Last week I posted a tweet on Twitter that the Olympic Torch will soon be coming to Toronto. I got a reply back from Vancouver Visual Artist Rina Liddle. She is working on a project titled "We Are Watching". Rina asked if I would be a contributor to her project. All I have to do is take some video footage when I go see the Torch Relay and email it to her. She is going to stream together all the video she receives and show it unedited on a wall outside the Jeffery Boone Gallery during the Olympics.
I think its a pretty cool thing to do. I love the idea of being part of an art project. Myself, I am artistically impaired. I can barely draw stick people. I love that this is another way to contribute to an event related to the Olympics.
I am going to try to submit video footage from the relay and torch celebrations in Toronto and Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto. The Olympic Torch Relay passes through Toronto and surrounding area's next week.
If the torch has already passed through your town and you shot some video send it along to Rina. She is looking for footage of the relay from all across Canada.
If the torch has not yet arrived in your city, check the schedule and head out with your digital camera in video mode, or use whatever video device you have. You will be helping out an artist and contributing to history. For more information visit Rina's blog. I hope to see every city represented when I visit this exhibit in Vancouver. You can also follow her progress on Twitter @weRwatching2010. Please check her blog for the email address to send video footage. I don't want to include it here or else she might get overwhelmed with spam mail.
Please help if you can. It is a great project and we need to support artists and their visions, like this one from Rina Liddle.
If you will be attending to either torch celebrations in Toronto or Mississauga, let me know so we can meet up for a photo for my blogs!
Merry Olympics!
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