I’ve hinted here or there at what my latest gig is — on top of being a Master’s student, that is — and I’m now happy to be able to announce it because, after a few delays, my team and I were (finally!) able to launch our blog today.
Since mid-August, I have been working as [...]
Sunny is staging a fundraiser to get her to Toronto – it’s got a bit of a twist. She’s writing a screenplay called The Midnight Gardener and is releasing and writing a scene for every fifty ($50) dollars raised.
A few months back, I commandeered Richard’s iPod mini so I could improve my podcast-listening experience away from my computer (podcasts and the iPod Shuffle…makes for a little too much indirection), and I thought I’d give a bit of love to ones I’ve been enjoying:
Whisper House by Duncan Sheik. This is a three-part podcast describing [...]
Well, how about that? The organizers of Mental Health Camp have accepted my proposal to speak on Ethnic Communities and Mental Health:
Mental Health and Cultural Sensitivity – Services and Stigma in Vancouver’s Ethnic Communities
A discussion about the stigma of mental health in ethnic communities, language-specific mental health resources in the Lower Mainland, and mental health [...]
Ever since I got back from Toronto, where I dropped a rather uncharacteristic amount of money on gorgeous clothes at Preloved’s warehouse sale (who re-use clothes from thrift stores in funky and awesome, hand-cut ways), I’ve had my eyes peeled for what I can do with the fabric in my life. When Richard started culling [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Counting Machines, Flotsam and Jetsam, dot-star-camp
| tagged as buskers, car-free days, community, competition, contest, culture, handimobility, metro vancouver, online video, performance artists, public transit, public transportation, street life, street musicians, strutta, translink, walkable cities
“Busker Idol,” you ask?
Yes. Busker Idol. (!!!)
Busker Idol is my working title / codename for an idea I’ve had for at least two years, that I’ve started to flesh out and test a little more earnestly in the past little while.
Where did this come from?
The basic idea is the intersection of me asking the following [...]
2009 came in as a curious, understated, high-drama, low-noise affair – me and my nearest and dearest watching my favorite short films as we wondered which clock was the most accurate. Outside, the snow drifted down in terrifying density, the hills of New Westminster growing more treacherous by the minute for me and my transit-taking [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Flotsam and Jetsam, dot-star-camp
| tagged as barcamp, inspiration, leadership, serendipity, transitcamp, transitcampvancouver, transportherocamp, unconference, vancouvertransitcamp, worldchanger, worldchanging
If someone had told me as recently as 2 years ago where I would be, what I’ve seen and what I would be doing right now, it would seem plausible but I would be a bit skeptical. It delights me to no end that so little of the trajectory I thought I had plotted out [...]
For those of you not watching my site like a hawk (because hey, even I don’t), I’ve updated my previous post on Transport Hero Camp with a new URL for the wiki. It’s now living over at the BarCamp wiki, and I’ve also created pages for session ideas and with details on the event.
I really [...]
My recent trip to Hong Kong/Macau/Thailand was the first time in a long time I’ve had a chance to indulge my typically dormant shutterbug. I attribute it to two things:
Having recently developed a bit of an eye for the curious world of urban design, transportation and city planning; and
Having a really, really excellent camera to [...]
