“…I don’t understand why the courts are so resistant to social media. It’s true – print and other mediums are old technology. But I love how Twiiter, FB et al are dubbed “new” media. No. Its just media. This is it. It’s not new anymore. You don’t call a child in Grade 2 a newborn baby anymore, do you? This is the 21st Century. It’s time for the courts to catch up. In jargon at least.”
[Post about Canada's Chief Justice pitting my two fields of law + media against each other by stating law courts must learn to deal with the concept of including Twitter and FB in reporting.]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEXAJZ-y7A”
“…Choose your creativity adventure. We are genetically modified girls living in a genetically modified world. Are we making creative aspects using less than creative means, and realizing only a limited aspect of our own creativity?”
[Lamenting post about the automatic arts of photography, music and *gasp* possibly writing?]
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“…The story of Billy Bishop is a great one. But transferring a story does not mean a straight transfer of elements when transferring to a different medium.”
[Post about how I walked out of my first movie - a musical transported, not translated, to cinema.]
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by Keira
October 19, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrnB7c8Dvow&feature=fvwrel”
“…The crowd were in a trippy, juxtaposed time-warp. Each set brought an old-time familiarity [Purity Ring – childhood innocence, Com Truise – 80s montage, Neon Indian – old-school resonance] but this is music way ahead of its time. Each artist brought entirely different sounds to the system and to the norm in general; their groundbreaking beats uniting instead of dividing.”
[Review of Neon Indian gig w support acts Com Truise and Purity Ring @ Lee's Palace, Toronto, Canada - 18 October 2011.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/10/viva-la-electronica-trifecta-neon-indian-w-com-truise-purity-ring/
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by Keira
October 14, 2011
“…Not quite scandalous as scantily-clad, but PETA is at it again. Provocatively dressed female Pilgrim PETA volunteers handed out tofurkey in their eternal struggle bid to turn people vegan.”
[Outburst post about PETA's Canadian Thanksgiving campaign - sexy pilgrims giving out free tofurkey. Appeal factor? Only for the birds.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/10/boys-give-thanks-to-pilgrims-their-lucky-stars-and-peta-for-nudity/
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by Keira
September 16, 2011
“…really show[s] what makes the world go round. A bit o’ international cash, and riches in investment property.”
[Post about my first published articlesin Canada.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/09/when-the-only-interest-is-in-cash/
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by Keira
September 9, 2011
“…Mental incapacity and a stock-broker who saw Jesus Christ as the inspiration of choosing multi-million stock options for her prestigious clients – and was still deemed capable under the eyes of the law!”
[Post about my most recent article as a media delegate at a Canadian legal conference.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/09/when-law-goes-from-boring-to-ker-razy/
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by Keira
September 2, 2011
“…is my dismissal of PETA’s awareness tactic and .xxx site because it offends me as a woman? Actually it offends me as a buck-passing, finger-pointing, sheep-following, people-pleasing, guilt avoiding individual who happens to be female by making ppl feel guilty that not only are they viewing x rated material, they don’t care about animals.”
[Post about PETA using a .xxx site to convey their message of anti-cruelty to animals. Ah, I get it. I think.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/09/sexy-beasts/
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by Keira
August 26, 2011
“…Disturbing report that when kids were asked whether they read books, they answered only social media and text messages. Um. This is not reading. This is akin to saying you read every morning as you stare at the cereal box mindlessly munching. That is not a newspaper (though prob same nutritional value) – just as Twitter is not a book. ”
[Post about how kids are not reading books, but social media only.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/to-read-or-not-to-read-is-that-even-a-question/
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by Keira
August 19, 2011
“…And I thought kids who participated in these “Be a [insert debatably credible profession here] for a day” were meant to be gifted.”
[Post about an 11 y/o who was "mayor for a day" and named a street as Justin Bieber Way as her first point of business.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/mayor-despair/
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by Keira
August 12, 2011
“…He essentially removes his own human thought/feelings for the dead boy by transferring it to the polar bear.”
[Post about a strange quote from a father after his son witnessed his friend being mauled by a polar bear.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/nature-will-bear-the-closest-inspection-henry-david-thoreau/
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by Keira
August 11, 2011
“…The purported irony is outshining the initiative.”
[Post about unfortunate word coupling in a news release headline in Alberta, Canada.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/a-slave-to-irony/
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by Keira
August 5, 2011
“…In July, a convenience store [aptly named Quickie] experienced 40 teens rapidly bringing, not singing, chaos en masse to a public place after receiving a social media/text alert in typical flash mob stylez. Disappointed you missed it, or wish it was coming to a Mac’s/Shell/Esso/Coles near you? Don’t worry, it will be on Youtube.”
[Post about news articles chronicling newest trend flash rob, a step up from flash mob.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/flash-and-dash-more-like-mob-will-rob/
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