Steven Pukin
He was born June 27, 1981 in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada, living there for 18 years before moving to
Hamilton, Ontario in 1999 to attend McMaster University.
Steven was active in McMaster's theatre community,
acting in 5 plays, and directing 2 more. He co-wrote
the award winning, Red Hill Valley Expressed, which
won Best Play at the McMaster Original Works
Festival. Red Hill would later become one of the most
successful plays at the 2003 Hamilton Fringe Festival.
After finishing university in 2003, Steven moved on to
Toronto, eventually getting a day job while trying to
explore creative pursuits as often as possible, with
film and music projects always on the go.
As a child, he learned to play the Alto Sax, but once
he reached high school, he taught himself the guitar
and starting writing songs. In 1996, he start writing
under the moniker, The Cosmic Fireflies, and hosts his
music on download.com.
Steven is also an aspiring filmmaker, doing anything
on set from being a sound recordist to actor to
director and director and producer. His music video for
Hamilton band, Fabulous Righteous- "King of the Sea"
won Best Music Video at the 2004 University of
Toronto Film Festival.
At the same time he shot a portfolio only piece for the
Pumpkins' "Blank Page", and would later go on to
shooting videos for Field Guide to Words and Music
and The Daybreak. Furthermore, he worked as
Producer, Director of Photography, and Editor on the
mockumentary short, Finding Ferdinand, and served as
head editor on the Act IV 2002 DVD.
In the Smashing Pumpkins world, he started Landslide
in July 1997 (originally called Steven's Smashing
Pumpkins and Cosmic Fireflies Web Site). Later on, he
put together the fan documentary, Fanphoria for
Listessa, which was presented to the Pumpkins in 2000.
Canada, living there for 18 years before moving to
Hamilton, Ontario in 1999 to attend McMaster University.
Steven was active in McMaster's theatre community,
acting in 5 plays, and directing 2 more. He co-wrote
the award winning, Red Hill Valley Expressed, which
won Best Play at the McMaster Original Works
Festival. Red Hill would later become one of the most
successful plays at the 2003 Hamilton Fringe Festival.
After finishing university in 2003, Steven moved on to
Toronto, eventually getting a day job while trying to
explore creative pursuits as often as possible, with
film and music projects always on the go.
As a child, he learned to play the Alto Sax, but once
he reached high school, he taught himself the guitar
and starting writing songs. In 1996, he start writing
under the moniker, The Cosmic Fireflies, and hosts his
music on download.com.
Steven is also an aspiring filmmaker, doing anything
on set from being a sound recordist to actor to
director and director and producer. His music video for
Hamilton band, Fabulous Righteous- "King of the Sea"
won Best Music Video at the 2004 University of
Toronto Film Festival.
At the same time he shot a portfolio only piece for the
Pumpkins' "Blank Page", and would later go on to
shooting videos for Field Guide to Words and Music
and The Daybreak. Furthermore, he worked as
Producer, Director of Photography, and Editor on the
mockumentary short, Finding Ferdinand, and served as
head editor on the Act IV 2002 DVD.
In the Smashing Pumpkins world, he started Landslide
in July 1997 (originally called Steven's Smashing
Pumpkins and Cosmic Fireflies Web Site). Later on, he
put together the fan documentary, Fanphoria for
Listessa, which was presented to the Pumpkins in 2000.
In 2001, Steven put together the first Act IV- A Tribute
to the Smashing Pumpkins show at Metro nightclub in
Chicago. The show sold out and featured Chicago
favorite, Kill Hannah as the headliner. A followup show
occured in 2002, bringing in 500 people with no major
headliner, and the concert spawned three CD projects
to date.
David Pukin
David was born on June 27th, 1981 in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada. He lived there until he was 18 and
moved to Hamilton, Ontario to attend McMaster
University, where he took a Science degree in
Psychology.
While at Mac, he was the co-host of "Rock Invasion",
which aired on CFMU (the local campus radio station).
He was part of the Programming Committee for the
2000-2001 season for CFMU.
In addition to his work with Act IV and Landslide,
David also started the first and only fan site for
Hamilton-based band, Flux A.D. He worked intensively
on Lucky Seven from 2001 to 2005, and started both
a download.com and New Music Canada pages to help
promote the band.
Most recently, David moved to Toronto in 2003 and his
currently finishing a Criminology degree at University
of Toronto. He was the primary person responsible for
authoring the Act IV 2002 DVD set
Manitoba, Canada. He lived there until he was 18 and
moved to Hamilton, Ontario to attend McMaster
University, where he took a Science degree in
Psychology.
While at Mac, he was the co-host of "Rock Invasion",
which aired on CFMU (the local campus radio station).
He was part of the Programming Committee for the
2000-2001 season for CFMU.
In addition to his work with Act IV and Landslide,
David also started the first and only fan site for
Hamilton-based band, Flux A.D. He worked intensively
on Lucky Seven from 2001 to 2005, and started both
a download.com and New Music Canada pages to help
promote the band.
Most recently, David moved to Toronto in 2003 and his
currently finishing a Criminology degree at University
of Toronto. He was the primary person responsible for
authoring the Act IV 2002 DVD set