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M4 Sherman Tank draws crowds at Sept. 28, 2013 Small Arms Doors Open event in Mississauga
/0 Comments/in Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdates An update to this post can be found here: Colleen O’Mara found the Small Arms Doors Open very crowded (great turnout!) Some time after the event I learned that the popular children’s author Eric Walters has written several novels related to history – some dealing with the Second World War – of interest to […]
History of film editing – Reisz and Millar (1968)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe Technique of Film Editing, Second Edition (1968) is a classic text by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar that is read even now by film students. It’s a useful resource for anybody interested in how stories are put together, and how life is viewed and experienced, then and now. Because I’m currently taking a film editing […]
Doors Open event at Small Arms on Sept. 28, 2013 will feature an estimated 3,000 attendees
/2 Comments/in Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillOn Aug. 17, 2013, I spoke with Bob Cutmore, a key organizer of the Sept. 28, 2013 Doors Open event at the historic Small Arms Ltd.building in Mississauga. Mississauga Ward 1 Councillor Jim Tovey has described the Doors Open event at an earlier blog post. Among other things, I’m looking forward to this year’s Doors Open because […]
Evil Men (2013)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe following blurb at the Toronto Public Library website highlights a study by James Dawes – presented in a fractured structuring of transcripts and commentary – entitled Evil Men: Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for […]
What is worth preserving?
/2 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillWhat is worth preserving? Our attitudes toward ruins and historically significant buildings and cultural landscapes have a relationship to a wider conversation about what matters. After the Second World War, destruction of heritage properties and landscapes was the norm in much of the world, a practice which in some cases continues today. Jane Jacobs among […]
How the spectre of the Iron Curtain haunts Eastern Europe today: Toronto Star interview with Anne Applebaum (Jan. 6, 2013)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI read with interest this Jan. 6, 2013 interview in The Toronto Star with Anne Applebaum, author of Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe. The opening up of archives and the availability of personal accounts of the postwar years in Eastern Europe is, I believe, a significant achievement. Accurate and balanced overviews based on such resources are […]