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May 19th, 2012 | Blog, Garden Day, Progress, The DS Crew and How We Do | Nezua | No CommentsThe True Exploits of the Self-Admittedly Meditative and Deliberate.
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new season, new spring
April 30th, 2012 | Blog, Garden Day, Progress, The DS Crew and How We Do | Nezua | No Commentsand now i’m passing under the cool shadow of broad, waxy, green leaves…dancing between pockets of dark and rays of golden sunshine. i’m feeling the volcanic heat dazzling down from above as i munch on a mango slice, juice splashing forth and running down my neck. i’m smiling to find a fresh avocado in my hand as the burning sun sinks in the distance. all this heat, all this color!
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Everything Good Stays With You: The 2011 Annual Digital Stoneworks Summit in Vancouver, BC
December 7th, 2011 | Blog | Nezua | No CommentsAn 18 minute documentary on the 2001 Annual Digital Stoneworks 2011 Summit in Vancouver, BC.
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The Pelican
September 1st, 2011 | Blog, Natural World | Hana | 1 CommentThe pelican could not believe his good fortune. Fish were being tossed into the air from a boat whenever he flew nearby. Being a deeply pragmatic bird he didn’t ask himself why this might be the case. Rather, he concentrated on the precision and timing of his flybys.
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The View from Highest Mountain in Spain
August 25th, 2011 | Blog, Natural World | Dantae | No CommentsThe Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo. What a stunningly beautiful world we live in. This video, shot by TSO Photography, is a time-lapse film shot on El Teide, a volcano on Tenerife, Canary Islands. Watching it definitely made me want to get out of the office and go climb a mountain.
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The Architecture of Bird Nests
August 23rd, 2011 | Blog, Garden Day, Natural World | Hana | No CommentsSlate.com last week featured a rather nice slide show highlighting the architectural abilities of various bird species around the world. Here we see the nest of a hummingbird. Hummingbirds tend to be rather fond of silk, which they frequently incorporate into their nests to create rather spiffy digs. Where do they get the silk? They [...]
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An Unexpected Meeting Participant
March 9th, 2011 | Blog, Garden Day, Natural World | Dantae | 2 CommentsHere are a few pictures I took of an Anna’s hummingbird that dropped by the office during a conference call yesterday. The visit may have been a bit distracting, but it was more than welcome. The flowers were chosen specifically for their ability to attract hummingbirds. I was glad to see that they were doing their jobs!
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Crafting the Story of Hana The Dragonfly
February 25th, 2011 | Blog, Characters, Garden Day, Natural World, Progress | Vincent | No CommentsThere’s a whole bunch of work that goes into crafting a high-quality game. After we develop the concepts of a game, we get directly into the storytelling. For example, for each of the characters in our games we conceive and write character studies or backstories. At this moment, I am working on Hana, our Dragonfly [...]
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Flight of the Hummingbird
February 24th, 2011 | Blog, Natural World | Dantae | No CommentsThere are quite a few hummingbirds that hang out around the office. Previously I thought that for the most part hummingbirds migrated southwards during the winter months, and for the most part they do. These hummingbirds, however, have stuck around. And why not? The weather is quite mild which means there’s still plenty of food to fuel their ridiculous metabolism.
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Thinking About The Silk Road
February 11th, 2011 | Blog, Portfolio | Vincent | 3 CommentsDATELINE: 2011/02/11 — Amman, Jordan — I have been greatly intrigued by the development of Islam and Muslim culture on the Silk Road. The diversity of Muslim culture and its impact on civilization is one of the many important stories we might explore in our game Silk Road Merchant. Islam is the faith of the majority of people in the countries along the old Silk Road. Over the course of history, many faiths practiced on Silk Road from the Middle East to northwestern China gave way to the spread of Islam.
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Website Welcome and Wallpapers
February 1st, 2011 | Blog | Kai | 3 CommentsHola! Nǐ Hǎo! Shalom! Hello! As should be obvious from our rather exuberant, freshly unveiled website, we are Digital Stoneworks. That is to say, we are four fellas with a fortuitous spectrum of skills who have come together through fate, or serendipity, or happenstance, to join up on this unexpected journey.
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Lessons in Urban Farming
February 1st, 2011 | Blog, Building Community, Urban Farming | Kai | No CommentsLast week I attended a community dialogue featuring Will Allen of Growing Power, hosted by the Simon Fraser University Centre for Dialogue as part of their two-year project Planning Cities as if Food Matters. Allen spoke in a 700-seat auditorium packed to standing room only, with people sitting on the ground in the aisles and [...]
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New Seedlings
January 30th, 2011 | Blog, Gardening | Dantae | No CommentsThese are three day old eggplant seedlings. They were the third group of plants to sprout in the new garden that seems to be finding its way into being on the patio. A few days ahead of the eggplant were the leeks and chives, still indistinguishable from each other at this early stage in their development.
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Garden Day – Introducing Bija
January 28th, 2011 | Blog, Characters, Garden Day | Vincent | No CommentsMeet Bija. “This 8 year old girl is quite a handful!” Little Bija, standing tall for her age with bushy black hair and bright curious brown eyes, is highly active and energetic. So much so that her teachers, while marveling at her innate intelligence and surprising athletic ability, lament her mischievousness nature that frequently lands her in trouble.
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Community Dialogue with Will Allen
January 27th, 2011 | Blog, Urban Farming | Kai | No CommentsThat’s Will Allen, former ABA basketball player and current community gardening visionary whose Milwaukee-based company Growing Power is leading the charge in the urban farming movement. He’s here in Vancouver and I’m excited to be attending a community dialogue with him tonight on “supporting low income and small family farmers and bringing healthy, affordable food [...]
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