Confession: I have wanted to write a book for as long as I can remember. This ambition embarrasses me – for its ridiculousness, its vagueness, its total lack of a roadmap, its audacity. For the sheer weight of it. For its unlikeliness – people are reading less and less, the world is already overflowing with…
The Gnar of Revelstoke
Due to solar storms and planetary alignment, I somehow hit Revelstoke on assignment for SBC Skier magazine on G.N.A.R day. My “welcome to Revy” banner was unfurled as I waited for our crew by the Revelation gondola: guys in smoking jackets, puffing on cigars, dragging a BBQ across the snow. (That was a #9 move…
The Girl Effect
Women make groups smarter. That’s the Big Reveal from latest research on collective intelligence. (And yes, it’s so radical it even makes the researchers uncomfortable.) History has shown that great innovation happens in groups. But curiously, great groups don’t arise simply by filling the room with talented individuals. What do you hear about great groups? Not…
Happy Place
My friend Ange said, “Where have you been most happy?” She’s a creativity coach starting her own consulting company, so I let her experiment on me. (It didn’t hurt a bit. She promised it wouldn’t.) I took her crayons and pushed aside my self-consciousness to scribble tragic little stick men on the butcher’s paper she…
How to Change the World in 5 Easy Steps with Balding for Dollars’ founder Dave Clark
Dave Clark is the organiser behind some of Whistler’s most significant fundraising events – the Balding for Dollars bash, the Dusty BBQ Championships Tasting Series, SWELL and the Whistler Half Marathon. I interviewed him recently for an article about the sold-out-in-record-time Whistler Half Marathon and we got a little side-tracked. Here’s what I learned about Accidental Awesomeness…
The Lifers are Going Heliskiing!
Fist-pump.
Vote to Send Whistler’s Lifers Heliskiing
I’ve worked with most of the photographers who entered Whistler Blackcomb’s Deep Winter Photo Challenge and like and respect them all. So I wasn’t going to vote in the People’s Choice for Deep Winter. I hate giving my email to enter random contests. Everyone put on amazing shows. I was happy that Robin O’Neill won,…
Deep Winter VI, the recap
UPDATE Jan 17, Robin O’Neill’s winning show: Robin O’Neill – Deep Winter 2012 Winning Slideshow from Robin O'Neill on Vimeo. On timing. (In which we argue that Deep Winter 2012 was a display of both exquisitely good and bad timing.) Deep Winter Photo Challenge returned last night, the cultural highlight of the New Year. It couldn’t…
How to Make Something Awesome: Lessons on the Creative Process
I posted this 3 months ago at the Origin Design and Communications’ blog, but I’m still marinating in this easy 5 step process on how to make something awesome, as gleaned for a feature I wrote for SBC Skier from a one-on-one with Sherpas Cinema’s Dave Mossop. All.I.Can. Official Teaser from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo. 1….
Poem a Day: the continuing case for a daily practice. Even if you suck.
A few years ago, as a New Year’s resolution, I decided to write one poem a day. I was inspired by my grandfather, who, at 92, would jot down a few notes every day in his dayplanner about what had happened that day, even though from where anybody else was sitting not much was happening…
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