Author: Kris Krüg

  • Lomography: The Rules, The Society and Why I Want One So Badly! | static photography

    Lomography: The Rules, The Society and Why I Want One So Badly! | static photography I’ve been coveting a certain few people’s photos on flickr now for quite some time, Brian Milo, shoegazer and lomokev to name just a few. There pictures have something different about them – a unique quality, colours that pop and

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  • Google Maps on Your Website

    Google Maps on Your Website There’s only one thing on the net cooler than Googleâ„¢ Maps. What could possible be cooler than that? Putting an interactive map on your own website.

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  • Captain AJAX Presents at Vancouver Film School

    Last night I went to VFS and listened to Andre Charland from eBusiness Applications give an overview on AJAX and the whole web two dot oh movement. It was a good talk and the most in-depth coverage of AJAX I’ve heard. He spent less time talking about the technology and more time talking about the

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  • Breaking The Curse

    Tomorrow I’m finally going to break the curse and leave North America. I’m 28 years old have traveled lots and lots around the States and Canada but have never left the continent. So after much ado and a couple planned trips that ended up failing through for one reason or another I’m finally off to

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  • The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

    The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Introducing the Slackstreet Creative Group, a private, new media agency and creative co-operative.

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  • Bryght and Early

    Bryght and Early What time zone is Qatar? GMT 3 for the record.

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  • Static takes photos for Vancouver DJ – Jay Parsons

    Static takes photos for Vancouver DJ – Jay Parsons DJ Jay Parsons has been spinning for years but has just recently made Vancouver his hometown and we’re happy to call him a local. We’re also happy that he called static when he needed photos done for his album cover.

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  • Other Places on the Web I Hang Out

    There are several social software sites I’ve been tinkering with over the past year or so. Here’s a link to my profiles on the ones that are the most intersting. Flickr by far is my favorite and is the only one where I actually spend a lot of time. Last.fm is pretty amazing and doesn’t

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  • Arctic’s “Amazed” Recorded Live on the ScotFree

    Arctic’s “Amazed” Recorded Live on the ScotFree Marcus Martin, aka ARCTIC sent us the first song he performed on the ScotFree 88 last week, called “Amazed” (8 MB). Kirsten at Crows to Burnaby was the sound engineer and Dave the Urban Vancouver Intern interviewed Marcus (he’s already written a review of

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  • Multi User Blog Tools – Overall Ratings and Reviews

    Multi User Blog Tools – Overall Ratings and Reviews These are the final ratings of a broader review of the multi-user blogging solutions Drupal, Elgg, Manila, Movable Type, WordPress MultiUser and pLog. These particular applications were selected for review due to the authors familiarity with them, their p

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  • Pig Roast 2005

    Pig Roast 2005 A pig roast to celebrate Theresa’s 30th birthday and to bid farewell to Theresa and Daniel before leaving for Hogtown (Toronto, that is)

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  • Vancouver User Guide Blog Feeds

    Vancouver User Guide Blog Feeds We subscribe to several syndicated news feeds from Vancouver-based blogs and display them here so we can read them all in one place. Clicking on a story title will take you to the author’s original blog entry.

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  • Why Self Portraiture?

    Why Self Portraiture? Every photograph we make is part of a learning process. We turn our lens on our respective worlds, on the people who inhabit it, on the new places we discover, and on the scenes we’ve created. We find truth and we create fiction with our cameras. It seems a natural thing to

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  • Sam Sullivan Photo Used for the Cover of the Terminal City News

    My friend Ian King called me up this week and asked if I could drop everything and come take a photo of someone he was interviewing for the Terminal City News. Turns out the interview was with Sam Sullivan who is running for mayor in Vancouver. I took my Canon 20d but forgot my memory

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  • Truck you! Video Podcasting, Second Life, Slackstreet and more

    Truck you! Video Podcasting, Second Life, Slackstreet and more Video iPods and iTunes TV Shows and their haters, Aperature, Seccond Life send a note to Spin Martin (Eric) or Commodore Gretzky (Josh); Bishop Walcott (tonyB) and Smash Gregoire (Grog), Eric’s new truck and mods, an announcement about Slackstreet.

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  • Gastown Graffiti Project

    Gastown Graffiti Project In an alley one block east of the Harbor Centre, between between Richards and Homer, running parallel to Hasitngs.

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  • Please go and vote for our Web 2.0 Manifesto over at ChangeThis!

    Please go and vote for our Web 2.0 Manifesto over at ChangeThis! Some friends and I decided that we want to write a Web 2.0 manifesto over at ChangeThis. We submitted our proposal to the ChangeThis team and they accepted!

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  • Min Jung Kim Interview

    Min Jung Kim Interview We’ve been meaning to interview friend of SFist Min Jung Kim for a while now. We met her way back in the day, when we were regular noobs. Numerous tech conferences, Korean barbecue feasts, nights of karaoke and episodes of Iron Chef later, we’re still in

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  • Book Review – BitTorrent For Dummies by Susannah Gardner and Kris Krug

    Book Review – BitTorrent For Dummies by Susannah Gardner and Kris Krug Basically, an interesting book on a technology that is redefining how content is controlled and distributed in the digital world. If you want to know how to make it part of your world, it’s worth reading…

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