Allison Mack's Official Site » Projects http://www.allisonmack.com Wed, 09 May 2012 15:26:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Rob Gray, the great and lovely! http://www.allisonmack.com/2010/03/25/rob-gray-the-great-and-lovely http://www.allisonmack.com/2010/03/25/rob-gray-the-great-and-lovely#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:57:00 +0000 Allison Mack http://blog.allisonmack.com/?p=725 One of my dear and wonderful friends and mentors, Robert W. Gray, has just published his first book of short stories. Needless to say, he is amazing and the work he has done is absolutely stunning! It is moving and honest and beautiful and I think you should all read it!
Check out the interview we did together and if you think it sounds as amazing as I know it is grab a copy and read my favorite story, Crisp.
Enjoy the delicious reading…
xoxox
Allison

Book Links

]]> http://www.allisonmack.com/2010/03/25/rob-gray-the-great-and-lovely/feed 37 “alice & huck” news! http://www.allisonmack.com/2009/12/14/%e2%80%9calice-huck%e2%80%9d-news http://www.allisonmack.com/2009/12/14/%e2%80%9calice-huck%e2%80%9d-news#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:23:01 +0000 Allison Mack http://blog.allisonmack.com/?p=719 DVD and New Swag now available!

As you might have seen on the official “alice & huck” facebook page, “alice & huck” has been traveling the festival circuit: The Big Easy Shorts Festival, New Orleans; The Hollywood Shorts Festival; The Honolulu Film Festival; Omaha Film Festival; and the Las Vegas International Film Festival. It has won awards for direction, editing, sound, artistic merit, and even audience choice award for short drama in New Orleans.

We couldn’t have done this without the excitement and support of all of the sponsors and the sponsors.

And now the long wait is over. You can now purchase “alice & huck” on DVD.

The DVD includes

  • the short film “alice & huck” (15 minutes in length)
  • two “making of” mini docs
  • and a “swingette” showing how the swing shot was made in the film

$8.99 CAD + shipping and handling

“a & h” DVD

or

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7145802

New Swag is also now available at our cafepress shop:

http://www.cafepress.ca/aliceandhuck

There you will find posters, magnets, t-shirts and lots of other cool items.

All proceeds from the DVD and swag sales go to pay for the film.

All our thanks and we hope you enjoy the film as much as we do.

Kaleena / Allison / Rob

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Pumpkin carving is an art. This is my absolutely favorite time of year ever. The colors, the leaves, the air, and the amazing creativity of halloween!
Carve your best pumpkin and share!!!
xo
a

Email your submissions to submissions@essenceexpressions.com and we’ll post them!
Please note: Any art you submit to the MackEvents can be used by Essence Interactive, Inc and Allison Mack for any purpose.

]]> http://www.allisonmack.com/2009/10/15/an-autumn-event/feed 52 The Next Event: Single Line Portraits! http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/28/the-next-event-single-line-portraits http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/28/the-next-event-single-line-portraits#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:58:35 +0000 Allison Mack http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/28/the-next-event-single-line-portraits/ Hey, everyone! Thank you all so very much for the awesome pictures! It’s so, so cool to be able to see you the way you see me! I feel like I have such a better idea of who you all are! It was also so much fun to see the different and creative ways everyone expressed themselves through this project! I loved experiencing each of your individual expressions! OK, so now this week’s project is a little more personal and creative! I would love to see each of you draw a self portrait using one continuous line! That’s right! The challenge is to never let your pen leave the page! A la Picasso! Have fun! Here is Kristin’s and Chad’s. You can go ahead and email it to the same spot you did last time: mackevents@allisonmack.com. Have Fun! Oh! and if you wanna see the awesome drawings that everyone else sent in just click on either Chad or Kristin’s drawing and scroll through…..mine is in there as well! Enjoy!

]]> http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/28/the-next-event-single-line-portraits/feed 44 Want to go on an adventure with me? http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/19/want-to-go-on-an-adventure-with-me http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/19/want-to-go-on-an-adventure-with-me#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:14:13 +0000 Allison Mack http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/19/want-to-go-on-an-adventure-with-me/ So often, I find myself racing through my life, so focused on where I’m going that I don’t stop to enjoy where I am. My friend Sara said to me once that we are so busy acting as humans doing that we forget we are humans being. My God, did this ever resonate with me. So, recently, I have really tried to focus on acting as a human being, and because of this, I am so enjoying the process of creating and experiencing each and every moment.

This being said, I was reading an article recently about an amazing artist/actress/writer/filmmaker named Miranda July, and I found out about an online project she has been doing with another gentleman for the last few years. It’s such a beautiful thing that she’s doing… She and her partner come up with different assignments for anyone to participate in accomplishing, and they have created a site for people to post and share the completion of these assignments. If you want to look at it the site is learningtoloveyoumore.com, and it’s awesome! I was so inspired by this concept that i decided to make my own project like this for my site. I was sharing this idea with one of my best friends, and she told me about something that she and her husband used to do in which they would create an annual calendar filled with their own “celebration days”—days dedicated to celebrating or doing something they loved!

I thought this was wonderful and combined her idea with that of Miranda July… So, this is what I have come up with—an annual calendar that has 4 celebration days per month that are dedicated to different projects/assignments/creations/or events! Here is the first set! I hope you enjoy and participate in these fabulous adventures with me!

All my love,
Allison

Upcoming Mack Event

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To submit your photo, email it as an attachment to mackevents@allisonmack.com, and we’ll put it up in the gallery as soon as we can!!

Please note: By submitting your image you are giving the rights to Allison Mack to use your submitted image in any fashion.

Here are some featured submissions! Click on the thumbnails to see the beautiful images!

]]> http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/19/find-a-beautiful-leaf-and-photograph-someone-you-love-holding-it/feed 82 A Cappella Innovations http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/17/a-cappella-innovations http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/17/a-cappella-innovations#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:39:08 +0000 Allison Mack http://www.allisonmack.com/2007/11/17/a-cappella-innovations/ Hey all! I am going to be judging this competition with Kristin Kreuk December 1-2. If you’re into music or people or “Smallville” or any or all of the above, come out and join us for the weekend! It’s going to be a rocking time! Hope to see you all there!

A Cappella Innovations is a festival being put on by my friends, the acappella group Simply Human, the weekend of December 1-2.

A Capella Innovations intends to “promote innovation, evolution and unity in the acappella community, as well as fostering an appreciation in the general public of what can be done with the human instrument.” The two-day event/conference/festival will include 11 different workshops of acappella techniques, constructive evaluations, and professional performances and networking and community-building opportunities, culminating in a celebrity-hosted performance of acappella groups.

The workshops will focus on vocal instrument emulation, arrangement techniques, voice (singing) techniques and vocal percussion and “beatboxing.” Participating groups will have the opportunity to perform for a professional judging panel that will provide rich feedback. A Capella Innovations will be a living, evolving process of talent sharing where, through the exposure to each group’s different techniques and approach, participants will arrive to a whole new level in their performance and experience of acappella music. The public performance at the end of the weekend will showcase the results of this mutual enrichment process.

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