{"id":7917,"date":"2014-02-27T00:18:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=5259"},"modified":"2014-03-10T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T05:44:08","slug":"best-laid-plans-wandels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7917","title":{"rendered":"Best Laid Plans + Wandel’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"BestLaidPlans_KWelsh\"<\/a>

Meet Angus. See him fully clothed, and at night, doing a reverse-Keitel.<\/p><\/div>\n

Earlier this month, the CBC\u2019s adaptation of\u00a0Terry Fallis<\/a>‘ novel\u00a0Best Laid Plans <\/strong><\/a>[BLP]\u00a0finished its run, and with the final episode pretty much setting up a possible Season 2, it makes sense to offer up a review of this short but sweet \u00a0six episode show which, like the British model, features lean storylines and very little fat.<\/p>\n

No, the show isn\u2019t on video yet \u2013 one assumes it may emerge on disc, or perhaps as a two-season set after possible (inevitable?) Season 2 ends its run \u2013 but this isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve reviewed an orphan show.<\/p>\n

Direct TV\u2019s Rogue<\/a><\/strong> was covered way back in June of 2013, although a DVD release is finally coming March 11, just in time for the debut of Season 2. (Why there\u2019s no Blu-ray is a mystery; you really<\/em> want to enjoy all that raunchy behaviour and violence in HD. Trust me.)<\/p>\n

A colleague has noted a number of local Ottawa actors appeared in BLP, and the show makes full use of many locations that show off the beauty of the nation\u2019s capital. Several scenes are set in real locations (like the University of Ottawa, the ByTown Cinema<\/a>), and the producers make a concerted effort to bring out the colours of Ottawa and Gatineau region during what looks like late summer \/ early fall on prime sunny days, and it certainly makes me want to head back for another spring or summertime break.<\/p>\n

I usually try and visit family friends at least once a year, but 2013 was fubar\u2019d by that [expletive]<\/em> thing known as frozen shoulder (of which I had its plural variant). During my last trip in 2012, I shot footage for two quick & fun shorts, of which the first \u2013 footage of a large and meticulously arranged garden – was edited into a rough cut.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve taken the footage and re-cut it into a short extract with music, kind of as a teaser for the colour that\u2019s typical of what populates the garden of Fred and Charlotte. For lack of a better title, I\u2019m just calling it Wandel\u2019s<\/a><\/strong>. I know zero about plant varieties, but I like filming flowers and foliage because of the remarkable textures and colours.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"MM_Yellow_flower\"<\/a>

So dreamy & creamy, you want to eat it with a spoon, right?<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Quick historical note: Fred\u2019s former company, the still-active Capital Landscaping, previously owned & operated by a trio of partners, is responsible for most of the massive trees, foliage, gardens, and landscaping done during the sixties through the 2000\u2019s in Ottawa, Kanata, and Gatineau. If you see a big tree in a commercial, older residential, or governmental location, it\u2019s likely the company\u2019s early handiwork.<\/p>\n

The short extract \u2013 for now, available only on Vimeo due to format issues with YouTube \u2013 is a sampling of Fred\u2019s genius for growing the exotic & the supposedly impossible in a garden he and Charlotte have curated for decades. The garden was shot in HD, but my ideal plan is to film their 2014 foliage using a three-tube camera. I just need to get a tripod capable of holding one of these ENG monsters.<\/p>\n

Coming right up before KQEK.com gets its WordPress overhaul this weekend<\/em>: reviews of Robert Redford in The Way We Were<\/strong> (Twilight Time) and All is Lost<\/strong> (eOne).<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A review of the CBC’s recently broadcast 6-episode adaptation of Terry Fallis’ novel Best Laid Plans, set and filmed in Ottawa, and because I’m the editor, links to an extract of a garden video I shot in the Gatineau region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2545,2571,2546,2536,2551],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/BestLaidPlans1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-23H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7925,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}