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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.

  • Style Profiles – Kris Krug, One Cool Geek

    Style Profiles – Kris Krug, One Cool Geek What stands out about him is that he shatters the stereotype about Vancouver people, and about geeks fixated on the…

  • Workspace Photo Contest

    My buddy Bill is opening an awesome new shared Workspace for independant artists, geeks, and other creative entrepenerial types an awesome part of Vancouver. I’m a member and…

  • Flickr War

    Flickr War Verb//slang Definition: 1. the act of war performed on flickr through posting of unfortunate pictures Usage: “If you post those pictures of me in my y-front…

  • George Oates from Flickr

    Check out this quick interview with George from Flickr at the Vancouver International Digital Festival on Granville Island. I think if you absolutely forced me to pick a…

  • Kriscollection v.1

    I’ve completed my summer mix CD. Here’s the playlist. 001 – Sunshowers // MIA 002 – We Be Burnin’ // Sean Paul 003 – King Without A Crown…

  • KEXP Suggests – Cut Chemist!

    KEXP Suggests – Cut Chemist! KEXP used a photo I took of Cut Chemist at SXSW on their blog. Cool.. thx guys. It was an awesome show. 🙂

  • Webkinz – Second Life for kids

    Webkinz – Second Life for kids I recently heard about a new children’s toy known as ‘Webkinz’. This has to be one of the best (and most lucrative)…

  • Discollection

    Discollection My favorite new Vancouver vintage store.

  • Burning Man Photography

    Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography Desert to Dream is an unprecedented photographic record of a decade of Burning Man celebrations — from its infancy…

  • Amazing Flickr Testimonial

    I was humbled tonight to get a beautiful testimonial on my Flickr profile page tonight from Mommy Peace… someone I know online but have never met. “A search…

  • DrupalCamp Seattle 2006

    I got a thank you email from Gregory Heller at CivicActions this morning which reminded me that I hadn't posted a Drupal Camp Seattle 2006 wrap-up yet. 2…

  • Bolloxed – A Play By Darren Barefoot

    Bolloxed – A Play By Darren Barefoot The blogfather asked me shoot the photos for the play he’s writing for the Vancouver Fringe Festival. w00t!

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