A graduate of New York’s American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Fairlith has been directing, writing, and performing professionally for fifteen years. Her work focuses on voices and perspectives that have been suppressed, in a fun and approachable way. Fairlith is the mind behind benchmark Vancouver immersive productions, Slumber Here and Alice in Glitterland and is …
Brandon designs software algorithms that accelerate well-being. Having engineered a technology that helps him address his own chronic pain, he’s created U4Ea, a company focused on helping people fight the world’s number one killer, stress. Now a pioneer in the digital-sound well-being industry, Brandon is applying his methods to assist others in spreading well-being through …
Time moves strangely when you’re stuck in the house. We’ve been self quarantining for the last four days, and for a few days before that only I was going out, and the shift has had me thinking about priorities. In throwing metaphorical meditative mind darts at the bullseye of Ikigai in this current scenario, I …
Vancouver based and locally owned hosting company EZP has sponsored a server for the EMLx / Banging Rocks COVID-19 team. This dedicated server will allow the team to aggregate data, collect and write code for analysis, and collaborate with other teams. Our thanks for their speedy and generous support!
Banging Rocks is partnering with the UBC Emerging Media Lab’s EMLx program to form a volunteer team assisting in the global effort to coordinate and analyze data and computational efforts aimed at alleviating the impact of COVID-19. We’re seeking people who think their time and skills might be useful in working to those ends. Chances …
The first gathering I attended after forming Banging Rocks was surreal. The basic theme of the evening was monetization of mobile games – I’d been to talks on similar themes before, discussing optimization of User Experience (UX). Where this one diverged was when they pulled up a chart of the Seven Deadly Sins and began …
I first met Leah Murray when we were participating BC Alliance For Arts + Culture’s Digital Ladders program last year. We hit it off quickly, both sharing a love of creating tech based art and passed the time on a skytrain commute sharing stories from our varied nerdoms. When she invited me to participate in …
Networking events are weird. You look up from your phone, your cheeks full of cheese cubes. A man in a turtleneck sweater and spectacles shifts from foot to foot in front of you. He doesn’t know what to ask you. He doesn’t want to make small talk. You had been playing Angry Birds. “So what …
There’s lots of ways to frame what I’m trying to do with Banging Rocks. Tonight I’m focusing on privilege. I have two streams of privilege. Stream One: I’m a white cis hetero male with a good education and a flexible job from an undivided, accepting and moderately affluent home whose neurodiversity gets pegged as some …
“I know! I’ll print sample pages and storyboard what moments would look like and put them up around the room, with an explanation of the project. At this point it’s either that or head for the hills, as there’s no way the demo is going to work!” It was T minus 7 or so hours …
The Open House Roller Coaster: Laggy laptops and the power of pianos. Read More »