#Don MacKinnon

[ifreakingloveroyals]

25 September 2016 | Sophie Gregoire Trudeau talks with Prince William, Duke of Cambridge on a tour of the Kitsilano Coast Guard Station for a first responders showcasein Vancouver, British Columbia. (c) Don MacKinnon/AFP via Getty Images

[heartbreakfeelsgoodinablog]

Two worlds - one new adventure!

[grahamkennedy]

Okay so I know none of you are into Don's Party but I'm writing what is possibly going to be the first ever fic of this obscure fucking movie that has me by the balls.

I've always reckoned Mack has to be nickname, right? Like it's just not a name a middle aged Australian man in 1969 is going to have as a first name. And given it has a K on the end, it's gotta be a play on the last name that starts MacK. Personally I'm thinking MacKinnon. So like. What would his first name be? I'm thinking Daniel but like. I feel like I can do better. Any suggestions?

Note: he looks like this ⬇️

[containerization]

Canadian National and CPKC transport the equivalent of roughly $281 billion worth of goods annually. Photo: Don MacKinnon/Agence France-Presse

[justforbooks]

An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape--from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction.

One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day--and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks.

As the storm quickly invades the surrounding Highlands, the roads become impassable and the phone lines fall dead. When the icy temperatures plummet further, an injured man stumbles into the hotel lobby from the blizzard. Police Constable Don Gaines has been in a car accident on the mountain road, and Remie welcomes him to safety. Gaines tells her that the other survivor of the accident is a dangerous prisoner who is now at-large; and Gaines is sure he is heading their way.

Then a second injured visitor arrives--also introducing himself as Constable Don Gaines. Both claim to want to protect Remie and the hotel's remaining guests. Both are convincing. Remie doesn't know who to trust.

But she must endure a deadly night before dawn breaks, and if she doesn't succumb to the cold, one of these men will surely kill her first. And she has no idea why they have chosen to come to the MacKinnon Hotel . . .

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[acaseforpencils]

Victoria Roberts Talks about Animation.

Today's interview on Case is a little bit different—I had been seeing Victoria's lovely animations on Instagram, and asked her if she might be interested in talking about them on here. She kindly obliged, so I sent her a loose list of questions to consider, and she sent me back such an incredible rumination on her experiences that I replied back to her "This is so cool! You are so cool!" because though I was expecting something incredible (Victoria being Victoria after all!), it wouldn't be dramatic for me say that I was thunderstruck! Anyways, I hope you all enjoy reading what she has to say as much as I did! —Jane

Find this print here!

On Animation

I’m so fortunate to be working on what I love.

It’s been a long haul in a way. I came to New York City from Sydney, Australia, because I wanted to run away with the Wooster Group-that is, do theatre. Or film. I was already a cartoonist, and I became one under contract to The New Yorker, an enormous privilege, thirty odd years ago.

But since last month, thanks to a software named Callipeg, I make an animated short every week, for which I do the voices, called “Axolotl Mondays.” Finally, I’m in the movies!

To be a performer and tell stories, or at least vignettes, is my passion. At nineteen, with $5000 from the Creative Development Fund of The Australia Council, we made “Goodbye Sally Goldstein”, a five minute animated film. I had three collaborators:

Rob Rogers, composer and musician, Kathryn Pentecost, and Jacqueline Field who drew and painted. From the sound recording, inking and painting, to the shoot, it took six months to complete. My favourite task in all of this was doing the sound breakdown, which consisted of manually running the soundtrack tape through a reader (not sure what the device was called) and jotting down the length of each sound so that you could animate to the soundtrack.

David Deneen founder of Film Graphics was my inspiration and coach. What I knew about animation came from time spent over the school holidays in his studio thanks to my mum, who worked in advertising and got me the gig. They were making an animated ad for Witchy Brew, an ice cream, and I remember they said it wasn’t until they boiled spaghetti that they got the right sound for the witch’s cauldron. 

Every animator had a different style, and each animator’s desk, covered in drawings, felt like a different universe. Val Udowenko and Don Mackinnon were stars in this creative shop that went on to win the Academy Award for Bruce Petty’s “Leisure” in 1976, Best Short Film. To watch David Deneen solve a problem from idea, to script, to film, was my university. 

I left school at sixteen and got a job painting cels for Hannah Barbera. The studio was run by Zoran Janjic, and his mum Zora, ran the painting department. Her “quiet girls please!” in a rich Yugoslavian accent resounded often. It was a big studio.

