Category Archives: Media – explicit

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Movie Reflection: 0506HK

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Ideas, Media - explicit

On Friday, July 6th, Richard, my brother and I went to see the world premiere of LA Indie filmmaker Quentin Lee’s personal documentary, 0506HK. I had never heard of Quentin prior to this, the second film I saw that week as part of the Hong Kong Handover 10-year Anniversary retrospective at the Vancouver International Film [...]

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Remembering why I don’t watch Global TV

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Media - explicit

My mom and I were getting ready to make our evening meal last night, and she switched on the TV. “Nice,” I remarked, “Just in time for The National.” She asked to switch it over to Global to watch local news. I reluctantly accepted and switched the channel, using the switches on the TV since [...]

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IT in Community Economic Development – A Start

by quinn | posted in Ideas, Media - explicit, Technology

In September, I started taking a course by distance education from my university while I’m in Toronto working. I’m coming up on the final paper for the course, which is called [tag]Sustainable Community Development[/tag] 401, Concepts, Techniques, and Principles for CED Practice. It’s a survey course intended to give an overview of what it’s like [...]

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University Voices at the Metropolitan United Church

by quinn | posted in Four dimensions, Media - explicit

I had the incredible pleasure of attending the University Voices concert at the Metropolitan United Church on Friday, November 3rd. The concert featured five university choirs singing absolutely gorgeous chamber music–two of the songs had lyrics taken from e e cummings poems, one was from a Walt Whitman poem. One of my best friends from [...]

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NaBloPoMo! Ker-thwap!

by quinn | posted in Media - explicit

So, on a whim I’ve decided, after not having posted for almost an entire month, to give an honest attempt at participating in National Blog Posting Month, [tag]NaBloPoMo[/tag], for November. I’ve got some blog topics outlined and I pulled a “I will if you will” on Richard, so he’ll also be participating. It should be [...]

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All I want to do is love you, TIFF

by quinn | posted in Four dimensions, Media - explicit

I don’t mean to fall into that whole [tag]Vancouver[/tag] vs. [tag]Toronto[/tag] thing again, but seriously, what is up with the [tag]Toronto International Film Festival[/tag]? I had to Google the website, because it wasn’t a terribly obvious URL (e.bell.ca is perfectly instinctual and obvious), despite the fact that I walk right by what appears to be [...]

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Not spotless

by quinn | posted in Ideas, Media - explicit

Had a great lunch at work today, with some very Web2.0-savvy co-workers. These lunches give me hope in The Behemoth, really. The topic of our discussion was FaceBook [tag]reputations[/tag] in the Corporation–specifically, what do you do when that new summer intern that just started has got a FaceBook profile full of not work (or corporation)-friendly [...]

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Highlights from the last 48 hours

by quinn | posted in Four dimensions, Media - explicit, Technology

Demos, pub food, tofu, B-boys. It doesn’t get any better than that.

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University of Toronto Library gives public the cold shoulder

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Media - explicit

Within the first week of arriving in Toronto, I decided to hit up the University of Toronto’s library. After all, wasn’t this the one-time stomping grounds of the father of Canadian Communication studies, Marshall McLuhan? And his contemporary and fellow luminary, Harold Innis, has a residence and a college named after him. As a Communication-reared [...]

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Get out of my rice

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Media - explicit

The Myth of the Rice King, eh? And here I thought there were no theories being thrown around about Asian girls and white guys. Naturally, I’d be retroactively proven wrong.

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