ezra winton

On this day to remember the million and one reasons not to engage in violence in order to solve conflict, Concordia University also held the Winter 2007 Convocation Ceremonies for about 400 of us. It was pretty cool to see some of my cohort (pictured at left with me: Michael Lithgow now at Carleton, and Rebecca Reeve now climbing the corporate ladder with an eye for communication in San Francisco) and some of my profs. The ceremony, awkwardly but also somehow fittingly, held on Remembrance Day, was short and sweet….read more

This is what has taken me so many years to learn: Fight the addictive proclivity toward saying “yes” to every request, as well as to my own ideas for constantly new projects. Ack. I’ve recently had to say no to writing an article on Media Democracy – an honour really, and it sucks that I have no time. I’ve also postponed guest lecturing in a undergraduate class on Canadian film. I’ve indefinitely postponed the “Terrorism(s)” conference and film festival. And yet, where do the days go… On my plate still:…read more

So two days before svetla and i are leaving for europe i get a call from my travel agent in vancouver telling me that varig, the airline i booked with to go from london to sao paulo with on august 6th, has gone belly-up. ticketes may be refunded, so hopefully i get my $2,000 back, but needless to say, i’m worried that i may not make the conference (visible evidence XIII) to give my breathtaking presentation on activist documentary and emerging social and IT networks. oh the troubles of the…read more

In this first entry of temporarilyme v.4.1, i would like to start by saying thank-you to the hundreds of thousands of supporters who have waited patiently for my meak return to the world wide web. Now back, i pledge to offer up weekly blog drivel, old sentimental poetry, poorly conceived photography, uninformed opinions, political diatribes, and the odd film review. I hope you are up for it, world.