This has been the year of the big prints. Recently I made a 5 foot by 5 foot canvas collage, but this one takes the cake. I took a photo for Nurse Cadillac and Chevrolet dealership in Whitby that was used for a print ad an a billboard. The shoot involved me bringing a white [...]
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Colin’s Billboard photo
Posted in Empty Cup in Pop Culture, Video Blogs, tagged billboard, H4n, Nurse, T2i, whitby billboards, white backdrop on July 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Speak Up: photos from journals
Posted in Empty Cup in Pop Culture, Empty Cup Updates, Photography Blogs, tagged Canon T2i, Speak Up on May 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I had a cool opportunity to work with the Durham Board of Education last month. The project involved a group of grade 8 students writing journal entries about struggles that they are going through. Things like problems at home, body image, self esteem, pressure, etc. To visualize the project, they invited me into the school [...]
“Empty Cup” reference in Avatar
Posted in Empty Cup in Pop Culture, tagged Avatar, Empty Cup, film reference, forbidden kingdom, quantum physics on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I saw Avatar in 3-D last night. It was awesome. Beautiful graphics (but with a clearly overdone skeleton of a plot). I also sat really close to the screen so I had to get used to a headache 20 minutes into the movie. It was still a mind blowing film. I was already being ‘wow’ed with [...]
Carla on Global TV and CBC TV at age 16!
Posted in Empty Cup in Pop Culture, tagged anti-racism, Global TV on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Carla has been into video from an early age. And we have proof! We were going through some of Carla’s old VHS archives and we found her spotlight on Global TV and CBC! She made an anti-racism video that won her a trip to Ottawa! This video has 3 parts to it: 2 independent news [...]
Fall 2009 Youth Video Competition
Posted in Empty Cup in Pop Culture, Video Blogs on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To all you ambitious up and coming filmmakers! Empty Cup Media is hosting a Youth Video Competition in the Durham Region. Complete a 1-3 minute in-camera movie (in-camera = no post-production, if you make a mistake, rewind the shot and shoot it again!) and submit it to Empty Cup Media by November 15th. The theme of the [...]
The ‘Empty Cup’ story is in a Hollywood movie
Posted in Empty Cup in Pop Culture, tagged Empty Cup, Hollywood, Movie on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was in college when I came up with my business name. It was all hypothetical back then. I was in second year of Broadcasting – Radio and Television Arts at Conestoga College in 2003. I coined ‘Empty Cup Productions’ which then evolved into Empty Cup Media. I got the idea from a book I had [...]
