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Thanks for visiting. I'm a freelance digital art director based in Toronto Canada. Find me on Twitter and Tumblr mostly.Me in 140-characters: Inquisitive, fearlessly optimistic; design minded; interested in digital culture and creative communications. I love the simple things in life and a good Belgian Abbey.
Category Archives: culture, media & technology
Reading Between The Tweets
During its infancy Twitter was widely regarded as an obscure digital community for social media geeks and early technology adopters intent on sharing personal musings, self-indulgent daily affirmations and random brain farts. Undoubtedly the informal chatter is still a prevalent … Continue reading
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Tagged digital journalism, micro-blogging, Twitter
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The Big Blue Hype
Type-in the keywords “Facebook IPO” and you’ll get a startling result: about 40,900,000 results on Google.com and about 1,190,000,000 results on Google.ca. Am I reading that number right? 1-billion 190-million results returned by Google.ca. I don’t get it. What’s going on here? Do … Continue reading
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Hello Computer
The science fiction genre is a wonderous storytelling vehicle. It gives us a glimpse into our future, the technologies we might be using, and how we’ll possibly interact with one another amidst the vast information networks influencing our world. Since … Continue reading
Posted in culture, media & technology, user experience
Tagged design, Minority Report, Star Trek, UX
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The Transient Nature Of Digital Text
Nicholas Carr believes digital publishing tools are ushering in an era of perpetual revisions and updating. Literary works and essays once synonymous with a ‘set in stone’ sense of permanence are now, as Carr puts it, losing their ‘fixity’ in … Continue reading
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The Web’s Next Act
Imagine for a moment your Internet connected life as you currently know it, exists as a series of pre-programmed events. A meticulously constructed digital reality where everything (and everyone) you interact with is almost perfect, governed by a universally agreed upon … Continue reading