Category: Misc

  • Dive into Ruganzu Bruno’s EcoArt Residency in Kampala, Uganda!

    Hey hey, all you amazing internet folks! Get ready to join me on a wild virtual tour of the jaw-dropping eco art residency in Kampala, Uganda, nestled within Ruganzo Bruno’s groovy abode. So, buckle up and let’s dive into this adventure together, where creativity and sustainability intertwine to create a magical oasis! Unveiling Artistic Wonders:

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  • Cultivating Connections: The Inspiring Story of Galiano Island Community School’s Garden & Greenhouse Project

    Hey there, friends! Kris Krüg here, ready to take you on an awesome adventure through the Galliano Island Community School’s Garden & Greenhouse Project. We’re about to witness the incredible power of community, collaboration, and shared values. Get ready to be inspired! Embracing a New Way of Learning: At Galiano Island school, we’re all about

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  • Feelmore Plants – A Gardening Pop-Up Shop in Vancouver’s West End

    You may have heard of Vancouver’s ‘Greenest City’ initiative and the Vancouver Foundation’s “Neighbourhood Small Grant” program that runs along with it. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a super cool local program giving small amounts of money to people with cool ideas about how to make their communities more AWESOME! 🙂 Here’s more

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  • Small Art Printmaking Press on Whaler Bay, Galiano Island

    Two of the first people I met on Galiano Island when I started visiting here back in 2007 were art educators Kit Grauer & Peter Scurr authors of “To Teach is to Touch the Future“. Both Kit & Peter have a long history of making and teaching art as wll as teaching art teachers and

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  • DENT the Future 2019 Photo Recap & Gallery

    Just back from Sante Fe where I was attending DENT the Future organized by Jason Preston and Steve Broback. DENT is an ‘ideas and inspiration festival’ featuring talks, workshops, adventures, projects, and goodtimes. We meet several times a year in places like Maui, Teluride and Napa and have formed a great support network of creative

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  • Handmade Knife Collection Inventory

    I curse the day my homeboy Matt McKenna of Owl Tactical sold me my first custom knife and started a acquisition addiction that has resulted in this inventory list. Custom – Made by hand, one at a time. Jake Hoback – A10 Custom Folder – Made by Jake Hoback this Custom A10 folder is a solid

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  • #BookWorms & #WordNerds Unite on Galiano Island for 2016 Literary Festival

    One of the most interesting events I’m involved with over here on Galiano Island is our upcoming Galiano Island Literary Festival. Last year I attended all the sessions and made photos of the author’s and guests and shared them online on behalf of the Galiano Island Books. We’re gearing up for this years festival and

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  • Aerial Photography: Combining my loves for flying and making photos!

    For the past few years I’ve been learning to fly airplanes. Simultaneously over same past several years there has been a revolution in powerful cameras mounted miniature remote controlled helicoptors (DRONES or DOVES) specifically in the area of aerial photography and videography.  This Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology has become cheap, user-friendly and safe. How lucky am to

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  • What is the unique value that female artists bring to electronic dance music?

    By combining ecstatic energy and feminine artistry, talented young women in the electronic dance music scene are harbingers for the emerging paradigm. Friends of mine have been working for a couple years on a feature-length documentary film about girl DJs and music producers called Amplify Her. The film is making great progress. Productions is complete

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  • Galiano Island’s New Outdoor Lifestyle Brand – King Fisher Apparel

    For the past 5 years I’ve spent almost all my ‘downtime’ on the water w/ Galiano Island‘s Ryan McQuillan of Salish Sea Charters. We’ve developed a great friendship and spent copious of time fishing, exploring and making photos and videos of our adventures… much to the chagrin of local salmon. On a typical day we’ll rise

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  • Media Literacy & Digital Storytelling Workshops w/ the Youth of Galiano & Penelakut Islands

    For the past couple years I’ve been involved w/ a rad organization called AMES that provides Digital Storytelling & Media Literacy workshops & programming for school age youths. Last year we launched a project called SalishHarvest.com and this year we’ve been working on a new project called Digital Foraging. The Digital Foraging project aims to document the stories

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  • The Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes

    For the first time in years, I’m making some crucial updates around here. This website sat for many years, untouched. 12 years in fact since I launched this site and started blogging. It held up pretty well all things considered. It’s been online consistently since then with the exception of 2 small hacker outages. Time

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  • Preparation Under Way For South By Southwest 2014 in Austin, Texas

    I’ve probably worn nearly every hat at South By Southwest over the past 10 years. Attendee, exhibitor, speaker, photographer & advisor. It’s one of my fav weeks of the whole year and the planning for ‘next year’ always starts as soon as ‘this year’ is over A great time to learn, party, see old friends

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  • This Is East Van #Community #Art #YVR

    Summer is here in Canada. I’ve been spending lots of time fishing and gardening out on Galiano Island… but a big part of my heart (and my photography studio) still live at The Waldorf Hotel in East Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. East Van is well known for it’s rich cultural heritage including a rich homegrown

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  • Workin With The United Nations On A Digital Crowdsourcing Campaign to Stop HIV / AIDS

    In May I visited Bamako, Mali in West Africa where I keynoted the. I gave a presentation titled “What Can The HIV/AIDS Movement Lean From Green/Climate Movement About Online Activism?” This was my first trip to Africa and my first time working with UNAIDS. To say that I learned a lot and had my horizons

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  • A rolling stone gathers no moss.

    Perpetual. Motion. Machine. 2011 has been an amazing adventure. I’m just wrapping up 8 weeks on the road and headed off again tomorrow bright and early to South America. I’m long overdue for a blog post so I thought I take some time to update you on what I’ve been up to and what I’ve

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  • CBC Interview: Plastic Pollution & The Oceans

    I was interviewed on CBC Radio’s ‘On The Coast’ w/ Stephen Quinn this week. Here’s the audio transcript set to some of my behind-the-scenes photos of the filming of the Midway Documentary.

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  • What we leave behind is our digital footprint…

    Our future is being documented by us in our present. Each and everyone of us who has a digital camera, a cellphone, a computer or even a camera phone has the task of creating our living digital history in real time. Our digital landscape has changed drastically from the meaningless dribble that once was in

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  • Social Media Documentarian

    In my ongoing struggle define what it is I do in a neat little package I’ve increasingly found myself using the words ‘Social Media Documentarian‘. Based on the spirit of the idea that ‘if you don’t stick it on the internet it didn’t really happen’, essentially this made-up term refers to the fact that there

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