The last five months I've been teaching the entire Langevin School grade seven contingent on how to make a short documentary video. With four classes of thirty students each giving me roughly 120 students and 4 teachers to work with, this has been a challenging...
Brothers Paul and Chris Swacha prepare themselves for training When I took on the Artist in Residency with Sport Calgary, I never imagined I would end up swimming underwater with a camera, skating on the ice with my gear, or looking over the edge of a...
Here I am caught on the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal. It is hard to describe the cacophony of visual and audio stimulus. Horns signal the passing of motorbikes, bells ring from Hindu meditations, hammers slam against concrete blocks...
https://vimeo.com/28218554 This is quite possibly the most important video I have cut together to date. Not because I shot it. In fact, I've taken liberally from Yann Arthus-Bertrand's HOME, BBC's Journey of Man, and Ronald Wright's Short History of Progress. It's important not because the ideas are...
I forgot about this short piece I did for TEDxCalgary last year. The city in which you are born is the one you know the least. It’s just home with its familiar cityscape, favorite locales and friends you’ve grown to know. What is common becomes...
My eyes were opened to the challenges faced by people with severe spinal cord injuries. I spent some time with Caylan over a few days and discovered something about what it means to have spirit. Find out more at caylanboysefoundation.ca. ...
What happens when you bring together a script, amateur actors, camera, and music? Well it's chaos, but the result was something fun and cheeky showing just how many stereotypes seniors can break. Shouldn't our elders be worth much, much more in our society?...
Being faced with a class of thirty teenage girls is a terrifying prospect for someone who only grew up with a brother. As it turns out, the story of my life, a handful of my homemade videos, and a decent knowledge of Harry Potter gave...
You've heard of TED Talks. Well now we're bringing TEDx Talks to Calgary. Our organizing theme is around those people who are operating on the boundaries of convention attempting to build a better society. The image (introduced to us by Jon Perkins) we are using to...
What if you decided that the interest you paid to banks didn't serve the interest of the common good? Might there be a way to stop relying on large complex institutions vulnerable to critical mistakes? Turns out Rob Sinclair from Conscious Brands came up with one...