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Wow it's been quite awhile since I've updated this site. Working on getting this re-vamped sometime in the next few months. Stay tuned! 13.6.05 // Writer, performance artist and all-around-creative-genius Miranda July is finally releasing her first feature film, which she's written, directed and stars in, called "Me and You and Everyone We Know". It's already won a slew of awards at Cannes, as well as a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for "Originality of Vision", something July has plenty of. Also, Directors Label is finally releasing the next 4 DVDs in their series showcasing the collected work of music video masters. The 4 directors featured this time around are: Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, Anton Corbin and Stephane Sednaoui. Together with the first 3 in the series, these DVDs pretty much represent the best music videos ever made. 10.12.04 // JUST LAUNCHED! I justed wrapped up work on the newly redesigned Hitachi.ca. 25.5.04 // Welcome to the new & improved JacobSharrard.com. Let me know what you think by signing the guestbook or dropping me an email. Thanks for visiting! 23.4.04 // Hey, remember Flexi-discs? Those paper-thin plastic records that used to come with childrens books, in magazines and in all shapes and sizes? Well, Sony has just introduced it's modern-day equivalent: the paper DVD. Start looking for DVDs in cereal boxes, in your junk mail, and even places AOL hasn't thought of! 5.3.04 // Brilliant screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) has teamed up for a second time with director Michel Gondry (of Bjork, White Stripes & Chemical Bros. videos fame) for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Thier first collaboration was 2001's underrated Human Nature. 20.1.04 // If you're like me and have had George A. Romero on the brain since 28 Days Later came out last year, you might be excited to hear that a remake of his classic Dawn of the Dead comes out in March, starring the tremendously watchable Sarah Polley. And have you seen that Peaches/Iggy Pop video??? 18.9.03 // Multimedia artiste extrordinaire Miranda July has a posse. And that posse is Learning to Love You More. Coming to a high-school gymnasium near you. 10.9.03 // The music video bible, in three parts. 12.8.03 // The outer beauty of flowers has been captured by artists in every medium imaginable. But in the 1960s, a humble dental radiography teacher named Albert G. Richards turned his attention, and x-ray machine to their intricate and multi-faceted innards. 14.7.03 // Traditional sculpture materials like wood and marble are just so lifeless. Check out how Tim Prentice uses wind and physics to create pulsating, breathing mobiles. And Arthur Ganson's delicate machines each carry out their designated functions with infinate emotion and character. 25.4.03 // Lost amoung news reports about four-letter words like SARS and IRAQ, was the tragic news that Nina Simone died at home in the South of France at 70 years old. We've lost not just an immensly talented singer and songwriter, but an emotive political voice for civil rights and humanity. 26.2.03 // Fun with stencils! 30.1.03 // Stream of conciousness web design: Oculart. 12.12.02 // A little Holiday interlude: To Kate, Skating Better Than Her Date By David Daiches Wait, Kate! You skate at such a rate You leave behind your skating mate. Your splendid speed won't you abate? He's lagging far behind you Kate. He brought you on this skating date His shy affection thus to state, But you on skating concentrate And leave him with a woeful weight Pressed in his heart. Oh, what a state A man gets into, how irate He's bound to be with life and fate If, when he tries to promulgate His love, the loved one turns to skate Far, far ahead to demonstrate Superior speed and skill. Oh, hate Is sure to come of love, dear Kate. If you so treat your skating mate. Turn again, Kate, or simply wait Until he comes, then him berate (Coyly) for catching up so late. For, Kate, he knows your skating's great. He's seen your splendid figure eight, He is not here to contemplate Your supersonic skating rate- That is not why he made the date. He's anxious to expatiate On how he want's you for his mate. And don't you want to hear him, Kate?
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