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AHA MEDIA is very proud to welcome VISION DIVISION VJ residency of New Forms Festival, hosted at W2 Community Media Arts
AHA MEDIA is very proud to welcome the VISION DIVISION VJ residency of New Forms Festival ( NFF) hosted at W2 Community Media Arts ( W2) ! 🙂
AHA MEDIA and its founding members , first met at Vision Division 2008 ( last year) which prompted our journey into new media, social media and community generated media making!
AHA MEDIA members came from the Fearless City Mobile project and continue to be proud to be camera operators and content producers for Fearless and W2.
Below is a photo of the founding members of AHA MEDIA having fun!
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Below is a photo of us helping to Live VJ at Pop Vox 09
Below is a photo of Live VJ streams on a mobile screen being demonstrated at Convergence during Vancouver Digita Week
AHA MEDIA welcomes the new VISION DIVISION residency of 2009 ! 🙂
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Vision Division Residency: Live Visuals at W2 Community Media Arts
Time: September 15, 2009 at 1pm to September 18, 2009 at 6pm
Location: W2 Flack Block
Street: 163 West Hastings
City/Town: Vancouver
Mia Makela (Finland/Berlin) works with young Vancouver media artists learning to remix video and live streams for site-specific projections. The participants are under-30 marginalized media artists facing systemic barriers to advancing a media arts practice.
Produced by W2 and New Forms Festival, in association with Bladerunners and the Western Front.
Sept 15-18, All day residency workshop (all positions already filled).
Tues/Wednesday 12noon – 5pm; Thur/Friday 1-6pm.
Sept 19, 8-10pm VJ performance by attendees of the workshop (free and open to the public!)
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W2 Community Media Arts (W2) is working with New Forms Festival (NFF) to deliver this program which advances marginalized youth media artists in Vancouver with tools and strategies. Having NFF work with W2 means we can both bring our strengths and resources to the same table and do something twice as impacting.
Mia Makela has just arrived in Vancouver for the week in residence. While the workshop – like last year’s Vision Division – prioritises our W2 DTES community, all NFF fans can check out some of the results and hear from Mia first-hand on Saturday night.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/vision-division-residency-live
http://2009.newformsfestival.com/?p=143
AHA MEDIA is very pleased to introduce our newest member of our team – Alain Assailly
AHA MEDIA is very pleased to introduce our newest member of our team – Alain Assailly ! 🙂
Free lance journalist and independant photographer, Alain Assailly has been living in Vancouver since May 2008.
He frequently contributes to The/La Source multicultural newspaper (www.thelasource.com).
He has also written articles in the frenchspeaking newspaper « L’Express du Pacifique » (www.lexpress.org).
In France, from 1991 to 1993, he attended the film school ESRA (« Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle »). There he learned techniques in photography, video and cinema production. Then, after passing a French Law degree (to learn about copyright in France), he got a Master in Corporate Communication in 1999 (equivalent to the Canadian Bachelor of Arts degree).
After his studies, he occupied different positions in France : Advertising Manager (including events organization), Webmaster assistant, Sales Representative, Account and Staff Manager (in the cleaning industry).
Alain has decided to start a new and fresh life in Canada, where he immigrated to in 2008. After working in a fast food restaurant as a Counter Attendant in North Vancouver, he now strives to challenge himself. He aims to specialize in the production of documentaries and wants to support the development of the upcoming W2 Community Media Arts Centre in Vancouver (www.creativetechnology.org).
He’s still a member of the France-Canada Organization based in Paris, in France (www.france-canada.info). This organization deals with the social and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
In 2006, Alain was keen to discover the North American way of life and to improve his English. So, Alain stayed in Canada for one year from 2006 to 2007 with a Working Holiday Visa. He worked in Toronto as a Sales Assistant in a Fine Food Store. Then, he moved in Montreal where he set up his own business : a seasonal store to sell ice cream and candies. He stopped this temporary business when his visa was expired. His Canadian adventure was just about to begin!
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Below is a photo of April Smith welcoming Alain Assailly to the AHA MEDIA team! 🙂
AHA MEDIA hear Rockafellas play Tush by ZZ Top and Every rose has its thorn by Poison at Witch of Endor pub in Maple Ridge on Sept 11, 2009
In this video, Rockafellas – Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch play Tush by ZZ Top at Witch of Endor Pub in Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada on Sept 11, 2009
Rockafellas – http://www.rockafellasduo.wordpress.com <– Available for bookings/gigs
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video, Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch play Every Rose Has Its Thorn at Witch of Endor Pub in Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada on Sept 11, 2009
Rockafellas – http://www.rockafellasduo.wordpress.com
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
AHA MEDIA speaks with Eve of VANDU and learns of her pet rats in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
In this photo and video, Eve speaks lovingly about her rats who are sisters and are unofficial mascots of VANDU in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
AHA MEDIA interviews folks at VANDU and hear their stories of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
AHA MEDIA interviewed folks at VANDU and hear their stories of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
AHA MEDIA was approached by PHS to film a video about “the targeted ticketing blitz by VPD against DTES residents.
This will be part of the press kit, included as a 3-5 minute summary DVD, perhaps with the interviews in their entirety included as well, to be given to the press, at the press release on that subject next Wednesday ( Sept 16, 2009)
The press release will follow the police-board meeting to be held this month at the H.R. Mc.Millan Space Centre. Details of the Police Board meeting can be found here: http://vancouver.ca/police/policeboard/Meetings.htm
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* The following photos and videos in this post were filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter
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To give context to our filming of Vancouver Downtown Eastside folks who were ticketed for jaywalking, below are 3 videos of Jay Walkers cross Hastings Street by Carrall in front of the United We Can Bottle Depot, even with a Vancouver Police Car parked on the street in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES)
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Below is a video, April Smith chats with Peter Davies and Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA while they prepare to do interviews of area residents who have been ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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AHA MEDIA arrives at VANDU to conduct the interviews
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Robert Panteluk and hears his story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Patrick Ellis and hears his story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Danielle F and hears her story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Ken Barnes and hears his story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Diane Tobin and hears her story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Rose Davison and hears her story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside
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Below are photos of Hendrik and Peter in the lobby of VANDU after doing all the interviews
To see all 30 photos, please see our Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157622238871205/
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