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AHA MEDIA gets interviewed by Animal Mother Films
AHA MEDIA was pleased to be interviewed by Animal Mother Films at One Stop Shop Cards and Games http://www.onestopshopcardsandgames.com in Tinseltown Mall in Vancouver.
Animal Mother Films is a full service film production company based in Vancouver BC, dedicated to making provocative and engaging films that aren’t ashamed to have a social conscience. Working with some of the most creative minds this city has to offer, AMF strives to tell stories that resonate with audiences well past the last frame and compel them to make a difference. http://www.animalmotherfilms.com
AHA MEDIA met Andrew Lavigne and Jon Ornoy of Animal Mother Films during projects for Fearless City Mobile. http://www.fearlesscity.ca/mobile 🙂
AHA MEDIA wishes to thank Animal Mother Films and crew in interviewing us for their upcoming film 🙂
AHA MEDIA’s April Smith’s 5 Question Video for KontentCreative.com
AHA MEDIA’s April Smith is lucky and honored to be the very first video interviewee for http://www.KontentCreative.com
This interview at http://kontentcreative.com/blog/ was filmed on a Nokia N95 Cameraphone. 🙂
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April Smith
Co-Founder and Producer of AHA MEDIA
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April Smith is an avid mobile new media livestreaming videographer/photographer using HTC Touch Pro and Nokia N95/N77 cameraphones.
She is a W2 Community Media Arts Centre Programming Assistant and a Project leader/Cheerleader for Fearless Media and for the Fearless City Mobile Project
April Smith is a Co-founder and Producer of mobile media production group AHA MEDIA.
At AHA MEDIA, we are emerging independent mobile social media event reporters and new media hyper local citizen journalists. Based in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, we cover community news and special events & functions with our ongoing learnings of technology, mobile media production and cameraphone capacity in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
1) What’s the one piece of online or offline technology that you can’t live without?
My Nokia Cameraphone, specifically my Nokia N95 (which filmed the 5 Qs video), N77 and HTC Touch ( where I can livestream content)
2) What is your favourite online resource?
Twitter! It’s a fantastic tool where my friends and supporters can talk and meet! I get to find out information in real time, real opinions from real people. I would have to say that I use it alot more than Google 
3) How many e-mails do you get in a day?
50-60 emails a day and that’s not including all the DM (Direct Messages) or @AprilFilms messages on Twitter. There’s lots of information going back and forth within my day!
4) Tomorrow there is no internet. What do you do?
I would do what I do every day and that’s go out and film with my cameraphone Whether it be in the DTES down an alley covering a new story or to cover a very special social media or twitter event in Vancouver
5) Are you followed or are you a follower?
Both! I follow lots of different people, all sorts of people that are very interesting and I hope to be followed also:) I hope that in this regard, people can share all sorts of information and if you can be the follower and the followee, you’re definitely doing the best of both of both worlds!
A tale of two Homeless Cities – Vancouver and Washington D.C. using cellphones, blogs and emails to get connected
On Sunday April 4th, thousands of Vancouver folks marched in solidarity to support the Grand March for Housing. which demand immediate government action to end homelessness, build social housing, protect rental housing and raise welfare and minimum rage rates.
To empower and build the Vancouver Downtown Eastside community capacity and connectivity, the Fearless City Mobile Project was developed:
The Fearless Mobile City project is a two-way social media system for marginalized residents and artists of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). It is an interactive communication system that uses Mobile Muse 3’s technology platform, a free wireless mesh network, distribution and training with mobile handsets, and live screens in public spaces. Participate in Fearless City at live events in and around our inner-city neighbourhood to create community generated media while confronting the digital divide.
In this photo, a cellphone is used to take a photo during a presentation by Hendrik Beune
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AHA MEDIA is proud to still participate in Fearless City Project ! http://www.netsquared.org/projects/fearless-city-mobile
From engaging with the public through Fearless projects, we developed our own unique way of doing event coverage and citizen journalism as we build our own AHA MEDIA website.
We at AHA MEDIA are glad for the opportunities from Fearless City that help pique our interest into mobile phone technology and all the ways it has helped our Downtown Eastside Community.
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In another city – Washington D.C. an article in the Washington Post describes how their homeless use cellphones, blogs and email to stay on top.
On D.C. Streets, the Cellphone as Lifeline
Homeless People Turn to Technology to Track Assistance and Opportunities
.A patron of Miriam’s Kitchen uses a cellphone to take a photo of first lady Michelle Obama as she helps serve lunch. “Phones are really a lifeline for many people,” says Adam Rocap, director of social services at Miriam’s Kitchen. (Martinez Monsivais – Associated Press)
Advocates who work with the District’s homeless estimate that 30 percent to 45 percent of the people they help have cellphones. A smaller number have e-mail accounts, and some blog to chronicle their lives on the streets.
When Laura Zeilinger, deputy director of program operations for the D.C. Department of Human Services, conducted housing assessments of a couple of thousand people living on city streets last summer, she was surprised by how many gave her cellphone numbers and e-mail addresses.
“Phones are really a lifeline for many people,” said Adam Rocap, director of social services at Miriam’s Kitchen, a nonprofit drop-in center for the homeless. During a string of attacks against homeless people sleeping downtown in the fall, two victims called 911 for help after they were assaulted, he said.
Please read the full article in the Washington Post on how cellphones help empower D.C.’s Homeless community lives
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