Jan 7

deathmatch2008I submitted a story to the Indie Writers Deathmatch at Broken Pencil Magazine this week!

I'm posting this in a bid to get the jump on my competition by seizing the search-engine high ground.

I wrote a science fiction short called "Pangea's Edge" which takes place in Surrey 2040.

You, my fellow travellers, will help me win - by voting for Pangea's Edge in a series of one-on-one deathmatch rounds on Broken Pencil's website.

If you're reading this, you can help - I'll update this posting when the finalists are announced, and you can click me to the top!

Oct 24

Zero for Conduct, the Zine of Counter-Film, will be for sale in hardcopy at Canzine in Toronto this weekend! Sonja Ahlers will have it somewhere on her table in the "Gotta Laugh to Keep from Crying" room! If you can't make it to Canzine, get it HERE.

-Flick Harrison

Oct 9

Zero for Conduct is Flick Harrison's new zine of counter-film.

(get it!)

I still need to get a waxer - this issue feels a little too perfect for me, I only did one drawing and the rest was laid out in Indesign.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Interviews with

Reg Harkema on Leslie, My Name is Evil
Jeff Carter on Inside Passage
Tom Scholte on Crime
plus Waiting for Sancho and more!

I created it to try and rekindle some kind of underground film thing in Vancouver that I think is, well, just a bit TOO underground. This year's Vancouver International Film Festival was the kicker for me, I finally felt like taking part again, having worked on two of the films screening, and a recent visit to a Zine fair / comics show at the Vancouver Art Gallery reminded me that it is really all about just getting it done.

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Dec 7

Some people complain that filmmaking is becoming too inexpensive, and now anyone thinks they can make a film. They say this will result in a glut of bad films.

Well, what did we have before? Too many good films?

Anyone who says this is an elitist arse. When they complain about too many people making films, they most certainly do not mean themselves. No, they have surpassed some mystical benchmark of divine birthright, involving a combination of 'natural' talent, intelligence, and insight combined with superior upbringing, and they therefore have a right to consider themselves an artist.

Bollocks!

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