Experience Life! magazine has some thoughtful advice on how to create more “slow media” time in your life. Article here. http://www.experiencelifemag.com/issues/october-2010/life-wisdom/caught-in-the-web.php
Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
Jason Pugatch urges us to find a stable role in our educational system for arts education and quotes the Fast Company article “The Most Important Leadership Quality for CEOs? Creativity” 
“You need help to leap barriers to keep growing…” Read more: here
The Giantess
Of old when Nature, in her verve defiant,
Conceived each day some birth of monstrous mien,
I would have lived near some young female giant
Like a voluptuous cat beside a queen;
To see her body flowering with her soul
Freely develop in her mighty games,
And in the mists that through her gaze would roll
Guess that her heart was hatching sombre flames;
To roam her mighty contours as I please,
Ramp on the cliff of her tremendous knees,
And in the solstice, when the suns that kill
Make her stretch out across the land and rest,
To sleep beneath the shadow of her breast
Like a hushed village underneath a hill.
— Roy Campbell, Poems of Baudelaire (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952)
Video Making 101 dates annouced…
WHEN: August 31-September 2 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm each day. WHERE: Sullivan Elementary School at 6016-152 Street in beautiful Surrey, BC. WHO: Presented by Learning Through the Arts®, from The Royal Conservatory. DIRECTOR: Deanne Esdale PRODUCER: Eden Philp
TO REGISTER [Registration includes access to a full lab and video-making equipment, an extensive handbook with how-to’s and media arts lesson plans and lunches.] FLIER HERE | 1-888-408-LTTA | ltta@rcmusic.ca
Bring Curriculum to Life with Digital Media is a workshop I’ll be delivering tomorrow at the 2010 Surrey Teachers Association Convention, themed “Learning through Helping.” Looks to be a great event, with a keynote by Champion for Literacy/Advocate for children writer David Bouchard and a couple hundred teachers getting jazzed with professional development. I have made a lesson plan that involves a photo walk outdoors in order to make digital stories on the topic “How to Be a Steward of the Earth.” These dew-tipped grasses offer some inspiration – of a fragile tenaciousness.
My session is FULL. Cool.
Tammra Green, host of Living Proof Nutrition on Spirit Quest Radio, interviews me tomorrow night. Tune in!
Deanne Esdale, founder of Texture Media, is interested in how the collections of incidents in our lives come together as narratives that hold meaning. A documentary filmmaker, a facilitator, and an energy and bodyworker, Deanne helps to change the energy of your stories to make room for renewal.
Deanne is one of my favourite humans in the whole wide world.
Aw, thanks Tamm!
Excited to be updating this soon with new footage! Visit again soon :)
