
via nfb.ca With my podcast yesterday about the Canadian government trying to throttle the sharing of the Ministry of Natural Resources scientists, what follows is another short gem from the National...
thinglets: The Underground Movievia nfb.ca A classic from the NFB called "The City". Just be aware there is a couple of minutes of darkscreen video while the music is grooving off the top. If you can't live with that, skip ahead...
thinglets: How Did Canada Sell Itself To The World In 1970?via nfb.ca An absolutely elegant and beautiful selection from nfb.ca. This is like a gentle version of something one might have seen in Koyanisqaatsi series a couple of decades ago. Best part is...
thinglets: Glimpses and Impressions of Canadavia nfb.ca Some wild animation from over 30 years ago provided by the greatest Canadian website around: www.nfb.ca
thinglets: A Surreal Canadiana Look At The Afterlifevia nfb.ca At over 40 years old, not much has changed in our relationship with our vehicles. Suffice to say, if aliens looked at our culture from overhead, they would think that cars represented...
thinglets: What If Cars Represented Life On Earth?via nfb.ca Only the NFB could allow me to travel for millions of miles, hypnotically transfixed, from a rowboat to the galaxies to the atom to the rowboat... gently down the stream. What a trip...
thinglets: Cosmic Zoom - A "Trippy" Animated Shortvia nfb.ca Another great gift via the nfb.ca website. I've never been a huge fan of Leonard Cohen, but the stylish 45 year old look at one of Canada's most popular poets and performers was too...
thinglets: Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohenvia nfb.ca The video embedded above is a very cool 27 minute film documenting the first ever game for the newly-baptized Quebec Nordiques in 1972. It is one of a 12 part series produced by the...
thinglets: My Best 90 Second Video Find Ever!via nfb.ca A great time capsule look at the Canadian view of hockey in 1953. Not much has changed. NHL training camps are opening. My hometown of Hamilton is getting screwed over for a team once...
thinglets: Here's Hockey! 1953via nfb.ca A great nfb.ca film that provides an artistic whirlwind of Russian constructivist art.
thinglets: Tower BawherIn an effort to promote some of the incredible work by the National Film Board of Canada over the past century, I offer the following parable of Frank the Wrabbit. A touch subversive and wholly satirical...
thinglets: Frank the Wrabbitvia youtube.com Many Canadians are all too familiar with this classic cartoon from the National Film Board, but for the benefit of the unitiated, I submit for your perusal, The Cat Came Back. If...
thinglets: the cat came back