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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, Canada, Christmas, Culture, Digg, Downtown Eastside, Public Service Announcement, Vancouver, charity, computers, geek, 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, Canada, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Fearless City, Gonzo, Operation Global Media Domination, Vancouver, charity, geek, marketing, mobile, news, social media, technology | Comments (0)

Phones for Fearless!

December 20, 2008 – 8:42 pm

Originally posted by UncleWeed over at the Fearless City site. The image was done by Kris Krug and posted on Flickr. This is our campaign announcement for the Phones for Fearless drive. And don’t forget about us after Christmas, while you’re all bonding with your shiny new iPhones! The campaign continues into early January.
And lookie! [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Downtown Eastside, Fearless City, Gonzo, Public Service Announcement, Street Art, Vancouver, charity, geek, mobile, raincoaster, social media, technology | Comments (5)

Social Media, 18th Century Style

December 14, 2008 – 11:31 am

You just KNOW Jane Austen, were she alive today, would be one of those irritating people on Facebook with five hundred friends, all of whom she PMs regularly, curating groups, Superpoking with the best of them, and annoying the HELL out of everyone who knows her.
Behold:

What’s more, it UPDATES, so keep clicking on that News [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogroll, Books, Facebook, Humour, Literary, Singles, Weird, friends, geek, humor, mashups, social media | Comments (5)

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 [...]

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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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The Casting Call of Cthulhu

October 22, 2008 – 10:31 am

Hang on to your Elder Signs: it’s The Casting Call of Cthulhu, the eldritchiest ten-minute comedy short you’ve ever seen. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll fear for your very sanity! But if you read this blog regularly, I’m sure you’re used to that.

By raincoaster | Also posted in Cthulhu, Entertainment, Hoaxes, Humour, Squid, Weird, YouTube, geek, gross, horror, humor | Comments (7)

International Talk Like Sarah Palin Day

October 17, 2008 – 9:45 am

I read Facebook so YOU don’t have to. And this is typical of the kind of thing I find there:

Grog Fest Inf’rm’tion

Cap’n:

Teddy Ware and Chrissy Tolley

Sort:

Book learnin’ - Learnin’ Crew

Fleets:

Global

Time and Port

When:

Tuesdee, Octobarrr 21, 2008

Hourrrr:

12:00 in the mornin’ - 11:55 in the evenin’

Coordinates:

Wherever mooses be found

Port City:

Anchorage, AK
(I should perhaps explain that I have enabled [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Culture, Election, Humour, Iraq, Politics, Sarah Palin, U.S., Weird, anarchy, government, humor, mashups, news, sad | Comments (38)

Shebeen Club Meeting Monday: Intro to the Federation of BC Writers

September 15, 2008 – 4:38 am

This month we’ve moved our meeting to Monday, September 15th instead of Tuesday and across the street so that we can have the brand-new Shebeen all to ourselves! We’ll play host to Sylvia Taylor, President of the Federation of BC Writers, who will give us an overview of the Fed and what it can do [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Books, Culture, Literary, Lush Life, The Shebeen Club, Vancouver, Work, raincoaster media group, writing | Comments (0)

Mobile Swarm by Fearless City: the transcript

September 6, 2008 – 6:57 am

Mobile SWARM.
So.
So, the idea is: SWARM is a night when a large group of artist-run Vancouver galleries cooperate for once and have openings and parties on the same night, featuring local artists. Pictures on Flickr here.
So. Here in Zone Two, otherwise known as the Downtown EastSide, we had 13 galleries participating, and the Fearless City [...]

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