3rd Toronto Photography Marathon

12 themes
12 shots
24 hours

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D'OH !!!

The long-awaited movie version of The Simpsons is scheduled to hit cinemas in summer 2007!!!

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YVR06 : Canada on Rails

Where: BCIT Downtown Campus, Vancouver, BC Canada
When: April 13th & 14th 2006

Canada on Rails will host 15 speakers from around the world in Vancouver, Canada to speak on everything to do with the hugely succesful Ruby on Rails framework.

YVR06 is the first every Ruby on Rails conference in the world, showcasing keynote speakers as - David Hanssson, creator of Ruby on Rails; Thomas Fuchs, creator of script.aculo.us; Dave Astels, author of Jolt Award winning "Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide"; David Black, Ph.D., future author of "Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers"; Joe O'Brien, an agile developer with ThoughtWorks; James Adams, Ph.D., creator of the highly successful Engines framework for Ruby on Rails.

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Andy Warhol - Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters 1962 - 1964

Where: Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
When: July 08, 2006 to October 22, 2006

David Cronenberg collaborates with the AGO on this pop culture guru's exhibition

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Superbowl Commercials

This isn't high culture but there are some good commercials:
Super Bowl XL has passed (Go, Steelers!), but you can still watch all those great, funny and weird ads right here.
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Here's a good one to get started with:

Culture.ca

Here's a good resource site for info on Canadian Culture:

Culture.ca — explore, find, share the creativity and diversity of Canadian culture on-line.

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Artword Theatre is About to Bite the Dust

The Portland Street building known as Artword Theatre is about to bite the dust, making way for a condo. Its final production, The Gambler, runs to Feb. 19. It's adapted from a Dostoevsky novel by Ronald Weihs, artistic director of Artword (the company). He and managing director Judith Sandiford created the 150-seat mainspace and 60-seat studio theatre in 1999, in a former clothing factory.

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Design for maximum engagement

Just as industrial design is integral to creating hit toys, cool gadgets, comfortable furniture, and streamlined kitchens, media design is now more important than ever as content becomes available on a variety of devices and across multiple platforms, ranging from high-definition television sets, video iPods, and RSS feeds to broadband video advertainment, blogs, IP/TV, and more. Design savvy can make or break consumer adoption of new products and services, lure or repel advertisers, and enable a business to flourish or flounder.

Design for maximum engagement is the name of the game across multiple media platforms, ranging from video-on-demand and satellite radio to search engines, video blogs, and wireless text messaging. But not all media designs are winners...

For more on this, check out Media Design: What It Is, Why It Should Matter To You
by Alissa Walker, January 2006 issue of Media Post...

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Art & Activism

Where: YYZ Artists' Outlet
When: January 14, 2006 to February 25, 2006

For the next six weeks, YYZ should post an invitation: BYOA - bring your own activism. Or art. Actually, make that both. Culled from over 200 submissions - encompassing a range from Auckland to Amsterdam and Vancouver to Vienna -- "Art & Activism" spotlights 20 artists and collectives of political bent. Yet, there is also an unplanned, open-call DIY component that reflects the politic of activism itself.

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Apple Announces iLife 06

An upgrade to Apple’s award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, iLife ’06 features iPhoto 6 with Photocasting for sharing photos over the Internet, iMovie HD 6 with new motion themes, iDVD 6 for authoring custom DVDs for today’s widescreen TVs and GarageBand 3 for creating professional-quality Podcasts. iLife ’06 also introduces iWeb, a new iLife application making it super-easy to create amazing websites and publish them on the Internet with just a single click.

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