Oct 31
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In the latest issue of
Wired magazine the editors challenged 33 master authors to create a science fiction story in 6 words or less and brought them together with several graphic design wizards. The results were quite impressive.
Can a story be boiled down to “word bites”? Earlier today a friend Instant Messaged me with a “C U later.” Everything seems to be tightened down to the minimum. There is something very George Orwellian about this and yet there is something to be said about communicating big ideas succinctly. My favourite is the haiku form, when it’s done well.
I decided to try this new literary art form. Here are my attempts:
- Did he really leave me? Chocolate.
- Patterns in nature and structures converge.
- Tie a can to it buster!
Hmmmm. I think I’ll go back to haiku. I do much better with 3 lines.
Oct 30
I spent the last couple of weekends shooting some film of different areas in Kitsilano but I will usually bring my digital along as a backup. There have been a couple of time where I had run out of film and it was quite handy! In another case I finished up my film roll and it only rewound itself halfway as it lost power from my batteries. Ack! It was a trip to the L&S store to get them to get my film out in their black box. It was a scary moment as I was shooting for an assignment.
I truly love shooting with film and I’ll never completely give it up. I think that it’s going the way of the vinyl record. Even though it seems that everyone is going digital there is a lot of popularity with the older style cameras and some cool techniques that you can do with film that you may not beable to replicate with digital: Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 28
This past week I attended an elearning session at UBC about an innovation in social bookmarking to promote sustainability. Last spring UBC approached a local problem and an opportunity for core branding in sustainability. With the World Forum being held in Vancouver and over 350 university courses laying a claim to covering sustainability in their curriculum and no organizer to explore the richness thereof on campus they looked to technology to enable and engage stakeholders in sustainability solutions. They created a system called GUSSE: Global Urban Sustainability Solutions Exchange - http://gusse.org/ which is a social bookmarking system Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 23
Recently the career experts blog at UBC weighed in about the usefulness of functional style resumes vs. chronological resumes. Historically functional style resumes have been recommended for first time university/college graduates and for career changers. According to one commenter on the career experts blog the functional resume had it’s heyday in the 70s as a clever way to display one’s skillset. Now they are seen as a ‘bluffing tactic’ a way to distract an employer from undesirable information such as gaps in work history. And it’s not unusual for that type of resume to end up in the shredder!
Blue Sky Resumes has some pretty good suggestions for career changers , Read the rest of this entry »
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