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Phones for Fearless: Phase II

December 30, 2008 – 10:03 am

Read all about it: Phones for Fearless is far from finished! With all the great gifts people got over the holidays, we know there will be some used phones, cameras, and other mobile devices kicking around looking for new homes, and we stand ready to provide them!
Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Art, Blogging, Christmas, Culture, Digg, Downtown Eastside, Public Service Announcement, Vancouver, charity, computers, geek, media, mobile, news, reddit, social media, technology | Comments (10)

MIA?

December 24, 2008 – 9:31 am

I know what you’re asking yourself: you’re sitting there (or standing, or lying, prone or supine as the case may be although it’s not easy to read a computer screen that way but whatever) wondering where I’ve been for the past day or so.
Here.
And what have I been doing? Over the past four days, 1000 [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogging, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Fearless City, Gonzo, Operation Global Media Domination, Vancouver, charity, geek, marketing, media, mobile, news, social media, technology | Comments (0)

Eavesdropping at the Ovaltine

December 1, 2008 – 5:25 pm

See, this is why I need a laptop. So I don’t have to snarf the last half of my meal and RUN home, desperately trying not to jostle my brain and let all the golden eavesdrops fall out.
More or less verbatim, heard from my perch on the highly prestigious “booth side” of the Ovaltine, coming [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Gonzo, Lush Life, Operation Orwell, Religion, Vancouver, Weird, conspiracy, philosophy, rants | Comments (14)

Fearless City Mobile at the Heart of the City and mobile online!

November 14, 2008 – 2:30 pm

cross-posted from FearlessCity, just so you know what I’ve been doing with all my copious spare time recently. And a damn good thing, too, because with all the extra exposure that site is up and down like a toilet seat.

As most of our readers know, Fearless City Mobile was all over the Heart of [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogging, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Facebook, Fearless City, Gonzo, Twitter, Vancouver, YouTube, computers, geek, media, mobile, podcasts, social media, technology | Comments (3)

The Fallen

November 12, 2008 – 5:03 am

No post today, just this link to those who’ve given their lives in the Canadian mission in Afghanistan so far. And here are a couple of different links to one who didn’t.
And a re-post from July 2nd of last year:

Instead of racking my brains to come up with a (likely inferior) way of expressing my [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Afghanistan, Culture, Justice, Politics, Vancouver, War, death, government, news, philosophy, tragedy | Comments (2)

Octopus Studios in the hood

October 29, 2008 – 8:03 am

Octopus Studios: I’m not exactly sure who they are. I’m not exactly sure what they do. I am, however, 100% certain that they have the coolest logo on the Downtown EastSide, and thoughtful of them it was to put it only a couple of blocks from my house. They must know I’ve been busy lately.

Whoa! [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Art, Cthulhu, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Squid, Street Art, Vancouver, Weird, geek, meme, octopus, robots | Comments (6)

Souls Mobile - Live | Fearless City

October 26, 2008 – 8:42 am

Here is the live streaming video from Mobile Souls at the Parade of Lost Souls. No idea if this UStream video will work, but what the hell, I’ll give it a shot.

more about “Souls Mobile - Live | Fearless City“, posted with vodpod
UPDATE: okay, screw that. Go here on Fearless for the actual streaming [...]

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Parade of Lost souls and Digital Shrine liveblog

October 26, 2008 – 2:08 am

Cross-posted from FearlessCity. I was liveblogging Mobile Souls and the Digital Shrine for Fearless at the Parade of Lost Souls, in cooperation with the Public Dreams Society.
Well, this IS challenging. Thank GOD it’s on the Drive and there is never a moment when a drum circle, official or unofficial, is not playing. I can leech [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Culture, Digital Shrine, Downtown Eastside, Fearless City, Shrine08, Vancouver, death | Comments (15)

Digital Shrine at Parade of Lost Souls: Participate!

October 22, 2008 – 2:14 am

(psst, can I get some coverage up in here? Links, tweets, emails, posts gratefully accepted. Spread the word and win fabulous, yet completely imaginary, prizes)
stolen from the FearlessCity website:
Saturday, Oct 25th, 2008, Grandview Park, Vancouver, BC
Time: 6.30 PM, procession at 7:00 PM

The Parade of the Lost Souls is a lively commemoration of the cycle of [...]

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Downtown Eastside Artist Opportunity

October 19, 2008 – 8:19 am

**please post and forward
Fearless City Mobile Call for Participants
Short-term contracts for Downtown Eastside Residents,
We are fast approaching Fearless City Mobile’s exciting upcoming project-
Parade of Lost Souls, on Saturday October 25th, and are looking for 10 people to bring the Mobile Souls and Digital Shrine to life.
The Parade of the Lost Souls is a Grandview-Woodland’s [...]

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