Discover the history of cinema in Quebec between 1930 and 1952

We had the chance to have bird’s eye view on a very interesting project that was launched a week ago at the Cinémathèque Québécoise. Cinema in Quebec: the talkies and beyond, 1930-1952 is a project coming out of the University of Montreal in partnership with just about every government institution, including the NFB and Canadian Heritage.

The website offers numerous free resources in order to help us discover the little known history of cinema in Quebec between the arrival of sound film and the arrival of television. These resources include:

• Over seventy films, including an abstract of the famous La petite Aurore l’enfant martyre, as well as the first ever movie in which William Shatner played: The Butler’s night off.
• Dozens of scholarly essays on themes such as Hollywood in Quebec and World War Two.
• An interactive map that allows users to view films and theatres according to each of Quebec’s
• A timeline describing the major events in the history of cinema in Quebec, Canada and the rest of the World

Make sure to visit this beautiful site, designed by Akufen (who also programmed the front-end) with back-end development by Itech Canada.

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Invitation :: Bluesponge aime le Nouveau Cinéma!

Chers Amis,

Joignez-vous à nous pour célébrer le Nouveau Cinéma dans la tanière de son Festival, au Coeur des sciences de l’UQÀM [175, Président-Kennedy, H2X 0A3], le jeudi 8 octobre dès 17 heures.

Une soirée signée Bluesponge. Ne pas manquer.

À jeudi!

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Dear Friends,

Please join us to celebrate Nouveau Cinema in the lair of its Festival, at the Coeur des sciences de l’UQÀM [175, Président-Kennedy, H2X 0A3] on Thursday October 8th, as of 5PM.

Pure Bluesponge style. Not to be missed.

See you Thursday!

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Fo Show! Faites-vous tester!!

Creative enough?

Enter our contest: Faites-vous tester!

You’ll win champagne, Bluesponge private party entry, internships, sponsorships or even a job.

Send us your creations at creator@bluesponge.com or tweet them @bluesponge

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Consommation media inchangée à Montréal en hiver 09

malgré les -27degrés ce matin, les Montréalais gardent le moral et maintiennent leurs habitudes de lecture et d’écoute audio.  La preuve! (les ipod ont un peu capoté par contre)

Media consumption unchanged in Montréal, despite an icelandic -27 degrees celsius this morning. Sorry for theipod camera glitch.

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7 fingers leap onto Bluesponge homepage series

Bluesponge’s latest homepage series video is now live and loved! This time, we finally partnered up with the inspiringly twisted 7 fingers acrobats to co-promote their new show, La Vie, that fires up September 23 (tickets on Tohu) and Bluesponge’s “At Home Online” campaign. The fabulous Jack Walton, also known as DJ Jack from the Dubstep experiment, filmed, directed and edited the video.  A hilarious and well run day, with endless entertainment from our acrobatic team. Highlights included the appearance of the 3 year old daughter who’s already stepping into her dad’s shoes pulling stunts that made me feel woozy just watching. The result can be seen on our homepage.  Huge thanks to: The 7 fingers; Make-up by Jacqueline Bui; Filmed, directed and edited by Jack Walton; Conception and creative direction by Marian Kolev (Bluesponge); Music by Hardsteppers  

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• from facebook.

  Love the music
  Love the video
  Great job.

  ipub canada
  ipub.ca.cx

  Comment by ipub 22.09.08 4:16 pm

• I really like that video !!!
  What is the original audio track ?
  Thank you.

  Comment by hadrien 22.09.08 4:16 pm

• Thanks for the compliment! The track is Jezebel by the Hardsteppers, friends here in Montreal.

  Comment by Anna Sjostrom 22.09.08 4:16 pm

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la Vie en ligne

On a tous une liste, quelque part, de choses à faire avant d’y passer. Et bien la nôtre vient de se prendre une nouvelle coche. On rêvait de travailler avec les 7 doigts de la main, de faire profiter nos projets de leur génie, talent, audace.

Et bien c’est fait. Et qu’est-ce qu’ils étaient à la hauteur!!

Une journée de tournage orchestrée par le brillant Jack Walton autour de notre dernière maxime : At home online, et des dizaines d’acrobaties petites et grandes, hallucinantes. Bref on est fan.

Le résultat sur Bluesponge.com, en feuilleton de page d’accueil. 

