“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the [...]
Of all the different communities you will encounter in your life, the one you’ll end up spending the most time with, funnily enough, is your professional community. So it should come as no surprise that stepping away from one work community to embrace another is harder than it looks — it’s a lot like breaking [...]
I live in Vancouver, British Columbia — home and soon to be host of the 2010 Olympic winter games. And can you believe it — the other day, I suggested we get cable to watch the games.
In a little under four weeks, my city will be turned inside out for the event. Not that we [...]
What can I say about Christmas and it’s spirit of community that hasn’t already been said? It’s a tough nut to crack, even for a season that provides so many Nutcracker suites. So I thought I’d share with you — our blogger community — a few family traditions that pre-date the gumboot, blogs, even the [...]
(If you’re a returning Gumboot reader, you’ll know that me and editor Kurt Heinrich just got back from a trip to Oregon and the U-S of A. If this is your first time reading the Gumboot – good for you.)
2Pac changed my life. Well — not really. I’m being dramatic. It’s more like he changed [...]
This blog can also be read at thebigwild.org under Making Contact – Finding Farley. Gotta love the link love – especially when more than 8000 blogs join forces! Actually, I think it’s closer to 10 000 now – Enjoy!
Today is Blog Action Day. This year, over 8500 bloggers all around the world are writing about [...]
Help me. I have a confession.
I am Canadian and I’m afraid of the water. No joke. The wet stuff makes me shake at the knees.
Not the kind that cools you off in the shower during a West Coast heat wave or falls out of the sky during a solid week of East Coast rain. No, no. [...]
Modus Operandi: Provide yet another example of how fast and dirty (not that kind of dirty) videos posted on Youtube help build community – yah, like that hasn’t been hammered in. Fun and free expression during the recession.
Inspiration: The Blair Witch Project meets Sesame Street meets John Carpenter meets bored-twenty-somethings meets Carl Orff’s O [...]
I love the idea that just about anyone can pick up a camera and make a movie. It doesn’t even have to be an expensive video camera – you can take a bunch of pictures and indulge in a little stop-motion. This was the idea behind a party I threw for my friends. We invited [...]
(Photo Courtesy Xinhua News Agency.)
Something that continues to strike me as remarkable about nature is its knack for perfect timing. Frankly, Mother Earth simply knows better. Just when we humans think we’ve got things under control – Kyoto-ized, carbon taxed and plastic bag free, nature throws a punch and reminds us who’s the boss. We [...]
