Weekend Preview

Begins Friday Calgary International Film Festival More than 200 local, national and international films are featured during the 10 days of the Calgary International Film Festival. Be sure to check out the Youth by Youth Cinema Competition this Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Plaza Theatre, which includes 15 films by youth ranging in age…

Arts Around Calgary: The BeiJing Opera Festival

(picture courtesy of http://appletravel.cn/news-10032.html) The Chinese Opera Festival was one of the performing arts highlights of the Calgary Chinatown Centennial celebration. With the unique collaboration of traditional BeiJing Opera artists and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jubilee Auditorium was filled with lively Eastern music. It was certainly a rare treat for Calgarians to see this…

The Future of Photography

As printed in the Scarlett FEVER. On Aug. 31 , 2010, Canon Inc. announced its newest image sensor for digital cameras – a CMOS sensor the size of your face. At 202 x 205mm, this new image sensor has absolutely no precedent in an age where most cameras have a sensor smaller than a pinky…

Ideas Worth Spreading

It’s my favourite website. It’s one of my greatest sources of inspiration. It’s something I recommend to everyone: Ted.com There I find videos of “talks” (presentations, speeches) at Ted conferences. But what is Ted? In 1984, it started out as a conference to bring toether ideas from three realms- technology, entertainment, and design. T.E.D. –…