Category: Misc

Thanks to everyone who collaborated with me on the recent Made in Vancouver‘ photoshoot… especially Shai from Prepwork, Kim from Discollection and Jesse from ModelMayhem. Check out some of Static’s other fashion photography in our portfolio. (Cross-posted from my “Made In Vancouver” Photoshoot post over at Static Photography.)

Vancouver designer vintage clothes. Kim from Discollection started a wordpress blog, soon to be moved over to Discollection.ca. Go kdon!

What’s Zo Wearing? Secret Photoshop Agent and resident Fashion Icon zoetica often has the staff at SGHQ asking, “What’s Zo wearing?” Her unique and eccentric style is a rallying call to those who suffer from mainstream malaise. Each week, she tells us how she’s combined ord

Well Movember is in full swing, and here’s the first iteration of my Mo… taken in Photobooth over at Workspace here in Vancouver. I’ve heard guys say “I’m a grower, not a shower.” I like to think I’m both. Several other peeps are representin’. Check out awesome Mo’s by Brian LeRoux, Derek Miller, Dane Brown, Read More …

SuperHappyDevHouse 13 on Flickr FactoryJoe gettin a lil silly with one of my cameraphone self-portraits on the SuperHappyDevHouse 13 flyer.

The Definitive Guide to Cell Phone No-No’s Annoying cell phone usage is becoming a scourge of our society, and it’s not just for arrogant executives anymore. It seems like wherever you turn in public spaces, there’s someone yelling into their phone, having the most mundane conversation about n

Your Guide to Wikis A wiki is simply a web page that can be written or edited by the public or a group of people. What sets wikis apart from other web pages is the simple way that anyone can edit or add to an existing page, or start a new page.

November Drupal Training Update – new Drupal for Consultants Oh, right, the update: we’re locking down the first day as a more general day that should be applicable to people that don’t fit neatly into either Designer or Developer, or that don’t have time for a full 4 day course. So, the first day (November Read More …

Deconstructing Flickr’s “Interestingness!” By hinting at the existence of secret sauce, Flickr enters the “we’re more than a pretty face” and “trust us we have amazing algorithms underneath” competitions along with people like Digg. If fact it’s getting to the point that if you can’t work the word

Interestingness Is to Flickr As PageRank Is to Google The recursive nature of Flickr’s interestingness makes it analogous to Google’s PageRank–the complex site ranking system used by Google that ranks sites fundamentally using the PageRanks of the sites that provide links (“inbound links”) to the ranked sit

The Interesting Economy Today, Flickr has interestingness, which is a measure of some combination of how many times a picture has been viewed, how many comments it has, how many times it’s been tagged or marked as a favorite, and some other special sauce. I suppose revealing the

Flickr Interestingness Rankings Patents Released Blog posts about Flickr’s interestingness, and a February Flickr forum post on changes to the interestingness rankings, show a lot of interest in the “secret sauce” on how photos are determined to be interesting. A couple of patent applications were

A Tale of Three Communities The online world has created a culture of creation among ordinary people. Meanwhile, magazines are still partying like it’s 1899. Writers write, readers read, and never the twain shall meet.

Middle Finger, Olympics! I walked right by it not thinking to take a photo of it. Not only do I work in the same office as a company with a citizen journalism site, but I work with citizen journalists. If you see them any of the posters elsewhere in Vancouver and use Flickr, be s