Box is a multimedia boxing performance by Paul Litherland, a Montreal based experimental artist. Using gloves hooked into wireless gameboy controllers, two boxers control videos via programs written by Patrice Coulombe.
Photo of the day is just something we’re trying out- a collection of interesting and inspiring photos from here and there. Click here for [...]
In a well publicized move indie gamer Cliff Harris of Positech asked pirates why they’d steal a game over buying it, and the DRM (digital rights management) answer came through loud and clear. Why buy a game and then struggle with the disabling “protections” when you can get something freer?
In many cases DRM ensures that [...]
Fixture Records is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Omon Ra’s new album, The Halls of Medicine.
Pre-order your copy on Indyish or on the Fixture Records website.
We invite you to join us for the Montreal launch of The Halls of Medicine Thursday, August 7th at Le Divan Orange (4234 Saint-Laurent).
$7 cover includes an advance [...]
Here’s the last episode of the interview series Hot Potato @ Spring Puces Pop 2008. We started by passing Walter Scott a pierogie and asking him the following questions:
1) Who are you? What do you do?
2) What are the best and worst things about this event?
3) What is the biggest challenge to being an [...]
Let’s continue along in our interview series Hot Potato @ Spring Puces Pop.
Or first, catch Episode One and Two.
Luckily, our host, Marilis Cardinal is bilingual so we were able to interview in English and in French depending on each vendor’s preference. Here are the next four interviews, which were done en francais. We last [...]
When we last left Spring Puces Pop, we were interviewing Marc Simard of Broundoor for the Hot Potato series.
In Episode Two, we’ve got 5 more folks answering the four big questions:
1) Who are you? What do you do?
2) What are the best and worst things about this event?
3) What is the biggest challenge [...]
We’re getting excited for the Pomme Pomme Craft and Zine Fair this weekend. In that spirit, I finally had a chance to upload the interviews we did at Puces Pop last month. Here goes the first installment of Hot Potato!
Hot Potato is an interview game where we ask artists 3 quick questions then get them [...]
Looking for some new music? Pop Montreal has a game up on their website right now called Pop Thumbs that lets you listen to a bunch of songs by different indie bands. You can click “Pop” or “Poop” for each song depending on what you think of it. Listen to all of them, or just [...]
Well, I started a post about 2 different examples of “open source storytelling.” But this isn’t it. My post ran away with me and turned into a relatively nerdy diatribe on the subject of open source licenses applied to storytelling, and a critique of the Million Penguins project. I decided to post it on OpenJournalMontreal [...]
I am a sucker for a good word game. Though I’ve never really liked Scrabble, I did enjoy studying for the vocabulary part of the GRE’s. Now that I’ve admitted this and will be forever hip and popular, let me use my new found social capital to point you all at a word game that [...]