portable story.1 will be shown at the 11th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival in Seattle.

“Stay portable – he would say. Stay rich. And then he’d go on about the good ones – making our lives easier one story at a time.” Portable Stories.1 is the first in a series of encounters between the image of Russell Reilander and the affected mind of Jim Olson.

What a wild, wild week.

First the really big news – Grand Theft Bicycle has been accepted for a show at the Stride Gallery in Calgary. We don’t know when it will happen yet but I’d guess it will probably be within the next 6 months.

Then this morning I got an email telling me that this is box/this is machine has been accepted into the Bearded Child Film Festival (Minneapolis/Grand Rapids) and will play not just once but twice – how sweet is that?

And last but not least, Love&Olson are playing a semi-private gig next Tuesday Thursday evening at Discovery Coffee with our old friends i send data live. You can watch a blip from my preparations below or on Vimeo.

QC test from robotoverlord on Vimeo.

Screening at the Project in Chinatown, June 4th, 2008.

If you happen to be in Sydney, Australia on September 26 and happen to be near Sydney Olympic Park you should check out my short video work this is box/this is machine at the flEXiff film festival. If for some reason you can’t make it to the screening (ie. sickness, family emergency, you don’t live in Australia, etc.) you can watch it here. Thanks to Scott Amos and MediaNet for promoting the video.

Tomorrow night Justin Love’s video “My New Body” is playing at Antimatter Film Festival (510 Fort Street at Open Space) during the 7pm show. This weekend, on the final night of Antimatter, Saturday September 30th, my latest *finished* work will be screening at 5pm. If you can’t make it, check it out right now….

Tribune Bay is the second component of an ongoing series entitled PIL [pretty intelligent language] that engages the possibilities of opensource collaboration in video production.