Flickr, Creative Commons, and the Children of Pakistan

I was pleasantly surprised to find a note in my flickr in-box from the good people at THEWIP,

which is an online current affairs magazine, from the perspective of women, stating that they wanted to

use one of the very few still photos I took while covering the earthquake that devastated the Kashmir

region of NE Pakistan for TV.  The article was written by Afsaana Rashid who is a journalist living in Indian-

administered Kashmir and the author of Waiting for Justice: Widows and Half Widows.

The article details how the loss of most of the men in Kashmir, due to both the earthquake

and the war that is being fought between India and Kashmir,have left the relatively unskilled

women and children to fend for themselves.  UNICEF estimates that Kashmir has as many as

100,000 special or orphaned children.  That number is almost too large to comprehend.  I am

just glad that they liked my photo enough and that I made it available through Creative Commons

so that they could use it to hopefully help people become a little more aware of the scale of the

crisis in the mountains of Pakistan.

Voter fraud in West VA and the death of TV

As we get set to soon vote for Obama and swear in McCain as the next POTUS I must reiterate what I have been preaching all along.  With multimedia on the rise and the dream of Dirk Halstead quickly becoming reality I have to say that it was no surprise to me that KARE11 great Brett Akagi is leaving for the world of ink stained wretches.  This is great news to those of us in the digital realm but I fear for my many friends still toting Beta-cams and XD Cams that they may get left twisting in the wind. 

Oh as for the McCain thing... I hope we don't get a repeat of '00 and '04 where Gore won the race and then Kerry won the race  and had the results of which placed on teh record in Congress AND THEN both of them let Bush run the country... I don't get it... but this is what I was referring to... In West Virginia there appears to be a little case of the voter fraud going on as people cast ballots for Democrats the computer screen switches the vote to a Republican candidate.  How wonderful.

You Thought Religion Was a Crutch... Try Skateboarding

As someone who has spent many hours on these arm extensions I am in awe of this skater.

New Media Thanksgiving Jam

Near the Distillery District in Toronto, ON.

Cottage Chair in Fall

Winter is soon upon us but at least we get to enjoy a bit of colour before the blinding white of bitter winter.  I will try to spend some time in this chair this weekend.

Cottage Timelapse

The Wiki Way

I saw this wikipeida entry thanks to the help of a japanese flickr fan and thought I'd share it with ya!

Facebook woes...

and old school skate rats... My buddy Johnathan Wills has reached the end of his "Retro Skateboard Stickers" addiction.  He as actually got them all, apparently without doing a thing.  WOW! Wait... let me just check my requests here... hold on ...

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Kirk Gloves

A good friend of mine has gone through quite a change thanks to the sport of boxing and so an editor and mutual friend from CityTV took a few shots from some B-roll that I had shot and cut this together.

Solar Nano Tech

New research out of potato land... not PEI, but the American counterpart, Idaho, has brightened our future just a bit. It seems that the promise of cheap small and affordable energy from that giant ball of fire is in the sky is just a bit closer.