Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the 2nd annual Failure Wake held by SFU’s “social innovation lab” known as Radius. I’ve become increasingly aware of developments there through several projects I’ve worked on with some of the faculty at Beedie School of Business including visual summaries and animations. I’ve been impressed by their “RADIcal ideas … Continue reading Learning to fail
A little bit about a recently completed whiteboard animation project using Videoscribe. I recently wrapped production of a new whiteboard animation with collaborator, and illustrator extraordinaire Sarah Menard. The project we took on was a promotional piece for an academic work by prof. Martin Scott, working with David Girling from The School of International Development at UEA. Sarah and I are … Continue reading Whiteboard animation for International Development
Well it’s been three years of DS106radio already. I’d say things are still going pretty strong, although there have been very few *new* recruits lately… Some needs to get on that! It’s nice to make your own cards.
Compiling a few media artifacts from (one of) my summer vacation(s) this year, the Whitehorse -> Dawson City sojourn, I had to share this sweet timelapse video I created from the RV drive up. I was travelling with my sis and her family, to check out the Dawson City Music Festival, and if you don’t … Continue reading Dawson City Road trip w/ timelapse and maps
Sunflower seed project – Harvest time from jason toal on Vimeo. It’s September! And for may Sunflower growers its time to start preparing to harvest your seeds. For those of you that took part in the seed sharing project this spring, I hope you have been successful growing this year, and will consider harvesting your … Continue reading Sunflower seed sharing —> Harvest
This past weekend was the 9th annual Northern Voice conference, June 14 – 15, 2013 which was being held at H. R. MacMillan Space Centre / Museum of Vancouver (the above photo was added as a link in my post to the instagram page using this technique) I wanted to publish some reflections and since I’ve been so busy making … Continue reading NV13 Northernvoice 2013 – some sketches
I’m sort of starting from the ground up on this site. I have a new host ( yay hippies! ) and have an updated version of wordpress with no plugins. Taking a page from the @dlnorman playbook my intention is to be more self sufficient here, and rely less on third part services. My first challenge will be … Continue reading First post of sorts – A sketchnote on Liberating Structures
A quick animated gif of my research which the use of pennies as a slug deterrent actually works! The older the penny, the greater the copper content it seems which seems to be the secret to chasing away those little bastards. I made rings of pennies as my counter measures last year, but of course … Continue reading Slug bait
Taraxacum officinale from jason toal on Vimeo. I’ve been having a great time tinkering with McLaren’s Workshop app this week, and am already considering ways it may be used as a teaching tool, as well as a simple maker of art (for some odd reason). I thought I would jump in on the Vancouver Draw Down Daily Draw … Continue reading Taraxacum officinale animation