Rendez-vous à la Tohu pour vivre leur tout dernier spectacle La Vie, on sera tous là dès le 23 septembre, au premier rang.

Conception et direction créative par Marian Kolev (Bluesponge). Un dernier Big up! à Jackie Bui, pour le make-up. Et à Hardsteppers pour la musique.

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mobilisation générale

27.08.08 

Lors d’un rassemblement à la SAT contre les coupures dans la culture canadienne, les soldats de la paix prennent les armes.

Tour à tour, ils portent leurs voix à l’écrit, et laissent “un p’tit mot pour la culture”.

Une initiative de Varial, Sandra Bagaria et Émilie Grenier (Bluesponge)

Voir la galerie

Lire le manifeste

Joindre le groupe Facebook  

À vous.

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Wordle….

What’s on our minds?

Play with wordle.net 

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Pangea Day 2008 – an inspiring note from a Bluesponge guest

One of our visitors to Bluesponge for this year’s wonderful Pangea Day wrote us a kind letter, which he was happy for us to post on our blog. A note from Dwight Smith, our guest blogger….

I want to sincerely thank the Bluesponge team for generously making your beautiful space available to those wanting to participate as a group in Pangea Day on May 10th last. I was curious as to what would motivate a communications firm to associate itself with an event such as Pangea Day. I was deeply impressed that the motivation behind opening Bluesponge to the public appeared to be a genuine desire to participate in a meaningful event for its own merits with no ulterior motives or concern as to how this might reflect on your studio’s reputation.

It is refreshing to find a place like Bluesponge that gives a very real impression of being devoted to the true spirit of communication, meaning dialogue in the widest and fullest sense. In your mission statement I was particularly impressed by the: “We are ardent globalisers––of people not trade––and we always make sure there are more ethnicities in our team than members. We fear conformity.” Contained in that statement is a very pertinent reference to the existence of a newer kind of global citizen, one whose genealogy and culture transcends boundaries and nations and reflects a consciousness that is capable of embracing the highest realities of what it means to be globally united. That you are not conforming is self-evident!

In my own experience I have found one of the most difficult challenges in acting within a world, especially when part of that activity involves commerce and trade, (as just about any activity does today,) is that of finding a balance between secular and spiritual concerns. For the most part, we are too easily convinced that spiritual concerns have no business (pun intended!) in the secular affairs of our world; that it is something we must do on our own at night or on the weekend, privately and discretely. I disagree and suspect that Bluesponge management might do too. What I felt at Bluesponge, albeit only a glimpse, is that there exists a true desire on the part of the owners and the team to inculcate meaningful values into what it is that you do not only as professionals, but as human beings. For that, and for whatever degree my presumptions are true, I congratulate you and encourage you to maintain your course no matter what setbacks may occur along the way. It makes me think of one of my favourite writers, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in his book “The Divine Milieu” when he wrote to a friend concerning that friend’s concern as a successful businessman on how to harmonize detachment and attachment so that they complement one another.

“You are still having some difficulty in justifying to yourself the euphoria of a soul immersed in ‘business.’ I must point out to you that the really important thing is that you are actually experiencing that feeling of well-being. … How, you ask, can the success of a commercial enterprise bring with it moral progress? And I answer, in this way, that since everything in the world follows the road to unification, the spiritual success of the universe is bound up with the correct functioning of every zone of that universe and particularly with the release of every possible energy in it. Because your enterprise (which I take to be legitimate [sic]) is going well, a little more health is being spread in the human mass, and in consequence a little more liberty to act, to think, and to love… Because you are doing the best you can (though you may sometimes fail) you are forming your own self within the world, and you are helping the world to form itself around you.”

I understand that given my very brief encounter with Bluesponge that I am taking liberties with such a long-winded response but I was genuinely moved by your generosity and what it was that appeared to motivate it, so please consider this an awkward attempt on my part to show my heartfelt appreciation.

Dwight Smith

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  Comment by uttedalus 02.07.08 1:52 pm

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open doors, ouf

 
photo par David Lesieur

ça fait des jours qu’on veut blogger sur open doors, le happening de Design Montréal…

ça fait des jours qu’on reporte au lendemain parce qu’on sait pas par quel angle le prendre…et comme dans toute bonne chose, d’autres l’ont fait à notre place (big smile)

trève de fainéantise, donc, et voilà ce qu’ils ont dit:

david lesieur 

tamao funahashi

ipub.ca.cx 

rendez-vous dans un an, même bat cave. 

ps. on vous aime.  

