nfb

One of my favorite things about Canada is the cornucopia of knowledge that is the NFB. In Toronto and Montreal there exists an NFB store where you can go and watch as many documentaries as you want in a super futuristic a/v station for 2$/day!!! There’s also the possibility of renting videocassettes and taking them home, which i did a few times and made songs out of.

2 Responses to “nfb”

1. Des Shore Says:
   February 8th, 2010 at 8:49 pm

   Canada really gain a cultural superstar when Norman McLaren decided to move there. The quality and foresight of the NFB was apparently his motivation in making the move over from his native Scotland. Usually it is music that moves me the most of all the arts, but Norman’s work is some of the most amazing I have experienced. Pas de Deux is possibly the most beautiful thing I have ever witnessed. He is also a real musical innovator having pioneered a technique where he actually scratched “sounds” onto the optical strip of 35mm film to create the soundtracks on some of his hand painted animations. I could go on forever about this dude. One of my all time heros.

2. g.zilla Says:
   February 10th, 2010 at 10:55 am

   I haven’t seen Pas De Deux. Will check it out!

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