Archive for November, 2006

The Wil Arndt-designed “work/life balance” event was held tonight at the Vancouver Film School. Can you rise to the top of your field, work less, and not sacrifice your family, interests and personal life? Passionate audience members joined an all-star panel in a lively discussion about work, life, and everything in between.

Thank you to our distinguished panel: Co-moderators Wil Arndt (mod7) and Gordon Ross (Vice President, OpenRoad) facilitate a cross-industry panel, including Stephen Beck (Principal, Engine Digital), Ron Bignell (Electronic Arts), Mark Busse (Industrial Brand Creative), Eric Karjaluoto (Principal, smashLAB), Robert Ouimet (Partner, At Large Media), Lisa Vogt (Managing Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP), and Jeremy Thorp (Electronic Media Instructor and Designer, blprnt.com). And thanks to New Media BC for sponsoring the event. (more…)

I came across this website that is doing some pretty amazing things with flash 9.
Its an interesting concept, and a fairly innovative design:

http://comcastic.com/ 

but there are a few bugs in the programming, see if you can figure them out.

In the wake of his racist barrage captured on stage, Michael Richards has hired a public relations expert, someone who’s hopefully quite adept in the ways of spin. Here’s part of what New York publicist Howard Rubenstein had to say on Richards’ behalf:

“Michael apologized profusely. He wants to heal the tremendous wound that he’s inflicted on the American public, and on the African-American community.”

Apart from the obvious and frightening underlying issues at work here — issues that point to a lingering and deep-seated racist grip still at work in America — it will be interesting to follow this story from this angle, to see how (and, truly, if) Mr. Rubenstein can help dig Richards out of this one.

If, somehow, he actually succeeds, I may never believe anyone in the media ever again…

(Side note: man, are cell phone cameras getting good these days, or what?)

I always like to look to the big guys for inspiration… I guess it gives me a sense of something to strive for, to look up to. Sort of like how a son strives to make his Dad proud.

http://www.adobe.com/creativemind/

I think a part of me wants to be able to design like this… to be as creative as this… and to have the design “Dad” look down on me with a sense of pride…