Since it's time to make the sacrificial purchases required by Christmas, it's also tome to lessen the pain by supporting local artisans:

Salon des métiers d’art du Québecruns from from the 7th to the 22nd... it's huge, and you should be able to find something for just about everyone.

souk @ sat runs from the 14th to the 16th... it's young and hip and fun just to go.

Here's the Sound Alliance demo video:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVcuZ1FctU4

I'll be at this benefit from shortly after 6:00pm until the end if anyone wants to join me. The project is very cool, and I'll post a YouTube video of it shortly.


Hi Folks,

We're throwing a fundraiser/going away party for the Sound Alliance Project on Friday May 18th @ Blizzarts!

The Sound Alliance is a 'mobile recording studio' that travels to remote regions of the world assisting artists in the recording and distribution of their music and ensures that artists retain all copyrights to their work. The team has been working really hard for the past two years to put this together, and they're leaving for Belize, Mali and the Soloman Islands in a few weeks.

We'd love for you to come out and have some drinks with us to show your support and check out what they're doing. Hope to see you there!

Kavita

www.thesoundalliance.org

Ahhh it's been a good few hours in the Laptop garden that can be Laika.

Yet another online petition... this one about getting rid of those horrible advertising trucks:

http://www.petitiononline.com/badtruck/

I really do wish those things (the trucks not the petitions) would go away.

Well it's the first Critical Mass of the season this evening... I've never ridden in one although I do like the idea. However, I will not be riding in this one either, but if your interested you should show up at:

5:30pm at Phillips Square, Ste-Catherine @ Union

It's DemoCampMontreal2 night at the SAT. The presenters look pretty interesting this time around, so I'd suggest signing up and swinging by the SAT at 6:30pm.

• HughMcGuire - Collectik (or possibly the project behind door #2)
• Martin Dufort - Kakiloc : Mobile Social Networking (We are back on after some arm twisting by Austin ;-))
• iotum Talk Now Technology Preview on BlackBerry - Try it Today
• Brett Gaylor - Open Source Cinema
• BumpTop

These are two articles I found interesting in in Coolopolis this morning:

• Breakdancing in Terrebonne circa 1960
• Before the Park Pine interchange

Scott at Midnight Poutine believes that Brave New Waves should not be allowed to pass quietly away. I for one agree, and think we should fill the blogosphere with it's passing. So if your a blogger blog, and if your a reader then comment at any of the many.

Blogs mentioning BNW:

• There's the week in blogs at Midnight Poutine
• Scott is collecting BNW stories at: Urban Camouflage.
• Justin at Metroblogging Montreal brought to my attention that this was it's last week on air.
• It's mentioned at Brad Sucks
• Streethawk says goodbye.
• MetaFilter laments its loss.
• Clever Lazy bids farwell.

Other Mentions:

• It's in The Hour
• There's a nice writeup in Zoilus

Here's some video that I took on Laika Night at the SAT on Sat (see xRx you should have come):

I hang out at Laika a lot, in fact I stopped by for a beer on my way down to the SAT on Sat. Anyway I go up to the bar at the SAT, and voila there's a projection of the bicycle photo from behind the bar at Laika. Turns out it's Laika Night at the SAT. That's a lot of Laika. I'll be uploading a video clip of it later.

Greetings and salutations!

Jason and I [Rene] (PONY TV) are curating 2 shows that open this week. Come and check them out! The videos are amazing, the photographs are delicious, and we've worked really hard to put them together.
We'll see you there!

Love,
Rene

PTV PRESENTS...
Gallerie Espace
4844 St. Laurent
February 28- March 13
Vernissage March 6, 7-11pm
(*PLUS* after-verni party at Boa Bar 5301 St. Laurent with the Shirtless DJ's and Prague City Love, video projections, and 'meet the artists' excitement)
http://artmatters.concordia.ca/show_07.html

PTV and Video Party Present... Old Gold
Storefront installation featuring video works by 12 different artists from Montreal, New York, Finland, Turkey, Serbia, UK and Mexico-
Old Gold Boutique
256 Mont Royal Est
http://artmatters.concordia.ca/event_10.html

PONY TV
http://www.ponytv.net
http://myspace.com/ponytv
pony.tv@gmail.com

Video Party
http://www.videoparty.info

Usine C is a great performance space. I'd never been there before last Thursday, and now I've been there twice.

