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This podcast was part of a series produced for Capers Community Markets in Vancouver in 2006 and 2007. They were commissioned by then marketing manager Aron Bjornson (now at Saltspring Coffee).
Capers Community Market’s own Chef Nathan Hyam kicked off a series of podcasts with Vancovuer chefs.
In this edition, he shows us how to prepare:
(Unfortunately the recipe is no longer available online)
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It’s not every day you get to hear insights from a world-famous blogger, leaders in the phone and wireless industry, game developer and a digital entrepreneur – all in the same room, all at the same time.
On February 25th in Vancouver, DigiBC presented a full day of conversations featuring an international group of thought leaders and innovators, part of the VX Conversations series.
In all there were five sessions presented at the BC Showcase Centre at Robson Square, and I recorded them for DigiBC’s VXperience.com website
This session is titled Wireless Meets Digital, and featured:
The conversation was moderated by DigiBC‘s Michael Bidu, who posed the first question to Robert Scoble…
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Other sessions in the series included:
Collaboration Meets Innnovation
Medicine Meets Mobile
Entertainment Meets VFX/3D
Vancouver Meets the World
A year and a half ago, Alex Beim was hoping his company, Tangible Interaction, would be involved with the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. He never would have predicted that all together, he and his team would create 16 different installations related to the games.
Tangible Interaction Design creates full-on sensory experiences people can interact with in the everyday physical world. You can see them at Vancouver House, the BC Pavilion, and if you’re an athlete at the Games, inside the athlete’s village.
When I talked to Alex (on Feb 24) he was sworn to secrecy about yet another Olympic related project, Tangible Interaction’s contribution to the closing ceremonies.
“The ultimate achievement for us is to get someone so engaged with something they kind of want to hang out and enjoy their experience there…that’s why we do what we do”
To find out more about Tangible’s unique work, I spoke with Alex by phone from his studio in Vancouver…
If you aren’t able to see any of Tangible Interaction’s work at the various locations in Vancouver during the Olympics, you can see videos and photos of their projects on their website.
You can also see examples of their work in this video tour of the Multimedia Gallery at the BC Pavilion, or in this tour with photographer Kris Krug.
Here’s a peak at my podcast production desk.
Almost all the podcasts I produce for clients involve on-location recordings – so after the sound has been gathered, I spend a lot of quality time huddled with this gear, assembling the material and doing whatever post-production is needed to the audio.
Typically, production involves multi track mixes of eight to 12 tracks, and up until recently I’ve been doing that work with Adobe Audition.
I switched to Pro Tools last year and regret not doing it sooner – the learning curve is quite steep, but once it clicks, everything just falls into place, particularly if you’ve ever worked in a large multi track studio environment.
I should point out that even though I’m a huge fan of Pro Tools, I still recommend Audion to people – it runs well on just about any PC and is still an inexpensive way to get going with multi-track audio software. (When Adobe bought what was then called Cool Edit, I thought they’d bury the software, but Adobe has continued to support it)
Here’s the guide to what’s on the desk (click either image to see a larger version).
1. ProTools 8
2. Ta
nnoy Active monitors
3. Ipod
4. Phone audio interface/patch for
recording phoners, like on BrainPicker.ca
5. Headphones
6. Microphone
7. CF cards from Sound Devices field recorder
8. Pen for Wacom tablet
9. Mixer for house sound
10. M-box (audio interface for ProTools)
11. Wireless keyboard
12. Must have – coffee
13. Must have – analog notepad
14. Midi keyboard
15. Mackie MCU control surface
In the field I use Sound Devices gear – their digital recorders and field mixers are simply the best. People accustomed to those tiny consumer recorders find the gear big, but for flawless & dependable field recording, there simply is nothing like it. I am almost always running on battery power, and I can go for a solid 4 hours without even worrying about a charge – and that’s with a full 4 channel mixer feeding into the digital recorder. And coupled with custom PortaBrace bags, I can use the stuff in any kind of weather.
“We start to accept that ridiculous language in which citizens are referred to by politicians and administrators as clients.
We’re not clients of government.
We own the government, it’s our government.
There isn’t a single thing of government which we don’t own, how could we be clients ?
And we aren’t buying shoes, we’re talking about the rights of citizens within their own society.
We’re not stakeholders, we’re citizens.”
– John Ralston Saul, speaking at the PLAN 20th Anniversary evening at Christ’s Church Cathedral in Vancouver, November 20, 2009.
John Ralston Saul is an award winning novelist and essayist, and one of Canada’s most outspoken champions of freedom of expression.
His most recent book is called The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World. It’s just the latest in a series of best selling works that have been translated into 22 languages and sold in over 30 countries. Earlier this year he become the first Canadian to elected president of International PEN, the association of writers devoted to defending freedom of expression.
John is also the patron of PLAN (Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network), and he was the featured guest speaker at PLAN’s recent 20th Anniversary celebration in Vancouver.
I was asked to record the evening, and you now can hear the John’s keynote here: