1-year old using iPhone

This is bloody amazing:

(Saw it here.)

September 28, 2007 | Filed Under apple, design, marketing2.0, photo, technology | 2 Comments

Photo used in Schmap Vancouver

Just got this email letting me know this photo of mine with a CC license is being used in a map/guide to Vancouver. Cool!

Hi John,I am delighted to let you know that one of your photos witha Creative Commons license has been selected for inclusionin the newly released third edition of our Schmap VancouverGuide:Science WorldIf you like the guide and have a website, blog or personalpage, then please also check out our schmapplets -customizable widgetized versions of our Schmap VancouverGuide, complete with your published photo:http://www.schmap.com/schmapplets/p=18955080N00/c=SE28031505Please enjoy the guide!Best regards,Luke Ritchie,Managing Editor, Schmap Guides

August 8, 2007 | Filed Under personal, photo, web2.0 | Leave a Comment

Thumbs up, thumbs down: obligatory post-Jobs-keynote post

I want the new iMac.
I want the new iPhoto.
I want the new iMovie.
I want the new GarageBand.
I want the new Keynote.
I want the new Numbers.
I’m not really impressed with iWeb.
Not too sure about .Mac yet.
I don’t really have a need for Pages - Word is good.

Best new iPhoto feature
Better organization of photos. Events is just brilliant … we have 14,000 photos and they’re just a complete blur. Events makes sense, and it’ll be a major enhancements. I called my wife down for that chunk of the demo, and it passed her keenly tuned BS filters. She even said “cool” a few times.

Best new iMovie features
Movie library just like photo library: one of those things that is obvious after Apple does it. Creating a movie in minutes: very needed, and very awesome.

Still needed: easier podcasting
I still think Apple needs a better podcasting tool. GarageBand is not the obvious place to go for podcasting, and it’s still not super simple and easy there, AFAIK.

August 7, 2007 | Filed Under apple, marketing2.0, movies, music, photo, social media, technology | 3 Comments

Fun with photobooth

Ethan and Aidan were playing around with Photobooth, Apple’s fun picture-taking software that accompanies the newer iMacs and MacBooks with built-in cameras.

A couple of the results:

And one that they liked better:

The painting you see in the back? It’s Jeroen Vermeulen’s … their uncle (and my brother-in-law).

Tags: ethan, aidan, john koetsier, family, pix, photo

June 4, 2007 | Filed Under family, fun, personal, photo | Leave a Comment

jeroen.ca: art | life

My brother-in-law Jeroen Vermeulen is an amazing artist … one of his 8′ x 5′ paintings hangs in my dining room. Here’s a site that I recently put up for him:

More content to come, as per usual. We’ve only got his recent paintings up … nothing before January of this year. That’ll come with time, however. It was important to get this up as soon as possible as Jeroen just had a show in the Netherlands, and some of his paintings are going up for public display and sale here in Vancouver next week.

Enjoy!

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PS: Jeroen is pronounced yer-roon. It’s a Dutch name (as is mine, sort of) and Jeroen is originally from the Netherlands.

Tags: jeroen vermeulen, art, website, john koetsier

May 17, 2007 | Filed Under art, design, marketing2.0, personal, photo, social media, web2.0 | 1 Comment

My new baby

Yes, it’s a little off-topic … but I’m in love:

Tags: car, mini cooper s, mini, john koetsier, love

May 6, 2007 | Filed Under art, design, personal, photo, travel | 12 Comments

Easter egg clues …

This past Easter we, naturally, had an easter egg hunt. Each of the kids had a chance to hide the eggs and let the others find them.

And Gabrielle, being the creative girl she is, had to make it more interesting … with clues. Here they are …

Hrm …. in the library?

Outside?!?

This doesn’t sound too good for chocolate ….

OK, this one’s easy:

But I’m not sure I want to eat this egg:

Tags: easter, eggs, hunt, fun, kids, pictures, john koetsier, gabrielle

April 14, 2007 | Filed Under family, fun, kids, personal, photo | Leave a Comment

Kodak: Marketing with balls

Advertising this good deserves recognition:

This is marketing from people who have read the Cluetrain. This is marketing from people who give a damn. This is marketing from people who are having fun.

If all advertising was this good you wouldn’t need to skip commercials.

Tags: ad, advertising, kodak, kodak moment, guts, marketing, john koetsier

April 11, 2007 | Filed Under branding, business2.0, marketing2.0, photo, podcasts, social media, web2.0 | 4 Comments

Ever feel like the rabbit?

I just happened to stumble across this Steve Jurvetson photo of an ~~eagle eating a rabbit or some small rodent~~ hawk eating a vole.

Ouch! That is just nasty - predator and prey … both almost seeming to stare into the camera as one head disappears into the other. (Of course, this is probably taken with telephoto.)

I have, on occasion, felt like the ~~rabbit~~ vole. Not today, fortunately, and hopefully you don’t either.

Tags: eagle, rabbit, steve jurvetson, john koetsier

March 16, 2007 | Filed Under blogging, personal, photo | 1 Comment

Asheville North Carolina trip

Just came back from a conference in Asheville, NC … up in the Smoky Mountains. It was freezing cold … -10 Celcius with windchill … so I only got out of the hotel once, really, and took these shots as I wandered the town.

Click for a larger image of each: