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4/12/2010

Pendulum

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 4/12/2010 @ 9:44 pm

CC Canada Poet Laureate John Hoben is a PhD student in Education at Memorial University. His poetry has won a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award (2004) and 2nd prize in Memorial University’s Gregory Power Poetry Award (2007) for emerging student writers. His work has appeared in small press publications in British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia. Born and raised in Musgrave Harbour, a small fishing community located on the north-east coast of Newfoundland, John currently lives in Torbay, Newfoundland with his wife and daughter.

John’s latest poem Pendulum is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence.

Pendulum
by John Hoben

My grandmother said you
were beautiful
and your voice was like
the sound of the first birds of spring
and your long black tresses
fell like the shadow of the moon
on the face of the unmoving sea.

You left your young love
for the city of crowded storefronts
and muddy streets,
a servant girl from Carmanville,
far from your home in the little cove,
where rocky cliffs and rolling
meadows leapfrogged
in the face of the blue
and boundless deep.

But in the end they say
this was the way the thing went:
frantic whispers as creaking steps
approached the wooden door;
his hand across your open mouth
and the long descent
into perfect blackness
you and the child dangling above
the feet you saw so firmly planted
upon the attic floor.

4/8/2010

Twice Upon A Time

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 4/8/2010 @ 11:09 pm

C.C. Phillips is back with his second novel, Twice Upon A Time, and word on the plains is that there are two more ready to be saddled. With a title this nice, you’ll have to read it twice!

Twice Upon A Time

When Tom O’Brien discovers a magazine article featuring a ranch family in western Alberta, he is captivated by the resemblance the Tungstalls bear to the Milto family he knew in the past. While it is said that everyone has a double, O’Brien believes an entire family having a mirror image is beyond coincidence, especially when the family he knew existed nearly fifty years ago.

Follow Tom O’Brien in his quest for answers and his mission to ensure his life is not destroyed by a time dimensional warp. Live with a modern day rancher and his family as they travel to the 1960’s to spend fifteen years in the past, making friends and riding herd through two lifetimes.

Copyright © 2010 by C.C. Phillips. Cover illustration from an oil painting by Dean Francis, 2007. Book Design by Dusty Phillips.

Some Rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada licence.

For more information on the author and his other books, visit http://www.ccphillips.net/.

4/7/2010

Copyright Criminals

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 4/7/2010 @ 3:43 pm

Can you own a sound? A riveting and expansive documentary about the history of music sampling, charting the movement from its inception during the rise of hip-hop to the legal battles that dominate the practice today.

Copyright Criminals

Join Artists’ Legal Outreach and Creative Commons Canada’s West Coast Project Lead Martha Rans for this timely documentary.

Download Copyright Criminals poster.

April 16, 2010: Screening
12 PM, Room 301, South Building,
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island

April 18, 2010: Screening, Q&A, After Party
7 - 10 PM at W2 Storyeum, 151 West Cordova
$10 donation at the door

3/5/2010

RiP! A Remix Manifesto nominated for GENIE Award

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 3/5/2010 @ 1:05 am

RiP! A Remix Manifesto has been nominated for a GENIE Award, Canada’s top film prize. Congratulations to Brett Gaylor, Mila Aung-Thwin, Kat Baulu and Germaine Ying-Gee Wong.

See the film here, in HD, for free: www.nfb.ca/film/rip_a_remix_manifesto/

RiP! A Remix Manifesto

More details on www.eyesteelfilm.com about new films by Eric Roach Denis, Halima Ouardiri, Daniel Cross, Mitchell Kezin, Tony Asimakopolis, Yung Chang, Mia Donovan, Linda Vastrik, Richard Boyce and Marie-Eve Tremblay.

2/28/2010

Vote for Sparky People’s Choice Award

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 2/28/2010 @ 1:31 am

The SPARKY Awards is an international contest that encourages college/university students to create short videos to express their views on open, legal exchange of information in the digital age.

The Sparky Award invites students, faculty, librarians, and others on campus to weigh in for their favorite in the first installment of the Sparky People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award highlights all of the 2009 entries, including dozens from campus-based contest hosts at Penn State, Brigham Young, the University of Pennsylvania, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and others. The winner will receive $500 plus a personalized award certificate.

