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AHA MEDIA at the Opening of the Vancouver City Centre – Canada Line Station
AHA MEDIA was very pleased to attend the Opening of the Vancouver City Centre – Canada Line Station located at Georgia and Granville Streets.
Lineups stretched around the block and the wait time for the Free Skytrain ride to Richmond were more than 2 1/2 hours!!
In this video, Today, August 17, 2009 is a historical day! The Canada Line is open to the public and goes between Vancouver and Richmond
The line makes Vancouver the only city in Canada to provide a high speed link between its airport and downtown core
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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Please see my Livestream video of the Opening.. using Qik software on a HTC Titan or PPC 6800 cameraphone
http://www.qik.com/video/2568893
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Please look at our Flickr for 16 photos of the Opening of the Vancouver City Centre – Canada Line Station
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157621952915769/
AHA MEDIA has a new Mascot – Buddy the Cat!
In AHA MEDIA’s new office, the neighbor’s cat Buddy is a very friendly young cat. He loves to come and visit AHA MEDIA to inspire more great work to be done in Vancouver and Downtown Eastside.
Since he is very affectionate cat especially when we feed him…AHA MEDIA has a new mascot – Buddy the Cat!! He’s a good luck mascot! 🙂
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 is extremely grateful and thankful to Bob Basil, Professor of Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University for his very generous gift of his old URL http://www.downtowneastside.com to us!!
AHA MEDIA is extremely grateful and thankful to Bob Basil, Professor of Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University for his very generous gift of his old URL http://www.downtowneastside.com to us!!
Today is a day of blessed miracles!! AHA MEDIA became ‘ Official ‘ today AND we received an unexpected gift of the URL of http://www.downtowneastide.com which will be forwarded to us at http://www.ahamedia.ca
Below is a photo of Bob Basil’s Twitter page where he “tweets” …
” My old url now http://www.downtowneastside.com
now points to the wonderful new mobile social media event website http://www.ahamedia.ca Yay!
Bob Basil, Professor of Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and AHA MEDIA are talking of exploring joint educational projects together 🙂
Bob Basil, Professor of Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (shown with superb former student Elaine Chan, above, at Kwantlen’s recent convocation), is President of Basil Communications Inc., a private Vancouver firm, founded in 1996, that provides high-end marketing, strategic planning, and multimedia services for public and private companies in Canada and the United States. The company’s current clients are in the natural-resources sector. “Essentially what I do is stop pages from being blank,” he says.
Basil received his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, at SUNY/Buffalo, and received a graduate degree at Stanford University, where he also taught American Literary and Political Culture Studies (1993-1996). Basil has been a professional writer and editor for 29 years. He has contributed dozens of articles to books and journals – and has served as Executive Editor for Free Inquiry Magazine (1985-1989) and as the Acquisitions and Senior Trade Books Editor for Prometheus Books, Inc. (1990-1993). His two essay collections, Not Necessarily the New Age and On the Barricades, received critical praise and wide attention. Basil has been interviewed by more than a hundred radio and television programs, including “Larry King Live,” and has been quoted as a communications and cultural expert in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and many other newspapers.
In 1997 Basil launched Ellavon: An Ezine of Basic Culture, an internet publication that has won plaudits for its articles, interviews, fiction, columns, and virtual art and photo exhibits.
A patron of the arts, Basil plays some jazz piano and has become quite the photo enthusiast since moving to North America’s most beautiful city a number of years ago.
Click here for additional detail.
Basil on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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AHA MEDIA is very excited about its future!
Thank you very much Bob Basil for blessing us with your support and excellent ideas!!! 🙂
AHA MEDIA is very honored to be featured in “With Glowing Hearts” the movie directed by Andrew Lavigne and produced by Jon Ornoy of Animal Mother Films
A Social Media revolution has been brewing for the past five years on websites from FaceBook, to Wikipedia, to Flickr, and as it spreads throughout the Internet and into popular culture through an increasing number of portals, it is creating a new sense of community and empowerment amongst those who have embraced it.
History has shown that poor and marginalized communities stand to gain the most from leaps forward in the democratization of information, so the excitement in areas like Vancouver’s maligned Downtown Eastside about the possibilities of Web 2.0 and beyond is palpable.
With the Winter Olympics less than a year away, billions have been spent in preparations and many poverty advocates are concerned about how the city’s several thousand homeless and working poor will fit into the equation as Vancouver puts on its best face for the world.
Against this background the film examines Social Media in action as a group named Fearless City embarks on a campaign to empower and protect its neighbours with cellphones, video-streaming, and the World Wide Web.
With great thanks to both our mentors, Andrew Lavigne and Jon Ornoy for a wonderful movie trailer! 🙂
Thanks to all our friends and our colleagues in the film ” With Glowing Hearts” 🙂
Vancouver Shelter Residents get thrown Human Feces !!!
With thanks to Homeless Nation Vancouver Outreach team for this footage
Video by J-Hock and Carter
This was flung over the Granville street bridge. A bag of of human feces, ladies and gentlemen. Yup, that is what the residents of the Granville street bridge area have resorted to…
It is important that we all understand that this is not a random act of vandalism or teenage hi-jinx… This is hate. Pure and simple. Xenophobic and gentrified in it’s intent. There are people living in the best rated city in the world flinging shit at people trying to survive in the shelters below. But, as you will see, they are at war to stay open against those very inconspicuous Fecal Fiends….
Colin
http://www.homelessnation.org/en/node/16508#
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As someone mentioned today in CCAP meeting at Carnegie Centre
“Give Homeless People Homes, Not Hate or Sh!T!”
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