Another busy weekend here in Winnipeg, Manitoba. What the heck are you up to? Continue reading “Weekenders 10/04 – 10/07”
Weekenders 09/27 – 09/30
Holy Shit! Winnipeg is a-buzz with activity this weekend! Get out & have some fun, friends. It’s party time! Continue reading “Weekenders 09/27 – 09/30”
Weekenders 09/20 – 09/23
What are you doing this weekend? Check out our Weekenders guide for some hot local action. Continue reading “Weekenders 09/20 – 09/23”
Weekenders 09/13 – 09/16
Lots to see in & out of Winnipeg this weekend, folks! Check out our Weekenders suggestions.
CINEMATTERS // Momentary Vitality: Sigur Rós – Varúð
Vote for Momentary Vitality in Sigur Rós’ Valtari Mystery Film Experiment!!
By Andrew Mazurak
Joel Penner is a local photographer and videographer who has submitted his concept video to Sigur Rós’ Valtari Mystery Film Experiment; a TalentHouse.com contest that lets fans create music videos as inspired by their new album Valtari. Voting ends on September 18th so make sure you spread the word! Perhaps this will grow big enough to get all the members of Sigur Rós to finally tour here one of these years.
Stylus: Sigur Rós videos always seem to be consciously boundary defying and gorgeous works. How did you come up with the concept for your mystery submission??
Joel Penner: The ideas for my videos usually come to me pretty naturally. I’ll listen to a piece over and over as ideas pop into my mind and become clearer with each listen. After I’ve begun brainstorming I start experimenting to see if those ideas make sense visually. The music thus provides some of the core ideas in terms of its rhythm and emotionality, aspects which I then try to transpose with my expansive palette of floral textures, colours and dying contortions that have been captured across hundreds of flowers. I didn’t do it for this video, but I also like focusing on making sequences that represent larger ideas that govern the lives of the flowers themselves. For instance in my video to Nosaj Thing’s “Fog”, I make sequences based off of Fibonacci spirals, as the Fibonacci sequence determines phenomena like the arrangement of seeds on a sunflower head and the placement of leaves on some plant stalks amongst other phenomena.
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Weekenders 09/06 – 09/09
Back to School Weekend kicks off with a blast. Check out what you just might be missing if you don’t get on this train now! Continue reading “Weekenders 09/06 – 09/09”
Weekenders – 08/30 – 09/02
Powder Blue (photo by Shuyler Jansen)
Lots of heavy and heady stuff going down this Weekend, friends! Don’t miss out. Continue reading “Weekenders – 08/30 – 09/02”
War on Music :: Rising from the ashes
by Shanell Dupras
On April 19, 2012, all that could be seen above 42 Albert Street was a plume of smoke and fire. A fenced in hole in the ground was all that War on Music customers found the following day. It is assumed to be an electrical fire. The building was torn down within 24 hours. Continue reading “War on Music :: Rising from the ashes”
Kontroller – Prototype 2
by Kabir Kaler
Welcome to Prototype 2, the sequel to the game that was once held as the ultimate badass game. Let’s see how this stacks up to it.
In this game, you are James Heller, an ex-military man who finished his tour to find his wife and daughter dead due to an outbreak of what they are calling the “Mercer virus.” Distraught and outright pissed off, you re-enlist to find and kill the man who is responsible: Alex Mercer. During a routine pickup and protect detail your convoy gets attacked leaving everybody but you dead. You call in the attack on your radio when you see Alex Mercer. You are ordered to stay but you ignore it and slit Mercer’s throat instead. Which does nothing. Continue reading “Kontroller – Prototype 2”
Weekenders 08/17 – 08/19
Festival season keeps rolling. The Empty Standards play both Rainbow Trout and Harvest Sun fests this weekend. Continue reading “Weekenders 08/17 – 08/19”