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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…
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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…
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Bringing Together Ahimsa’s Education and Broadcast Worlds
Here at Ahimsa we relish our diverse skillset and now our very own Erica Hargreave has helped us add a new string to our busy bow with the airing of her educational kids science TV show: The Magic Backpack episode The Greenhouse Effect. Whilst Ahimsa Media were co-producers, multi-tasker Erica had a starring role, was…
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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…
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A New Classroom & Course for the New Year
Photo from The Hague’s Nationaal Archief I’m excited to be embarking on a new educational adventure this year! My new classroom will be in the Broadcast Communication Program at BCIT and the Continuing Studies Department at Capilano University. At both schools I will be teaching Interactive Storytelling. Not completely sure, but I do think these…
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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…
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Emme Out & About Kissing Calendars for Dyslexia
It’s been a year now since we pushed Emme Rogers out from behind her computer screen and out into the real world, and we are proud to see her flourishing in real life as well as cyberspace. Like any proud parents, seeing your kid making their way in this world, and in this case, truly…
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All in the Name of Literacy
Our sincerest of apologies to the Vancouver Community for any over-inflation we may have done to the following individuals egos, by placing them in a calendar, entitled Reading is Sexy: Monique Trottier – @somisguided Lori & Richard Yearwood Patrick Tubajon – @iheartgudrun Raul Pacheco-Vega – @hummingbird604 Ian A Martin – @atomicfez Rayne Lorraine Murphy –…
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Recognizing the Importance of Story
I’m doing a workshop tonight on ‘Creating Interactive Brand Stories’ with Kontent Creative and hence a bit of research. Came across this Cannes Film Festival Short Story Winner, which really rings true on how important ‘telling story’ can be: Historia de un letrero [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyGEEamz7ZM]
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Brands Can Be Storytellers too!
A common misconception that we encounter with people when we tell them that we are interactive storytellers is that we create dynamic stories for children or that we strictly work with traditional stories in the form of books, movies, television series and films to make their stories more dynamic and interactive. This is a myth…
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Bringing Together Ahimsa’s Education and Broadcast Worlds
Here at Ahimsa we relish our diverse skillset and now our very own Erica Hargreave has helped us add a new string to our busy bow with the airing of her educational kids science TV show: The Magic Backpack episode The Greenhouse Effect. Whilst Ahimsa Media were co-producers, multi-tasker Erica had a starring role, was…