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A blast from the past! Weird Al Yankovic is playing tonight and tomorrow night at the Red Robinson Casino in Coquitlam. I haven’t heard about this guy in a while… but I’m sure it would be fun to hear some of his classics. 

So weird he get’s two nights to perform… LOL.

Shows start at 8pm

Below is a video from his concert last night in Victoria BC

Found this video of Jack Johnson at UBC from last night! Not the best but you can still see what the atmosphere was like

 Christ Rock is coming to town next week! I am quite excited about this show, if you haven’t seen Chris live then I highly suggest getting some tickets! He will be doing two shows at the The Orpheum Theatre on August 24th and 25tth.

Ticketmaster is your best bet with tickets 

Hey all you Jack Johnson fans! Don’t forget that tonight he is playing UBC Thunderbird Stadium.

Tickets are still available at Ticketmaster

Yesterday I headed up to Whistler to lay my eyes on some of the world’s best Mountain Bikers.
This is by far Whistler’s biggest summer event, with sponsors lining up the village and people’s shocked faces as they witness riders huck themselves off huge dirt jumps and wooden ramps. 

This event was Whistler’s first project with Mobile Muse. I was asked to go up and document the project. So what was their project?? Well for the Garbanzo Downhill and Jeam Beam Air events a few people were chosen to stream from  cell phones to the jumbotron below in the village.

This was a really cool way to have user generated content be involved in the overall end production below in the village. Cell users went around the event streaming the riders from the top of the race, all along the track and down in the village. This worked extremely well and people felt more interaction with the event and gained more interest in what was going on.

I realized how useful this technology would be for the upcoming 2010 Olympics.
Millions upon millions of user generated content is created during the Olympics and kept online but not broadcasted for others to see on TV or basic coverage.

Anyway,  everything went very well and the weather was amazing!

Here are some Photos from the day:

Also ran into a bear!

August 16th is almost here! Everyone head up to Whistler because it’s Canada’s 1st Annual Cheese Rolling Contest!

So what the heck is a cheese rolling contest?

An 11 Ib cheese wheel is thrown down a hill and everyone who sign up chases it down a steep hill. On the way down, racers lose their footing and end up tumbling, rolling, sliding and bumping down. This is just straight up funny to watch. The first person to get down the hill to the finish line wins the race and the cheese.

BC’s lucky to have so many awesome cheesemakers and many of them are coming to the festival this weekend in Whistler. They’ll be providing free samples of all kinds of different cheeses.

You can check out the website here: http://www.canadiancheeserolling.ca

Fearless Cities first project with Mobile Muse was presented at Car Free Day 2008 on Commercial Drive in Vancouver BC. A bike and a car were outfitted with Nokia 95 phones. They streamed each experience as they moved throughout Vancouver. The streams were screened live to the Fearless booth on the drive. Along with the live streaming were live GPS maps to show the location of the bike and Car. Take a look  at the Video and see the highlights of the project.

You can also learn more about Fealress City at mobile.fearlesscity.ca

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