May 17, 2010. Granville Island – Olympic Village – Vancouver. Jason recently organized a twitter-friends meetup: we travelled to Granville Island to sample the famous gelato, and then wandered to the now-open to the public controversial Olympic Village. Click the photo to see the whole series.

May 17, 2010. Granville Island – Olympic Village – Vancouver. Just thought that you’d may be interested to see the before and after post-production work of my little magic in photoshop. Original photography by Jason Sanders. Click the photo to see the whole series.

photography by Jason Sanders

Have you heard of Northern Voice? Moose Camp?

The event is a “two-day, non-profit personal blogging and social media conference,” hosted in the little city of Vancouver, Canada. As one of the unknown first web-blogging conference’s since 2005, featured panels by participants/speakers includes

• how blogging interacts with family life
• education, travel, photography
• community building
• establishing professional profiles
• and much, much more.

The event runs every year, thanks to the organizers: a large group of old-school street-wise, hackers, programmers, coders, photographers, journalists and entrepreneurs

Things to do – listed (2010-05-15)

Do you remember PAC-MAN?

Also known as Pakkuman in the Japanese translations, the arcade game emerged during the 1980’s in North America and has become synonymously with video games and the 80’s decade of pop culture spawning a social phenomenon that has transcended the mediums of fashion, art & design, food, music history and animation.

Recently, Jason Sanders, a fellow that I’ve chance-met at several social and media conferences and art events, announced on twitter that he had been requested by Google to share his derivative of PACMAN: renamed to PAC CARROT MAN via the medium of an ‘old-school’ stop-frame animation sequences on Youtube!

At the time of this post, the mini-film has reached 24,783 views!

Sleeping in close-knit student spaces is relatively affordable and cozy, eliminating the need for excessive sundry items or furniture that just doesn’t ‘fit.’ Since I would be only staying a few days and purchasing quite a few items, I tried to keep my eco-footprint in my friend’s place as non-obstructive as possible.

The couch was a narrow fit, pillows were large and engulfing and the rest of the apartment was very organized and tidy. Unfortunately however, the neighbors one floor above decided to welcome my first morning in Portland by acting like bunnies. x_x

Have you heard of Amber Case? She’s generally known as a Cyborg Anthropologist and Tech Consultant, spoken at various industry conferences including MIT’s Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference.

She’s also presented an Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology at Portland’s Webvisions 2009. Previously wrote for Discovery Channel’s Nerdabout.com and worked at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon.

Long story short, she’s that crazy hard-working technology &media savvy girl who can pull off the short bobcut, consumes chocolate lollipops while reading comics inside the bookstore, and somehow still manages to walk like a praying mantis on crutches.