Live acoustic performance of "Road Outta Hell" by Big Rude Jake with Allison Young on saxophone.

On this day in 2000, ftpmedia.com was born. To celebrate and commemorate the end of a decade of FTP Media, I have re-posted the original web video created during a residency at the Canadian Film Centre in 1999. My objective was to use digital video technology to tell a story that would effectively a) be meaningful, thus compelling, in order to therefore b) demonstrate a successful application of video produced online. Created with Apple video samples shipped with the new macs and Super 8 home movie footage to tell the story of my awakening, this video documents my experience with cancer in 1993 via home movie footage combined with a narration based on journal entries written during that time. This is the most personal project I have produced to date, singularly different - on both an emotional level and on a content level - from anything else I have completed since. Enjoy.

FTP Media was called upon to video archive and capture still frames for two of the Art Gallery of Ontario's 2010 exhibition catalogues: Julian Schnabel: Art and Film, and Black Ice - David Blackwood's Prints of Newfoundland.

This video was recorded live on my iPhone 3G3 and later edited in Final Cut Pro. The video presents Spookey Ruben rocking the crowds at Dundas Square for NXNE 2010, and displaying serious instrumental genius on guitar. This is the last section of the 15 min title song (Track #8) off his latest album, Mechanical Royalty.

I posted this "virtual" holiday video card to YouTube in 2008. It is a home movie of me playing The Little Drummer Boy on the piano at a recital in 1989 -- back in my intermediate piano days. Enjoy.

From 2004 to 2007 FTP Media provided media consulting services to Big Rude Jake, helping the Canadian swing punk legend reclaim his online web presence at http://bigrudejake.ca/. View all posts featuring Big Rude Jake.

Work by Philippe Ramette as exhibited in the 2007 CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival's Public Installation series in St. Patrick subway station.

From 2004 to 2007 FTP Media provided media consulting services to Big Rude Jake, helping the Canadian swing punk legend reclaim his online web presence at http://bigrudejake.ca/.

From 2004 to 2007 FTP Media provided media consulting services to Big Rude Jake, helping the Canadian swing punk legend reclaim his online web presence at http://bigrudejake.ca/.

From 2004 to 2007 FTP Media provided media consulting services to Big Rude Jake, helping the Canadian swing punk legend reclaim his online web presence at http://bigrudejake.ca/.

On October 16th, Beck played the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto. After the show, he and his band made a surprise appearance for a five-song extravaganza complete with wigs and wildness. In this video, Beck brilliantly mixes Fame with Another One Bites the Dust.. though the sound quality of this...

George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun played by some buskers in The Beaches, Toronto. This was my second video posted to YouTube following the registration of my profile on June 28, 2006.

This video was edited for performance artist, singer and producer Melleny Melody (now known as MelleeFresh), also producer of the electronic music record label Play Records. Love Shower is an experimental video for the song of the same title, produced by Melleny Melody and the Pop Machine, performed live at the Joker in Toronto in 2003. Video edited by Lisa Santonato for Play Records. © FTP Media 2003.

Spookey Ruben on live acoustic guitar featuring “Tug of War”, Part Two of the San Francisco Sessions. © FTP Media...

Lucia and Serafino Santonato were married in the town of Patrica, Italy, province of Frosinone, on September 12th, 1931. This video features an interview with Lucia and Serafino in advance of their 70th wedding anniversary in 2001. The interview was conducted by my father Lou and is spoken...

‘Live in Austria’ marks the first video produced by FTP Media (2001) for client number one: Gerald Belanger (Metro Breaks). DJ Gerald Belanger toured through Austria, Germany + Switzerland + Holland from June to August 2000. Upon his return he arrived and brought a MiniDV tape...

"Awakening" documents a young woman's experience with cancer. The story is told through a combination of home movie footage and a narration based on journal entries. The short film was produced at the Canadian Film Centre's New Media Lab in 1999.