chumpchampion

Ok, I know it’s only a week old and I’m already neglecting this kid, but at least I have good reason to. I’ve spent the last few days getting ready for trips to Toronto (where I’m typing this entry) and Italy (where I’ll be editing for a couple of weeks).

During my short 3 day stay in Toronto, I’ll be the lone representative from the Beautiful Losers crew at the Hot Docs documentary film festival where BL will be screening two times for our gracious Northern neighbors. The first screening was tonight, Saturday the 19th, at the Cumberland theater and the second will be on Monday the 21st at the same place. Tonights screening was sold out and the film was extremely well received. During the Q&A I was asked the question of the night: “Why did Mike Mills wear a suit for the film?” Answer: “He wanted to.” After the Q&A session I was brought to a blind man (dude, a BLIND MAN “saw” our film about art!) who had a question about how involved the artists were politically since Jo Jackson speaks about such things during a segment of the film. After telling him that all the artists are indeed politically active and all voice their sentiments in different ways, some more than others (Shepard Fairey Obama print post coming soon), he told me he really enjoyed the film. I shook the man’s hand and walked away amazed that someone without the sense of sight was moved by such a visual film. I suppose you really don’t even need to see the works of the artists in the film as long as you can hear the sincerity in their voices to understand where they’re coming from, which is a perspective that I hope other people are able to share.

More to come soon as I’ll continue to be chumpchampioning internationally.

p.s.-Toronto is a great city, it reminds me a lot of Canada.

Tags: Beautiful Losers, film

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