World Premiere of Short Film by Not-for-Profit, Ottawa-based Studio, prototypeD Media Release OTTAWA – June18, 2012 – Artist entrepreneurs are coming to the National Gallery of Canada to participate in the first Annual Artifex Professional Artist Gala on June 20, 2012. Presented by Fortress Real Capital, the Gala starts at 6:00 p.m. Mayor Jim Watson [...]
Join Exploriem, all our sponsors and Artistic Entrepreneurs displaying their works at Artifex on June 20th 2012 at the National Gallery of Canada. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. There will be a silent auction. View items Tickets can be purchased: Here. This Year’s Spotlight Artists Spotlight Writer – Bruce M. Firestone The official Book Launch [...]
Prof Bruce talks with Rebecca Happy from Ottawa BuzzTV about why he wrote Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE, Book 1 of his new sci-fi trilogy available at: www.brucemfirestone.com. Ottawa BuzzTV is a hyper local TV show that features local Ottawa business people and events produced by Rebecca Happy~ Your Local Online Marketing Mentor. Check [...]
We present below some images (by prototypeD.org) and original music and lyrics (by Chris Brydges) from the upcoming film based on the book, Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE (by Bruce M Firestone). Foreword: When young Damien Bell, physicist and engineer, and his business partner, the fabulous Ellen Brooks unleash Damien’s twin creations, a new [...]
Wrong! Here’s a thought experiment for you to perform. Close your eyes for a moment and ask yourself: how diverse, sustainable, interesting and vibrant a place would your city be if every one of these professionals went on an Atlas Shrugged-inspired strike forever? Here’s my list of suddenly vanishing artpreneurs: graphic artists, architects, musicians, writers, [...]
Prof Bruce on the hotseat with charming, super energetic Carlo Lombard from ShotgunShow.com discussing working with entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and artpreneurs at Exploriem.org, the release of Book 1 of his new trilogy, Quantum Entity, We Are All ONE, the film based on the Book produced by prototypeD.org and what inspired him to Bring Back the Ottawa [...]
Professional Artpreneur Gala We want to take this opportunity to thank all the sponsors of Artifex in advance of this very special event that will take place on June 20th, 2012 at the National Gallery Of Canada. These organizations make it possible to celebrate the essential role that the arts play in building better, more [...]
We have in Ottawa a BIA (Business Improvement Area) focused on improving the Carp Road corridor. It’s an important stretch of road connecting the fast growing suburb of Stittsville and the historic Village of Carp. It is a mostly rural area but there are municipal services at both ends but not along much of the [...]
Why so many established enterprises let entrepreneurs eat their lunch There is no industry that is changing faster than this one. Not music, film, television, nothing. It’s not just book publishing that is changing at an incredible rate as e-publishing platforms proliferate across the Internet and tablets, smart phones and computers become the medium of [...]
This is a simple test for films (and books) that is harder to pass than you might think at first blush. /bech•del test/ n. 1. The film (or book, Ed.) has to have at least two [named] women characters in it, 2. Who talk to each other, 3. About something besides a man. http://bechdeltest.com/ Janak [...]
Ottawa’s Next $100 Million Tech Startup? (Portions of this article originally appeared in Ottawa Business Journal, April 16, 2012: http://www.obj.ca/Opinion/Bruce-Firestone-5444.) When you first meet Len Anderson in his company’s bustling headquarters—a capacious Kanata office building on Leggett Drive which looks more like a warehouse once you are inside—you are struck by his sense of humour [...]