The 2nd installment of Interesting Vancouver is taking place this Friday, October 23rd at The Vancouver Rowing Club. Those of us who attended last year were treated to one of the most refreshing and inspiring gatherings that you could hope to experience. This was ultimately due to the fact that the evening was not centered around any particular industry, nor was it trying to get us to upgrade anything, jump on bandwagons or subscribe to hidden agendas. As Brett McFarlane, the founder of IV, states, it is “a multi-disciplinary conference …

Starting in ’09, along with my sporadic duties on this blog posting about design, art and culture, I will also be sporadically contributing to a new site that focusses on another one of my passions: food. The Foodists describes itself as “a collective of like-minded food worshipers. We breathe and sleep in order to eat and drink.”
Seeing as I don’t get out all that much these days what with the new family and all, I am planning on posting recipes that reflect the type of meals that I make …

David Armano posted an interesting article today over at Advertising Age about online personal brand presence in which he offers the following 3 guidelines for creating an online profile:
1) Engage in Personal Publishing2) Be Your Own Agent3) Be Authentic
Sound advice from the cowboy-hat wearing Twitterer (the man’s got personal branding down cold!). But I would like to offer something to the mix on this topic that I have been thinking a good deal about lately, that of creating what I call a Brand Periphery Profile.
Now in order to …

4 teams. 4 charities. 48 hours to make a difference. Karyo Edelman’s The Little Give kicks off today. Check back to the site as the event progresses for on location Twitter updates and of-the-moment Flickr coverage.

The team over at Coudal.com are back at it with the launch of the 2008 edition of Field Tested Books, a collection of book reviews by a variety writers, each with an interesting twist. As Jim explains:
“We had this notion that somehow through experimentation we could identify how our perception of a book is affected by the place where we read it. Or maybe the other way around. Maybe it’s possible to determine how a book colors the way we feel about the place where we experience it.”
This year, the …

My latest home recording: a cover of TV on the Radio’s “Wolf Like Me” complete with southern drawl and country twang.
More personal musical sojourns may be found here.

She’s a beauty.

Probably the only venue that my musical efforts are worthy of entertaining at this point, this weekend saw the exclusive Facebook premiere of the long time coming 5 track demo of First Child: Looping Through the Array. If you are on the Book, then please feel free to join the group. Otherwise, you can download the tracks here:A Love This Strong (intro)
Unleashed
Collide
The Autumn Days of Disco
Julia Sets

It started as a joke during the research phase of a current project, but I was just informed that my t-shirt design Puma Vs. Unicorn has passed the Threadless submission phase and is now up for voting in the public sphere. Help make this shirt a reality. Vote now. Or at the very least chime in on who you think would win a battle of such mythic proportions.