Kevan Gilbert:

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last March, I published a post called “Mixes in the Making,” in which I made a passing-paragraph reference to a song that teen sensation group Hanson performed in concert. It’s a cover of the Radiohead song, Optimistic. That post was mistakenly republished earlier today (to the Xanga version of my blog), and my friend Kristen [...]

Greetings, friends, strangers and heads of state: in this post, I present to you the five most interesting things I have discovered recently. Why bother telling you about them? Because I think you’ll be interested in them, that’s why. Please, enjoy and interact. Take your time, and if you’re feeling friendly, leave a comment below. [...]

Isreali design & animation student Gal Shkedi, for his final project, has created this sweet animation of Tom Waits’ song, “Starving in the Belly of a Whale.”

When I first slammed into its old school front page, I didn’t expect “Cargo Law” to be anything more than a cobbled-together, behind-the-times, corporate hack-job of a website, filled with uninteresting, unpleasantly patriotic, law-related content. But after being utterly hypnotized by the incredible photos and stories featured on this site, I am now convinced that [...]

I’m in Vancouver right now, but I’ve magically instructed my blog to post this pre-written article at this pre-determined time to make it seem as if I am still busily clattering away at my desk. In lieu of posting my own personally fabricated stories, essays, reviews and/or miscellaneous jib-jabbery, I want to urge you to [...]

I love Internet radio. I’ve been listening for over a year, and have fallen in love with the diverse streams of music that are beamed onto my computer and into my ears. I’ve discovered thousands of artists I’ve never heard of before, and explored a few different genres that have changed the way I think [...]

It’s super easy! All you have to do is start a blog that appeals to an influential, tech-savvy and participatory demographic, get featured regularly on the front pages of Digg and Metafilter and Reddit and BoingBoing, make connections on a personal level with other well-known, microcelebrity bloggers like Jason Kottke and John Chow and that [...]

Have you ever found yourself mired in a situation where you’ve been misled, screwed over, lied to, deceived, ripped off, taken advantage of or otherwise misinformed? It’s part of life, really. Communication is difficult, and sometimes misunderstandings occur. But sometimes, it’s not enough to shrug your shoulders and say “C’est la vie.” Sometimes, something needs [...]

Using a phone cam to take pictures of shoes, patterns and dresses at the mall? Either I’m a little fruitier than I thought, or it was just another weekend shopping with my wife. During this Saturday at Chinook Centre, I trapped in time all the sights and decorations that struck my eyes as clever and [...]

Just minutes before the weekend began, my friend Harrison posted a bevy of Feist footage; new music videos of songs from Feist’s new album. Now as the weekend ends, I think these sweet videos need a bookend. Please enjoy this fantastic song by “Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip.” It’s called “Thou Shalt Always Kill.” [...]