May 8 bulletin

MediaNet Bi-Weekly Tech Bulletin  Fri May 8, 2009

1) iMac for Sale
2) Blender animation workshop
3) Experiment! starts Saturday – space still available – some seminars open to all
4) MN workshops in planning stage – suggestions
5) U Vic calls for videographer  (more info in the attachment)

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1) iMAC for Sale
2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB 667 MHz
DDR2 SDRAM memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT video
card with 256MB VRAM, 250 GB harddrive plus two
external drives – 500 GB and 250 GB PLUS Final
Cut Express installed and Final Cut Pro 5.0.1   $1550
Contact Chris Gower-Rees at 250-588-8138 or
mailto:chris@phungai.com

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2) Blender animation starts in July
Part workshop, part interest group the Blender animation program will start in July and meet twice a month. The first meeting will be a  workshop led by MediaNet member Doug Jones and the second meeting will be a progress meeting to share tips and solve problems.
The first five topics will be run as stand alone so we can allow for some intake of new faces.

Sculpting & Retopo,
Modeling with meshes
Texturing, Materials, Lighting
Animating/ Armatures
Game engine
Video editor & Green screen
Soft/ hard body physics

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03)   Experiment!
Starts Tomorrow

There is still space in the program for last minute participants. Learn about and produce an Experiment in Film and Video. MN members $150, non members $175

OR

Just come out to learn about experimental film from speakers like our own Peter Sandmark, U Vic’s Lianne McLarty, Rick Raxlen and Scott Amos. Take a look at the schedule below

May 9 – EARLY AVANT GARDE CINEMA, 7 pm, (Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, G-6 1001 Douglas St.) Peter Sandmark, Executive Director of MediaNet, former teacher of film production at Concordia University, will introduce present films and lead a discussion of experimental aesthetics. Titles include works by:  Fernand Leger,  Man Ray, Willard Maas,   Marie Mencken, Sidney Peterson,  Maya Deren,  Stan Brakhage,  and Bruce Bailie.

May 10 – 1 pm, MediaNet office, Grace Salez, Media artist and video art instructor at University of Victoria, will give a presentation on personal experimental works and performance art, and lead an exercise with cameras. (Open to EXPERIMENT participants only).

May 10 – 7 pm, (Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, G-6 1001 Douglas St) Lianne McLarty, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Victoria,  will talk about contemporary experimental film/video in Canada, and present several experimental films.

May 11, 12 – 7 pm, MediaNet office.  Kirk Schwartz (MediaNet Technical Director) – Presentation and workshops on post-production and video editing, using superimposition and compositing techniques.
(Open to EXPERIMENT participants only).

May 14 – 7 pm, (Martin Batchelor Gallery, 712 Cormorant St.) Rick Raxlen, filmmaker and former teacher of film production at Concordia University, will give an artist’s talk on 40 years of experimental filmmaking, and show several of his film works.
May 16 – 7 pm (Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria, G-6 1001 Douglas St.) Scott Amos, MediaNet Technicican, filmmaker and teaching assistant at University of Victoria.  Presentation on collage experimental films and the use of film in video.
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4)the fall 09 and winter 10 workshops are in the planning stage. Have a workshop suggestion? A workshop need? leave a comment for me
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5) U Vic is looking for a Videographer. leave an email address for me and  I’ll mail  you the PDF of their requirements