I've decided to make a resolution to see more performance art. It's been a while since I've seen something as stunning as Johnny Ranger's Les Constellations Dynamiques (my review on Midnight Poutine), and it left me wanting more...

And on Saturday I got more when I went to see ROBO_COOP (my review on Midnight Poutine) as a part of Nuit Blanche. It too was impressive...

A week full of computers, robots, music, and dance... I'm not complaining.

So I wrote my DemoCampMontreal1 post for Midnight Poutine, I uploaded some photos to Flickr, and I added a couple of videos to my YouTube account. The event was interesting, nicely setup, and pretty well organized. Criticisms: the presentations by Evonium and Evolution felt more like a sales pitch than a "sharing" (but that's not really a big deal), and the bar was closed (I really wanted a beer).

I'll definitely be going to the DemoCampMontreal2.

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Ok, I saw this mentioned in a post by Chip at Midnight Poutine, and I have to post the video:

Just a reminder that DemoCampMontreal1 is tomorrow night (Tues Feb 27 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm) at the SAT. If you wish to register as an attendee you can do so here.

FYI I just been approved as a contributor to Midnight Poutine and this Democamp will be the subject of my first MP post.

Democampmontreal1
Society for Arts and Technology (SAT)
Tues Feb 27, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
1195 Boul. St. Laurent

This afternoon I went trail running on snow covered trails of Mt Royal. I was impressed by level of difficulty winter adds: stairs are no longer stairs, the terrain becomes uneven and unstable, and you have to make sure you don't drift to far to the edge when your running the crest at the top. In other words Mt. Royal becomes a bit more of a technical run (as opposed to just fun). If this appeals to you, then the only thing I'd caution is that you be careful not to trample the x-country ski trails... I like to ski as well.

I want to go but I'm not sure I've got the waking power. I saw them at Mutek last summer and danced my ass off, however, I do have to leave for Ottawa tomorrow morning at 10:30am for some Winterlude skating... At any rate, I just picked up my rental car, and I'm currently sitting at Laika trying to decide what to do. Nobody confirmed attendance so I'm pretty much free to do as I wish.

Here's the promo (the doors are open now, and the DJs come on at midnight):

Junction SM :: (Dandy Jack + Sonja Moonear, Perlon, Kalk Pets, Chili, Suisse) @ Diskfunction February 16th 2007.

Friday the 16th of February, Diskfunction presents in collaboration with MUTEK, the duo JUNCTION SM (Switzerland..Chile) at club L’Academy (4445 St.Laurent Boulevard).

It is a good idea to show up early, since the rich groovy rhythms of MightyKat will warm up the night from 10 PM, and Junction SM will perform beetween midnight and 2 AM (and maybe later if the vibe is good).

Junction SMis a live/dj duo in which Dandy Jack’s sophisticated rhythms & sounds combine with Sonja Moonear’s fine records selection. The JUNCTION SM performance is all about a perfect mixture of Dandy Jack’s live improvisation and Sonja Moonear’s dj work. Jack’s input is routed through 2 channels of Sonja’s mixer in order to let her control the whole given sound.

Depending on the evolution of the night, Dandy Jack can reload new sets while Sonja is taking over the dancefloor, or she might slow down her input to let Jack perform solo. The interaction between both of them and the public is the oxygen of their performance.

You will never recognize any pieces, nor have any repetition from a set to another. The frontier between live sets and records vanishes in the most subtle way, and the immediate effect is that the audience gets lost trying to determine who does what… Hence more fun for everybody!

Academy Dancehall
4445, St-Laurent

7$ from 22h to midnight, 12$ after
Drinks Specials 4 $ before midnight (Vodka, Rhum, Gin)

Dom&Phil

I went, I saw, and I conquered? Well... I talked to the two people I went with (and only one of them a blogger). Not what I intended, but it was my first and there will be others. Anyway, the YULBlog get together last night was huge. I expected to awkwardly introduce myself to a table or two of people, but the bar was full. Andre at Metroblog counted more than 70 in attendance.