http://www.fadetoplay.com This is the home of Phillip Jeffrey, UBC Grad Student. His interests are: Social Media (tagging | Facebook), Photography (amateur), Games (urban | alternate reality) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:11:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why I took the Greyhound from Vancouver In June I attended the nextMEDIA conference in Banff, Canada. It was my first time attending this digital media event that precedes the BANFF Television Music Festival and I'm glad I was able to attend as media. I decided to make my trip adventurous by ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/31/nextmedia-banff-june-6-8-2008-photos/ Are you excited? If not, you should be because Barcamp Vancouver 2008 is coming. Surprisingly, with tons of social media press, people seems to lose out every year when it sells out. You don't want to miss out this year because it is going to be unbelievable and everyone ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/21/barcamp-vancouver-2008-upcoming/ Late Fragment Postcards - Republic Last Thursday I was the photographer for the Late Fragment DVD Release Party at Republic. Bartender - Republic It was a fun experience and I enjoyed seeing my Late Fragment friends again that I had met at VIDFEST when I saw Late Fragment for the first ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/21/late-fragment-dvd-release-party-vancouver-2/ New Community Shuttle - Day 1 Yesterday was the first day of new community shuttles for the BC Transit systems. If you notice there is not yet any advertising on the new community shuttles. As luck would have it, both were used on the 2 routes (C20 and C22) on my campus ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/17/new-community-shuttles-bc-transit-br-c20-c22-ubc-routes/ Tonight I will be attending the DVD Release Party of Late Fragment at Republic. I attended the film screening in May at VIDFEST and blogged about it. Faye, Kevin and Théo – three troubled strangers, three lives fractured by thoughts and acts of violence. In the interactive feature film Late ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/17/late-fragment-dvd-release-party-vancouver/ Jeff Young ~ Flickr photo courtesy of John Biehler Third Tuesday Vancouver organised by Monica Hamburg and Tanya Davis (aka NetChick) will be taking place tonight at Republic (one of my favourite clubs in Vancouver). Republic THIRD TUESDAY VANCOUVER is a free monthly meetup for Vancouver area communications and marketing folks interested ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/15/thirdtues_jeffyoung/ DreamBank Home Page Yesterday I attended the startup launch party for DreamBank. According to the website: DreamBank.org is about helping dreams come true and doing it in a way that helps the planet and important social causes. Instead of giving gifts that, although appreciated may not really be wanted, with DreamBank ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/12/dreambank-launch-party/ Richard Florida - Who's Your City? On June 5th, I attended the presentation by Richard Florida as part of the Research in Society Lectures at the 77th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Congress 2008) held this year at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. I enjoyed his ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/07/richard-florida-whos-your-city-congress-2008/ Maggie Mason - Mightygirl.com @ VIDFEST On Friday May 23rd at the Creative Exchange Conference as part of the Vancouver International Digital Festival (VIDFEST 2008), I attended the Content.com: The Care and Feeding of Audiences session in which Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com and Maggie Mason of Mightygirl.com & Mightygoods.com, also author ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/06/heather-maggie-vidfest-2008/ On Wednesday, June 4th, I attended an event by the SSHRC at the Vancouver Art Gallery to honour 30 years of contributions to social sciences and humanities research. During the reception, I interviewed Chad Gaffield, President Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council about the meaning of the evening for Canadian ... http://www.fadetoplay.com/2008/07/06/social-sciences-and-humanities-research-council-sshrc-30th-anniversary-reception-congress-2008/