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Did you ever wonder…

Did you ever scratch your head, wondering what a day at an interactive agency such as Bluesponge would be like?

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We could be heroes

On a toujours aimé Diane Chenevert. Non, admiré.

Elle est du sourire de tous les enfants qui font vivre le Centre de répit Philou, qu’elle a fondé avec son mari il y a trois ans pour accueillir les familles dont un ou plusieurs enfants sont touchés par des handicaps sévères. 

Ce soir, Bluesponge ferme la shoppe et file au Medley où la levée de fonds annuelle du Centre à lieu. Pour l’occasion, Diane nous avait demandé un slideshow pour accompagner la voix de Nanette Workman reprennant Heroes de Bowie. On a fait mieux.  

On est allé frapper chez Moment Factory, où nos amis nous attendaient à bras ouverts et remplis d’équipement, en plus de nous prêter Sindre Ulvik-Péladeau, VJ sensible au talent généreux. 

La répet’ à elle seule nous a tous fait pleurer…

Voir les photos sur Flickr

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Spring homepage video launched!

Us spongers have spring in our step, feeling jolly and gay. So what better way to celebrate than with our new homepage video. We like it. We like it a lot. Oh, and big up to Pat!

www.bluesponge.com

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• Love it! But now I can’t get out of my head this whistle song that marines sing after getting laid in Spring… So Fassbinder of you! Very well done. Pat, the red scarf is a keeper!
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  Comment by Rainer Weiner 09.04.08 1:18 pm

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Heading South by Southwest

La voyage a été long, très long. Avec un arrêt prolongé à Cleveland et une sortie d’échapée belle comme les jet de star wars qui s’éloignent de death star qui explose.

Puis arrivée à Austin ensoleillée deux heures avant le panel de mouna. Génial! girl techno power!! Why sewing and knittin still matter.

http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060412

Un autre panel bizarroide était celui pour le meilleur mauvais projet. Une gang d’allumés (parmi les meilleurs blogueurs et commentateurs du domaine) pitchaient leur projets à un vrai VC qui devait choisir le pire dans lequel investir. En sortant, il était difficile de distinguer la réalité du spectacle. Hmmm! Ensuite, j’ai participé à un panel sur l’innovation canadienne dans les nouveaux médias en remplacement à Keith de Xenophile media à Toronto.

http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060310

Mais l’événement central, pour ne pas dire fondemental de sxsw 2008 était sans conteste l’entrevueFiasco (Business Week) de Sarah Lacy avec Mark Zuckerberg, fondateur de Facebook. En fait l’entrevue a été le clou de sxsw 2008, tout comme Twitter a été le clou de 2007 et les blogs celui de 2003. Difficile de décrire en quelques mots ce événement mémorable (en sortant, on avait mal au ventre tellement c’était intense). La prise de contrôle d’un événement par la foule (Wired) pourrait être interprétée comme l’aboutissement des réseaux sociaux agissant en temps réel.Il est possible d’accéder à l’entrevue sur All facebook

au http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/03/mark-zuckerberg-sarah-lacy-interview-video/

mais vous ne vivrez pas le chose comme en vrai.

Dommage.

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• astounding proficiency virtually territory

  Comment by elaleelicaisa 14.03.08 7:21 pm

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mouna’s XO

more like a neon bible:

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Lost in translation

Laurent Ropers soaks up Japan!The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), a Japanese government related organization, and the City of Kobe have invited 4 Quebec’s company to Japan’s most vibrant economic community. As Kobe wants to elevate to “city of design” by UNESCO, they are keen to soak up recent Montreal design trends and urban planning strategies. I’m thrilled to be part of this delegation along my new friend Bruno Braen, from Cabinet Bruno- Braen, Charles Le Pierres from Teenflow, and Patrick Messier from Messier designers. It gives me the opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of the Japanese design industry, meeting key players in the private and public sector in order to initiate business discussions. Naturally I’m also discovering a very different and fascinating culture, with such rich tradition and pride.

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• Bravo Laurent ! Nous attendons avec impatience ton retour

  Comment by Briac 01.02.08 3:13 pm

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