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Field notes for the age of generative everything.

Essays on AI, culture, community, creative practice, consent, taste, and what stays human when the tools get loud.

  • A Flurry of Vancouver Web 2.0 Startups

    A Flurry of Vancouver Web 2.0 Startups A new wave of Internet start-ups is hitting the west coast. Vancouver is experiencing something parallel to a second goldrush following…

  • Who can resist a moose with an iPod…

    Who can resist a moose with an iPod… Northern Voice is back for a third time! Registration is open now for this fun Canadian blogging conference, scheduled for…

  • threads of gastown fashion show

    threads of gastown fashion show Hey internets, So Monday night was the fashion show for the WEAVE charity, and it was a success. Lots of peeps came out,…

  • got hats? | ChangeEverything.ca

    got hats? | ChangeEverything.ca Do you have any warm clothes you like to see go to people in Vancouver shelters right now but just can’t get to a…

  • Francois Brunelle’s Doppelgangers

    Francois Brunelle’s Doppelgangers Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle has embarked on an interesting quest to take portraits of people with their look-alikes. Not the most visually arresting photography project…

  • Aperture vs Lightroom

    Aperture vs Lightroom We’re in an era of transition in the way that we manage digital photographs. A year ago, we were mostly stuck with the filesystem and…

  • Social Media Club Vancouver at Bryght Offices

    Social Media Club Vancouver at Bryght Offices Social Media Club is being organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy…

  • Fighting comment spam with Drupal

    Fighting comment spam with Drupal Recently, I asked a colleague why I couldn’t comment on their fancy, new, corporate blog and this was their response

  • The Flickr Camera Guide

    The Flickr Camera Guide Popular photo sharing site Flickr has published lists and graphs of the most popular cameras used on the site. The results are an incredible…

  • Basic Photographic Lighting Techniques

    Basic Photographic Lighting Techniques Learning lighting setups for portraits, glamour, boudoir, etc. can be expensive and frustrating. Especially if you set out to do it by the trail-and-error…

  • Lighting for Still Photography

    Lighting for Still Photography The behavior of light is not well understood by many photographers. This applies both from a technical as well as compositional standpoint. It must,…

  • WTB: Photography Light Kit and Tripod

    WTB: Photography Light Kit and Tripod I don’t know that much about this stuff so any advice or recommendations would be good, but really what I’m looking for…

  • Hardcore Superstar Photoshoot

    Joseph Briante and Theresa James just started a boutique legal valet service in Vancouver called Hardcore Superstar and wanted to make a big splash. We shot these fun…

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