Category: Misc
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National Belgian Day Dinner 2005 at Chambar in Vancouver – Podcast
National Belgian Day Dinner 2005 at Chambar in Vancouver – Podcast Take 6 “Bon Vivants” (K8, Roland, Boris, Kris, Colin, Arnaud) and set them loose at Chambar’s Belgian National Day Dinner and what do you get? Well some good insights, good fun and perhaps far too many zingers like “soul is the brevity of wit”
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Misanthropy Art Gallery in Vancouver Closing Show
Misanthropy Art Gallery in Vancouver Closing Show Curators Celia King, Eben Bender, Everett Nolan and Mr. Brown Stencils by Dead Empire (Nokin and the dark)
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Community Business Minded Ness
Community-business-minded-ness The community-business-minded-ness of the Bryght team was a refreshing surprise. They get community, they get business … and they know open source can be both. Boris, Kris and some friends run Bryght, a Vancouver company that offers quick and dirty (plus almost-as-quick and very pretty) web sites based on the Drupal online community platform.
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Portrait Photography Tips
Portrait Photography Tips While I’m not a fan of celebrity-type magazines I am a fan of great portraiture and I must admit I did pick up an old edition of Practical Photography Magazine (May 2005) when I read the tagline,“Stunning Portraits of the Rich and Famous,†on the cover but only because that was followed
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Champ, Krug, Powazek, Turingan
Champ, Krug, Powazek, Turingan “That’s not a law firm, nor a band. They are names, part of my four elements of photographic inspiration. ” Eric you’re awesome. Thx for making my day man.
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SAJAX – Simple Ajax Toolkit
SAJAX – Simple Ajax Toolkit Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh. The toolkit
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Ajax Resources
Ajax Resources Here’s a small and no where near complete list of some ajax scripts and small ajax apps i’ve stumbled upon:
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Beyond Robson – the site for Vancouver
Beyond Robson – the site for Vancouver In early August, Beyond Robson, a blog about Vancouver culture will launch and we’re looking for bloggers to join the team.
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EventBlogging @ WebVisions 2005 in Portland
I’ll be taking photos, aggregating, and blogging about WebVisions 2005 in Portland today. Go check it out at: http://2005.webvisionsevent.com/blog/
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Losability vs. Usability
Losability vs. Usability he rules of Web design can be summed up in two words: Whatever works. In other words, if your Web design is based on a strong business strategy, it sets its own standards. It’s like the siphon effect—you prime the siphon by drawing a little water thro
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Drupal Hosting Options
Drupal Hosting Options Bryght is a Drupal host, but we offer it as a managed and supported service. We should be on this page too.
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Minimalist Photography As An Artform.
Minimalist Photography As An Artform. Minimalism as an artform is the idea of reducing something to it’s most basic form including colour, shape, value, lines and texture – or lack of. Basically a reduction of form to only the essentials of geometric abstraction. Within this, no attempt is ma
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stencilrevolution – the dark
stencilrevolution – the dark Vancouver streetart masta!
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stencilrevolution – nokin Gallery
stencilrevolution – nokin Gallery Vancouver street art masta!
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Dodging and Burning in the Digital Darkroom
Dodging and Burning in the Digital Darkroom Dodging and burning are among the oldest and most time honored techniques in the traditional darkroom. While the way we dodge and burn has changed in the digital darkroom, the techniques remain as helpful as ever.
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Boris Mann Speaks Geek to Michelle Mill of Global TV
Michelle Miller and her crew from Global TV swung by the Bryght office today to talk to Boris Mann about citizen journalism, blogging, podcasting, and web 2.0. He totally nailed it, walking them through the power of distributed hyper-local newsmakers and used the coverage of the London Bombings as an example. He showed them Flickr,
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Ourmedia Nominated for Global Award
Ourmedia Nominated for Global Award Ourmedia has been nominated as the US finalist for the UN World Summit Awards. The team at Bryght would like to congratulate JD, Marc, and all the great volunteers that helped put the site together. Now with over 26,000 members and still growing!
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Magnificent Seven: Bryght gets a Music Czar
Magnificent Seven: Bryght gets a Music Czar Colin just started at Bryght this week, but we took him down to Gnomedex a couple weeks back for his initiation ritual. Of course, while some of us contented ourselves with getting yelled at by Microsoft, Colin decided to out our whole Backstage plan on v