Dear Canada, this Valentine’s, here’s why I love you…

Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 22:58 | Category : Environment, Musings, Uncategorized
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Without a doubt, Canada is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Okay, so I’m a little biased. But with such range and vast, stretches of wilderness, can you blame me? Anyway, I caught this ad last week, and I made a point to seek it out and watch it again (which really [...]

William and His Windmill

Came across this story a few days ago and it made me think of what Stewart Brand’s been saying for a while now…. “given access to the information we need - humanity can make the world a better place.” In “Whole Earth Discipline” he also makes a counterintuitive case for why booming slums and squatter [...]

NFB’s WaterLife Interactive

I am so impressed with the folk at the National Film Board (of Canada). They just keep pumping out top-notch content. First their amazing free iPhone / iPod Touch app (that allows you to screen entire films), and now WaterLife.
Their latest initiative is an interactive site centred on the idea that our Great Lakes (and [...]

Imax’s upcoming feature: Under the Sea 3D

Jeff Berman, one of the fantastic segment producers at Daily Planet, is working on a behind-the-scenes piece for this upcoming IMAX 3D feature, directed by Howard Hall.
I’ll be working on the web-side version, for our soon-to-be-relaunched site, www.DiscoveryChannel.ca.
Digging around on the doc site, I found this neat widget.

I spent a large part of my childhood [...]

“Who Killed the Electric Car” full doc online

Now you don’t have a reason not to have seen this doc:

Playing catch-up

Okay, so I committed the cardinal sin of blogging, and went AWOL for about a month. But in my defence, lots was going on. Here’s a quick post-mortem: We wrapped up Film Snacks, and have our winner: “Good morning, Steve”.

This short had the entire web team laughing off our seats. Definitely memorable and innovative [...]