Once again, my friends at Zen Maker Lab are hosting an workshop. This time, it’s a workshop to help you choose a desktop 3D printer, hosted by yours truly. This $20 evening workshop in North Vancouver on July 28th at 7pm will cover: pros and cons of many currently available 3D printer models building a…
Tonight I attended what will likely be the first of many ‘multi-rotor meetups’ in North Vancouver. What started as a conversation on the forum of the 3D604.org group evolved into a very well attended meetup in an unused lot along the waterfront. As you can see below, there were a lot of different models of…
Last night was the first Twestival in Vancouver, part of a global fundraising project bringing together people on Twitter in support of charity:water. Met a ton of people in real life I follow on Twitter as well as a whole bunch of new people that I’m now following. I shot a pile of photos and…
This past weekend, I participated in my first group photoshoot with members of the Vancouver Strobist group (on Flickr). After missing out on a studio shoot in January, I was invited to this one at The Dollhouse Studios. The models were members of the Sweet Soul Burlesque troupe and were fantastic to work with despite…
Once again, it’s time to start planning for SXSWi which is coming up pretty fast in just under two months. It’s the annual ‘geek summer camp’ held in Austin, Texas every March. Check out my previous posts about it to see why you might want to go. Now is the time to start doing a…
This morning I had the pleasure of having breakfast with Jeff Pulver and a few dozen other fine folks at Enigma in Vancouver. Considering it was a pretty early start on a Sunday morning, it was a pretty big turnout. Jeff organizes these ‘social media breakfasts’ all over the world. Using tools like Twitter and…
Yesterday I attended the innaugural WordCamp Vancouver presented by Tazzu at the Network Hub. The format was not unlike a BarCamp where people could submit topics they would present on. Unfortunately I was laying on a beach in Hawaii when it all happened (the advance submissions that is) so I missed the opportunity to participate…
The countdown has begun to Thursday morning when many Vancouver locals will crawl out of bed much eariler than normal and head down to YVR to board their flights to Austin, Texas for the 2008 edition of South by Southwest. Many of us will be on the same flight which should make the trip that…
A few of us have been noticing that there hasn’t been as much chatter on the internet about Northern Voice during or immediately following the event. As well, the page views on Flickr seemed to be a lot lower than last year. Personally, I think it’s just that everyone hasn’t fully had a chance for…
I headed downtown tonight to check out Third Tuesday Vancouver at the Network Hub. Jeff Young was the guest tonight speaking about many topics and their legal implications online. There was a lot of interesting discussion about copyright versus trademark, what aspects of a design can be legally owned, and the legal rights of bloggers…