mbarrick | Aug. 19th, 2014

A little chroma-key silliness from 1992 , featuring Canadian video-artist Elizabeth Vander Zaag, who was my instructor at SFU at the time.
Source: http://www.mbarrick.com/blog/140817/chroma-key-silliness-1992

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

Dire news! Canadian tea supply down to a mere 3-week supply.
Story of French aviators from yesterday's paper reprinted. Reported altitudes are different.
Man loses four fingers on his right hand in construction of Hudson's Bay store on Douglas Street.
Not-so-subtle vilification of Germans continues with a story of a German mob killing a wealthy French woman's husband and baby.
Full text of Anglo-Japanese treaty printed on editorial page to explain Japan's rôle in the war.
Editorial on how the extent of censorship by the Imperial government is only allowing the most vague reporting on the war.

http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1914

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#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

Fighting in nearby Waterloo forces Belgian government to abandon Brussels and move to Antwerp [where my maternal grandparents are living at the time, children of 10 and 14].
German victory in Liège is complete.
Editorial on how the war has overshadowed the amazing accomplishment of the Panama Canal.\240

http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1914

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Michael R. Barrick