iPhone days are over
I’ve converted to an Android operating system. It’s awesome. It has more than one button at the bottom. I like that.
Design
I do graphic design and communications work professionally. You can find my portfolio over at Pink Sheep Media. Here’s a few articles on design.
The Robert Dziekanski case
The officers failed to properly assess and respond to the situation effectively. Then they used too much force. Then they failed to administer CPR. Then the officers lied. Then their superiors and media relations officers lied…
Russ Campbell, Tim Ball and climate change (I mean global warming)
Media coverage of global warming, ahem, has been divisive. If you are a busy person trying to understand global warming, you might get a little confused by reading the National Post, the Calgary Herald, or Russ Campbell’s blog. It’s partly because of the lack of critical discourse about many self-proclaimed climate experts’ credentials…
Yes, my blog has no search form currently.
It’s a user experience failure. I know. Search forms are really important. But until I get a search form that works, here’s a little secret…
Newsletter
Subscribe to my newsletter update I’m not entirely sure how often I’ll be sending out updates. My hunch is that I’ll be emailing about once every two months or so. Maybe once a month. It’ll be about stuff I put on my blog mostly. subscribe to my newsletter! * indicates required Email Address * First…
Cakes, stones and violins
Year’s ago when I was an associate member of the Stone Sculptor’s Guild in Calgary, I took a lot of advice from a stone carver who’s father had been a cake decorator. This was a formative issue for the young stone carver. He watched his father work tirelessly making art that never lasted. Cakes, after…
Cognitive surplus: one more video
Since I seem to be on a kick posting videos, I thought I would post a recentish talk by Clay Shirky about collaboration and cognitive surplus. Clay Shirky is interesting and he wrote Here Comes Everybody, which was pretty good. He has two other TED talks and you can find links to them from his…
Photo difficulties with Apple’s iPhone OS 4 upgrade
I upgraded my iPhone today to the latest operating system. It took an hour or maybe an hour and a half, and it prompted me for clicks several times. When it was done, I unhappily discovered that many of my photos were missing. Pictures of my friend Pippa’s 60th birthday, were gone. Pictures of me…
Good video: probably a good book
Wow, there is footage in here of wolverines doing somersaults. Who knew? I’ve never seen a wolverine. I would love to be involved in making this kind of promotional video! Looks like a solid book. The Wolverine Way – by Douglas H. Chadwick from Wild Collective on Vimeo.
Ode to spring
I found these images on Tim Irvin’s blog, here and here. And so striking, they are, I decided to build the following animation. Keep in mind, that it took Tim’s back yard about one week to do this. If you missed it, just click the photo for a replay or wait about eight seconds and…
About pencils, again
It’s been a little over eight months since I wrote about pencils. Something cool that’s happened since my last reflection on pencils is that I have been meeting semi regularly to sketch and study with some other art folks. Turns out that the root meaning of the word “pencil” takes us back to fourteenth century…
WD My Book® Studio™
Having purchased the one Terabyte external hard drive to back up my data, I made the mistake of letting it sit on my shelf for two weeks before actually trying to use it. It’s the WD My Book® Studio™. The first indicator that it’s wasting my time is the propriety software that it assumed I…
Advertisers make good advocates
The Age of Persuasion is a CBC radio show that I’ve always enjoyed.1 Terry O’Reilly is the host and has worked in advertising for thirty some years. He has recently published a book with Mike Tennant, who co-authored the book and who probably co-writes the radio show. They’re ad men. So ultimately they’re apologists for…
Supporting Honeysuckle
Now this is a cool project. Or shall I say, it’s a tasty recipe. I feel like I get to brag a little because I’ve actually met this rising star. I know – cool huh. Her project has interesting politics. I think. Well, anyway how could I not support this exploration of sex, power and…
The Olympics versus Tiger Woods
Ages ago I wrote about how the brand of the Olympics is a safer investment than investing in a single athlete or even an entire team. Since I wrote that, a particularly high profile athlete has had a massive brand crash. So it seems like a good time to underline the relative brand security of…
Fair trade, fairly traded
I drink a lot of coffee. And sometimes I like to have a well made coffee. And sometimes I’ll drink any ole’ gas station coffee. But generally speaking, it matters to me if coffee is grown organically. Even more so, it matters to me if coffee is certified as Fair Trade coffee. And it’s not…
Strong 404 message
404 messages can be annoying, confusing, utilitarian and boring. But check out the cool 404 message on www.hughstimson.org.1 A 404 code is the type of error message you get when you go to a page on a website that doesn’t exist. ↩
The future of cities
This conversation with Paul Saffo is interesting in part because these two middle age white executives are speaking so nonchalantly about the relative likelihood of nation states breaking up into city states. And don’t forget about the rise of robots. And don’t forget about surviving climate change. And what about the cost of housing on…
Slideshows… about social media
These slideshows are from slideshare.net which seems like it might be a really handy service. Wow, there are a lot of slideshows on social media trends. Here’s just three: 16 Social Media Trends for 2010 by Agent Wildfire View more presentations from Sean Moffitt. 10 Trends For Social Media In 2010 Social Media Arizona 2010…
Something cool about the Olympics
Download the poster that says it all: here (PDF).
Worst bio page ever… ever.
Many of us hate writing our own bio pages. And here is a good example of what can go wrong if you write your own. I’m not providing the text here because I sincerely hope he deletes it and starts again. And to be fair, at least he didn’t lie about his credentials.1 I admit…
Christmas eve with Martin Luther King
Thanks to the vision of the CBC, Martin Luther King was invited to give Massey Lectures in 1967. I had no idea. Well, okay, I had some idea but CBC never ceases to amaze. I’ve heard a smattering of the Massey lectures but I’ve never heard any portion of King’s. Apparently he gave a five…
