Launching this wknd at FilKONtario: Urban Tapestry's Mockumentary DVD Project!

Woohoo! We're picking up the DVDs from the printers later today. We did a print run of 100, with 25 already spoken for (contributor copies plus our own). This leaves 75 copies available for sale at FiLKONtario this weekend. Cost: Cdn $20.

Read this post for a list of people involved in this DVD project, lots of screenshots and photos.

Includes three bonus videos of full Urban Tapestry performances in concert, including a song we've never before recorded.

Allison, Jodi and I are pretty darned excited about the DVD and we hope you are too.

iPad 2 launch in Toronto: Line-up Report

I lined up for 11 hours (yes, I said 11 HOURS) in front of the Apple store for an iPad 2.

Here's my photo-packed report.

Toronto To Japan: Toronto area fundraising activities

Toronto To Japan is a Toronto-based ad hoc collective of Canadian artists, musicians, writers, activists and business leaders organizing events to raise relief funds for victims of the earthquake/tsunami in Japan.

So many events are being planned! Upcoming events include: an art gallery show, film screening, restaurant outing, bake sale, sushi making and concerts...with more coming. Do check the blog regularly for more news:

The blog: http://torontotojapan.ca/

On Twitter: @TorontoToJapan

Facebook page for Toronto To Japan

Acrylic paintings: Hope For Japan, Glazing Experiments & Homicidal Squirrels

It's been so long since I've done any non-digital painting but I was inspired to take out my acrylics and attempt something for the Art For Japan fundraising effort:

While I had my acrylics out, I decided to paint something to put into the Interfilk/convention auction at FilKONtario in a couple of weeks:

The middle bit is actually a mirror, which I've covered over with tape to protect it from the paint.

And then I started experimenting with glazing, a technique where you lay layers of very thin washes over each other to gradually build up color:

I'm going to add a monster to the above, I think.

Of course. :-)

Urban Tapestry Mockumentary DVD

Launching at FilKONtario (April 1-3 in Toronto):

URBAN TAPESTRY: BEHIND THE MUSIC (A Mockumentary)

Produced & edited by John Durno (of Brains on Toast (B.O.T. Productions). Pseudo-history of my filk music group, narrated by Mark Bernstein.

The image above is a draft of the back and front covers of the DVD. I am going to fiddle with the colors a bit plus need to fill in the running time, which is about 35 minutes.