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“No More Drug War” Filmfest Double Bill

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Pivot Legal Society is proud to support

“No More Drug War FilmFest Double Bill”  

The British Columbia Compassion Club Society and the Vancouver Island Compassion Society cordially invite you to the No More Drug War Double-Bill Filmfest featuring two exceptional documentaries exploring very different aspects of our failed drug prohibition: Damage Done: the Drug War Odyssey, directed by Connie Littlefield and sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada; and Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine & the Law, directed by Jed Riffe and supported by the Sundance Independent Film Festival.

A community dialogue will follow the screenings with the directors of both films and special guests from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) including former Mayor of Vancouver Senator Larry Campbell (at the Vancouver showing).

When and Where:
Saturday April 14th in Victoria – Roxy Theatre (2657 Quadra Street)
Sunday April 15th in Vancouver – Vancouver International Film Centre (1181 Seymour Street at Davie)

Both locations: 12:30-4:30 p.m. (doors 11:45) Tickets (door only): $10 Regular / $5 Seniors & VICS/BCCCS members.

Special sponsor tickets with reserved seating are also available for $50 each, please call us in advance if you would like to purchase one of these. All proceeds will go to the British Columbia Compassion Club Society (www.thecompassionclub.org) and Vancouver Island Compassion Society (www.thevics.com).

For more information contact:
Victoria: Philippe Lucas, 250-884-9821; phil at thevics dot com
Vancouver: Rielle Capler, 604-875-0214; rielle at thecompassionclub dot org

We hope to see you there! Rielle Capler and Philippe Lucas

P.S. Special thanks to the following supporting organizations:
The National Film Board of Canada
TIDES Canada Foundation
The Center for Addictions Research of B.C.
Canadians for Safe Access
Creative Resistance
Voices of Substance
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Pivot Legal Society
B.C. Persons With AIDS Society
Society of Living Injection Drug Users of Victoria B.C. Civil Liberties Association

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pic o’ the day: Look Out, Bindi!!!

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Lookout, Bindi!

via Defamer. Crocodile Hunter‘s eldest gives a speech.

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raincoaster, caught on film!

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or pixels, as the case may be. Thanks to Mistress Cowfish for the heartbreakingly lovely image (oops, need to get my arms waxed):

The Power of Books

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300: the secret to blockbuster success

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It’s really very simple. I’ve met a number of straight men who are mystified that women would ever want to watch such a militaristic bloodbath of a movie, even suggest it for a date movie, but they’re missing a key ingredient for proper appreciation of everything this cinematic comic book has to offer:

Estrogen.

stolen from Defamer, who also have a marvelous little Cute Overload meets 300 mashup.

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Operation Global Media Domination: Etiquette: sharing the glory

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tia.jpgNot that, in our current Photobusted state, there’s much glory to go around, but still.

The sharp-eyed and sharper-brained among you will notice that not long ago I began making my images live links to their source websites (at least for the first occurance; after that it gets harder to keep track). It seems to me that this is the least I can do for the people who make and upload images, and it gives them a bit of the Googlejuice; also, I’ve yet to have a complaint about it.

It all started in this post, which was linked to by ECNPA, a photography association, some of whose forum members became seriously irate that I’d used the images at all. As you can see from the first comment, the photographers in question weren’t nearly so outraged, but it nudged me into thinking about ways to give credit where credit was due: after all, always I do that for text, no exceptions. Why should other art forms be treated differently? And this was the best workaround I could come up with; it shows the image in context and has, at least once, resulted in a commenter leading us to the actual, original source, rather than the bogus blogscraper that I’d gotten it from originally.

So I’d encourage people to post images, and to properly accredit those images with a link. The webmasters will like that as well. The photo agencies currently suing Perez Hilton have publically stated that if they had only been given credit for the photos this wouldn’t have gone to court, and I for one will take them at their word although it must be said that it’s much easier for someone dirt poor to face a lawsuit because the entire realm of monetary awards resides entirely in the theoretical sphere, and everyone knows it. They may or may not be sincere.

Still, picture it: 

TIA, yo 

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