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AHA MEDIA  wishes to announce the very happy engagement of Ed Willmore and Mary Blagdon, both of Vancouver DTES now, and we look forward to their joyous union! A  beautiful summer wedding is planned in August!  AHA MEDIA is  honored and proud to be their media sponsors and help bring their love story from the DTES to the Digitial Age 🙂

Love was found and a summer wedding is going to happen to these two LUCKY lovely people who found it in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside.

( check out wikipedia for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown…

In this video, Mary combs Ed’s hair to get him ready for their first photos as a newly engaged couple! 🙂 What a beautiful and nuturing time it was to see this couple from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside experience love, joy and hope towards their planned wedding. AHA MEDIA is helping to tell their story online.

Ed Willmore and Mary Blagdon are our friends, neighbors and our fellow Vancouver Downtown Eastsiders. Congrads on your engagement and upcoming marriage!!

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AHA MEDIA is very honored and proud to be Ed Willmore and Mary Blagdon’s Media Sponsors of their love journey towards their wedding date in the summer of 2009 in August.

As AHA MEDIA aims to be the Vancouver Downtown Eastside’s most well known team of new media and social media team of specialists which includes bloggers, twitter users, livestreamers,videographers and photographers,

We are so happy to help tell the digital fairy story tale of a DTES couple who are now making their love story public by bridging the digital divide.

We are going to help teach them about all aspects of social media and help document their love story towards their wedding 🙂 Ed and Mary have very limited access and experience with the technology and media tools that most of us have embrace. We are welcoming them to the social media age 🙂

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This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is about 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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If you like this video, April Smith of AHA MEDIA and her mobile team of new media and social media enthusiasts are avail for hire for your next event!! 🙂

We can help you record, document, archive, livestream,live blog and twitter during your event. We even know how to serve and bartend – we are licensed!

You get to relax and enjoy yourself, while we help to do the work for you! 🙂

For our rates and details, Please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

Thanks for watchng 🙂

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Hendrik and the rest of AHA MEDIA live in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, ( check out wikipedia for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside) 

Our area  was considered the #1 poorest postal code of Canada, up until recently  ( North Winnipeg is now the poorest postal code )

The Vancouver Downtown Eastside is an inner city that has alot of social, health, poverty, and  economical conditions that are concentrated within the 10 blocks radis that makes up the oldest part of Vancouver.

Countering the above difficult conditions, some of the beautiful things of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside are the arts,community, freedom of expression, social acceptances of one another,  and neighborly aspect between the residents of the DTES the people of the Downtown Eastside enjoy their small pleasures when they can. 🙂

In this video, Hendrik touts the good find and the even better joy of being able to eat a Whopper from Burger King. He bought his hamburger on the special sale day of Whopper Wednesday .

A popular day that some esidents of the Vancouver Downtown Easside look forward to is Whopper Wednesday for $1.99, one can enjoy a great, big burger from Burger King,  something that everyone especially in today’s tight budgets can purchase, eat and savour!

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This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is about 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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If you like this video, April Smith of AHA MEDIA and her mobile team of new media and social media enthusiasts are avail for hire for your next event!! 🙂

We can help you record, document, archive, livestream,live blog and twitter during your event. We even know how to serve and bartend – we are licensed!

You get to relax and enjoy yourself, while we help to do the work for you! 🙂 

For our rates and details, Please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

Thanks for watchng 🙂

 AHA MEDIA is proud to be the Media Sponsors for Crime Pays

Who: The Federation of BC Writers and the Shebeen Club

What: a wicked good fundraiser for the Fed

When: Monday, March 16th, 6-9pm

Where: The Vancouver Police Museum, 240 East Cordova Street, Vancouver

Why: it would be criminal to miss this party!

Wanted: YOU!

Come help the Fed celebrate 32 years of getting away with murder. Whether infiltrating schools, divvying up swag, or distributing subversive publications, the Federation of BC Writers has been operating unchecked in our province for decades.

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This fundraising event was organized by Lorraine Murphy of Raincoaster Media and Chris Mathieson Executive Director of Vancouver Police Museum

Below are more photos on our Flickr stream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157615556246840/

April Smith

http://shebeenclub.com/index.php/2009/03/16/crime-pays-date-auction-april-smith/

An evening in April Smith’s sassy, sexy company is up for grabs tonight as she bravely puts herself on the auction block for Crime Pays, a fundraiser for the Federation of BC Writers.

The date is a dinner for two at Steamworks Brew Pub. As for April, let’s let April speak for herself (not something someone this feisty ever has a problem with!):

Artistic – Activist – Advocate- Athletic- Analytical- Ambitious- Adorable – Alturistic–Amazing!!

I am confident and feisty. I like people with manners, great listening skills and all the usual niceness I am a dominant woman but very much a loveable and adorable lady. I am a social person though very analytical, methodical and intellectual. I have a younger, sillier sense of humor, I have an uninhibited laugh. I have an innocent though haunted sense of worldliness about me… I have been through much in my young life. I am a sparkling and engaging kind of person…but I get bored easily… so I appreciate someone who has alot of good thoughts. I love to be cherished, adored and adulated… If I like you… You will know it

My new career path is exploring new and social media and special event production in conjunction to my community work which helps to revitalize inner city communities. I am proud to say that my mobile multimedia production kit fits in my small purse – I shoot entirely with Nokia Cameraphones as it’s part of my media project.

The geekier of you may already know that April is one of Vancouver’s social media sweethearts, having long since bent Twitter (and much of the Lower Mainland) to her will. But what happens on Twitter stays on Twitter, right?

Bidding is now open on this date: please post your bid in the comments section, in increments of a minimum of $20. Payment is by cash in person tonight or cheque mailed to the Federation of BC Writers, PO Box 3887, Stn Terminal, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3Z3.

AHA MEDIA congrads Mo Simpson ( our mentor ) for winning the The Kodak Image Award at the Spotlight Awards 2009 from Women In Film Festival this Year!!

We wish to honor Mo, as everything we have learned for filming on cameraphones and other new media devices comes from her grace, patience and insightful guidance.  We at AHA MEDIA would NOT be here if not for Mo mentoring us folks from the Vancouver DTES. Thanks for everything MO!!  We are so happy you won the Kodak Image Award 🙂

Moira Simpson, one of Canada’s most respected documentary DOP/directors. As Filmmaker in Residence with Fearless City Mobile, Moira is facilitating the use of mobile phone technology with residents of the Downtown Eastside. Through interactive live streaming and creating short video documentaries they are crossing the digital divide and telling their own stories.

http://www.womeninfilm.ca/_Library/docs/moira_simpson_bio.pdf