Thursday, April 27, 2023



 

Good Morning Heavenly Creator, son of man  and  your mother Mary, Father Joseph. Please grant Marianne Sundown safe passage to your  territory of  grace, love and peace.  Grant peace and  comfort to  her family, siblings and all who knew her. Thank you for this day, my breath, and all that is good in my life

Good Day all,   Studying  Indigenous Studies for exam tomorrow. Rent paid, food  secured, internet secured, and I have my guitar  and microphone to perform  avec my little Guitar/vocal  portable amp lol.

Marianne was always nice to  me  in my  crossings with her in Vancouver. Whether  with friends or    the women who graced  my life  Kim Soo Goodtrack, Ms. O'Sullivan, or   my former wife Laila Hansen, she always had a smile and a laugh for me. I do have a pic of here from the 1999 Assembly of First Nations and National Congress of American Indians Conference where I performed for all , whereupon I was followed by Redbone lol.  These pixs are all that is  available   in front of me now, I have to look for her pics in my cultural and historical  archives. Brother and son  keep telling me to purge  my crap and  throw out old papers and stuff. But then I would not have had this pamphlet from July 27th, 1996.  It was a special month and day. Laila and I met  three weeks earlier, I wrote up her Telefilm proposal, produced her  video and  we fell in love, and got married August 6th, 1996  after this event on July which happened to be my  birthday , (along with my twin brother of course, who was elsewhere  that evening.) Laila and I helped choreographed the models, did our modelling thing , and the after the event, everyone gathered  in the foyer area. Someone  got a chocolate cake for me,  to my surprise, but  it was   downplayed when someone pushed my face into the cake, Sure  sweet, but I was annoyed lol  So these pics  have some great words  on it, Curious if anyone else has  this for her family in Vancouver. If not  family can  copy it, or if  the family wants the large original scans , they can inbox me for them XOXOX to all

Saturday, April 22, 2023

4K NDNs & DOGs Hybrid Doc of Theatre, Rehearsal, Discussion & Performan...


Hi This is a 4 K Export  which turned out better than the first 4 K export  which   propelled me to upload the  lesser format  aspect ratio frame. It must be noted, Artist Rick Harry created The Kanasatake Installation in the 1991 footage of Indians & Dogs first Performance event at the Neo-Nativist time at the Pitt Gallery. As I said, this is  a hybrid redo documentary performance of my multimedia show from the 1990s Indians and dogs with the late Jimy Sidler and late James Nicholas, theatre direction by late Lisa Sazama for the 1994 production. Original Footage was either C-VHS, VHS S-VHS and  Hi8 Video tape .Edit was  on a SONY S-VHS Video deck capable of Insert Edits and basic two channel  system for sound.  Hi-8 Camera  footage  was  direct from Camera  thru S-VHS and RCA Connecters through a G-lock device  attached to the 2000 Commodore Amiga System 64 meg hard drive. Signal  then was outputted to the SONY DECK  for Assemble editing so sound work was  limited outside of  a mixer.  I had no switcher at the time. Favel still created with the Brilliance Graphic program by Anthony Favel MacNab. Animation  created by Mr. Morin. Kim Soo Good track created  a lot of the computer graphics as well. The Commodore   system at the time was great for my work as an artist. From the animation, computer graphics, title credits, and music scores, It was great for it's time.  So this redo  , I did some basic fixing of  glitches, re processed the audio through Adobe audition software, and used Premiere to create the hybrid and Viola. Once I secure a Hi8 deck,  and  better systems, I will re-edit original footage   digitally lol   I got it done for his grandson's birthday which is today.
 I sent them the audio so we can listen to a play when he's in bed or whatever and here's the video so it's old VHS format so i probably best of watching small screen take care of all

 Indians and dogs with the late Jimy Sidler, late James Nicholas and with Anthony Favel and myself directed by late  Lisa Sazama, Jimmy's companion Miigweech https://youtu.be/BcvKWW7fs8w

Sunday, April 16, 2023

NDNs & DOGs Hybrid Doc Multi Media Play 91 94

Hi all hello all this is a hybrid redo documentary performance of my multimedia show from the 1990s Indians and dogs with the late Jimy Sidler I got it done for his grandson's birthday which is today.
 I sent them the audio so we can listen to a play when he's in bed or whatever and here's the video so it's old VHS format so i probably best of watching small screen take care of all

 Indians and dogs with the late Jimy Sidler, late James Nicholas and with Anthony Favel and myself directed by late  Lisa Sazama, Jimmy's companion