Archive for March 31st, 2011 31 Mar 2011 Andalusia without sky No Comments News, Photographs This is a series from Southern Spain —Granada, Seville, the Alpujarra range, the coast at Nerja, and Cordoba. I was traveling to meet a colleague at a film conference, and spent a week exploring this magical region, Andalusia, alone. I…
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The Ranch Project was an art installation in the foothills of the Rockies, which Steve DeNure and I filmed over the course of year, through the 4 seasons, with his ingenious time-lapse 16 mm Bolex photography. In the film-on-art genre, ‘Ranch’ is a clever mix of old Westerns, TV news, and gorgeous experimental film making…
Here is a clip from an award winning film I produced in 1981-82: a biography of the Canadian painter Jack Chambers. I worked with director/cinematographer John Walker and Altantis Films. TO SEE THE FILM, YOU CAN RENT IT TO STREAM, OR BUY THE DVD. GO TO THE ‘SHOP’ SECTION OF THIS WEBSITE (Link at the…
I had a darkroom in Kathmandu in 1978, provided by German friends who had brought the equipment in their Magic Bus from Munich. This is some of the photo printing work that I did during several weeks that I lived there during my slow road trip around the world. The Kathmandu valley was saturated and…
04 Apr 2011 Public Speaking In January 2014 I led a workshop at the Sustainability Education conference at University of Toronto called Games for Change: Using Games with Senior Grades to advance Curriculum Objectives This workshop was geared toward teachers who work with senior grades. At least half of the teachers who came to the…
Archive for April 27th, 2011 27 Apr 2011 Ranch: The Alan Wood Ranch Project (excerpt) No Comments Film The video cannot be shown at the moment. Please try again later. The Ranch Project was an art installation in the foothills of the Rockies, which Steve DeNure and I filmed over the course of year, through…
Archive for April 4th, 2011 04 Apr 2011 Public Speaking No Comments Public Speaking In January 2014 I led a workshop at the Sustainability Education conference at University of Toronto called Games for Change: Using Games with Senior Grades to advance Curriculum Objectives This workshop was geared toward teachers who work with senior grades. At…
Archive for April 3rd, 2011 03 Apr 2011 Kathmandu Darkroom No Comments Photographs, Uncategorized I had a darkroom in Kathmandu in 1978, provided by German friends who had brought the equipment in their Magic Bus from Munich. This is some of the photo printing work that I did during several weeks that I lived there…
Archive for May 24th, 2013 24 May 2013 Sustainability In Action: People, Planet and Prosperity No Comments Words Sustainability In Action: People, Planet and Prosperity Metcalf Research Paper by Chris Lowry, August 2012 “Any cultural movement will fail if it can’t paint a picture of a world where people want to go to.” – Martin…
Archive for October 18th, 2013 18 Oct 2013 Welcome to Ecotone Comments Off on Welcome to Ecotone News October 2018 *** Please scroll down here for the latest Ecotone news and projects *** Songs of Innocence and Experience. The Echotones are an intimate cabaret-style group of Toronto-based artists who bring fresh interpretations to the work…
Oliver Sacks is simply a delightful writer, and this essay partakes of that pleasure. Oaxaca Journal crackles with botanical and ecological information framed for its meaning, not merely presented as scientific factoids.
After I left Médecins Sans Frontières in 2002, it took me some time to sort out my thoughts and feelings about that extraordinary organization.