Production/Communication/Multimedia

How to Build a Fire Queer Sans Fin Convergence Jan 8 in Montreal!

How to Build a Fire Queer Sans Fin Convergence Jan 8 in Montreal!

I am ever so excited to be able to bring How to Build A Fire to Montreal this weekend! How to Build a Fire Queer Sans Fin Convergence When: Saturday Jan 8, 2011  What: Workshops [Free] Noon-6pm, Performance [$10] 9-11p Where: Mise au Jeu, 90 de la Gauchetière Est. Montrèal Who: Damien Luxe and Heather [...]

Print Design! Layout Software that doesn’t cost more than your rent

Print Design! Layout Software that doesn’t cost more than your rent

I love print design, and I’ve been at it for years; first my making zines in the 90′s and next by making newspapers, magazines and promotional media over the last ten years. So it makes sense that people ask me for tips and recommendations regularly. Some examples are this page from Femme2010 program, and my [...]

Postcards and the Art of Image Maintenance

Postcards and the Art of Image Maintenance

I’ve been up late these past few weeks, getting ready for Femme Pride Week, and working on media for the US Social Forum, where I’m teaching a DIY New Media workshop with Sarah Jenny, and Femme2010, the amazing femme conference that I’m Co-Media Chair of this year. Part of my favorite media strategy has always [...]

Images: Print vs. Web, an explanation, instructions + resources

I love it when my talented friends send me fabulous pictures as proof of our magical lives on the interweb. It makes me feel grounded. BUT – beauty as those pics are, they aren’t always great for printing when it comes times to make postcards or send images to people for printing in their magazines, [...]

Webpages 2: My Friend Made My Site But Now…a Choose Your Own Updating Adventure

So your friend is super awesome and made your site a few years ago. You now have made more art or have new pics or got some great press etc. and want your site to reflect that…but your friend is Living On The Land and no longer does websites or perhaps is cray busy still [...]

Buying A Video Camera

Buying a video camera might seem like a simple task, perhaps because you haven’t attempted to do it recently, or maybe you live in a world where video cameras are an oft-discussed item. For the rest of us — hearty DIY people who would like to purchase a video camera who are not independently wealthy [...]

Webpages I: Getting A Name

So you want a webpage, or maybe you want to be like me and have six plus some blogs [see blogroll]. Either way, you have to start with your web name! This covers basics like getting a domain name [your URL], what the heck you do to make it work … and what you do [...]

How To Build a Fire – back story

How To Build a Fire – back story

How To Build A Fire, the queer multimedia performance/teaching tour with Heather Acs, Silas Howard and Leah Lakshmi I’m working on for Spring 2010 is exciting for several very specific reasons: Silas, Heather and Leah are all really talented in different arenas so we make up a really interesting teaching team – covering theatre, writing, [...]

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