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On the eve of their collaborative release with The Hundreds, we caught up with Cameron Wynne of DeLorean Motor Company to discuss cars, clothes and more. (Yes, what you see above is part of the collection! Black jags on flat black DMC-12. Will be outside The Hundreds store all day tomorrow for the release.)

How did you become involved in DeLorean Motor Company?

Well first off it’s a family business. I have been around DeLorean’s from the day I was born. Originally in California my father had a repair shop repairing DeLoreans. One of my first memories of DeLorean is being dropped to school in one of the movie cars from Back to the Future, which my father’s shop had serviced and was undergoing road testing. So I have been around them my whole life. My first car was a DeLorean.

Gourmet Fall 2009 Footwear Collection

Gourmet teams up with Undftd to colaborate on these fall 09 kicks……TUUUUFFFFFFF!!!!! all black?

Girl Skateboard, Lakai

Where the Wild Things Are movie is going to be a hit!

Supra

Supra teamed up with the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas to create these fly @$$ kicks. So next time you’re strollin on the strip, or throwin bones in the Palms…I hope these are on your feets!

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Reviewing things I've done this year I remembered that when I was in Granada, Spain,I had launched a Google Group to put all information that we found interesting and was intended for people involved with me on a course of Textile Art at "The School of Art of Granada".  

Unfortunately the only person with networking habits was me, therefore almost all files were uploaded by me. So, a couple of days ago I told myself: if this group does not work this way, could be work in another... and I decided to open it for anyone who wants to participate ...  is as simple as sending an e-mail to the group or via this blog (find a link on the right hand side of page) (if this doesn't work you can do it in my spanish blog http://crearescreer.blogspot.com) 

I would love to see it developed and with a colaborative sense.The idea is taking this group as our library, archive of interesting images, promotional events and a place where we can add all interesting stuff . If you see all things written in spanish don't panic, it is going to be a multilingual group, and I don't want to discriminate anybody...

I hope you like the idea!

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation I’d been trying to put together for the best part of six months and this evening I’ve sent it on to the users who attended and who were unable to attend but showed an interest.  I realised at this point I hadn’t actually blogged about it so I thought I might put together a little post about it.

The aim was simply to share some ideas and some bits of ICT that could help people do their jobs quicker/better/cheaper/economically/more easily.  Many of these were based upon queries from users and solutions  found or in some cases pre-emptively finding options for issues that have yet to be raised.

A note was put into the staff briefing and some posters put up around the office to try and get people along to the presentation.  The attendance was surprisingly low and it’s unfortunate in terms of what people missed out on but I thought I’d highlight the areas that were discussed and some high level points on what was demonstrated and discussed.

The presentation was split into four main sections – software, hardware, web sites and engaging with the ICT team.

Software

• Skype
• Working with PDFs
  • Microsoft Office plug ins
  • PDF printers
  • PDF Bulder Toolkit
  • Drawloop.com
• Public Folders in Outlook

Hardware

• Photocopiers
  • Printing
  • Scanning
  • Secure printing & scanning
• Data Capture
  • Dictaphones
  • Digital cameras
  • DigiMemo
  • MIMIO
• Communication
  • Teleconferencing units
  • Audio/telephony cabling

Web Sites

• Collaboration
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Google Docs
  • Etherpad
  • Writeboard
  • Dabbleboard
  • Mind Meister
  • Vyew
• Online Presentations
  • Instant Presenter
  • Microsoft Communications Server
  • Dim Dim
• Meeting Scheduling
  • Doodle
  • Meet-o-matic
• To Do Lists
  • To Do Ist
• File Sharing
  • Orbit Files

Engaging with ICT

• Service Desk
  • Queries
  • Training
• Invitation
  • Project meetings
  • Team meetings
• Communications
  • Presentations
  • Briefings
  • Mailings
  • Bulletins
  • Newsletters

I don’t plan on publishing the presentation widely as much of it is only directly relevant to Academy ICT users in the way it is presented, but the outline above gives an indication of the content and areas in which the user community is developing.

Hopefully some imminent developments might help create a greater sharing of such ideas and information within a community and build a better culture of knowledge sharing and management.

