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AHA MEDIA is very honored by Kris Krug offering to be a Media Consultant to us! :)

As AHA MEDIA is growing and learning more about Mobile Media Production everyday, we are humbly honored by Kris Krug ( KK+), a local  Vancouver Social Media Rockstar and his offer to be a Media Consultant to us 🙂

About kk+

SXSW VideobloggingMy name is Kris Krug. This is my personal website. I blog here, post photographs, link to my friends, talk about things I’m interested in and generally just use it as an R & D lab for my personal slice of the internet.

I’m a fashion, music, and portraits photographer, technologist and author based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I am currently working on Raincity Studios, a full service interactive agency and I’m tinkering with a few other projects too including a 2010 Vancouver Olympics community site, a fashion, portrait and music photography studio and a top secret science project/fanboy site dedicated to my favorite TV show.

I’ve also recently started a Vancouver photoshoot locations directory and a Vancouver photographers directory. Please go create a free account and add to this resources.

Thanks for checking this place out and for reading this far. I hope you found whatever you came looking for. You should drop me a quick note… I’d love to hear from you. Use this form to email me or find me as ‘kriskrug’ on Skype.

AHA MEDIA thanks Kris Krug very much and looks forward to all his advice! 🙂

Welcome to AHA MEDIA’s New Look and Design!

April 24, 2009 Leave a comment

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!

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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 be Media Sponsors of Vic Bender – A man living in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside and his gig as a pianist on Carnival Destiny Cruise Line

April 22, 2009 Leave a comment

AHA MEDIA is very pleased to introduce Vic Bender  – a man living in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, who is preparing to go on his 6 month journey on the high seas as a Pianist for Carnival Destiny Cruise Line 🙂

 

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Among the fabulous exotic tropical islands, Vic will be traveling to will be the Bahamas and Jamaica! 🙂

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Vic Bender, is preparing a wide assortment of music including Bob Marley and Santana to play for his audiences on the cruise ship 🙂

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AHA MEDIA  is pleased to give Media Sponsorship to Vic Bender! We will be  documenting his 6 month Cruise Ship journey and helping  to build his own site at http://www.vicbender.wordpress.com

. In this way,  we may all enjoy his tunes and follow him through his tropical work/vacation! 🙂

Bon Voyage Vic! 🙂 We wish we could come with you! 🙂

AHA MEDIA participates in LG Canadian Texting Championships and Media Charity Challenge

April 18, 2009 Leave a comment

AHA MEDIA  participated in the LG Canadian Texting Championships and Media Charity Challenge!

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 LG Electronics invited Vancouver media to compete in the ultimate text message challenge to win $1,000 on behalf of the charity of your choice.

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Below is a photo of Faris Chebib from LG, April Smith and Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA, very happy to be invited to participate in the Media Challenge!  AHA MEDIA is proud to be media from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside!!  Thanks so much LG! 🙂1-lg-faris-april-peter

Below is a photo of John Chow and April Smith – both getting ready have a text-off with each other to raise funds for the charity of choice. 

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If AHA MEDIA would have won,  we would have donated our $1,000 cheque to CACV  Community Arts Council of Vancouver http://www.cacv.ca

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Creating Community with Art

 

The Community Arts Council of Vancouver was the first arts council in North America.

Since its beginning in 1946, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver has been a contributor to shaping the cultural life of Vancouver. The Council has been a powerful force in creating and advocating for many of the institutions, traditions and policies in Vancouver that we benefit from today.

For more than 60 years, CACV has been contributing to the cultural and community development of Vancouver by creating art projects that engage the community and facilitating, supporting, and advocating for initiatives, facilities, and programs that increase community participation in the arts. Our interests are to increase understanding of how the arts create community, grow our appreciation of our cultural differences, and engage the community in the art of developing community.

In the next few years we will attract and engage community leaders and the people who have the ability to provide the resources and collaborate with them in determining the critical initiatives that will accelerate the cultural and community development of our city.

Our biggest priority and greatest opportunity is our Downtown Eastside community which is rich in history and cultures and the neighbourhood with the largest population of artists per capita in British Columbia.

April Smith and  Buzz Bishop wish each other good luck for the Media Charity Challenge! 🙂

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Peter Davies, Reporter for AHA MEDIA pratices his texting skills before the challenge.

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April Smith smiles a big grin before being the first one  to compete in  the LG Texting Media Championships and Media Charity Challenge to raise funds for charity of choice! 🙂

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As all participants are all from the MEDIA,  – we all documented each other during the friendly competition! 🙂

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After the dust settled, Buzz  Bishop was declared the winner! 🙂 His charity of choice for  Canadian Diabetes Association!

Way to go Buzz and Congrads to you!!! 🙂

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We’re all winners! Here is a photo of the Media from Vancouver for the LG  Texting Championship and Media Charity Challenge! 🙂

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From Left to Right:

Peter Davies                                        Reporter for  AHA MEDIA

John Chow with daughter Sally  http://www.johnchow.com

Buzz Bishop                                         http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog

April Smith                                          Producer of AHA MEDIA

Frank                                                      LG Electronics

Stephen Fung                                       http://www.stephenfung.net

Leo Chiang                                             http://www.leochiang.com

AHA MEDIA say thanks to our fellow teammates and friends for the opportunity to try to win the LG Texting Championships and Media Charity Challenge! It was great being with all of you! 🙂

A great big thanks to LG Electronics Canada for hosting us and donating $1,000 to our charity of choice! 🙂

AHA MEDIA is proud to be Media Sponsors for Tony Chisholm, of DTES Re-Cycles! – Custom-made Re-Cycling Trailers!!

April 15, 2009 Leave a comment


* 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)! 🙂tony-dtes-recycles-3

 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.

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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!

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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”.

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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.