Sometimes we were on a network deadline so tight that Bill Hannah came to Sydney. We were paid per painted cel, working overtime, and we would try to get scenes with many mouths, as lips were very quick to paint. We stayed in over lunchtime and Mr. Hannah ordered in for us, fried chicken and coleslaw. “Would anybody like more slaw?” he offered, and the painting department cracked up at his American pronounciation of “slaaaaaaaaaaw.”

Again I had the good fortune to hear the soundtrack for a series called “Wait ‘til Your Father Comes Home,” an animated sitcom. I loved the soundtracks, and again remember the sound more than the drawings, and longed to be a creator of some sort.

Some characters come to the world with more dialogue than others. A cartoon strip though roomier than a gag cartoon with a drawing and one line of dialogue, isn’t enough space still for some characters like Nona Appleby, an Australian octogenarian character I have drawn since I was 16. Finally I started to play her on stage, and that gave Nona the opportunity to say everything that is in her heart (it’s a lot!). I maintain that I am a vessel, and the characters do all of the work. 

“Axolotl Mondays” is mid-step between the page and theatre. There is the element of time in a video, which is delicate and wonderful. A friend gave me gift of a six week editing course at MEWSHOP in New York City, which gave me a very good base for cutting and thinking about time. We learned at one of their lectures that “Annie Hall” started out as a film with a stream of consciousness dialogue, but that Diane Keaton’s performances were so extraordinary that it became another film in the editing room. I mention this to underline the malleability, possibility and difficulty of film.

These videos start out with a soundtrack usually, but I learn something new each week about how movement and time on screen works. My animation style is very basic, which fortunately suits my drawing style. It’s detail and timing, and other possibilities which I am learning about that make a piece “sing.” As with most of my work, I rarely know what I am doing. It’s the mystery, the discovery, that keep me on board. 

Callipeg is like having an old-style animation studio at your fingertips. Everything is done on the iPad. It’s so much faster than paper and cels, and cameras-and so accessible. Really a beautiful software, plus the creator’s tutorials are delivered in a native French accent!

Instagram Links:

Kathryn Pentecost is at BohemianPalaceof Art

Rob Rogers is rogers_bob

Jacqueline Field

Don Mackinnon

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If you enjoy this blog, and would like to contribute to labor and maintenance costs, there is a Patreon, and if you’d like to buy me a cup of coffee, there is a Ko-Fi  account as well! I do this blog for free because accessible arts education is important to me, and your support helps a lot! You can also find more posts about art supplies on Case’s Instagram and Twitter! Thank you!

[sophsicle]

who do you want to win the cup this year

meh

it's more who i DON"T want to win it *cough* *cough*

tampa

oilers (edmonton)

vegas

jets (winnipeg)

as long as none of those teams win i'll be okay i do think the avs are real cute, and i love Mackinnon and Makar so if they win i'll be happy

the wild for Fleury (not that he needs another cup but i do love him)

the hurricanes because they don't get the respect they deserve and because i like Anderson (again, goalies, i feel fondly about like 99% of them)

but i feel less strongly abut who i want to win than who i don't (because my bbs are out aka the habs)

[chromatic-lamina]

OP Rare Pair Month: MarLaw: Week 1: Only One Bed

Law couldn't contain himself to one bed. Diversity was life. One always lay fallow though. That was good land management. He and Marco picked through packets of seeds at the nursery. Law donning glasses to peer at the small print, and Marco pushing his up his brow. One bed was reserved for the flower seeds Nico Robin sent him, although they also took up spaces between vegetables, fruit and herbs. Spider lilies pushed through the soil with the Autumn equinox, and spring encouraged the Casablanca. Every summer the yellow-centred, blue daisies spread and flowered throughout their garden, easy on the soul, heart and eye.

Photo by Kym MacKinnon on Unsplash

AO3 @oprarepairmonth

established relationship, canon verse, canon divergent AU, post canon.

[goalhofer]

Famous September 1, 2023 birthdays.

