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AHA MEDIA’s Waterfront view from their home office in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) !
AHA MEDIA is thankful for the small things in life, like our Waterfront view from our home office 🙂
Actually it’s really just a view from the fire escape but we like gazing out the window while planning out our days.
Below are photos of Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA in a contemplative mood.
AHA MEDIA is pleased to present BOB’s local Green Inner-City Cluster Kickoff Event
Green Inner-city Cluster Kickoff Event
Join Building Opportunities with Business and local green business leaders such as Toby Barazzuol of Eclipse Awards and Louise Schwartz of the Recycling Alternative to learn how being green can be a competitive advantage for your business. Topics covered will include:
- Marketing Sustainability
- Greening Your Business
- Green Buildings and Green Roofs
- Recycling and Waste Reduction
- Collaborating to increase efficiency
- Urban Agriculture
There will be presentations but also peer learning opportunities where attendees can share what has worked most successfully at their own business.
Time: June 10th 10:00-2:00
Location: Japanese Language School, 487 Alexander Street
Cost: Free (includes lunch, coffee, etc.)
RSVP: andrew.mckay@bobics.org
See what efforts are already underway to green Vancouver’s inner-city at the blog we started.
** NEW UPDATE **
We are pleased to have Councilor Andrea Reimer giving the opening address. She is a leader in BC’s environmental movement and a member of the Mayor’s Greenest City Action Team.
AHA MEDIA wishes to congratulate Megaphone Magazine on winning two International Awards!
AHA MEDIA wishes to give a big THANK YOU and a huge round of applause to Megaphone Magazine – Vancouver’s Street Magazine! Fantastic work and very prestigious honors! You have represented us to the world in the very best of ways and we are honored to have worked with you! ! 🙂
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Megaphone Wins Two International Awards
On Thursday, May 14th, Megaphone Magazine was the proud winner of two international awards at the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) conference in Bergen, Norway. Functionality‘, which appeared in Megaphone Issue #2.Falling Through the Cracks,’ which was published in The Tyee and then republished in Megaphone Issue #15:The prestigious international judging panel included Martin Wanjala Ocholi, a media consultant from Kenya; Sanjay Suri, editor for Inter Press Service (IPS), Europe-Mediterranean (IPS); Silja J.A. Talvi, an award-winning investigative journalist and author from the United States; and Oddleiv Apneseth, an award-winning photographer from Norway. The awards were chaired by David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters News and INSP’s Honorary President.Megaphone would like to congratulate Ahmad, Sean and The Tyee for their dedication to raising awareness about poverty and ending homelessness.
Megaphone contributing photographer Ahmad Kavousian won ‘Best Photograph – Evoking deeper perspectives on poverty and injustice’ for his photo, ‘
“A beautifully shot image of a hammock rigged up on a beach debris – as Vancouver’s lack of affordable housing pushes more and more people onto the streets, the photo expresses the lengths to which some are driven just to find a place to sleep.”
And Megaphone Editor-in-Chief Sean Condon won the ‘Special Award for External Press – Advocating for the needs and rights of homeless people’ for his story, ‘
“Paul ‘Duncan’ Geisbrecht, a Vancouver homeless man, suffered from schizophrenia and crack cocaine addiction. When he died last year, he was just one week away from entering supportive housing. Tracing Paul’s life story, this piece illustrates how faults in Canada’s social system can have tragic consequences for society’s most vulnerable.”
“On behalf of all our vendors and volunteers, I would like to express what a great honour it is for Megaphone to win these awards,” said Condon, who attended the ceremony in Bergen with Megaphone editor Darren Atwater. “The International Network of Street Papers is a powerful movement that is reshaping the debate about poverty around the world while helping provide thousands of low-threshold jobs to homeless and low-income people. We here at Megaphone are very privileged to be a part of this movement and thank the judging panel for recognizing our hard work.”
“As a member of the official judging panel for two years running, I can attest to the continuing quality and depth of these entries, across the board–a fact most certainly due to rather than in spite of the diverse contexts, languages and geographies from which they have come,” said Schlesinger.
For more information, contact:
Sean Condon
Editor-in-Chief
778-835-4440
sean@megaphonemagazine.com
AHA MEDIA is learning more about Livestreaming from Jean Hebert of Mobile Muse
AHA MEDIA is very happy to announce that we will be learning to becoming better at livestreaming from Jean Hebert of Mobile Muse http://www.clicknoise.net
The livestreaming software we use is calle Livecast from Mobile Muse http://www.mobilemuse.ca
As members of AHA MEDIA have been working as Livestreaming Camera Operators for Fearless City Mobile http://www.fearlesscity.ca/mobile and W2 http://www.creativetechnology.org we are pleased to learn more about the development side of the software Livecast.