Wow so its been almost a month since I last posted, slightly embarrassing but its been for good reason! Over the past 4 weeks I’ve been spending a lot of time with people in the Social media/technology fields and attending events to expand my overall knowledge, I’ll have an post coming up soon but I thought I’d lay down a summary of the events I’ve been to:

Podcamp Toronto : Ryerson needs to hold more of this type of event! I think the school really demonstrated what it was about and showed how they can excel above the rest. This ‘unconference’ while initially rooted in the realm of podcasting expanded into blogging, social media, and overall just business/interaction on the net. Some of the sessions I attended included :

-Building Relationships with Word of Mouth and PR Practitioners While Maintaining Credibility with Your Audience .Panel Discussion included :  Anita Clarke,David Jones, Eden Spodek andMatthew Stradiotto, moderated by Keith McArthur.
-I Got the Job because of Social Media by Daniel Patricio 
- Web Metrics Suck, (Or: How to Use Metrics to Get Sh*t Done) by Jeremy Wright of B5 Media 

PodCamp Toronto

PodCamp Toronto

Overall A+ conference! Really enjoyed it! I haven’t had time to check things out yet but as a bonus all sessions were posted to the web : http://podcamptoronto.pbwiki.com/MediaArchive2009

Facebook Camp at MaRs: Held only for a night, and quite a different set up but still was a very useful and informative event! Just to share some interesting Facebook insights did you know that 70% of toronto residents are on Facebook? Or on average that Canadians use this site 29.6 minutes a day and 2.7 times! Canada is a major Facebook nation.

Some key highlights from this event included:

Facebook Connect: Looking at the Facebook platform that allows companies to connect Facebook profiles and import that information directly to their website allowing users to bring their friends and login with them. Not only does this create an easier process for the user but through interconnectiveness at facebook it can encourage users to add more content and drive more traffic to a person’s website.

Whopper Sacrifice: I’ve personally experienced the site when it was up and running but it was great to see the marketing statistics and effectiveness of this campaign. Done by Refresh Partners ( located in Toronto!) this campaign was amazing! A user of the site was given the ability to sacrifice 10 friends for a free whopper, where the friend would be sent up in a flame and burned to ash digitally. This program achieved amazing results!

-233,906 friends sacrificed
-high virolocity: for every one user of the site, they sent 2 more.
-After 10 days the coupons ran out and Burger king happy with the results shut down the site!

Democamp19: Another great event, but again very different from the other 2 I attended. In comparison this event was about web entreprenuers demonstrating their latest projects to the net community. So many great projects to discuss, rather than blather on I’ll post all of the sites:

-Akoha
-Backtype
-Dex
-foodea
-Imagespark
-Kontaigent
-Hackerspaces.org
-N8R text : text your location to N8R text at 416-662-3408 and get a haiku of the location
-Communitie

Something I found interesting at this event was the idea of Ignites presentations which means 20 slides at an auto setting of 15 seconds per slide. It forces the presenter to be on task, well practiced and succinct I think I’d like to try doing it in the near future.

US Now

Us Now Movie Screening: This was at Bloor Cinema, the movie was about the idea of a colabortive world using web tools and how government and organizations can use this to bi-pass barriers and have a more involved organization. Most of the people I were with were there to see Don Tapscott ( which I was too, his book “Grown Up Digital” is a must read!) but I was really excited by the ideas presented in the movie. One interesting segment included a British football team owned and run by the fans. By collaboration they decided which players to purchase, the starting positions of the players and other tasks that a regular owner would do and I was amazed that such a system was sustainable. Unfortunately Don Tapscott didn’t have much time to speak, but he did share some insights in the end and overall yet another good learning experience.

Premier of "Toronto in 6 Words" Care of MSovie via Flickr

GenYto/Canlit at CSI: Not a direct learning experience but still an interesting event to attend.Involving many of the people I’ve been speaking with over the last while I thought it was really interesting to see how this group is made up ( from marketers/ photographers/ PR People/Webdesigners and the list goes on….) despite everyone coming from different backgrounds/experience levels everyone was still able to come together have a good time and share experiences. Following the theme of all of the events it was about collaborating , sharing and bettering each other as a group. While this was more of a winding down and having fun event its not something one would normally see  happening very often  in my opinion.

Closer to end of the night at Canlit.... I think we're all entitled to a few bad pictures :S Care of Rannie Turingan Photography

Whats on tap for the weeks to come, well in the near term its going to be “Passion” on March 23rd by Refresh Events and then FAILcamp coming up in July….. but I sense there will be many more in between as well. Stay tuned! 

Have any Questions/Comments? Contact me at kevin.richard@ryerson.ca or send me a twitter message.

Album: The Prelude EP
By: The Mighty Underdogs
Produced: The Mighty Underdogs

The Mighty Underdogs, made up of Gift of Gab, Lateef The Truthspeaker and Headnotic are at it again, bringing DJ Shadow on track “UFC” and MF Doom on “Gunfight” among others together on their EP, “The Prelude,” released winter ’07.

