Crossing is the choreography of a group of people breathing as one. Adults of all generations, children, teenagers, professionals as well as amateurs will dance in unison on St. Catherine St. E in the Village. Like in a school of fish, everyone will let themselves cross over through organic movement.

Dan Popa just produced some new videos with Lenny Piroth-Robert, of Daddy Mojo.


Daddy Mojo has been making guitars out of cigar boxes in the studio above Nomad Nation. For years, every day, I could hear him tuning them, and playing. Soon to be leaving the space, I thought it high time to make a little film of this amazing process, and the people behind it.

Directed by Jason Rodi
Camera and lighting by Noe Sardet
Editing by Namai KhamPo
Sound by Matt Lederman
Music by Daddy Mojo
Cast Lenny Piroth-Robert and Luca Tripaldi
Narration by Lenny

Daddy Mojo’s Lenny has been making them out of cigar boxes for years now, selling them all over the world, and playing casually, and beautifully. I’ve been meaning to make a movie of him, playing, just a little scene, so running into him this morning we planned something on the spot for this saturday, and within an hour or so we were all planned.

Live caricaturists, exhibition of 20 prestigious works, workshops animated by professionals, photo-caricatures of yourselves and a comedy-auction using a currency that never wavers, Monopoly money!

A nice video by Victorine.

The Nomads’ collaboration with Juste Pour Rire has been very fruitful. A great pool of creatives where a sense of humor is mandatory. These guys are the real thing.
Most recently, Sindre Ulvik Peladeau created a new television packaging job for Jean-Marc Parent’s special yearly event.

This event was covered by the mainstream news:
ABC NEWS:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/ufo-china-closes-airport-prompts-investigation/story?id=11159531

DAILY MAIL UK:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1293395/UFO-China-closes-Xiaoshan-Airport-spotted-flying-city.html

VANCOUVER SUN:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/sighting+forces+Chinese+airport+shut+down+hour+report/3284111/story.html

And with nice music..

Other YouTube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm3dC_A10YE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kO70H7OLNM&feature=related

Also interesting article in the NY Times:
Beijing Journal; A U.F.O. Boom Doesn’t Worry China’s Rulers
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/11/world/beijing-journal-a-ufo-boom-doesn-t-worry-china-s-rulers.html?pagewanted=2

Super soirée avec des création unique des invitées. Merci à tous de votre participation!

Voici toutes les images créer:
http://www.patrickrochon.com/nomad/19-08-2010/index.html

Soirée Musique et Light Painting Jam @ Nomad Nation tonight organized by Patrick Rochon. Join us for a night of creation. byo lights.

Musique par pFuzzle live, (Christophe Barthe, Copenhagen, Denmark)
http://soundcloud.com/pfuzzle

En collaboration avec Patrick Rochon:
Espace libre de photo light painting.
Crée tes oeuvres et repars avec (apportes une clé USB)
http://www.youtube.com/user/patrickrochon#p/a/u/1/TSHRra2gxVY
Jeudi le 19 Août 2010
De 21h à 1h
Lieu: Nomad Nation : 129 rue Van Horne
http://www.thenomads.com/

Apportez vos consommations et vos lumières.

Voici les images créer de la soirée: http://www.patrickrochon.com/nomad/19-08-2010/index.html

We recently, briefly met a graphic designer at Pheromone, an Montreal interactive agency. With origins in Bucharest, and studies in philosphy and sociology, Florin Gabor’s photography just blew me away, and I don’t imagine too many people know about it, so click on the picture below to see what I mean. He seems to shoot on the fly, especially in his travels. Just gorgeous.

So well shot with what appears to be a Canon aesthetic, these movies from California is a place are just gorgeously and generously produced, directed, and shot by Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari.

Some of them are full of black water. Others have become graveyards for old lawn furniture and rodent carcasses. They are shaped like jelly beans and manufactured by companies named Sunny Side and Champagne. Once upon a time, Fresno was the California Dream. Own a car. Own a house. Own a pool. Everyone wanted it and the wonderful world of credit made it all possible. But now, with the foreclosure monster running wild, the dream is dry. Thousands of pools are festering in the hot Central Valley sun. For most people this is tragic. But for some, it’s an opportunity.

Tonight we’re projecting in the parc corner Amherst and Sainte-Catherine. Made on the August 6th weekend at Aires Libres, the quality and originality of these works were just staggering.

Dans le cadre d’Aires Libres, et en collaboration avec ces derniers, The Nomads organise du 6 au 8 août 2010 une fin de semaine de production de films, le Cercle Nomad. Dans une totale liberté, les participants sont invités à produire un film en 48h. Tous les films produits dans ce laps de temps seront projetés sous les étoiles le dimanche 8 août. L’inscription et la projection auront lieu sur l’Aire Banque Nationale, à l’intersection des rues Sainte-Catherine et Amherst.

Get a taste on the Nomad Map to see what we mean. We’ll be adding the rest through the week.

Ce Cercle Nomad est la 6ème édition, c’est un événement ouvert à tous. Une soirée pour imaginer un film, une journée pour le tourner, une journée pour le monter. L’événement se clôturera par la projection de tous les films réalisés. En première partie de cette soirée, les films de l’année dernière seront présentés. L’inscription sera ouverte dès le vendredi 6 août de 18h à 19h. Les participants pigeront un titre, puis auront le samedi pour tourner leurs images et le dimanche pour les monter. Il n’y a aucune formalité d’inscription, aucune durée imposée, la seule contrainte est de s’inspirer de l’espace où se déroule Aires Libres.

Aires Libres, manifestation écologique et artistique, profite cette année des 111 jours de piétonnisation de la rue Sainte-Catherine Est, entre Berri et Papineau, pour offrir aux artistes un espace d’expression propice aux échanges avec les passants. Initiative de la Société de développement commercial (SDC) du Village et de l’Arrondissement Ville-Marie, Aires Libres a comme mission de redonner aux piétons leur place au sein de la ville grâce aux différents projets artistiques présentés du 26 mai au 13 septembre prochain. Consultez la programmation sur Aires Libres.com !

The Nomads est un projet de Nomad Industries. Nomad Industries offre des services de production de médias créatifs, vidéo, motion, web. De la conception, à la dissémination, en passant par la production et la postproduction, ils livrent de leur hub créatif du 129 Van Horn, un contenu hautement original. Il est important de noter que la prochaine édition des Cercle Nomad aura lieu à la Ronde le premier weekend d’Octobre.
Communiqué Aires Libres/ Cercle Nomad 2010

I’ve become a great fan of Radiolab. The shows are just incredible pieces of story telling, collecting sound bytes into very visual universes. Download the audio podcasts and see for yourself.
To boot, a couple of videos were produced by Will Hoffman to promote Radiolab, and these have both been great pieces of inspiration for me. This is the latest one, quite recent, entitled WORDS:


Moments is about a year old I reckon, and I blogged about it when I saw it, and it’s probably the video I’ve gone back to the most in the past year. This films is a celebration of life that was inspired by David Eagleman’s book, Sum, well worth checking out as well.

Amazing short film about a guy walking across America. A must see this month:

Here is a google map of his journey:

View Guy Walks Across America! in a larger map
making-of:

Une magnifique plongée dans l’univers d’un Jacques Brel authentique et décontracté. L’Interview eu lieu en 1971 à Knokke Le Zout, entre quatre amis savourant goulûment bières et cigarettes. Les idées fusent, et Brel esquisse à grands traits sa conception de la vie.

1971 INTERVIEW JACQUES BREL ENTRETIEN ITW ARCHIVES HQ