Water is a Human Right: UN and Manitobans care about First Nations in Canada

Water is a Human Right, posted with vodpod A couple of public relations students and I did some digging in the muddy, flood-infested Manitoba backwaters. We came across some hidden bones we thought deserved a spotlight. We got angry, and we got inspired…to create a public service announcement about the plight of our fellow citizens, the [...]

Protect Japan Victims of Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Radiation

My friends are scraping their pennies together to support Japanese victims of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdowns. As jet streams and web streams bring nuclear fallout and news of lives lost from the Japanese triple threat east to North America, donations to the Canadian Red Cross flood in. Hundreds of Japanese and non-Japanese [...]

New Media Maven at PO-MO: Interactive 3D motion and sound

When is the sacred and docile cow not a cow? When it’s a juicy, jamming projection screen for light and sound animation! Blame it on Meghan and the innocent PO-MO bunny, the icon of Winnipeg’s interactive new media maven. Nothing is sacred…anything that can be transformed, will be transformed. A blast of audience controlled visual [...]

Instinct to survive

We are survivors. We wear winter in Winnipeg like a badge of honour. The rules are: water flows down hill, in winter rivers freeze and geese fly south. If you break the rules of winter, you pay a price. Or, do you start a new trend? Despite friendly Manitobans like the little grey-haired couple that [...]