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KTW REVIEW: The Trews at Cjs Nightclub
DAVE EAGLES/KTW The ARC/K Project production co-ordinator Taylor Micelotta uses photogrametry to capture a 3-D image of the 2141 steam locomotive for the Thompson-Nicola Film Commission in Kamloops.
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There’s also the possibility, if the society had a 3-D printer, of creating miniature models it could sell. Calling himself a Renaissance idiot, Pope said his interest in antiquities and culture began at a young age. Part Apache and Cherokee, he became involved in the Native American movement while in university, working as a student recruiter for Yale and Dartmouth universities. Next came a job at ABC World News This Morning, a low-level starter job that also piqued his interest in the world of entertainment.
That was followed by a stint at the Arms Control Association — “a groovy think-tank” that looked at ideas, theories and ways to verify the armed strength of countries. Entertainment called him back, landing Pope first with a television station in Honolulu and then with George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic, when he worked on visual effects for movies including Mercury Rising, Deep Impact, Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace (he helped create the chariot race), Wild Wild West and Planet of the Apes. In 2011, he created Last Rocket Out Pictures and, in 2015, created Cognition, which he describes as a
way to combine “a passion for art, film and technology with a lifelong commitment to philanthropy.” Pope said his Palmyra work came from seeing one too many headlines on the destruction in the Syrian city “and I just had enough.” “I thought I have to do something. I felt helpless but I had tools for making movies that could help society and that could be more fulfilling,” he said. “I was hoping to use some of what needs to be done in cultural preservation and what’s being done in Hollywood to do something better. The business of cultural heritage and preservation can’t just be left in
the hands of academia.” Pope said his interest in shooting other parts of the area, including on TIB land, stem not only from his First Nations heritage but from the fact the “historical stories about Kamloops and Walhachin areas have captured my heart and imagination.” He sees their potential as benefiting ARC/K as well, using the works they create to help market it. Weller sees other possibilities that could use the technology of ARC/K with the needs of film production companies. The Macabee fossil lands, for example, are a protected area but which could be used in a virtual way in films.
By Jessica Wallace An elephant was in the room at Cjs Nightclub Tuesday night, when The Trews stopped in town for a show promoting its latest release. That elephant was the United States election. I was expecting round two after an electric show a couple years ago at the same venue, especially since their new greatest hits album Time Capsule would include many songs from that memorable performance. The show didn’t live up to hype for me, however, and I blame Donald Trump. The MacDonald brothers ripped it up on stage and the new drummer Gavin Maguire proved he is worthy of a place in the band, but it was hard to focus or appreciate the Canadian rockers when Trump was taking Pennsylvania. Fullfilling the mantra of The Power of Positive Drinking couldn’t have changed things. Every thump of the kick drum boomed “Trump, Trump, Trump” as Twitter updates rolled in via smartphone. The band maybe felt it, too, because they rushed out pretty quickly after the show, which wrapped up around the time we learned Hillary Clinton would not be making her concession speech that night. Top highlight was The Trews’ new song, Beautiful and Tragic, which was fun to dance to and got me excited for them to start working on a new album next year. In flipping between the two live shows, the title also summed up my night, which felt mostly tragic. Lesson learned? Opt out of fun events that overlap historically significant ones.