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Badass #3: American Pycho's Business Card Scene

April Yorke — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:18:22 +0100

If you only have three minutes to spend on American Psycho, Mary Harron's brilliant adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' brutal satire of 80s excess, make it the Business Card Scene (caps required). It's a prefect synecdoche for the movie: Patrick Bateman's calculated exterior, the hyper-competitive atmosphere, the way one character pulls his card from the running at the mere mention of Paul Allen's card (he looks like he just got pantsed after a cold swim), Patrick's near-orgasmic reaction to th...

L'Imagier - Offre d'emploi pour le poste de relationniste | Offre d'emploi Guide-interprète

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:00:50 +0100

POSTE DE RELATIONNISTE AU CENTRE D’EXPOSITION L’IMAGIER

Le Centre d’exposition L’Imagier est un organisme sans but lucratif situé à Gatineau (secteur Aylmer) voué à la diffusion de l’art contemporain. Il coordonne également les spectacles estivaux et évènements qui se tiennent dans le Parc de L’Imaginaire. L’Imagier est à la recherche d’un ou d’une relationniste dynamique p...

Job Posting: General Manager for Propeller Dance

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:54:37 +0100

Deadline: September 9, 2010.

General Manager for Propeller Dance

Based in Ottawa, Propeller Dance is the only organization in Ontario with the sole mandate of providing dance programming to children, youth and adults with and without disability. A registered charity incorporated in 2007 Propeller Dance is a leader in integrated dance in Canada, providing inclusive, accessible and integrated dance programming to people with and without disability. After significant org...

OSA Offers Printmaking Workshop in Cuba

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:51:32 +0100

The Ottawa School of Art is pleased to announce that it will present, in cooperation with the Taller Grabado de Holguin and the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC) de Holguin, an intensive lithography workshop. The workshop will be conducted by master printer Raciel Suarez at the Taller de Grabado and and will take place from Friday, October 29 to Monday, November 8 and will be followed by 3 days of beach time at the Guardalavaca Resort. The course will be ...

Call to Sculptors: Patrick John Mills Contemporary Fine Art Gallery

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:49:50 +0100

Call to Sculptors:

Currently the gallery is seeking sculptures for inside the gallery and large sculptures for outside in the Sculpture Garden.

In the last two months the majority of the all the large out door sculptures have sold.

Please mail samples of your work to the gallery.

One hundred and three tons of stone have been used to build Ottawa's first and only Sculpture Garden. Artists from all across North America will be featured in this inspiring creative sp...

Call for artists - Figureworks

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:49:00 +0100

Call for artists - Figureworks is an organization promoting figurative art of the human form. For its first annual award show from October 5-30 2010, Figureworks is calling for artists in all media who work with the human figure. How to participate can be found at www.Figureworks.org.

Tuesday Music Guide - September 7, 2010

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:46:12 +0100

BACHMAN & TURNER
Bachman & Turner
www.bachmanandturner.com
Dist: E1 Music Canada

We all love latter day Alec Baldwin: narrating The Royal Tenenbaums, poking fun at his own image in State and Main, being the best of a very good thing on 30 Rock. But, man, if there is a scene that should follow Baldwin to his grave (and I mean that in the very best way), it's his lone scene in the film adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross. Written especially by David Mamet for the adaption, it sets up story and the tone but somehow manages not to be an exposition dump...

Badass #1: Vladimir Putin

April Yorke — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:05:13 +0100

It's hard to know exactly where to start in our Badass chronicles. As it only natural, Putin came along to remind us exactly what a badass looks like. In Foreign Policy's slide show about how Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spent their summer vacations, Putin does plenty of badass things: ride a motorcycle, fly a helicopter, visit a new mother in the hospital (badassedly, of course). But this image takes the cake:

Welcome to the Badass Issue

Administrator — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:59:24 +0100

What makes a badass badass? Is it a motorcycle and leather jacket, à Marlon Brando in The Wild One? Is it sensitive Holden Caulfield's escape from all the phonies in The Catcher in the Rye? Is it the complete opposite of selling J.D. Salinger's toilet on eBay? (We're gonna go with yes on that last one).

Badass is a lot of...

True Blood: The Ultimate Vampire Fantasy

April Yorke — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:38:40 +0100

So much deliciousness in last night's True Blood entry, "Fresh Blood:" Yvetta's revenge, Jessica and Hoyt, Andy's confession, younger Arlene. Lots of action down at Fangtasia, and, of course, Eric does have a plan. One that Godric would like, I think.

Bill is a Third Grade Teacher, and Sookie is a Real Estate Agent

B...

True Blood: The Most Delicious I Have Ever Tasted

April Yorke — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:47:05 +0100

Lots of holy shit moments in last night’s True Blood, “I Smell a Rat,” largely associated with confessions rather than dramatic actions: Tara comes clean about what happened to her, Jason comes clean about Eggs, Crystal comes clean about what she is, Arlene comes clean about the baby...

Rolling Stone's NSFW True Blood Cover

April Yorke — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:54:55 +0100

Because three vampire posts in a row are better than two, let's all take a moment to admire Rolling Stone's True Blood cover for their September issue, shall we?

The only question is, will this implied threeway come to pass on the show? Okay, there are other questions ...

Vampire Diaries Season Two Trailer: How We Respond Will Define Us

April Yorke — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:43:21 +0100

The tagline the CW marketing people have gone with is "The Year of the Kat," but since that is ridiculous, I'm taking my cues from Stefan on this one: "She came here to destroy us. How we respond to that will define us." Yup, looks like season two of our beloved The Vampire Diaries will focus...

Edward Cullen Manllow, Six Months Too Late

April Yorke — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:25:39 +0100

In one of those weird things where suddenly it's everywhere, everyone is talking about the Edward Cullen Manllow on esty. What's a manllow, you say? It's a man-pillow. Remember those little half armchair things that sat on your bed when you were a kid but too lazy to just rest your pillows upright against the headboard? Imagine one of those, only with longer arms and Edward Cullen's visage silk screened across the head. Yeah, like that.

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