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Welcome to AHA MEDIA’s New Look and Design!
AHA MEDIA is growing into bigger and better things! 🙂
We invite you to enjoy our brand new look and design as we do our very best to be a news and event reporting/ resource for all our readers.
We are here to give you analyses, perspectives and viewpoints from Vancouver, and we hope you enjoy what you see and hear on our site! 🙂
We are about community engagement, interaction and involvement. We are mobile new media producers of Vancouver, B.C.
Thank you very much!
April Smith 
Producer/Publisher AHA MEDIA
** AHA MEDIA wishes to thank Raul Pacheco of http://www.hummingbird604.com and Lorraine Murphy of http://www.raincoastermedia.com for all their guidance and mentorship 🙂
AHA MEDIA is pleased to introduce Rockin’ Randy, a Cree Native and Guitarist from Victoria, B.C.
In this video, while visiting his uncle in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Rockin’ Randy, a Cree Native living in Victoria, B.C., talks about himself, his music and his life! Randy has a great welcoming personality and an engaging smile! 🙂 You can find out more about Rockin’ Randy on Facebook
This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N77 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 proud to be Media Sponsors for Tony Chisholm, of DTES Re-Cycles! – Custom-made Re-Cycling Trailers!!
* This is just an audio recording – No imagery. *
In this video, April Smith records a camera shy Tony Chisolm’s voice speaking about his vision to build custom- made Re-Cycling Trailers to help clean up the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES)! 🙂
He envisions building a social enterprise to help others like himself in the Vancouver Downtown (DTES) get into the Green movement and help with recycling and cleaning up our neighborhood of popcans, empty bottles, old clothing etc.
He is looking for sponsors in either business development, funding, materials, space, guidance to help him realize his dream of cleaning and greening the Vancouver Downtown Eastside! 🙂
Tony’s dream is to build custom-made Re-cycling trailers that attached to the back of electric bicycles or regular bicycles and use that for working on Reducing, Reusing and Recycling! 🙂
He even has a special place where one can drain bottles and can upside down to get rid of any liquid remaining in the containers!
AHA MEDIA is proud to help Tony Chisholm, our DTES neigbor by giving media sponsorship and coverage through a site we will be building for him 🙂 ( Soon to come! )
Tony Chisholm writes: “I think my site would be beneficial to are community. I like the site to benefit people with a purpose .and the monies to go to a purpose to keep are east side clean and green by recycling goods”.
A Clean, Green DTES to come! 🙂
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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’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
youtube.com/AHAFILM
ahamedia.ca
twitter.com/aprilfilms
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!
Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA gets a new chair!
In the next series of photos, Hendrik Beune utilizes his new Director’s chair to engage with the Vancouver DTES community in an artistic and very mobile way.
As we started from Carnegie Centre at Main and Hasting in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside ( DTES), it was quite something to see the varioius reactions on people’s faces as Hendrik rolled by them on his mobile office chair. The range of emotions ranged from suprised smiles, shocking glances, warm hearted encouragements to mere indifferences as people walked around him.
We are glad that Hendrik has his European savoir faire as he made he way down to one of our community office spaces! 🙂 We created interactive and mobile art in our area !
We, at AHA MEDIA are about creating community engagements and memories that last a long time! 🙂
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