Last night I had the pleasure and honour of attending the launch for the Independent Web Series Creators of Canada – Créateurs Indépendants de Séries Web du Canada, a non-profit professional association dedicated to supporting the efforts of everyone across the country who create and release their own video content online – and the evening [...]

A little over a week ago I attended the launch party for Matterform’s new Photon 3D Scanner – which is poised to revolutionize the art and science of 3D capture by making it accessible to everyone. It is really fucking cool. Adam Brandejs and Drew Cox are artists, programmers, hackers & more and they have [...]

I had the good fortune to be interviewed by David Peck and he has now posted our talk on his David Peck Live podcast. Running 40 minutes, our conversation covers a lot of ground but, despite my over-caffeinated barrage of ideas and experiences, we could have continued the discussion for hours. There were moments where [...]

Internet Freedom Day, the anniversary of the largest internet protest (against SOPA) is being celebrated around the world wide web with an act of civil disobedience to simultaneously honour Aaron Swartz. If SOPA had been passed I could go to jail for posting this video. It is copyrighted – even though it is a record [...]

WIRED has an article posted about an upcoming children’s puppet web series, entitled Circuit Playground, produced by Adafruit Industries. From the WIRED article: Their new online show will teach the essentials of electronics and circuitry to children through kid-friendly dolls with names like Cappy the Capacitor and Hans the 555 Timer Chip. Limor “Ladyada” Fried, [...]

Last year we released online our production of “Ruffus The Dog’s Christmas Carol”. It took a long time to get it done – mostly because I’m a lazy and easily distracted slob – but was well worth the effort. You can find out more about how the show was put together from this old blog [...]

On this day in 1980 John Lennon was assassinated. His music and his spirit continues to inspire.

It was always a brilliant speech that Chaplin gave at the end of The Great Dictator but with the addition of music, rhythm and judicious editing it becomes a very powerful cry for the people of the world against the powers which seek to enslave them. Thank you, Charlie. And thank you, Melody Sheep – [...]

This is going to be hard. Jerry Nelson was a good friend of mine. He was well known and loved by a great many people and deservedly so. His work as a performer, an actor, a musician, singer and puppeteer touched the lives of countless people around the world. He was known more for the [...]

You should stop what you are doing right now and go read and then sign the Internet Declaration Of Freedom. DECLARATION We stand for a free and open Internet. We support transparent and participatory processes for making Internet policy and the establishment of five basic principles: Expression: Don’t censor the Internet. Access: Promote universal access [...]

John Boswell at Symphony of Science has been crafting amazing music videos with auto-tuned scientists reveling in the glories and wonders of the universe. Now he has teamed up with PBS to honour Fred Rogers with a remix of Garden Of Your Mind and Mister Rogers has never been so hip. Enjoy. Cheers.

Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91. Bradbury influenced many millions of people with his imaginative gift for words that evoked the conflicted spirit of the human species. My first encounter with his work was through a serialized radio play based on his Dandelion Wine stories which aired from somewhere across the Canada/US [...]