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MonSFFA Meeting August 23

Mark your calendars! The August 23rd meeting of MonSFFA will be extra special as Keith Braithwaite leads a project to create a stop motion production.

The theme for this meeting is PAPER.

Got some fancy, unusual papers?  Show and Tell! Earn points toward the Christmas participation draw!

August Impulse Now on Line

The August issue of Impulse is now available for download.  Click here.

 

CREATIVE GROUP PROJECT PLANNED FOR AUGUST CLUB MEETING

 

We’re changing things up a little as we resume the club’s regular meeting schedule with our traditional August “fancraft” meeting this coming Sunday. Rather than the familiar series of hobbyist and crafting workshops we’ve been hosting for the past several years, this year we’re planning a group project. We’ve come up with the idea of making a short stop-motion film employing paper cut-outs.

Keith Braithwaite has devised the proposed film’s simple story: a variety of dinosaurs are grazing in a prehistoric landscape, when suddenly, a meteor streaks from the heavens, dropping onto one of the dinosaurs and crushing the hapless creature. Then another, and another meteor falls, each taking out an individual dinosaur until there are none left. The title of the piece is Theories of Dinosaur Extinction—Number One: The Meteor Theory. The potential for sequels is apparent, should this venture prove successful!

We will create the characters, backgrounds, and other elements from coloured construction paper and such, artistically enhanced using crayons, pastels, or pencils. We may also, perhaps, incorporate parts of photographs culled from magazines or newspapers to further heighten a particular look.

We’ll tap the artistic talents of our members to draw, colour, paste, carefully cut-out, and animate the piece. MonSFFen are therefore asked to come prepared: bring in a couple pairs of scissors or a utility knife, a roll or two of scotch tape, and any scraps of coloured construction paper, cardboard, wrapping paper, and such that might be applied to the project. A couple of glue sticks, too, would no doubt come in handy. Note that for practical reasons, we’ll be working with dry mediums, so no paints, please.

If you have old magazines, posters, or photos that you can contribute to the project, bring these in, as well. Of particular interest would be any organic images of nature—plants, forest or meadow landscapes, etc.—or anything in the green or brown colour ranges that might be cannibalized for the purpose of decorating a prehistoric landscape.
Time allowing, we’ll set up an animation stand and shoot the picture at the meeting. We estimate that a 30-second short will require some 720 individual frames. If that proves too ambitious to manage within the few hours available to us, we’ll simply complete the project at a subsequent meeting. But we certainly expect to have enough time to design and create all of the elements needed, and at least get some of the animation completed.

So MonSFFen, bring your supplies and drink deep that morning of your creative juices!

New photo gallery

New content has been added under the tab: Our Photo Galleries, including a short video of displays.

Enjoy!

Sneak Peak

Hey, MonSFFA members, take a sneak peak at Keith’s cover art for WARP 92!

http://www.monsffa.ca/?page_id=1314

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Tom Moore (1928-2015) & Theodore Bikel (1924-2015

Tom Moore was the artist for the Archie comics. He drew Archie & his friends off and on from 1953 to the late 1980s.  Annual sales of the comic regularly surpassed half a million during the 60s. Read more:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/archie-cartoonist-tom-moore-dead-at-86-1.3163014

Theodore Bikel, acted in everything and anything, from the original Broadway musical, Sound of Music, to the role of Worf’s adopted father,  Sergey Rozhenko  in ST:TNG.  He was also a social activist, participating in voter registration drives during the civil rights movement, and a demo outside the Soviet embassy to protest the Soviet treatment of Jewish citizens.   And somehow he still found time to be a folksinger, co-foundeding  the Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger, Harold Leventhal, Oscar Brand, and George Wein.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Bikel

 

 

New content for MonSFFA members

MonSFFA 2015.05.31-12sNew content has been added to the members’  pages. Click the members’ tab above to reveal links to video recorded at the Belle et la Boeuf, Random photos of the meeting of May 31st, and more from Sylvain regarding his presentation on “Those Early Futures”.

hose Early Futures-01:  Travelling House, from the "En l'an 200" card series (1899), by Jean-Marc Côté
Those Early Futures-01: Travelling House, from the “En l’an 200” card series (1899), by Jean-Marc Côté

If you are a member, you should have received the password by e-mail. If you didn’t there is a contact form you can access from the tab.

 

March 22nd Meeting

We moved our meeting to the 22nd to avoid the St Patrick’s Day Parade, then the Parade moved to the 22nd to avoid the manif against police brutality, but the latter wanting to celebrate “La St-Patrack” also moved to the 22nd.

If you can, approach the hotel from the south, or come early  (Doors open at 10 AM), enjoy our movie matinée at noon, and avoid the traffic hurdles.

“The parade begins at noon at Fort St. and ends approximately three hours later at Phillips Square. Meanwhile, anti-police demonstrators are expected to start protesting close by — at the corner of Guy St. and de Maisonneuve Blvd. — at 1:30 p.m., just as the parade floats by.”

Impulse archives

Newly added content:  I’ve now uploaded the archives for Impulse all the way back to 2006.  Trip down memory lane!