To vote, visit http://www.sparkyawards.org.

The deadline to vote for the People’s Choice Award is March 7, 2010.

1/10/2010

Preston Diamond In Way-cross

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 1/10/2010 @ 2:29 am

There’s a new rider.. I mean: writer, on the Saskatchewan plains. C.C. Phillips was brought to our attention by his son who wrote “I hope I’m not too biased, but I believe (Phillips’) writing is high quality and worth promoting.” So do we, Dusty - and that’s not just because his initials stand for Creative Commons! Have a ride, I mean: read!

Preston Diamond in Way-cross

Death doesn’t wait for Preston Diamond in Way-cross, it rides out to meet him. And when the “Presidents’ man” arrives in town, Death is not long in catching up.

Way-cross is the hub of an illicit finance and real estate game that has turned sour. High stakes and rampant lawlessness have attracted the attention of the Whitehouse; Diamond has been sent to investigate. Staying alive is a full time job for the emissary though he occasionally allows romantic diversions. Will the most beautiful lady Preston has ever seen be the one to capture his heart? Or will she put a bullet through it?

Copyright © 2009 by C.C. Phillips. Cover Photo by Auburn Phillips. Book Design by Dusty Phillips.

Some Rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada licence.

For more information on the author and his other books, visit http://www.ccphillips.net/

12/5/2009

Xander and the Wind

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 12/5/2009 @ 12:51 am

Xander and the Wind

Xander and the Wind is Book 10 from our favourite scribbler, MCM. If you haven’t gotten to know the man they’re calling “one of the most unique voices working in SciFi today”, click now!

Xander and the Wind

Xander and the wind did not get along. Every time he had a balloon, it flew away. Every time he had an umbrella, it flipped inside-out. Every time he blew soap bubbles, they got in his eyes. Xander knew he had to learn to get along with the wind… but how?

June 25, 2009 / November 26, 2009 / Ages 3+

11/10/2009

The Vector

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 11/10/2009 @ 8:36 pm

The Vector

The Vector is Book 9 from our favourite scribbler, MCM. If you haven’t gotten to know the man they’re calling “one of the most unique voices working in SciFi today”, click now or forever hold your peace!

Eva thought she could outrun the plagues, but she was wrong. The bio-hackers that ripped the world raw are targeting her hometown of Prague, and this time there may be no escaping it.

The Vector

Now, hunted by police who think she’s a hacker herself, Eva must brave the rotting city streets to find her mother before it’s too late. But with a ruthless agent known as a “Healer” on the prowl, it may only be a matter of time before Eva becomes another victim of his blood-soaked carnage.

In this snowy, ash-strewn apocalypse, Eva’s greatest fear is this new threat may not be coincidence at all… it may be personal.

July 20, 2009 - 434 pages - Ages 15+

11/3/2009

The SPARKY Awards

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 11/3/2009 @ 11:49 pm

Contest to promote the open exchange of information

The SPARKY Awards is an international contest that encourages college/university students to create short videos to express their views on open, legal exchange of information in the digital age.

The SPARKY Awards challenges you to illustrate in a short video presentation what you see as the value of sharing information. Use your imagination to suggest what good comes from bringing down barriers to the free exchange of information.

    Rules and Requirements

Videos must:
- Be submitted by December 6, 2009.
- Be no more than 2 minutes in length.
- Have been completed between January 1 and December 6, 2009.
- Be narrated or subtitled in English.
- Be posted on the Internet and available for public use under a Creative Commons license. Acceptable licenses include: Attribution, Attribution-NonCommercial, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, Attribution- ShareAlike, Public Domain.

Visit the SPARKY Awards website for more details and to enter.

8/25/2009

Creative Commons Advice Booth

Filed under: — Marcus Bornfreund on 8/25/2009 @ 9:19 pm

Get CC advice here

Our pal Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Toronto-based Mozilla Foundation, is planning to offer a Creative Commons Advice Booth as part of the upcoming Mozilla Service Week. The 150 .orgs and social entrepreneurs at Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation will surely benefit from his counsel and you can too! If you want to help or attend, post a comment to Mark’s related blog post here.


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