by Michael Tippett
Early days of NowPublic, before The Arab Spring
"The tool that is redefining news is the cellphone."
"The Crowd Sourcerer", 2006
Vancouver Startup Weekend
Made in Vancouver
World Economic Forum, Eurasian Media Forum, Almaty Kazakhstan
Interviewing Eric McLuhan
Art & Design Archive
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Examined Life by Astra Taylor – Full Length Film
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Hey You With the Totally Awesome Face
The brilliant Jeremy Bailey who will be at The Western Front this week. Hey You With the Totoally Awesome Face (short edit) – YouTube.
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Is Vancouver Becoming a Social News Hub?
It was nearly a decade ago that I started thinking about how camera phones and blogs were going to change the news business. Those thoughts eventually turned into NowPublic and…
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This Poodle is Defending Your Internet Freedom
Image(810) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
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Greenpeace joins Wikipedia in Internet Blackout
Nice to see Greenpeace defending the information environment too. Props. In the history book of bad ideas, the concept of giving corporations the right to censor the Internet has…
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Microwave Theatre
The world is insane. Love this guy.
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FORGET STOCKS AND BONDS: Art Has Been Crushing Equities Over The Last Decade
You know how there are those people in the world who think that we should shut down all the classes in school that aren’t math and engineering because those…
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Jonathan Tippett, Engineer/Artist, Industrialus Design – YouTube
My Brother Jonathan on Mondo Spider.
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Trailer for MIDWAY : a film by Chris Jordan. Powerful
via MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan – YouTube.
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Hammertones Poster 1991
The most unlikely punk band, the Hammertones.
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6 Part Series in Vancouver Sun about GrowLab
Scott Simpson came down to Silicon Valley with the GrowLab Team and lived to tell about it. His 6-part series in The Vancouver Sun begins like this: SILICON…
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The Importance of the Examined Life
Slavoj Zizek in Examined Life – YouTube.
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Occupy Wall Street Has a Drone: The Occucopter – National – The Atlantic Wire
Occupy Wall Street Has a Drone: The Occucopter – National – The Atlantic Wire.
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Vancouver Startup Weekend: The Movie
Vancouver Startup Weekend: The Movie.
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54 hours until Vancouver Startup Weekend
Hope to see ya’ll real soon. .
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Titanoboa meets the Mondo Spider – YouTube
My mad brother is at it again.
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Will This Awkward Picture Of Obama And Hugo Chavez Smooching Sell Clothes?
Love this. Will This Awkward Picture Of Obama And Hugo Chavez Smooching Sell Clothes?.
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Fuck Yeah Menswear
Dark, subversive poetry here.
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Arts and culture on the political agenda
Like everything in this city, the number one problem for the arts is affordability. As talented people in the city flee for more cost effective pastures the arts community…
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Good Fences Make …art
Occupy Oakland asks “Whatever happened to those fences that were torn down last night?” Facebook.
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The Steve Jobs Mantra : Passion Before Profits
Why do people think it’s odd that Steve Jobs was a hippie, did LSD and listened to Dylan – and yet was successful? It’s funny that people think…
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The Shady Marketing Scheme Thats Buying Off Your Favorite Bloggers
Read the whole sordid scheme on Gawker. Welcome to the sad state of journalism in the 21st Century. The Shady Marketing Scheme Thats Buying Off Your Favorite Bloggers.
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Steve Jobs’s Biographer on “60 Minutes” [VIDEO]
WATCH: Steve Jobs’s Biographer on “60 Minutes” [VIDEO].
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Steve Jobs on Education
In a conversation with Barack Obama, Steve Jobs reportedly gave the following advice: Jobs also said teachers’ unions “crippled” the education system in the United States. Among his…
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Computer Talent : More Artist and Scientist
Good coders are more like artists than scientists. Check out this piece from Fast Company.
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Attention Emily Carr Design Students. You Could Win an iPad
This is awesome! Check out the news at Startup Weekend!.
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Branding the Occupation
Best slogan ever. This Designer Is Branding Occupy Wall Street With Custom Signs.
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Steve Jobs was a Hippie. That’s Important to Remember
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Artists, Poets, Historians made Apple Great : Steve Jobs
In an time when cuts to the arts are being justified in the name of ‘fiscal responsibility’ it is important to remember the words of Steve Jobs. “Part…
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Thank you Steve Jobs
via 1984 Apple’s Macintosh Commercial – YouTube.