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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, media, mobile, news, reddit, social media | 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, media, mobile, news, social media | 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, media, mobile, raincoaster, 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 [...]

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

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 [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Art, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Fearless City, SWARM, Vancouver, media, mobile, mobile SWARM, social media | Comments (9)

Mobile SWARM: Live Art Project Tonight

September 6, 2008 – 1:34 am

Mobile SWARM is tonight. Since the backstage section of the project started thirty seconds ago, I don’t really have time to explain. The project itself starts at 7pm Pacific Time and goes till 10. You can see it live here:
Mobile Swarm
And if any of you technical genii know how to hook that up to a [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Art, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Fearless City, Literary, Open Source, Twitter, Vancouver, mobile, mobile SWARM, raincoaster | Comments (1)

August Blogging Courses

July 31, 2008 – 10:14 am

Blogging for Beginners: four hours, start from scratch and learn to post text, video, audio, and images. Basic copyright and blog etiquette, intro to sidebar widgets, categories, custom headers and design, and what on Earth to put IN the blog. Also where to find technical help.
This one is running August 2nd, ie this Saturday, 10-2, [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogging, Education, Public Service Announcement, Vancouver, Wordpress, computers, geek, raincoaster, social media | Comments (9)

Blogging by Faith

July 25, 2008 – 12:08 am

Jeebus it would be nice if I had a keyboard with the letters printed right on it and a computer that didn’t crash when I tried to blog. Or a wireless router. Gee, would be swell.

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogging, Literary, Work, computers, writing | Comments (11)

the swag report: the email totality

July 19, 2008 – 9:28 am

Oh yes, I have my Zune. I got my Zune on Monday. It’s now Friday. I still haven’t gotten my Zune to work.
Why?
System Requirements Windows XP
My system? Windows 98.
I do own a laptop. It does run. It does, in fact, run Windows XP. But it cannot get online.
You see, the Ethernet/dialup/anykindoflandline connector is busticated [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogging, Lush Life, Swag, computers, music, raincoaster, rants, sad | Comments (9)

Patron Saint of Procrastination?

July 6, 2008 – 4:13 am

There’s no question Father Adelir Antonio de Carli was a good man. There’s no question Father De Carli was a nice man.
There’s no question that Father De Carli was a dumb man.
And now, there’s no question that Father De Carli, last seen in April headed out to sea carried by a bunch of helium-filled party [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Culture, Weird, charity, death, news, obituaries, sad | Comments (5)