Author Archives: davin
nine inch nails live in victoria
Last Friday I saw Nine Inch Nails at the Memorial Arena. I have been a fan since a highschool friend named Cyril Woon decided to put on Pretty Hate Machine in 1994, 5 years after it had come out. It must have been 1994, because we were playing a card game that had just come […]
conductor
I have 5 minutes to write about this photo. It is of Rick Underwood conducting the Greater Victoria Concert Band at Alex Goolden Hall in downtown Victoria a couple weeks ago. AGH is literally a block from where I live, and it’s a beautiful venue. It seats a fair number of people too, and it […]
close to control
some really hard to use controls on my sony ericsson phone – click for a big version. Tonight, Nine Inch Nails is in town and I’m going to go check them out. From Trent Reznor’s latest blog entry: This [is] an amazing tour and production – certainly the best thing I’ve ever been involved with […]
connected to your surroundings
How connected are you to your surroundings? Richard sent me a link to an interview with some “mad men” (advertising folk) pontificating on the relevance of marketing, products, and advertising channels to the internet. Much of what I gleaned from reading this is that they are not as “in touch” as they think they are. […]
It’s a bear market
A bear fishing in a river near Ucluelet last week Last week I saw a television ad for the Chevy Volt, an electric car design that has been sat on for years and years. Release date is 2010. Too little, too late. The optical challenge for major American car companies is that they appear to […]
AFK w/ Retroid on Pacific Front Sessions
1 PM PST with Retroid from Morphosis Recordings. More info available on the Pacific Front Sessions page.
AFK – Morphosis mix
making the case for intelligence in leadership
sunrise from yesterday morning I’ve given some thought to what has happened in Canada in the last month, and what is happening in the United States right now, both economically and politically. Boy, if you could have told me that I would be writing about economics and politics on my blog about 6 years ago, […]
Cruise Ship Responsibility
Looking at cruise ships the other day, and talking about them more recently over the dinner table, it got me thinking – where does Corporate Social Responsibility fit in with cruise ship companies? What could they possibly do? It is a business based on luxury, burning fuel, and buffet-style indulgence. People don’t go on cruises […]