This past weekend, my friends at GM Canada loaned me a red 2011 Camero convertible to drive up to Whistler to attend the Whistler Ski & Snowboard Festival, aka WSSF. Since the weather was perfect, it seemed fitting to strap the GoPro to the trunk and make a time-lapse of the trip up: The video…
I first heard about Arduino from a friend that was learning about them in her industrial design class at the Emily Carr Institute and finally picked up my first one towards the end of August: I ended up giving a talk about Arduino at BarCamp Vancouver in November…more of a geeky show and tell really…
Once again it’s that time when all the SXSW folks start pitching to anyone with a pulse their panel ideas for voting. I’m no different although I try to keep it to a minimum. Lately SXSW has been awash is social media and marketing sessions (even my session with Chris Heuer earlier this year fell…
Last week, I travelled across Western Canada with a few folks from WOMWorld/Nokia, Michael, April, and Daniel in a RV as part of a cross-Canada promotional tour for Nokia’s latest N-Series smartphone (on Rogers in Canada), the N97 Mini. We started our trip in Vancouver, ending up in Calgary just in time for the Stampede…
On the weekend after shooting the 12×12 timelapse video, I was talking with Angela who also owns the Nikon P6000. She wanted to know how I shot the timelapse. I figured it would make a good blog post so here you go…keep in mind this is how I do it and there are many other…
This past weekend was the showcase exhibition and awards presentation for the 12×12 Photo Marathon that took place last December. On Friday, the organizing committee hung just over 600 photos at the Vancouver Photo Workshops space. Judging from the feedback from the attendees on Saturday, it was well worth the effort. The marathon winners: I…
My first trip on the newly opened Canada Line skytrain only took two minutes to go from downtown to the Airport: UPDATE: Here’s Part Two of the video – the return trip sped up a little bit faster:
This past Friday, I was invited to attend a special media boat cruise up Indian Arm aboard the 68′ ketch, the Island Odyssey. Yeah, I know it’s my second nautical themed event this week, life is rough sometimes. The purpose of the event was to let the local community know more about Bluewater Adventures which…
I left my camera back at the hotel while I went to the SXSW Interactive conference today: View from the 16th floor from John Biehler on Vimeo.
I’ve driven this route a thousand times… and I sped it up 1000% in iMovie ’09: