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My Dark Elf army is the greatest power for evil!

Chris Frampton — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:22:27 +0000

A short film about a lonely security guard and his lovingly painted army of lead fantasy miniatures.

“My dark elf army is the greatest power for evil in the lower mainland of British Columbia” is for anyone who grew up in the suburbs in the 1980s, played Dungeons & Dragons, thought knowing martial arts would get them chicks, or still lives in their parents’ basement.

MDEAITGPFEITLMOBC was mentioned on Time Magazine’s Nerdworld blog. Stay to the end for the crack-up reel.

Beatbox Street Poetry: Darcy Corbett

Chris Frampton — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:05:56 +0000

Darcy Corbett is a poet and spoken word artist.

He and I shot a couple of quick takes of him performing one of his poems and beatboxing on Bloor Street near Dufferin Street in Toronto.

This short video is a quadtych — a set of 4 images or works that are meant to be considered together. With the exception of the lower right frame in which Darcy performs the poem, each of the other three frames are clips of Darcy beatboxing which are mixed together to create the music track.