June 2008 archives

Naked Hippies On Bicycles

June 29, 2008 by Ian MacKenzie
A few week’s ago, I covered the Vancouver Naked Bike Ride. It was an enlightening experience: Aside from the great interviews, I was struck by the following observations: naked people are bizarre for about 10 minutes, then it becomes so normal you barely notice there’s something very beautiful about complete inhibition to social code looking [...]

Ask Ian! Answers To Your Freelance Questions

June 25, 2008 by Ian MacKenzie
My interview in the mega-popular blog Freelance Switch came out recently. Here’s a little excerpt: Want to turn your personal interests into a booming career? That’s what Ian MacKenzie had in mind when he started his career as a new media producer. A jack-of-all-trades, Ian recently finished producing the web series OneWeekJob.com, where a friend [...]

Do Films Like ‘Children of Men’ Warn Us Of Alternative Futures?

June 16, 2008 by Ian MacKenzie
Last year, while watching Children of Men in the theatre, I remember feeling a slight twinge of deja vu. It wasn’t the personal type that makes you wonder if you’ve dreamt a certain experience that actually came true. Rather, it was the unshakable dread that here, on screen, was a bleak vision of a future [...]

Paperclip Guy Can Also Cut Grass

June 9, 2008 by Ian MacKenzie
In a perfect world, everyone would have to cut their grass with blunt, rusty, old-school, mechanical lawn mowers like this one.

Aldous Huxley: Don’t Mistake The Trickle For Ultimate Reality

June 3, 2008 by Ian MacKenzie
You are more than the mind occupying your body. In fact, you have a tenuous connection with your Higher Self, a part of you that is connected to the rest of the universe. It’s a common thread weaving through much spiritual literature. Some call it by different names, such as the Soul, the Buddha-Nature, or [...]