Bloody Foxtongue ([info]porphyre) wrote,
@ 2008-04-23 12:16:00
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Entry tags:art, events, media, vancouver

shiny shiny shiny, who's going and to which?


Illustrator Katelan Foisy has a new website up.
KRAZYTALK! A Speaker Series held in conjunction with KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art, May 15th - June 4th.

May 15th, 7 pm
ART SPIEGELMAN, comic artist
Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus, 577 Great Northern Way

A major figure in the underground comics movement of the 1960s and 70s, Spiegelman is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir Maus, which retraces his parents story as Holocaust survivors. Formerly named one of the 100 Most Influential People of our times by Time Magazine, he continues to be a political activist and a public champion for innovative comic book work.


May 23rd, 7 pm
MICHAEL AMZALAG and MATHIAS AUGUSTYNIAK, M/M (Paris), art directors/graphic designers
Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street

Graphic designers Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak founded M/M Paris in 1992. Their work has been shown in art galleries and museums all over the world, most recently in the 2008 exhibition Vision Tenace at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Their projects are created in partnership with such diverse designers and artists as Stella MacCartney, Yohji Yamamoto, Douglas Gordon and Bjork.


May 29the, 7 pm
TIM JOHNSON, animation film maker
Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus, 577 Great Northern Way

DreamWorks Animation film director Tim Johnson directed the 2006 computer animated comedy Over the Hedge, starring the voices of Bruce Willis and Gary Shandling. His earlier projects include the animated action adventure Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and DreamWorks first computer animated comedy, Antz, as well as the infamous segment Homer3D from The Simpsons Halloween special Treehouse of Horror VI.


June 4, 7 pm
WILL WRIGHT, god of computer game designers
Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus, 577 Great Northern Way

Widely acknowledged as one of the most important innovators in gaming, technology and entertainment, Will Wright is the designer of the groundbreaking computer simulation games SimCity and The Sims, the bestselling computer game of all time. Wright has received two lifetime achievement awards from Game Developers Choice Awards and was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2002.

TICKETS: 604.662.4717
SERIES OF FOUR PRESENTATIONS: $85, Members and seniors $68, students $34.
INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS: $25, Members and seniors $20, students $10.


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[info]inri33
2008-04-23 07:25 pm UTC (link)
I like that we have these interesting creative people coming to town, but none of them are anyone that I'm particularly interested in. I'll probably not be going to any, but passing this info on to some people who I know would be interested.

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[info]porphyre
2008-04-23 08:18 pm UTC (link)
The only one I'm not interested in is Tim Johnson, 'cause seriously, how are they even on this list?

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[info]inri33
2008-04-23 08:26 pm UTC (link)
I know, right.

OMFG YOU'RE THE GUY WHO DIRECTED ANTZ!?!?! I AM LIEK YUR BIGGEST FANZ!!!1111113.14195!!!111

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[info]kindelingboy
2008-04-23 08:05 pm UTC (link)
The only name I know on that list is Will Wright, so I might go to that.

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[info]porphyre
2008-04-23 08:19 pm UTC (link)
Woah, woah, woah. Does that mean you've never read Maus? That's a culture crime right there. Find it. Read it. The sooner the better.

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[info]inri33
2008-04-23 08:26 pm UTC (link)
I have it but I'm not about to try connecting our two computers again :P

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Fatality
[info]kindelingboy
2008-04-23 09:15 pm UTC (link)
My Apple laptop totally kicked your pussy PC desktop's ass last time, I don't blame you.

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[info]porphyre
2008-04-23 09:33 pm UTC (link)
Where there's smoke, there's a flamewar?

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[info]thegodofwar
2008-04-23 11:03 pm UTC (link)
Will Wright is the Gene Roddenberry of video games

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[info]morbid_curious
2008-04-24 05:37 am UTC (link)
I hope that doesn't mean that Spore is his Enterprise.

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Yep, definitely need teleporters.
[info]morbid_curious
2008-04-24 05:36 am UTC (link)
I'd love to go to three of those. My interest in Tim Johnson, given that pedigree, is less than stellar. Possibly equivalent in scale to a small gas giant, if that.

Now if it were Tim Schafer, creator of interesting games like Psychonauts and Grim Fandango, I'd totally be there.

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[info]bloodandpudding
2008-06-09 01:56 am UTC (link)
Awww thanks for posting my death pic. I added you as a friend.

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[info]porphyre
2008-06-10 05:54 am UTC (link)
You're very welcome. It's a lovely piece, and new people are entirely welcome. The more the merrier, I figure.

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