Quick! I need a fake name and fake title and description of a fake video installation i am setting up in my store! (preferably related to Canada)

there is an experimental video festival today and tomorrow in my town and ALL the artists are canadian.

i am setting up a television in the front window of my store and i will be playing old t.v. movies with the sound down. (found a great 12-movie dvd pack with some awesome stuff on it. including one where sally field plays a hippie turned on to drugs.)

i'm gonna print up a sheet and put it on the table and i would like it to have a fake artist's name and a fake title and an incomprehensible artist's statement for everyone to read.

i'm going to pretend its part of the festival. (the videos in the festival are being viewed in buildings all over town.)

i'd like the artist's statement to include something about the french and hockey and tim horton if possible. and the diaspora. and corporate crime. or something.

can you help a brother out? i have to clean the store all day. having music tonight. come down if you are around. bob fay/bunwinkies/bunnybrains.

thanks!

a really good canadian name for the artist too. and a fake bio if you are really bored.

feeling kinda pranky.

i get a lot of traffic during these things. i'll take pictures.

ALL canadian artists, can you beat that? lotsa moose footage i guess.

http://greenfieldvideofest.org/

artist name should be Harry Covert (aka haricot verts)

Artist name: Robin Sparkle?

The Canadianest names are all "Mc-" or "Mac-" something

Gordon MacGordon

^^ winner

statement should just be

NHL LOCKOUT IS AS SHALLOW AS HOLLYWOOD! FIGHT THE POWER.

haha! keep 'em coming! torn between my beloved robin sparkle and the completely apt gordon macgordon. could be a collaboration...

Mick McMack

"Aleister McMasters" - name

"New Media In Old Skins" - title

"The hermeneutics of the modern media landscape enforce the institutional control of our shared global culture, insuring the Plutocratic gaze is the viewfinder we all see our lives through." - statement

Jean-Pierre Mackenzie

xpost - needs more tim hortons

one addendum to the statement:

"The hermeneutics of the modern media landscape enforce the institutional control of our shared global culture, insuring the Plutocratic gaze is the viewfinder we all see our lives through. GO SENATORS"

sorry I didn't read the topics you wanted in the statement...

"The hermeneutics of the modern media landscape enforce the institutional control of our shared global culture, insuring the Plutocratic gaze is the viewfinder we all see our lives through. In this world where corporate crime is rewarded by million dollar contracts, one can buy a new clean soul at Tim Hortons for a loonie and a signature on an NDA."

aw, I love the "GO SENATORS" ending

"...PS: GO SENATORS!!!"

go senators = CLASSIC

including one where sally field plays a hippie turned on to drugs

Is the the made-for-TV move Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring? Saw this on its original broadcast, and would love to see it again.

And to elaborate: Gordon "Gord" MacGordon

"Deux Levers - McGordan, the 42-year-old adulte terrible of the Edmontonian scene, intends here to represent the bully-off from which we are all locked-out, both electorally and electrically. Though numerous challenges are evident in the grain, the title hints at a hope that happens twice, first as sit-com, then as art."

lol that's good.

omg

scott promise to plz take pictures of this

i will! nice stuff, peeps!

can someone elaborate more on Gord's schooling ansd background? gonna post this at the bottom:

McGordan, the 42-year-old adulte terrible of the Edmontonian scene, intends here to represent the bully-off from which we are all locked-out, both electorally and electrically. Though numerous challenges are evident in the grain, the title hints at a hope that happens twice, first as sit-com, then as art."

McGordan has a BFA in Video from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and an expired CPR certification from the Canadian Red Cross.

McGordan should have a BA from McGill in Honours English: Drama and Theatre with a minor concentration in economics

oh but silby's is so perfect

movies i'll be showing with sound down today and tomorrow at the store. (really is one of the best dvd packs)

bail out (david hasselhoff - 1989)

somewhere tomorrow (sarah jessica parker - 1983)

cuba crossing (robert vaughan/stuart whitman - 1980)

when the bough breaks (ted danson - 1986)

crossbar (kim cattrall - 1979)

the last of the belles (susan sarandon - 1974)

mesmerized (jodie foster/john lithgow - 1986)

concrete cowboys (tom selleck - 1979)

arch of triumph (anthony hopkins/lesley-ann down - 1985)

maybe i'll come home in the spring (sally field - 1971)

lovers and liars (goldie hawn/giancarlo giannini - 1981)

high risk (james coburn/james brolin - 1981)

katherine (sissy spacek/henry winkler - 1975)

death sentence (nick nolte/cloris leachman - 1974)

the promise of love (valerie bertinelli - 1980)

the swiss conspiracy (david janssen/senta berger - 1976)

a hazard of hearts (helena bonham carter/diana rigg - 1987)

the deadly thief (rex harrison/sarah miles - 1978)

five minutes to live (johnny cash - 1961)

laser mission (brandon lee/ernest borgnine - 1990)

