- Every Frame a Painting
The original “Every Frame a Painting” was a series of video essays about film form, made from April 2014 to September 2016. We officially announced the end of the channel in December 2017.
- Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third biggest film production city in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. And yet for all the movies and TV shows that are shot there, we hardly ever see the city itself. So today, let’s focus less on the movies and more on the city in the background.
- Alula Borealis (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
ALULA BOREALIS (Nu Ursae Majoris). Leaping across the sky south of Ursa Major’s Big Dipper bounds the Arabic gazelle, marked by three unrelated pairs of stars, the First-Leap Alulas (Borealis and Australis, respectively Nu and Xi), the Second Leap Tanias (Borealis and Australis, Lambda and Mu), and the Third Leap made of Talitha (to the north) and Kappa (to the south).
setting in a movie but filmed in Vancouver of