In this photo, Jean Hebert is teaching Peter Davies and Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA how to livestream more effectively 🙂
AHA MEDIA in keeping up wth our learning and progression of our skills from livestreaming the events at Vancouver Digital Week, we have built a separate and dedicated site at http://www.ahalivestream.wordpress.com for future events.
We have created a twitter account to live twitter and associate with our livestream site ( we aim to give a real life account of our experiences)
@Live_stream or www.twitter.com/Live_stream
Our Flickr is http://www.flickr.com/photos/AHALivestream
Our Youtube is http://www.youtube.com/AHALivestream
The livestreaming software that we are working with is called Livecast from Mobile Muse http://www.mobilemuse.ca
In this photo Hendrik Beune livestreams with an HTC Touch cameraphone
Livestreaming is an amazing tool for community interaction and engagement as we are able to broadcast in REAL time our experiences to a mobile screen at an event or even onto the internet where you can watch anywhere! 🙂
In this video, Hendrik Beune and Peter Davies demonstrate livestreaming 🙂
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 at the PopVox awards 09 for Vancouver Digital Week 09
AHA MEDIA livestreamed, did photography/videography and live twittered for Fearless City and W2 at the PopVox Awards with Suez Holland – VJ electrabelle 🙂
In this photo, April Smith kisses Buzz Bishop, MC of the evening hello 🙂
In this video, before the #PopVox09 event starts at Workspace in Vancouver, I film Hendrik Beune and Peter Davies livestreaming while Suez Holland sets up the VJ equipment.
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, before the #PopVox09 event starts at Workspace in Vancouver, I film Hendrik Beune livestreaming with Buzz Bishop at the crowded event
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, during the #PopVox09 event starts at Workspace in Vancouver, I film Hendrik Beune livestreaming with Buzz Bishop and Gillian Shaw at the crowded event.
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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Below is a photo of our screen where VJ electrabelle used our livestream, and live twitter to animate the scene
Below is a photo of Kirstin Richter, Producer of PopVox Awards 09
In this video, I film Kirstin Richter thanking us for coming to #PopVox09 before announcing the winners!
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 photo, we’re gearing up for the announcements of the winners!
Here’s the full list of PopVox winners:
Best Digital Animation
“Pride of Frankenstein”
Jibber Jabber
Best Digital VFX
Inside Out
Switch Interactive
Best Digital Learning Initiative (Technology)
The Film Lab
thesubstream
Best Digital Learning Initiative (Instructional Design)
Comix 101
Zeros to Heroes Media
Best Game
A Puckoff Christmas
Switch Interactive
Best Mobile Application
Georgia Nicols 2009 Annual Forecast
Best Social Media Application
Hootsuite
Invoke Media
Best User Generated/Crowd-sourced Content Site
Pixton—Interactive Web Comics
Best Company Use of Social Media
I Love Heartland
Zeros to Heroes Media
Best Viral or Digital Advertising Campaign
Zombie Singles
Noise Digital
Best User Experience (Website)
Interior Designers Institute of BC
Switch Interactive
Best Design (Website)
BC Business Online
Best Do-Gooder (Social Change Initiative)
O-Vert
Switch Interactive
Best Start Up
Hootsuite
Invoke Media
Best Student Project
Tiki Wiki The Art Institute of Vancouver
Individual Stand Out: Industry Advocacy
Danny Robinson, managing director of Bootup Labs and cofounder of Launch Party Vancouver
Individual Stand Out: Digital Education
Gerri Sinclair, executive director of Masters of Digital Media Program
Individual Stand Out: Social Media
Kris Krug, president of Raincity Studios
Individual Stand Out: Visionary Leadership
Michael Tippett, founder and chief marketing officer at Now Public
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In the following photos and video, Kris Krug accepts his award 🙂
In this video, Kris Krug jokingly leads us to believe that he was chosen to be the leader of an dangerous expedition going to Antarctica, and that’s why he wasn’t able to make it to #PopVoxAwards09!! He is thankful for the recognition and wishes he was here with as he going to “Media that Matters” on Cortes Island.
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 photo, Hendrik Beune shakes Michael Tippett’s hand 🙂 http://www.nowpublic.com
AHA MEDIA is very happy to support PopVox Awards with our livestreaming, photography, videography and live twitter! We congratulate all the winners this year! 🙂
AHA MEDIA – Left to right- April Smith, Hendrik Beune, Peter Davies 🙂
To view our livestreams,
http://www.sifttool.com/channel/195516
http://www.youtube.com/rtanglao
To view 109 photos of PopVoxAwards09, please see our flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157618185838388/
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