A certain mysterious someone at Lamecamp Vancouver last week at the Cambie Pub. Who could it be? Whoever it is, they’ve got fabulous taste in Twitter reading material!
Lamely shot on medium format, scanned at ridicioulsy low resolution after pushing the film by a stop because I lamely forgot my faster speed film.
There is, among the non-Twitterati, a certain degree of pragmatic skepticism about how entertaining, how powerful, even how meaningful a communications device limited to 140 characters of text can be. While all the world knows that Twitter was intended to serve as a medium for communicating status updates (“Posting to Twitter.” “Posting to Twitter again.” “Here I am, back on Twitter, updating my status.”) digital sophisticates have long since bent the humble microblogging platform to their will.
Haiku. Affirmations. Contests. Flirtations. Ostentatiously-posted quotations from authors chosen more for their literary cachet than their intellectual merit, not that I’m thinking of anyone in particular (Byron, I’m looking at you).
Six Word Story:
If I should die before I
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 share stories, and tap into life, jobs & family.
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First, Gather phones!
c/o DTES CAN
PO Box 88023
418 Main St
Vancouver, BC V6A 4A4
Post a graphic on your site with this handy code snippet:
<a href=”http://www.fearlesscity.ca” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/3121575464_8a062db061_m_d.jpg” /></a><br />
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<a href=”http://www.fearlesscity.ca” target=”_blank”>Donate used mobile phones to help DTES residents and artists at fearlesscity.ca</a>
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.
And what have I been doing? Over the past four days, 1000 posts on Twitter and over 300 DMs there between raincoaster and FearlessCity accounts. Something like two dozen blog comments, one Facebook event created, 265 Facebook invitations issued, four or five chat conversations. And today alone, 26 blog posts not counting this one.
And what have I been doing that for?
To connect these:
With these:
Go. Read. Donate. Don’t make me come over there!
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! We’ve got WIDGETS!!!
Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists share stories, and tap into life, jobs & family
Next, Arrange Pick-up:
Want to be a drop-off point? Let us know.
Even send by Postal Mail to:
Fearless City
c/o DTES CAN
PO Box 88023
418 Main St
Vancouver, BC V6A 4A4
Notes:
Who is Fearless?
Thank you for your support!
Post a graphic on your site with this handy code snippet (and thanks to Hummingbird604 for help with the very fiddly code):
<a href=”http://www.fearlesscity.ca” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/3121575464_8a062db061_m_d.jpg” /></a><br />
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<a href=”http://www.fearlesscity.ca” target=”_blank”>Donate used mobile phones to help DTES residents and artists at fearlesscity.ca</a>
If it doesn’t work, check your quotation marks. They have a tendency to go haywire when you paste things into your widgets.
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