Author Archives: dw

Plumbing and transferrable makerly skills

Posted on January 3, 2015 by dw

Regular readers may recall that I had water on my basement floor last month. And despite the necessary washing machine maintenance, the water leak culprit turned out to be this plastic drain pipe behind the furnace. It had been unknowingly … Continue reading →

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Hub Haps #013-Power tools on a shoot

Posted on December 31, 2014 by dw

That is to say, the tools of awesome photog Peter Power were on the job at The Hub last week. My good friend Tony Reinhart mentioned that Peter was coming by to do a shoot of Hub denizen Blue Rover … Continue reading →

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FLASH traffic—submit photo, get paid

Posted on December 30, 2014 by dw

Only 5 days left to submit your photo to our FLASH photo event. Deadline is Jan 4 at 11:59pm, but get it done early. Through generous sponsorship we’re able to pay a rental fee of $34 per photographer for the … Continue reading →

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Review photos. Get better.

Posted on December 19, 2014 by dw

Alex Marshall of George Briggs Media generously hosted our monthly 3rdThur photo review last night.  I gotta say this was the best venue yet since we started doing this back in March. Massive thanks, dude.  We had the biggest turnout … Continue reading →

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FLASH traffic—walk-thru in the venue

Posted on December 19, 2014 by dw

The FLASH photo shindig coming Jan 23 is going to be freakin’ awesome.  Am I biased? Hell ya, I am! The FLASH crew got into The Tannery Event Centre yesterday to test-drive the display and flow of the upcoming show … Continue reading →

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Hub Haps #012-merry making

Posted on December 19, 2014 by dw

Yanish Jutton holds some Communitech makery that is part of a project conceived by Sam Trieu. Make all the things, Hubsters!

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Demystifying the made world

Posted on December 18, 2014 by dw

This is not the hyperdrive on the Millennium Falcon. It’s the pump/motor/transmission on my washing machine. I got the shouted call from the basement last Sunday akin to “Houston, we have a problem” except worse: “Water on the floor, machine … Continue reading →

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FLASH traffic—posters up

Posted on December 17, 2014 by dw

Just pinned up this FLASH poster, fresh from the presses at Cober Solutions down on Strasburg Road in Kitchener. We needed some posters/postcards/stickers to help spread the word on FLASH and Tony reached out to Karl Allen-Muncey at Cober who … Continue reading →

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1shot-The car is king on Columbia Street

Posted on December 15, 2014 by dw

Students skirt a muddy bog into traffic where a sidewalk was to be built. In 2007. Now with the latest fixup completion date in 2017, this 150m gap for pedestrians and cyclists presents a daily gamble on the 2km route … Continue reading →

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1shot #204-The Canadian groove

Posted on December 12, 2014 by dw

I got a really strong stained glass vibe watching these skating shadows flicker across the ice last night. Winter isn’t really white: it is all the colours. On King Street, this is Uptown Waterloo. DW

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