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There is a moment in spring where, if you don’t miss it, you travel in time Yesterday I was 8 years old, on an Island in the Atlantic Ocean, and I was laying on the shore of a lake that had once consumed an entire cemetery. Yesterday I was 19 years old, in a cottage …
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Watching someone slog through blinding snow on a bicycle during heavy traffic is a lesson in anxiety. Realizing that the location is your hometown is a lesson in humility. Written as a ‘love letter to winter’, Snow Warrior is a veritable moment in time for Edmonton bicycle courier Mariah Hoy as she scales the social, …
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With my background in wilderness guiding, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about outdoorsy stuff. Where to camp, good trails, with rivers to paddle.
I just wanted to go camping, be outside, had the itch, all that. I only have so much free time when the stars can align. So I went wall-tenting this weekend and Elk Island Park is a beautiful neighbour to visit. Wall-tents are super warm and time tested. All you have to do is cut …
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Hello everyone. As some of you know, I’ve started doing some mixed media collages. Both personalized and my own. (Note from my wife "They are really beautiful. Like, really really beautiful”.) I’ve been asked by several people when I’m going to sell some of the work I’ve created. So, I’ve decided to take commissions, either …
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*Metro Shorts was a quarterly film competition hosted and curated by Mostly Water Theatre and produced by The Metro Cinema Society located in the historic Garneau Theatre. It gave Edmonton filmmakers the chance to get their work screened live, adjudicated by professionals, get paid, win prizes, and be forced to make more shorts. It ran for 10 seasons, screened …
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Metro Shorts had many, “where the hell are they going with this” moments, and Oliver Lessard delivered one of my favourites. Here it is:
Metro Shorts was a quarterly film competition hosted and curated by Mostly Water Theatre and produced by The Metro Cinema Society located in the historic Garneau Theatre. It gave Edmonton filmmakers the chance to get their work screened live, adjudicated by professionals, get paid, win prizes, and be forced to make more shorts. It ran for 10 seasons, screened over 400 shorts, and ended in 2019. These stories are a celebration of some of the filmmakers that crossed our paths.
I've been many things in my life. Hooker (rugby). Fake dentist. Town crier. Punching bag. Pack mule. Salesman. Liar. I'm using this time to transmogrify beyond all that into just what I am. And to quote Popeye, "I am what I am." I'm going to spend more time making things and less time talking about …
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