Kevan Gilbert:

So the silence is pretty post-apocalyptic here on my site, but I’m not actually dead. Over with Domain7, I’ve still been busy working and writing and scribbling down words. Here’s a collection of some of the works that have materialized in this new space: My first day at Domain7 “At Pixar, they call it beginner’s [...]

Originally published on the official Domain7 blog. Tips on good project management are as common as pre-printed Royal Wedding memorabilia, and they’re just as useful, too. After all, if project management was just about following instructions, we wouldn’t have construction projects going years beyond deadlines or Fast Ferries being sold for scrap metal. Fact: Nobody [...]

I recently discovered the bizarre world of fiverr.com, where you can post various gigs, acts and services you’re willing to render for the tidy sum of five dollars. The only catches are: 1) the buyer owns the rights to your work, and 2) you only get four dollars. That’s right, fiverr’s commission is 20%, so [...]

I love it when serendipitous collisions occur and the result is beautiful art. The Longest Poem in the World is a series rhyming couplets drawn from randomly selected Twitter updates. Looking only for end rhyme, the site’s script pairs one tweet with another to make a couplet, then streams couplet and couplet down the never-ending, [...]

Chris Brogan, a pretty credible blogger focusing on marketing and business, recently published a few casual thoughts on what would define the next-generation media outlet (ie, a magazine or newspaper that would start from scratch, say, 5 years from now). Here are a few highlights from what he had to say: Stories will be “points [...]

Self-Googling, the requisite responsibility of the vain and preening web publisher, reveals two main things about me: one, I’m fortunate enough that my own website is the first result when you Google my name. I know there’s real-life, money-making, old-fashioned corporations that don’t even get to say that. Two, and directly related to number one, [...]

It’s hard to have a conversation about Twitter without having to first talk about how silly it all is: the name, the character counts, the very concept. Same with blogging, or with virtually anything in social media – before you can have any serious discussion around it, you first have to shake your sillies out. [...]

The future of non-profit fundraising has been sealed: it’s on the web. I am sensing a frenzied agitation and excitement amongst business leaders who are thirsty for the type of success demonstrated by President Obama’s online fundraising campaign, and it’s reaching a frightening level of hype. I am feeling the frenzy too. After reading books [...]

If this blog were a car, I’d be about 10,000 kilometers overdue for an oil change: it’s been a long time. For repeat visitors to this blog of mine, you’ll notice that the old homepage, with its magazine-like template, has been replaced with a new look, one which scrolls endlessly like a conventional blog. Why? [...]

Why not induce some premature nostalgia? This episode of The Pianimal unearths forgotten pop songs of the yester-decade, and gives them a pianamalistic makeover. Cher’s “Believe” leaves the dance-hall behind, and becomes an earnest, folksy song about jaded love, while N’Sync’s “Bye Bye Bye” kicks out the straight-eights and turns up the piano-amp to 11 [...]

The Pianimal is a bi-weekly, one-take, four-song, piano-based podcast, each song chosen to suit a new theme each episode. In the debut episode, I brandish my fingers, dust my ivories, and polish up my vocal cords to deliver a performance that critics are calling “lackluster” and “a good start.” The theme is Tom Waits Covers, [...]

Somewhere south of the year 2000, a trio of loud-mouthed white dudes from NYC called the Beastie Boys finished up fighting for their rights to party, and released an album called Hello Nasty. The opening track was a blitzkrieg of hip-hop and hollering that went by the name of Super Disco Breakin’. Leaving no room [...]

Drifting without direction, crippled by convenience and firmly affixed to the furniture, the hamster-like humans featured in Pixar’s recent animated epic are meant to remind us of ourselves – those of us still inhabiting this obsolete orb called Earth. It’s a light-hearted but heart-breaking exposé of our tendencies to become motionless machines of malaise. Funnily [...]

FLEA MARKET START It was approaching winter when Rob Snopek carefully loaded up the back of his pick-up truck with over 2000 vinyl records. A collection cobbled together thanks to years of careful searching, lucky finds and generous friends, he was ready to bring his prized albums out of his apartment and into the marketplace. [...]

An avalanche on the Coquiihalla got in the way of our plans to spend the weekend in Kelowna, so instead, Kendra and I made this movie: Credits: * Drawings of people: Kevan * Drawings of food, mountains, airplanes and luggage: Kendra * Subtitles & live motion: Kendra * Camera work: Kevan * Fake snow: The [...]

At work, I sometimes find myself wishing for the convenience of my home music collection in order to select some suitably fantastic tunes. Without a portable music contraption to carry my music along with me, I instead rely on the web for my daily allotment of musical awesomeness. I listen to internet radio, to the [...]

You probably couldn’t guess it from the long, lazy lapses that occur between posts here, but this blog actually means a whole bunch to me. I consider my website’s launch last February to be one of my highlights of 2007. Yet for some reason, this pride and joy of mine never manifests itself in an [...]

Sometimes, when an episode of Gilmore Girls shows up on my TV (I’m not sure how they keep doing that, although I’m starting to suspect my wife might have something to do with it), I find it hard to focus on all the Stars Hollow drama. It’s not that Luke’s Diner doesn’t have enough gossip [...]

As December descends upon us like a shrieking bird of prey, we are again reminded about the meaning of Christmas: frenzied mall blitzes, those non-stop Salvation Army bells, and maybe something about peace on earth. To restore the much-needed jubilation, here’s a treat: a yuletide podcast and brand new website!

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is home to an army of unsolved, unsolveable mysteries. I work there now, in the relative safety of a third-floor office building, and my daily transit commute is peppered by question marks from station to station. Each day I ride past the 8:00 am camp-out at the Bottle Depot, slide past the [...]