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‘Vancouver’s Got A Posse’ at South By Soutwest Interactive 2011
Once again that time of year has sprung upon us. If you haven’t noticed a strange influx of SXSW chatter on the internet, then you are one of the lucky ones. Geeks all around the world clamored for...
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“So Whatcha Been Up To?” – Summer Photography Update 2010
(cross-posted from my photography blog) Static Photography has been very busy these past summer months. Every day is a constant hustle at our studio in Vancouver, BC but we get shoot some really...
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New Media and Web Development Class 001 – BCIT
Notes for my first lecture at British Columbia Institute of technology… “Welcome to MDIA 2045 at BCIT in the New Media and Web Development 1 year senior management certificate. This course will be...
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Tweetups, Twittersphere, Tweeps, Twitworking, Twestivals & Twitter
These are some notes and homework to serve as a guide for my New Media and Web Development at BCIT – Class 2. Before we embark on this adventure I’d like to warn you about a couple of things. First,...
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Photography Ethics on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
I’m working on a cool photography project for Vancouver’s Lookout Shelters with Buschlen Mowatt Gallery and Joshua Dunford and have been thinking a lot about the ethics of photography on Vancouver’s...
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The Waldorf Hotel & The Beatty Street Mural
Here’s a couple local Vancouver projects that inspire me. I’ve documented each of them as they’ve developed over the past several months and recently published these editorials. The Waldorf Hotel “The...
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Guest Speaker in MDIA 2045 – Dave Olson, Hootsuite
Today’s lecture is going to be given by Vancouver independent media leader Dave Olson of HootSuite. Here’s some background info on him as well as a couple cool interviews and a photo gallery of images...
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RiP! A Remix Manifesto
Snow day! In class today we’re gonna watch my very favorite geeky film RiP! A Remix Manifesto by Brett Gaylor and featuring many hero-worthy geeks including Larry Lessig and Cory Doctorow. We’ll use...
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Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat: Please put a penny in the old...
December is around the corner and Christmas is in the air. To transition out of fall and into the Holiday spirit I’m participating a classic Vancouver event… The Chrismas Wish Breakfast at the Pan...
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New & Emerging Social Networking Tools – BCIT MDIA 2045
Congratulations. After 6 weeks of blogging and Twittering and tinkering with social networks I’m convinced most of you are proficient in the concepts & tools we’ve covered so far. We’ve covered...
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The Future of Fashion Photography
I’m working on some thoughts for a fashion photography section for Matt Bamberg‘s upcoming book “Defining the Future of Photography“. These notes are really rough but are start for the chapter on “The...
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South By Southwest Party in Vancouver at The Waldorf Hotel – January 13th
SXSW Interactive has announced a pre-event parties happening in Vancouver in January. The plan to throw a bash in as many cities as we can before the event happens in March but one of the first one...
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Homework: BCIT Social Media Class
— Review past homework assignments. This is what I’ll be marking at the end of the term. Fill out profiles, add contact, publish content, link social networks together. — Read through Klout scoring...
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Social Media Documentarian
In my ongoing struggle define what it is I do in a neat little package I’ve increasingly found myself using the words ‘Social Media Documentarian‘. Based on the spirit of the idea that ‘if you don’t...
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What we leave behind is our digital footprint…
Our future is being documented by us in our present. Each and everyone of us who has a digital camera, a cellphone, a computer or even a camera phone has the task of creating our living digital...
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CBC Interview: Plastic Pollution & The Oceans
I was interviewed on CBC Radio’s ‘On The Coast’ w/ Stephen Quinn this week. Here’s the audio transcript set to some of my behind-the-scenes photos of the filming of the Midway Documentary.
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“A rolling stone gathers no moss.” – 2011 Travel Update.
Perpetual. Motion. Machine. 2011 has been an amazing adventure. I’m just wrapping up 8 weeks on the road and headed off again tomorrow bright and early to South America. I’m long overdue for a blog...
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Workin With The United Nations On A Digital Crowdsourcing Campaign to Stop...
In May I visited Bamako, Mali in West Africa where I keynoted the UN’s Global Youth Summit on HIV. I gave a presentation titled “What Can The HIV/AIDS Movement Lean From Green/Climate Movement About...
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This Is East Van #Community #Art #YVR
Summer is here in Canada. I’ve been spending lots of time fishing and gardening out on Galiano Island… but a big part of my heart (and my photography studio) still live at The Waldorf Hotel in East...
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Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
I was smokin’ a doobie with Ryan Holmes & Richard Branson at The Groucho Club last week and I’m not sure what I said exactly but in the middle of one my of opprobrious & epically meandering...
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