This album brings old school anthems, almost southern-sounding, funky 80s beats, wonderful melodic music; even party beats together creating this 6-song EP.  Not as clean as Gab’s “Supreme Lyricism, Volume I,” this EP seems an attempt to create positive, poppy-sounding feel-good music to life.

The Mighty Underdogs Album Cover

Open screen printing and hand painting

This is a piece of cotton sateen that has been hanging by my desk at work for a long while now and I keep looking at it wondering what I should do with it. Cut it up? Sew into/ onto it? Parts of it I like, other parts not so much, it was my least favorite project from my class back in college (not sure why it ended up at desk really). So I ask, what would you do with it?

Finally is here!!! That project i was talking about… I’m so excited!!! Is nice to work together with this talented group of people, a total pleasure.

Here you are the “press release” of the event:

Image by Khamudy Mannonen published under a Creative Commons license.

A series of mythological artworks exploring
the themes of temptation and revenge.

Opening 12pm PST (SLT), 27th July 2008 until 7th September 2008

Musa Artis: Temptation & Revenge is a new exhibition that began life as a project penned for Second Life’s Fifth Birthday celebrations but developed into a larger independent exhibition. The central theme explores two of the darker influences on human nature and how these have been worked into the fabric of mythology. Drawing influences ranging from ancient Greece through to Celtic and more modern subcultures, each individual exhibit features a display of images, worked into the environment by each artist helping to contextualise the subjects depicted.

Musa Artis is a group of artists formed during the conception of the Temptation & Revenge exhibition in 2008, which came together due to a commonality of interests and philosophies regarding art within Second Life and were determined to create successful collaborative work in an independent fashion, free of the regulatory interference of either event organisers or gallery promoters. Temptation & Revenge represents their first in world collaborative project.

Visitors are very much encouraged to take their time exploring the individual exhibits and the ambience of the natural settings, interacting with the scenery to create their own custom images.

The opening reception and toga party begins at midday on Sunday 26th July, with music provided by guest DJ Arahan Claveau.

SLURL will follow in coming days.

This exhibition includes work by:
Keeran Blackadder, Ganymedes Costagravas, Raul Crimson, Cerdwin Flanagan, Zinc Karas, Khamudy Mannonen, Pilgrim Miles, Keiko Morigi, Silverdrake Sparrow.

Contact: Khamudy@gmail.com

Alternatively, contact the artists in-world or through their Flickr profiles.

So, you know, you’re invited to the party next sunday! I will post a SLurl before sunday.

Ibervicis es una iniciativa nacional de fomento de la investigación creando un “ordenador ciudadano”. Está auspiciada por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación a través CSIC y otros centros para potenciar algunos

Logo Ibercivis

proyectos de investigación, pero sobre todo, para concienciar a la sociedad de la importancia de la investigación para tener una sociedad más próspera y competitiva.

La iniciativa se basa en que cada ciudadano ceda los tiempos muertos de su ordenador personal para realizar procesos que forman parte de 3 grandes proyectos de investigación. El usuario descarga un miniprograma llamado BOINC (de la U. de Berkeley) que explora los tiempos muertos y solicita minitrabajos (piezas de un máximo de 30 minutos de proceso).

El usuario puede hacer todo tipo de restricciones (uso de cpu, disco, red, horarios, etc). Se puede monitorizar lo que hay abierto y las estadísticas. Si lo quieres, puede aparecer tu equipo geoposicionado. Si hay un tiempo muerto y se arranca un trabajo salta un salvapantallas. En cuanto te reincorporas se suspende. Cada trabajo tiene un periodo de validez de 1 ó 3 días. No es tu problema. Si se acaba en tiempo vale. Si no, el sistema manda ese trabajo a otros. Únete ya.

El usuario recibe unos créditos, que en un futuro le permitirán acceder a premios o compensaciones. Para fomentar la participación se forman equipos. Lo importantes es participar, por antiguo y poco dotado que sea tu ordenador. Cuando una experiencia se hace en equipo es más divertida. He creado un equipo para agregar a empleados, partners, clientes, simpatizantes y sus respectivas redes sociales.

Se llama Red Sun. Una vez dado de alta como usuario, desde el portal te apuntas fácilmente. Y ¿qué ganas?. El placer de agregar y que tu esfuerzo valga más. Lo importante es participar e invitar a tus conocidos a que también lo hagan. Me gustaría poder pasar la barrera de 1.000 partícipes. ¿Difícil?. Sí pero, como otros lo han conseguido, nosotros también ¡PODEMOS!