It is with *great* pleasure that i welcome a new Vu d’ici contributor, Bruno. Bruno has been quietly watching and contributing to the web here, and there.
His attempts of blogging on his own have been numerous, but a little on the side, so here i provide him with a listening audience for his views on the world and the web to be heard. As you’ll find out by yourself, Bruno always has a good eye on what’s going on in the wild web. So here he is, all for you pals!
*applause!*
m-c
Ponoko is an interesting new site that offers to make objects from your design. It’s also a market where you can sell either your design or the stuff you have made there.
“Armed with nothing more than an idea, professional and hobbiest designers, crafters, hackers and artists can turn their ideas into real products – and new revenue streams – using our web commerce and digital make-on-demand services. No upfront costs. No minimum orders. No inventory. Simply click to design, make, sell and deliver your creativity to the world, at your own speed.”
Nice pitch, but of course it’s a little more complicated than that. You have to design something, order it, have it sent to you, test it, change the design and hopefully they’ll be able to make something that works. Or you have to begin the whole process again and you don’t know the cost until you have submitted something, which I didn’t do.
The step by step explanations are very clear, though. The choice of materials is limited but interesting. Personally, I am intrigued by the potential of acrylic, especially to do colored lights like this one I found this week on the ideaco website .
Over all, it’s not yet the desktop universal fabricator from science fiction stories, but it’s a nice step in this direction. If you try Ponoko, please let us know about your experience.
Story by Bruno for Vu d’ici.
Posted: April 28th, 2008 | Author: Bruno | Filed under: Business, Design, web 2.0 | Tags: community, craft, crafter, fab, fabricator, ideaco, making, market, materials, ponoko, selling | No Comments »
A wonderfull resssource of veggy restaurants in your town. Here is the listing for
montreal’s best vegetarian restaurants – if you know a better listing, i’d like to see it!
Posted: April 28th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Restaurant review, Vegetarian lifestyle | No Comments »
* Mise à jour: un ajout de présentation a été fait, France D’Aragon, Artiste peintre et Animatrice en Art création ouvrira la table ronde sur la promotion.
Aussi, ayant seulement 2 heures dédiées à cet événement, nous débuterons avec les présentations à 13h pile, donc ne soyez pas en retard!
Le prochain Creacamp aura lieu le 3 Mai prochain de 13h à 15h, au 5369 Saint-Laurent #430, dans les locaux gracieusement prêtés par Station C.
Comme à l’habitude, cupcakes maison et rafraichissement seront fournis par vous tous, donc BYOF – bring your own food – si le coeur vous en dit!
Pour participer ou juste assister: vous pouvez laisser une commentaire sur cette entrée ou sur Facebook pour nous confirmer votre présence, sinon, au plaisir de vous voir le 3 mai!
Présentations de 10 minutes suivies de période de question:
Natasha St. Michael, artiste
The beaded art of Natasha St. Michael : I will give a slide lecture about my bead-woven art over the past 10 years: how and why I started using beads, the inspiration behind my work, how my ideas and art work evolved and life as an artist. Présentation en anglais.
Martine Pagé, scénariste
Blogue:
ni vu ni connu
Des mots et des outils : Utilisant comme exemple son projet de film documentaire, Martine fera une démonstration de “Scrivener”, un logiciel très utile pour celles qui travaillent avec les mots.
Meb, musicienne
Lors du premier Creacamp, Meb nous avait présenté ses collages vidéos. Elle nous parlera cette fois-ci de la progression de son travail de création au cours de la dernière année : l’accouchement de son disque, les étapes difficiles, et comment elle a surmontées ces dernières.
Présentations blitz: des créatrices nous présentent leurs projets embryonnaires
Dominique Plourde
Je veux un Rendez-vous : À la croisée des chemins (aussi connue sous le nom de crise de la quarantaine), je remets ma vie professionnelle en question et plonge lentement mais sûrement dans un projet de boutique en ligne d’objets uniques, faits à la main, par des québécoises. La boutique avec pignon sur une rue Montréalaise suivra, dans cinq ans… Voir ses photos
ici.
Valérie Parizeault,
Fanie Grégoire,
Pamela Desrosiers
Une nouvelle familia est en ville! : Présentation et survol de la Craft Mafia de Montréal.
