We all know that the Internet and social networking are doing their best to change the way that we view the world. Different little things during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics have been caught on the Robot Salmon teams radar; An official Facebook pin was too cool to not talk about! It seems crazy that a social network can infiltrate such an iconic little thing as an olympic pin.
As a web designer I don’t have a ton of extra peripheral tools to plug into my Mac Book Pro. Just the usual effects – good headphones for a long day, external hard drive for all that extra data (think iTunes!) but for the last year or so I’ve been using a great tool for all of my design work, the Intous 4 Medium from Wacom. Wacom is the main offender in the tablet world, all they do is tablets and tablet accessories. They offer a full range of tablets with a wide range of prices starting with the Bamboo (less than $100 for the base model) series which is for casual use and ending with the monstrous Cintiq 21UX ($2000+ for the top model) which is a full backlit LCD monitor that you can draw directly on to. The Intous 4 series falls right in the middle of Cintiq and Bamboo and for me, it is perfect.
Random Drumming Guy
This dude was rocking out on his djembe hand drum. It was crazy cool. He had close to 50 people watching him drum and a butt load of people dancing. Everyone is having a great time on Granville street during the Olympics.
The party seems to start around 8:00pm when the hockey [...]
So when I walk home from working all day at the Alberta House Olympic venue at 1:00 am I’m greeted with crazy fun times on Granville. I’ve been recording with my iPhone some of the cool things that I have seen. I will be posting them as much as I can.
Here is a video of [...]
It is a little known fact that Robot Salmon author D.O.G. ’s sister is big deal in the art world. Aside from heading up her own sculpture department at Yale University, Jessica Stockholder, ex-Vancouverite and U-Vic grad, has shown her work in countless European and North American countries over her three decade long art career. [...]
As a Web Design Student and a new media enthusiast I am hitting the streets of Vancouver to take in the sites and experience all of the amazing Interactive Media installations that are up for the Olympics. The” Digital Gateway” is one of the world’s longest interactive walls. You can find it downtown, beside the recently facelifted skating rink at Robson Square.
I will be the first to admit that I was not a huge fan of the Olympics taking over our city, in fact I was one of the locals that seriously considered heading out on vacation to avoid the “Olympic madness” that everyone anticipated taking over Vancouver.
But as a Vancouver Web Design student with a passion for new media and interactive design, my mind is being blown every time I turn around. The ground breaking installations and interactive art that are being featured all around the city should put Vancouver on the map when it comes to interactive design innovation.
Kris Krug is a man who wears many hats; the quintessential jack of all trades. He is equally well known for his work as a fashion and street photographer as he is for his work with Social Media. He is an innovator, a maverick, a TED talker, a shameless self promoter, and one of the [...]
Once again No Code and Duder bring you an entertaining window from behind the scenes at Robot Salmon head quarters. Web designers by day, and aspiring You Tube video makers in their spare time… because we have so much of it
As web design students we love it when we have the chance to actually sink our teeth into a project, and “design” a website to our hearts content. The Interactive Design program at Capilano University shares it’s home in the Arbutus building on campus with another well know design program, the 3 year IDEA program. We have always been curious about what goes on with all those design students plunked in-front of their iMacs all day and night in the IDEA studio. So we took the opportunity to meet a few of our neighbors and we even recorded it for you to watch.