Don Stroud (American actor & surfer), 80

Sir Barry Gibb (Manx-British singer & guitarist), 77

Russ Kunkel (American drummer), 75

Garry Maddox (American baseball player & businessman), 74

Dr. Phil McGraw (American psychologist & tv host), 73

Dave Lumley (Canadian hockey player), 69

Gloria Estefan (Cuban-American singer & actress)(pictured), 66

Duško Ivanović (Montenegrin basketball player & coach), 66

Karl Mecklenburg (American football player), 63

Capt. Christopher Ferguson (American naval capt. & astronaut), 62

Brian Bellows (Canadian hockey player), 59

Tim Hardaway (American basketball player & coach), 57

Padma Lakshmi (Indian-American writer & actress), 53

Hirota Yoshitaka (Japanese guitarist), 52

Zach Thomas (American football player), 50

Jason Taylor (American football player & coach), 49

Aaron Schobel (American football player), 46

Robert Holbrook (American actor), 42

Clinton Portis (American football player), 42

Adam Quick (Australian basketball player), 42

Ryan Gomes (American basketball player & coach), 41

Jeff Woywitka (Canadian hockey player), 40

Rod Pelley (Canadian hockey player), 39

Mats Zuccarello-Aasen (Norwegian hockey player), 36

Gustav Nyquist (Swedish hockey player), 34

Tomáš Nosek (Czech hockey player), 31

Nathan MacKinnon (Canadian hockey player), 28

Zendaya (American actress & singer)(pictured), 27

Diane Parry (French tennis player), 21

Yujin (South Korean singer), 20

[blogynews]

"Intriguing Bilateral Crisis Escalates: India's Bold Plea for Utmost Caution in Canada! Find Out Why."

A poster displaying the image of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the former President of a Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, was seen on a fence outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple on September 19, 2023 (Don Mackinnon | Afp | Getty Images). Tensions between India and Canada have escalated following claims by Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that the Indian government…

[blogynewz]

"Intriguing Bilateral Crisis Escalates: India's Bold Plea for Utmost Caution in Canada! Find Out Why."

A poster displaying the image of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the former President of a Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, was seen on a fence outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple on September 19, 2023 (Don Mackinnon | Afp | Getty Images). Tensions between India and Canada have escalated following claims by Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that the Indian government…

[blogynewsz]

"Intriguing Bilateral Crisis Escalates: India's Bold Plea for Utmost Caution in Canada! Find Out Why."

A poster displaying the image of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the former President of a Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, was seen on a fence outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple on September 19, 2023 (Don Mackinnon | Afp | Getty Images). Tensions between India and Canada have escalated following claims by Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that the Indian government…

[ao3feed-hockey]

The Benefactor

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/XxfqaSD

by youknowmyname

Cale Makar a sophomore at U Denver who works at Roostercat Coffee House. Nate's the don of the Mountain Mafia who keeps coming to Roostercat for that cute and mysterious barista.

One minute, Cale's just a student by day and barista by night who's the next step away from behind homeless. The next day, Cale's living in Nate's mansion, training to be an assistant, under one of Nate's conditions; after all, Nate's great but extremely lonely.

Chaos ensues (and brews) in Denver.

Words: 2968, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Fandoms: Men's Hockey RPF

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/M, M/M, Other

Characters: Cale Makar, Nathan MacKinnon, Erik Johnson, Gabriel Landeskog, Devon Toews, Colorado Avalanche Ensemble, Nazem Kadri, Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Original Characters

Relationships: Nathan MacKinnon/Cale Makar

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Organized Crime, Morally Ambiguous Character, Domestic Fluff, Slow Burn, Eventual Relationships, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Past Abuse, Canon-Typical Violence, Everyone Needs A Hug, Dysfunctional Family, Sugar Daddy

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/XxfqaSD

[ifreakingloveroyals]

25 September 2016 | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge arrive by seaplane at Jack Poole Plaza in Vancouver, British Columbia. (c) Don MacKinnon/AFP via Getty Images

[msunderestimated]

(msunderestimated)

This week Laura is joined by Mike from the Its a Hockey Night Podcast to talk round one of the playoffs including: Columbus the feel good playoff story no one asked for, yeah pens lets let Jack Johnson do that MORE, Stars & Preds need 24-7 show, Orpik scored the OT winner - thats gotta sting and your asks including the saga of Jamie Benn and Gatorade cup.

[hockeytrashcast]

A recap of cute things from around the NHL this week, confirmation that Nathan MacKinnon is not a romantic, Don Cherry hates fun, Matt Duchene is back on the trading block, and other news from around the NHL. Oh, and who even knows what the Avs are doing anymore.