Category Archives: Media - explicit

Media that know they’re media.

Vancouver Hackathon and Adopt-A-Stop: The Idea

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Media - explicit | tagged as , , , , , , , , ,

“Adopt-a-Stop” is our idea for a web and mobile-enabled application for community members to find and share information about the five-block radius around each bus stop. As the name alludes, the service will encourage and empower individual community members to garden and curate and take ownership of an individual Facebook-style page for each stop.

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Support Sunny in telling diverse Canadian stories

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Flotsam and Jetsam, Media - explicit | tagged 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.

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Blogathon 2009 – Golden Ears Bridge Opening in HD and Super-8

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, Media - explicit | tagged as , , , ,

Videos from the Golden Ears Bridge opening celebration – shot in high-definition video and super-8 film.

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Blogathon 2009 – Marpole Grows: Communicating Development Scenarios

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, Media - explicit | tagged as , , , , , ,

Guest post from Farzine MacRae about the use of video in participatory design, with specific reference to a project done at SCARP in 2008 for the neighbourhood of Marpole.

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(More) On Open Data, Open Standards and Vancouver City Staff

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Media - explicit | tagged as , , , ,

Last week, I met with Jackie Wong from the West Ender to talk a bit about my thinking on open data, open standards and City Staff. We touched on a wide variety of topics — the impact of the motion and technology in general on non-profits, my thoughts on how well City Staff would glom [...]

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Friends get media coverage!

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Media - explicit | tagged as , , , , , , ,

It wasn’t until today, almost a week since it came out, that I got a chance to flip through last week’s issue of the Georgia Straight and to see that a whole whackload of people I know and respect, were practically in every major section in the first half of the paper!

Pete Quily got [...]

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February events galore, past and future

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Four dimensions, Media - explicit, dot-star-camp | tagged as , , ,

Second month into the year, and you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that it’s winter with all the events I’ve been out to these past two weeks! People are definitely movin’ and a-shakin’ here in our fair city to get things rolling for now and further out.
Last week, I attended four meetings:

Vancouver Public Space Network [...]

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Oh, Media – Breakfast Television tomorrow

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, Media - explicit, dot-star-camp | tagged as , , ,

As you might (or perhaps might not) expect of a student of Communication, media gives me swishy feelings. I got a few days head’s up for this, which is better than what I usually get. We hashed out the details this morning – tomorrow morning, I will be up bright and early to talk about [...]

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Shutterbuggery

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Flotsam and Jetsam, Four dimensions, Media - explicit | tagged as , , , , ,

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 [...]

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Life (events) in rapid succession

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Counting Machines, Media - explicit | tagged as , , , , ,

Things seem to happen in threes. The past week, I’ve been a fairly major participant in three major life all occurring in very rapid succession. It’s enough to make me dramatic about the big things – though that’s not exactly out of character for me anyway. It has a certain way of giving everything a [...]

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