The Idea of Tim Hortons
Inspired by Glen Gould's The Idea of North, Gordy McGordon composes a soundscape of Tim Horton patrons punctuated visually by stock footage Gordie Howe eating poutine at two frames per second.

i wish i had that! i was actually hoping i could find some nhl highlight reels at the thrift store this morning, but no luck...

okay, here we go:

Gordon "Gord" MacGordon (b. 1970 - )

"New Media In Old Skins" (2012)

Artist’s Statement: "The hermeneutics of the modern media landscape enforce the institutional control of our shared global culture, insuring the Plutocratic gaze is the viewfinder we all see our lives through. In this world where corporate crime is rewarded by million dollar contracts, one can buy a new clean soul at Tim Hortons for a loonie and a signature on an NDA. GO SENATORS!”

McGordan, the 42-year-old adulte terrible of the Edmontonian scene, intends here to represent the bully-off from which we are all locked-out, both electorally and electrically. Though numerous challenges are evident in the grain, the title hints at a hope that happens twice, first as sit-com, then as art." McGordan has a BFA in Video from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and an expired CPR certification from the Canadian Red Cross.

i think that says it all.

cheers, gang! gonna have maria print that up and make it look pretty.

this is one of the actual canadian videos in the festival. i think its a scathing commentary on boredom in the first world.

http://vimeo.com/13404742

do you have a vhs copy of anne of green gables (the original one?)

this is why I love ilx.

I can't wait to see it scott!

"Bully off" is not a Canadian expression. You have to say "face-off" otherwise the game's up.

okay i'll change it.

A woman I know recently showed me this experimental movie she shot 30 years ago around Commercial Drive in Vancouver. It's pretty classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgm-q5NCVg

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/285178_10151861691442137_1361182678_n.jpg

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/3442_10151861691617137_1206082506_n.jpg

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/543257_10151861691747137_1727366964_n.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/391618_10151861691832137_1087328425_n.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/557054_10151861691907137_2115263477_n.jpg

hahaha

kudos

Need to put "Canadian Content" LPs on the bins near the table. Guess Who, BTO, Lightfoot, etc.

RUSH

Leonard Cohen too!

everyone at the show really enjoyed the installation. and my brother provided even more art

everyone enjoyed the installation last night. and my brother provided more art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6iW80vxeM

This is amazing!!

{Also some of those video artist are really good and you should check them out}

http://i.imgur.com/Bq65f.jpg

amazing work skot

thanks to everyone here!

a pic of my brother and bob fay. old tour buddies! when bob was in sebadoh - and they were at the height of their sub pop fame - they took bunnybrains out with them on a bunch of dates as openers. i have always felt this was one of the more generous gestures of the grunge era.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/557007_10151862227887137_1871603633_n.jpg

and bob solo + violin was excellent last night. he is one multi-talented dude. bunwinkies were likewise amazing. really wish more people would hear their album from last year. one of my favorite records of 2011. so beautiful.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcek84YyLg1qzcv7no1_500.gif

OMG that's amazing!

everything about this thread rules. I declare it my favorite of 2012

*ding!*

Second that, beautiful stuff :)

lol how did I miss this

coulda done a play on the Hockey Sweater - I think it nails all your requests at the top

also
McGordan has a BFA in Video from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
this dude went to OCAD and we all know it. Possibly residency in Banff before moving south. Damn.

oh and I don't think you can get a Timmy's for a loonie anymore, except maybe XS. A medium is $1.50. WHO IS THE CANADIAN FACT CHECKER? Everything, goon tie, you let Scott down. And all of us.

and VG, I will not soon forget that Rush remark. *glares*

wait what? I loooooooove Rush. What did I say bad about them?

I hate Rush and get IA when all of us noble Canadians get lumped in ;)

well then *I* glare at *YOU*

I'd fight you but we find that sort of behaviour vulgar ;)

BWAHAHA