Author Archives: dw
Pop-up photo review success
Thursday night, I teamed up with some photog pals to do a quasi-impromptu photo review down at Imbibe. Result: success. I’ve wanted to get some critical feedback on my work for a few years and meeting up with the Foto:RE … Continue reading
Pop-up photo review/critique/discussion/something
Hey photog friends, Let’s get together this Thursday, March 20 at 7pm sharp at Imbibe, with one of your photos in hand and talk about it. I’m not sure what will happen, but there will be beer and at least … Continue reading
Pascal Dufaux–Christie Digital/CAFKA installation
Get down to the Kitchener Studio Project this Wednesday (tomorrow!) and check out my friend’s trippy installation. I caught up with Pascal Dufaux earlier in the week to talk about and photograph his latest piece The Cosmos In Which We … Continue reading
Imbibe-a-palooza–Open Jam
001: [plz give me the names in the comments below] Serendipity favours the engaged. I was late getting away from work on Thursday for Brother Night with Brohemus, so we didn’t get to Imbibe for a casual beer until 7pm. … Continue reading
Learning FPGA’s at kwartzlab
Catherine Holloway of kwartzlab coordinated a Verilog FPGA programming class on Saturday at the lab. I’ve always wanted to learn this stuff, occasionally driven by the limitations in I/O lines or speed that I’ve hit in some applications using Arduinos … Continue reading
Foto:RE photogs assemble and get meta in WR
Y’all know how I love to photograph photographers, and even more fun is to talk photography with them. And leveling up from there is to talk about how to create/extend a thing in our community that facilitates excellence/learning/sharing/collaboration around photography. … Continue reading
Making for the masses–a UW study kicks off
Professors Steve Quilley (above), Rob Gorbet, and Marcel O’Gorman, all of The University of Waterloo, have secured a small Metcalf Foundation grant to “study the impact of accessibility of ‘making’ technologies for ‘ordinary people’ on their sense of self(-worth) and … Continue reading
Repost: Metal Casting 101 Rocked!
Bringing back some old stuff from the deep web to support a new venture. This post was pre-kwartzlab, back when we were nomadic makers, building the community, under the temporary MakeKW banner. So cool to see the same spirit in … Continue reading
Nerd is the word in DTK-Nerd Nite KW
L to R – Eric Moon, Ryan Consell, Charlotte Armstrong I’ve been meaning to get to Nerd Nite KW for quite a while now, and finally succeeded on Wednesday night. I saw Nerd Nite boss Charlotte Armstrong give a talk … Continue reading
1shot #162-some days all you see is the fence…
DW