Ahimsa Media

Category: Stories In Action

  • Burnaby Village Museum – A Storyteller’s Delight

    Burnaby Village Museum – A Storyteller’s Delight

    At Ahimsa Media the winter holidays are all about relaxing and spending time laughing and having fun with the folks we love.  It is for this reason that Lori and I take a break from the pre-holiday craziness each year to laugh, be silly and shoot our holiday card together. This year’s shoot was even…

  • Introducing the Kids of the Rocket Fund: Shawn and Shawnee

    Introducing the Kids of the Rocket Fund: Shawn and Shawnee

    Ahimsa Media is comprised of a cast of interesting characters, so it isn’t a stretch for us to develop a new plethora of personalities – online characters that is.  Our inaugural lady was Emme Rogers, and since then character development has become a creative niche for us.  Amazing how it helps us to deal with…

  • Liz Joins #mobilersca to Experiment with the Android Galaxy Smartphone

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  • Tips for Creating Music Video Montages

    When I was in high school, a friend and I got more than a little obsessed with making music videos. When I say this, I mean we’d mostly dress up and dance around lip-synching in front of her Macbook, recording ourselves into iMovie. Fast-forward a fews years later, and I’m a working musician, making my…

  • Tips for Creating a Personalized YouTube Channel

    Tips for Creating a Personalized YouTube Channel

    In July my knowledge of personalizing YouTube Channel pages went up by about 100 percent. Erica assigned Liz and I the task of creating and personalizing YT Channels for Ahimsa characters Shawnee and Shawn Rockett (of the Shaw Rocket Fund), and for Shea, Ahimsa’s teenage character online. I’d never tried my hand with personalizing YT…

  • Things I’ve Learned Creating a Character for an Online Narrative

    Things I’ve Learned Creating a Character for an Online Narrative

    Erica presented Bronwyn, Liz and I with the project of creating a character for a blog for readers in their mid-teens. Being way out of my mid-teens, I found the task a bit daunting and wasn’t really sure I could create a narrative voice that sounded authentic and entertaining. Thankfully, I found that actually getting…

  • Copyright, Social Media & Orphan Works – Advice for Protecting Your Photos

    Many photographers have become fearful of the internet, in recent years.  It is a double edged sword, a great tool for getting our work seen by a wider audience, but it’s also hard to track images, copyright infringements and keep up to date on where and how to safely display our portfolio. I was rarely…

  • Photo Editing for the Interactive Audience

    Caption accuracy and editing used to be the main tasks us photographers had to focus on following a shoot.  Today that has all changed.  With a multitude of platforms to display our photographs, most freelancers now have to get to grips with internet distribution too, on sites like photoshelter, flickr and stock agencies.  As a…

  • Exciting Times for Media

    Times are a changing in the Media World and we are highly excited by some of the most recent evolutions.   Particularly here in Canada where the new Canadian Media Fund (CMF) has been announced bringing in an experimental element. This is a perfect opportunity for members of the digital media community to get funding and…

  • Ooey Gooey Good Animal Tracks: Our Annual Holiday Activity

    At Ahimsa, we have a tradition of sharing a yearly activity that can be enjoyed with friends and family, and you don’t have to be a kid to have fun with it. One of my favourite winter time activities is animal tracking, especially in the snow.  I love finding animal tracks, identifying them, and creating…