Recently I attended the Rock Awards hosted by the Vancouver Island Chapter of GDC in Victoria. And what a night to remember. After a delicious locally grown organic meal, the room went dark and was filled with the deep, ominous sounds of a pipe organ. A mysterious silhouetted form appeared and began by reciting words of wisdom from Robert Bringhurst‘s Elements of Typographic Style with the tone and charismatic cadence of a half-drunk televised Southern Preacher.
And so with such irreverent lines as “In the beginning, the Great Designer created the heavens and the earth…” began the 2008 edition of the Rock Awards. And it just got worse better from there. With professional actors serving as this crazed clergyman, a full choir dressed in black robes and a terrific tongue-in-cheek script written by Dylan Petley, the evening proved to be one of the most fun GDC events I’ve ever attended. Congratulations to President Valerie Elliot, Past-President Kirsty Armstrong and their volunteers for putting on a terrific awards show.
If you weren’t fortunate enough to be there in person, check out this video of the 2008 Rock Awards show. It may even save your soul!
