In other sweet news, we’ve managed to snag Maxime Giroux from NuFilms to come help judge the final videos. NuFilms is by far the largest music video production house working in Montreal. They are home to some of the best directors working in Canada right now and Maxime is pretty much at the top [...]
One week after the launch weekend we found ourselves gathered inside the Acting Studio of Montreal, watching all the submissions to the 24 Hour Music Video Making Competition, sipping beer and nibbling packaged peanuts.
Many of the filmmakers were around and I took the chance to interview them about the how and why of this [...]
Puces Pop definition from Haiiku Iris, head Puces Popper:
Celebrating the vibrancy of local cultural communities and encouraging indie entrepreneurs to network while inviting people to investigate some of the best independent cultural entrepreneurs.
This year, PUCES POP will be hosting a fashion show, artist-run workshops (including one by the Indyish!!), a poster show presented by [...]
another what’s-been-going-down type post, but stay tuned for some more useful ones coming soon on the subject of open source, code politics, and software for arts and artists.
We traipsed down to Stanley and St.Catherine’s last night- to the dark heart of malls, strip clubs, movie theatres, and tourist swarms known as downtown- and crept [...]
Tonight we’re heading down to the Actor’s Studio of Montreal (check out this post for address and directions) and we’re going to cheer on every single video maker who put visuals to songs last weekend. Because they’re our heros.
If you’d like a preview of the goodness to be witnessed there, check out this stunning [...]
Updated- note: the screening party is on the 12th! at 8:30!
Hey, it’s official: The Acting Studio of Montreal - the city’s premier professional performance training zone- will be hosting an Indyish wrap and screening party on Sat night, aug 12th, at 8:30pm {note! updated! 8:30, not 8!!}. The address- 1216 Stanley, #300.
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Believe it or not, our plan to get folks to make a music video in 24hrs and to have the bands that wrote the songs used for the video do the judging in a short three hour period between when those video got made and when the videos were to be screened at the show [...]
It’s just about 9am, agust 6th, and we’re getting stuff together here to start running around in advance of our 2nd day of Indyishing it up over at the Main Hall (5390 st laurent).
The Insta Boutique will be on again today for 12-4, and we’ll be welcoming back the tired and heroic artists who’ve [...]
Rules for the Indyish 24hr Music Video Making Contest.
‑You have received a song by either Shoot the Moon, Sara Johnston or Telefauna. This is the song you must use for your music video.
‑You have 24 hours to shoot, edit, and burn to DVD. (if you can’t accomplish this last bit, bring your video in anyway [...]
for a whole chunk of people, tonight is going to be tough. they opened their cvp kits and saw large men’s underwear, (clean and new, but still challening to work with) and 5 feet of wire, and hair elastics, and embroidery thread and more. Or they got their song and found out it was a [...]