Holiday Goodness

What do we all want for Christmas? Well, besides the usual wishes for Darth Vader cardboard cutouts the obvious answer is meaningful social change! Kiva, my personal favorite microfinance institution now has gift cards! Here's a link to Kiva's official info on the card and how to purchase it. If you are lacking holiday gift inspiration (or have an abundance of inspiration) then I recommend that you make someone special a social minded venture capitalist. If you have any questions about Kiva or microfinance please don't hesitate to shoot me an email...or follow that link and search around, but either way, alleviating poverty is the new black, it goes with everything.

Photoshop on the W/B

My only tie to doing any concrete creative work lately has been taking pictures with my DSLR and photoshopping them beyond recognition. There's a lot of adjusting colors and whatnot. And lately I've been drawn toward slapping a word on top of the photo in a bold font with a bright color so it pops off the page. I'm pretty pleased with the results, but I think it might just be a reflection of LOL Cats in a pool of mountain life. Let's hope not.

The Great White North

So I've decided to keep up with this blog again. It's been a good long time since Prague and my European travels and it seems like an eternity since school ended and I was doing academic work on a regular basis. Living in Pemberton is also much more interesting than floundering in Tacoma waiting for something to happen.

Whistler Blackcomb has received a ridiculous amount of snow this year so far and it's looking to be a truly epic season. I know that I tend to use the word "epic" a lot, but consider this. November was the snowiest month on record, not just for Novembers past, but for any month in the last 30 years. The ski area opened about two weeks early. So I do believe that "epic" is in no way an exaggeration.

It's currently raining however, and I'm scheduled to work at 1:00 this afternoon, so I'll be taking the morning off and enjoying a delicious Canadiano...or two. And just for your information a Canadiano is a latte flavored with maple syrup, it's simply really good.