Medium Posts

For a long time I've been thinking about posting or writing about different topics within the scope of C4, media arts, design, development, and yet I haven't gotten around to it at all.

Recently, I came across Medium and think that this will be a great channel not only for posting, but for tutorials as well. They currently don't have support for custom domains, but that will come in time. For now, I'm just going to start by making a list of all the different things I did last year, a sort of topic-list:

Tech Topics

• iBeacon
• Proximity sensing
• Core Bluetooth
• Mapkit Skinning
• Local Node JS server w/ TileMap
• Designs for building dynamic apps w/ XML or Plist files
• Mapkit animating (routes)
• Mapkit animating (pins)
• Sparklines
• Census Data Parsing
• Data Visualization (images v. raw data re:tennis)
• Spinning a 3D model (the easy way)
• Core Data + Visualization of OED

Documentary Topics

• On building Halo

• On building CityBits

• On developing a business (series)

  • First day
  • Seeing Moon Cheese (i.e. their team)
  • Getting City Bits Started
  • More Client Work (F1)
  • Down the rabbit hole (looking for funding in Canada) SRED May 27 email
  • Building MyRunway
  • Getting Halo into places (May 31 email)
  • To NFC or to bang your head against a wall
  • Extending Sapphire
  • Opportunity
  • I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship
  • Pulled between roles
  • Being poached
  • The Big Picture
  • I think this is the end of a terrible friendship
  • Watching someone go down like the hindenburgh
  • Syndicating
  • That time you fly somewhere and realize your hopes are like a wave crashing against a cliff
  • Just post that Aug 23 email to Alex
  • Stretched to your limits, balancing a team and a demanding client
  • Do you ever really finish with a tough client?
  • Seeing it through, when other contractors fall off the grid
  • Trying to make things smooth - trying hard.
  • Holding off on bad news until you get paid - is a good idea
  • Documentary work, trying to start things up with Lewis
  • And things start to roll gently along like a tumbleweed in the wind
  • IRAP
  • Hackathon
  • CityBits
  • CMF Research
  • TIFF Application
  • Troubleshooting remotely with SAP
  • Butcher blocks – to build a desk.
  • And then you get a stern letter from a lawyer
  • And then you hire a lawyer
  • Timeline & $1500 letter
  • And then you stress over the situation even though your lawyer tells you not to
  • Connecting with potential clients who clearly have no money
  • CityBits - Research
  • CityBits - Connecting with people
  • CityBits - Experimentation
  • CityBits - When you hire a friend and it all turns out great but different than we expected
  • Remember that work i did in the first 10 days at Slant? I didn't get paid yet.
  • A new year, time to hit the ground running
  • CityBits - Production
  • A talk in Vancouver with Jer Thorp and my opinions about the "scene"
  • TIFF is on the books
  • Code Core intro
  • SAP MAP
  • Halo
  • Submitting CityBits
  • SFU Talk
  • VanCocoa Talk
  • Getting to Know Vancouver
  • Seriously Starting CMF
  • Wondering if writing things out will help
  • VOID CMF
  • PAST DUE INVOICE REMINDER
  • Tennis App
  • Installing Halo
  • Interactive Install Pitch _ to dale
  • Code Core
  • Resonate - Confusion / Leading up to
  • Resonate - Ideas / Friends / Worth it?
  • Meeting People who I know I can't Hire
  • Preliminary CMF Concept - Writeup
  • That time I really tried to start working with Lewis
  • Course Outline
  • Felton - Files
  • Brainstorming Data Viz w/ Dominikus
  • Pitching a new Project – And then the guy quits
  • IRAP x2
  • CMF Brainstorm
  • Writing for CMF (Making the call)
  • Strategic thinking
  • Pitching and pitching - Mag / The Still.
  • Prework (CodeCore)
  • Sapphire again
  • Yes. Today.

• On building C4 (series)

• On applying to the CMF

• On the development of a long-term client

• On applying to CreativeBC

• On presenting at Resonate

Concept Topics

• The value of Design is a Job
• Media Arts + Money
• Time v. Perfection
• When you deliver better than expected and are told you're going to be sued
• Building a strong community
• Supporting Holo / Community