IPP Presentations next Wednesday to Friday, Convention Centre

The most dreaded letters in the CreComm alphabet: "IPP".

Find out why next week at the Independent Professional Project presentations, Wednesday to Friday, March 9 to 11 at the Convention Centre Presentation Theatre.

Everyone is invited to attend, and admission is the low, low price of free.

The IPP is a year-long course in Creative Communications at Red River College in which students develop an original and meaningful project that they propose, complete, and market in order to graduate.

Next week, students make 10-minute presentations on the outcome of their work. Projects are promotional, creative, documentary- and research-based and in the form of video, audio, print, performance, new media – and more!

This year, we will have first-year students tweeting live from the big event (follow the Twitter hashtag #ipp11).

See you there, homies.

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I bombed my Oscar picks - I blame Mel Gibson

 Ms. Paltrow?

The Oscars had part of my attention. The minimum amount.

I got 14 out of 24 correct on this year's Oscar picks, which means I achieved the high, high score of... 58.3 per cent or a "D." Red River College doesn't give "D+," so I can't even give myself that little emotional boost. Boo.

I don't hate the outcome of the awards, but I did hate the awards show. My observations/tweets:

• Actors sure loves actors. "Mel Gibson. Your vulnerability is truthful, raw, bare..."

• Franco and Hathaway have all the sexual chemistry of Rosie O'Donnell and Nathan Lane with none of the jokes. 

• Two-person monologues suck.

• A little Billy Crystal is better than a lot of Franco. 

• Kirk Douglas was the hippest thing about the show, and even he wore out his welcome.

• Creepy and awkward speeches are creepy and awkward.

• Canada doesn't bleep "fuck." The U.S. does. I'm proud to be a Canadian!

• You know there were a million crew members from Terminator: Salvation foaming at the mouth when Christian Bale won the Oscar. 

• The Star Wars theme livens up even the most dismal of wakes.

• Best costume designer, meet Toastmasters.

• Gwyneth Paltrow and Edgar Winter: separated at birth. 

• Jeff Bridges sucks marbles. 

• Spiel is the best Berg.

• They should take Natalie Portman's award back for the Star Wars prequels.

As Roger Ebert so eloquently tweeted:

"The worst Oscarcast I've seen, and I go back awhile. Some great winners, a nice distribution of awards, but the show? Dead. In. The. Water."