It is often said that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. This is precisely what Jacque Fresco has been urging humankind to do. Industrial designer, engineer, inventor and artist, Fresco is often described as a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci. Encouraging society and government to envision a world where we use our collective energies to create buildings and cityscapes that benefit the greatest number of people on a global scale,......

Torontoist was very saddened to learn of yesterday's passing of Canadian animation legend Ryan Larkin. In an article last December about his station ID tags for MTV Canada, Torontoist wrote of Larkin:Between the groundbreaking (and Oscar-nominated) Walking in 1969 and his equally revolutionary follow-up, Street Musique, three years later, Ryan Larkin cemented his status as among the most daring and brilliant animators of his time, taking hand-drawn animation to a previously-unseen level of surreal......

At approximately 8:38 am yesterday, Toronto-based director Deepa Mehta (above) and producer David Hamilton learned that they were Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign Language Film for their work on Water. They learned of their nomination like most of us did, watching Salma Hayek announcing a list of names live on CNN. “They announce the nominees in alphabetical order, and when they got to the fifth name without announcing Volver, we thought we were......

Torontonians were once again woefully unprepared for the first major snowfall of the season. 500 traffic accidents in one day, people. Do we really want everybody else making fun of us again, like that time Mel Lastman called in the Army to help out after a snowfall? It's winter. It comes every year. Just because we've had a freakishly warm winter thus far is no excuse for complacency! At the Golden Globes, Dreamgirls becomes......

Between the groundbreaking (and Oscar-nominated) Walking in 1969 and his equally revolutionary follow-up, Street Musique, three years later, Ryan Larkin cemented his status as among the most daring and brilliant animators of his time, taking hand-drawn animation to a previously-unseen level of surreal impressionism. He was the rising star of the NFB, the protégé of, and successor to, Norman McLaren, but the pressure to top his earlier triumphs exacerbated his already-present problems with drug-......

Our boy reporter called him "arguably the greatest Canadian animator ever" after viewing the Best of Norman McLaren during the Toronto International Film Festival, so you might be interested to see that starting tonight the NFB are celebrating 65 years of animation production with nightly, free of charge events. Tonight at 7pm, a Masterclass with BAFTA-award-winning filmmaker Jonathan Hodgson. On Wednesday at 7pm, "24 Frames Per Second", the Mediatheque’s 2D Animation workshop for adults, using......

You could sit in a parking lot and watch a movie about cheerleaders (actually, that sounds like fun), or sit in Dundas Square and watch horror films (which also sounds like fun) or you could join the Toronto Public Space Committee at Bellevue Square Park for the launch of the Streets to Screens film series tomorrow evening, 8pm. They'll be showing seven NFB shorts including: "Neighbours/Voisins", an Academy Award winning short by Norman MacLaren,......

January 26th is an important day in pop culture history. Today marks the births of Hockey Legend Wayne Gretzky, Academy Award winner Paul Newman and Outspoken Comedienne Ellen DeGeneres. However on a day so cherished, it is desperately unfortunate that we must include ex-Raptor Vince Carter, who will be blowing out twenty-eight candles today. With all the life-threatening injuries he has sustained during his illustrious career, we must congratulate him on making it this far.......