Il reste de la place pour les présentations blitz, contactez-nous si vous seriez intéressée à partager un projet que vous avez en tête, ou un projet en cours: livre, bijoux, idées et concepts, tout les sujets sont bons!
Table ronde: Quels sont les meilleurs moyens pour diffuser sa création? 30 minutes
France D’Aragon, Artiste peintre et Animatrice en Art création viendra ouvrir cette table ronde.
Venez partager vos trucs, ou juste écouter ce que les autres ont à partager comme astuces pour promouvoir vos créations, sur le web (Etsy, les blogues, etc.), et sur la rue!
Et après?
N’oubliez pas d’apporter vos créations pour nous les montrer et peut-être trouver des acheteuses. Celles qui désirent échanger des cartes d’artistes ou enveloppes pour le projet 6×6, ça sera aussi le bon moment.
Creacamp se terminera à 15h, mais l’emplacement regorge de terrasses et cafés, alors celles qui désireront continuer à bavarder pourront le faire dans le très chic MileEnd… 
Posted: April 27th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Creacamp | No Comments »
I’ve been compulsively ordering books last week, one of them being this sparkling jewel, blessed with light and wisdom. Truth is, i only buy compulsively when i feel a lack of something in my life, see excitement and adventure. Well, this book does exactly provides both.
I am amazed at the power of one’s story to shine light over someone else’s life. As many others, i’ve made friend with this book, it should save my life until i reach my next holidays. For now, i’ll enjoy each moment spent in Elizabeth Gilbert’s good company.
Posted: April 24th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Inspiration | 2 Comments »
This sentence sounds a bit strange, doesn’t it? But in the near future it could be reality, at least for vegetarians who don’t eat meat in order to protest against industrialized mass-killing of animals, which is the sad reality of today’s meat production industry (40 billion animals are killed every year alone in the U.S.).
But since a while scientists around the world are researching to produce meat in the laboratory without killing animals. It’s called in-vitro meat production which uses a medium to grow meat. I guess it’s similar to growing plants. But you can imagine that the meat industry is not very thrilled by that idea and won’t support research in that field. That’s the reason why PETA (= People for the ethical treatment of animals) stepped in and are offering a 1$ million reward to the first scientists to produce and bring in-vitro meat to the market.
More info to that reward can be found on the web site of PETA.
I don’t know exactly what to think about it. On the one hand it sounds like a plausible and great idea, but on the other hand I don’t if we – as human beings – are going too far in that point: is an in-vitro grown meat alive? Does it hurt someone? I think these are ethical questions, but killing 40 billion animals… that’s definitely not ok either.
By the way I became a vegetarian because I cannot support the meat industry anymore. And I don’t even miss real meat because there are excellent tofu products available which mimic meat just perfectly.
Written by Chris Car for Vu d’ici. More banners on Peta2.com
Posted: April 23rd, 2008 | Author: chris car | Filed under: Food & cooking, Green log | 2 Comments »
Suite à la nouvelle concernant la mention d’honneur aux Webby pour le projet Citizenshift, quelques médias d’ici parlent de nous : Branchez-Vous et Lien Multimédia.
Pour les intéressés, les détails sur la création et le développement du projet via la plateforme Drupal sont disponibles ici.
Posted: April 23rd, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: meïdia | No Comments »
provides a
platform to comment, analyze and influence; where young women are given the opportunity to speak on their own behalf on issues that affect their lives and futures. Via
Mariannebanane.
Posted: April 23rd, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
a
restful place to stop by, for wisdom, and just be in the moment.
Posted: April 21st, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Blogs and people | No Comments »
Posted: April 21st, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Arts & Craft | No Comments »
regroupement Québecois pour le développement urbain rural et villageois viable.
À voir ici.
Posted: April 19th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Sustainability | No Comments »
Trop de gens l’ont oublié. Ralentissez, respirez, jouez!
Posted: April 19th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Daily thoughts, health & wellness | 1 Comment »
A german company invented a DVD which deletes its content in 48 hrs after playing it for the first time. That’s a stupid idea which just creates more waste on this planet, especially when a movie does not necessarily need any physical medium for its distribution anymore! If someone doesn’t have access to the internet, this person can still go and rent a movie! I don’t get it… (
via heise)
Posted: April 19th, 2008 | Author: chris car | Filed under: Green log | No Comments »
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