Friday, December 18, 2009

Making Friends in Toronto

Thanks to Christina, for the lovely blog entry, and all her tweeting on behalf of We Are Watching. Check out what she had to say here

Thursday, December 10, 2009

La Flamme Arrivera à Belle Montréal ce soir!

Bonjour tout les monde à Quèbèc, je cherche éncore des video de la Flamme. S'il vous plaît, pris avec des téléphones mobile video ou des caméras, merçi de me les envoyer à weRwatching2010 [at] gmail.com pour mon projet artistique.

La route est:

Montréal-Est, Maschouch, Terrebonne (ça c'est belle, j'ai resté ici 1992), Bois-des-Filion, Lorraine, Rosemère, Blainville, Sainte-Thérèse, Boisbriand, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Ceux-Montagnes, Saint-Eustache, Laval, Dollard-des-Ormeau, Kirkland, Pointe-Claire, Dorval, Montréal-Ouest, Côte-Saint-Luc, Hampstead, Westmount, Mont-Royal et Montréal avec les célébrations à Laval et Montréal!


Hello people of Quebec, again, I am looking for video of the Torch Relay. If you please, send me video that you have taken with your cell phone, or camera, and send it to me at weRwatching2010 [at] gmail.com

The route is:

Montréal-Est, Maschouch, Terrebonne (it's very beautiful here, I stayed with friends here in 1992), Bois-des-Filion, Lorraine, Rosemère, Blainville, Sainte-Thérèse, Boisbriand, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Ceux-Montagnes, Saint-Eustache, Laval, Dollard-des-Ormeau, Kirkland, Pointe-Claire, Dorval, Montréal-Ouest, Côte-Saint-Luc, Hampstead, Westmount, Mont-Royal et Montréal avec les célébrations in Laval and Montréal!

You may notice that I have changed the email account. That change was to improve twitter efficiency, and because I was getting too much spam. But both accounts are activated, so don't worry that your submission was sent to the wrong place. I was lucky enough to meet the lovely Alexandra Samuels who has changed so many of my bad internet habit, including rude twitter practices, who knew there was already an established etiquette! Ignorance is no excuse, but you will now find me on my best behaviour, so try following me at weRwatching2010.

Thanks, and pass it on!

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Et Quèbèc Encore!

Le Vendredi, Dec. 5

Le Torch va au Quèbec aujourd'hui. Les ville sont Saint-Prosper-de-Beauce, Saint-Georges, Saint-Beniot-Labre, Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce, Sainte-Clotilde-de-Beauce, Robertsonville, Thetford Mines, Black Lake, Saint-Ferdinand, Plessisville, Princeville, Victorialville, Warwick, Danville, Asbestos, Saint-Georges-de-Windsor, Windsor, Lennoxville et Sherbrooke. Je cherches des video de Torch Relay et les célébrations. Envoyez à wearewatching2010@gmail.com. Merçi!


Friday, Dec 5th, the Torch is passing through Saint-Prosper-de-Beauce, Saint-Georges, Saint-Beniot-Labre, Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce, Sainte-Clotilde-de-Beauce, Robertsonville, Thetford Mines, Black Lake, Saint-Ferdinand, Plessisville, Princeville, Victorialville, Warwick, Danville, Asbestos, Saint-Georges-de-Windsor, Windsor, Lennoxville and Sherbrooke. Please pass on info to your friends and family in this area. I am looking for video footage from cell phones and other video capturing devices. Email to wearewatching@gmail.com. Details at www.liddlethought.blogspot.com Thanks!  
 

Finally, a Bone!

Well after tweeting and littering news articles with my comments all day for two days in a row, trying to entice Canadians to play, and knowing from Google Analytics that people are, in fact, stopping by, I finally have real-life interaction from a person! A trace left in the form of a comment no less. Yipee! And what is even more fantastic is that Hodgepodge Grumblebeak blogged about my project. Here is her take, please let me know yours.

Friday, December 04, 2009

Le Torch va au Quèbec aujour'hui!

Le Vendredi, Decembre 4th

Le Torch va au Quèbec aujourd'hui. Les ville sont Lévis Montmangny, Saint-Romuald, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Charny, Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon, Scott, Sainte-Marie, Vallée-Jonction, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Beauceville, Notre-Dame-des-Pins et Saint-Georges.
Je cherches des video de Torch Relay et les célébrations. Envoyez à wearewatching2010@gmail.com. Merçi!
(Je m'excuse, mais je parls français comme une grosse bébé!) 

Friday, Dec 4th, the Torch is passing through Lévis Montmangny, Saint-Romuald, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Charny, Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon, Scott, Sainte-Marie, Vallée-Jonction, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Beauceville, Notre-Dame-des-Pins and Saint-Georges. Please pass on info to your friends and family in this area. I am looking for video footage from cell phones and other video capturing devices. Email to wearewatching@gmail.com. Details at www.liddlethought.blogspot.com Thanks!  

Progress Report

Everything has been full steam ahead lately. Yesterday, I gave an artist talk about my work to the Socs 201 Intro to Cultural Theory and it went really well, from my perspective, except that I forgot a couple of my punchlines. But the information fell into place, as it tends to do when you are talking about your work, work that you are both invested in and passionate about. Sharing my ways of thinking about praxis-based practice in relation to my process was great in that it really helped solidify my own understanding. The questions were great, and I had no reason to be nervous, even though there were 175 of them!

Danna Vajda and Kristina Lee Podesva have sent me their essays for the first book, I am so pleased, I can hardly stand it. Juho Jäppinin will have to provide some serious book design work to make a form worthy of such thoughtful words.

Video submissions are trickling in, always looking for more though, and I seem to be constantly posting comments and notices, twittering, facebooking, stumbling and otherwise browbeating my people into submission (pun intended). Help me get the word out people! I know I am getting about 50 hits a day on this blog, but there are no trace elements left behind to prove this, and thank goodness for google analytics for making me not lose my mind from the appearance of lonely. Feel free to leave comments, show me that you are there. Particularly tell me if you are planning to send in a submission, but haven't gotten around to it yet. That would be just lovely! Particularly of interest are submissions from Northern Canada and the Maritimes. Images of these areas are skimpy, and I would love to have every area represented in some way. Also, I am surprised to not have received any "protester" clips. I was expecting a tonne of those, as this will be one of the only ways that protesting will be viewed publicly from a non-media source.

On another note, Jeffrey, from Jeffrey Boone Gallery has found me a...get this...wireless surveillance camera! How exciting is that?! No crazy wiring and strata council approval necessary for this little lovely. Here, take a look for yourself:

the most beautiful surveillance camera in the world

Okay, that is all I have to say for now.