Son of Bazerk

(I threw this one in the player tonight, crazy shit crazy...)

HIPTINGLE : Articles : Gettin' Swivey With It: The Legend of Son of Bazerk: "he year was 1991. I remember it well. It was a good year for music, especially rap. If you liked it chaotic, the Bomb Squad had you covered. They were running things in the studio. Our parents thought (and still think) that rap was nothing but noise, so Hank and Keith Shocklee figured they’d give the older generation what they expected – totally uncompromising audio Armageddon. Their cut-and-paste approach was unparalleled, doing more with two-second snippets than anyone else in the business. Evidence of such is readily available on classic albums like Public Enemy’s *It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back* or Ice Cube’s *Amerikka’s Most Wanted*.

As great as these albums are, nothing compares to the sonic overkill of *Bazerk, Bazerk, Bazerk*, an album featuring Son of Bazerk, No Self Control and The Band. To this day, it remains largely unknown and equally as odd. The album cover alone would deceive most music fans. Baserk’s on the front dressed up like Sam Cooke or one of the Temptations. In fact, the whole crew’s dolled up to look like a doo-wop group. But woe be to them who puts the needle on the record expecting to hear the Delfonics. FAR FROM IT.
"

Nice collection

http://www.kennedyportfolio.com/index.htm

I have no idea why these were taken,but they are some really nice
portraits. It would be nice to have the time to go and create a body of
work like this, instead of shooting bags of socks! :-)

Olympic Photo galleries

Don't if everyone else is following the games as close, but check out these photo galleries on the CBC website. Great shots and easy to view.

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/interactives/photo_galleries/#

Dusty Groove

http://www.dustygroove.com/index.htm

a whole site full of obscure groove stuff, new and old. There is just
SO MUCH music we haven't heard!

Zach's Blog

Hey lookey here the guy from Garden State has his own blog. He is on
the set of Scrubs filing from his crackberry.
http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/gardenstate/blog/index.html

Spartan

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2004/03/031206.html

Watched Spartan tonight. It was rather good. Not your Mission
Impossible/ Bourne Idenity type of thriller, but how you'd really
imagine things are in Special Ops. The lean dialogue feels accurate and
everyone is trained to play things rather close, and say just what they
need but perhaps never what they mean. Val Kilmer was cast perfectly in
this one.

It's now Tuesday

My feet are killing me. This venue, the Shearton across from city hall, is spread over 4 floors. Up, down, up, down....
Ugh

The Centre of the Universe

I am currently in Toronto the centre of the Cdn Universe photographing the Cdn Medical Association's AGM. Sounds very glam but isn't, I spend virtually all day running around the hotel, shooting the goings on at the various meetings, and sessions.

My arrival into Toronto starts with my walking incessantly to service my addition to the holy trinity of retail in my life: Music, books and photography. After visiting Henry's just off Yonge on Queen east I start my walk to Vistek. Vistek is one of the biggest photo suppliers in the country and is about 12 block from Yonge. It's a long walk through some rather interesting neighbourhoods. Some people sleeping on grates, and crack whores. Have you ever walked near a crack whore? they wear shorts, skimpy tops and those simple white canvas shoes you can buy for about $3. They make really crazy and wild gestures, from a distance you think they are imitating Elaine's dance from Seinfield.

After my meeting, I walked around Queen West. I ended up having coffee at a Second Cup across the street from Much Music. while people watching, next to me a Ukrainian couple and a Mexican fellow practice their English, while comparing notes from their ESL class. People watching in TO is to imagine what the term "world class city" means. Imagine any demographic, chances are I saw them today on the streets of TO, shopping in and around the old Eaton's centre. I mean, ANY kind of person in the world was probably there. Other big cites, you get a lot of white people with a smattering of some others, but TO shows Wpg was the term multicultural really means. WHo do they do it? Volume volume volume!! There are TONS of people here.

The only problem being here by yourself, the big city can give you the lonely isolation feeling pretty quick. So when deciding what movie to seem, I pick Garden State. Some great moments, but it tried to hard in places. BUT, the hi-light for me was the return of Natalie Portman to quirkily BABE status. She is so cute in this flick.

Then I came out to the street on Richmond, which I guess was the heart of the cheezy bar district. The streets teemed with 100's of people all dolled up, bumper to bumper souped up cars, horse riding cops doing crowd control, it only added to my lonely isolation in the big city. Oh well tomorrow we're working

retroCRUSH: the world's finest website

Scary album covers, funny stuff. I really dig this guys site. Full of stuff from my era.

iPod vs. The Cassette

Guess who wins. And highly appropriate. But have you seen touch and helf a mini iPod?... they are VERY sweet.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Last night I caught a replay of Charlie Rose's interview with him in 2000? Rose, in his pandering way wanted him to fess up some of that typical artistic drivel, but he wouldn't take the bait.

"..this is what I do,..." and shrug was the best he got. Got to admire that, steadfast in his convictions right to the end! The closest we got to the inner workings was his admission that he was ethically an anarchist. Rose wanted him to define and explain that term for his dumbed-down US audience, (the term now seeming to be interchangeable with terrorist) Again a shrug and smirk. You truly sensed the man was at his happiest when he was taking photos, and it came intuitively to him.

The last clip was a behind the scene, post-interview out-take where someone brought the two men glasses of red wine. Rose sipped his and continue to pander to his subject while Cartier Bresson slugged his all back and then mock photographed Rose through the bottom of his empty glass. It summed up his joie de vive and passion for photography in one spontaneous moment!

No Webfeed? No Excuse for These Sites!: Contentious Weblog

Seems there is a demand for RSS. This person is organizing a list shaming big companies into producing feeds. If you haven't played with RSS yet, you don't know what you're missing! The next BIG Thing in terms of news dissemination online.

The Golden Globe Scam

I am watching a doc on the real story behind the golden globes... seems
it's just one big scam that someone dreamed up years ago and it's grown
to the leading pre-Oscars event....

BUT!!

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc. has only 96 members and only 1/3 of
them are active journalists! Can you believe it!? back in the 70's it
was only 42 members, mostly old ladies, mostly from Belgium. you don
' have to be a foreigner, nor be a writer but you DO have to live in
Southern California.

Not one of the 96 members would talk to the docu-maker, not even the
publicist would talk to him. He was turned away at the door of the
offices.
Some of the producers interviewed talked about back in the day,deals
being made, you get yer star to the show, and we'll give an award to
yer picture, and some of that still goes on...

Orbital ends it

One of my fave techno acts, Orbital, has called it quits. After 15 years, the two brothers Hartnol say it's time to call it a day. Snivilization and In Sides are the two best recordings they did, and to be honest the last couple releases don't stand up, but I can't help but feel sad for the end.