Thanks to everyone who came out to Interesting Vancouver tonight. A sold out venue is a great sign that Vancouver has an appetite for more of these types of events.
I’ll be posting links to the references that I spoke about on my academic blog I Am User Generated.
I’m super honored to be among the speakers listed at Interesting Vancouver. This is an unconference that brings speakers together from all walks of life just to share something interesting about their passions. The list includes, authors, planners, engineers and, ah, me. I hope I can live up to the bio that organizer Brett MacFarlane has crafted for me. Blush… I think there is still some tickets if you’re up for an interesting cultural event in a beautiful location. See you there.
I haven’t been this excited about a new camera release in a long time. This finally brings my cinematography training and my still photography together all in one camera. I haven’t seen footage this great from any camera, shot on any medium. Photographer/Cinematopher Vincent LaForet does a great job testing and designing this camera. This link shows the footage the best, but hosting was down last time I checked.
Here’s a simple YouTube embed as well, but the uncompressed version is better.
I have the utmost respect for what Banksy has been able to do with legitimizing graffiti as a valid form of contemporary art, however he may have met his match or perhaps his greatest collaborator in Grey Ghost.
In Murketing today Rob Walker published a post about the anti-graf zealot Fred Radtke aka Grey Ghost. Radtke is well known in the graffiti scene in New Orleans for covering up graffiti. These square blocks of neutral color have become tags unto themselves. This is further evidenced when Grey Ghost only partially covered up a Banksy N.O. work. If he truly hated graffiti then he would have covered everything. Instead he has put his story touch on this tale and entered into dialogue with Banksy.
We’re going into production on a fixed gear bike documentary. Here’s some inspiration:
From Quicksilver the movie
From Mash SF