Social Mood Can Be Evident in Facial Expressions

My pre-riot gigapixel photo of the Game 7 Crowd of the 2011 Stanley Cup continues to garner so much attention by various individuals, companies and institutions. Most recently, it was used in a study by The Socionomics Institute which showed that through people’s facial expressions, the social mood of the crowd was predominantly negative. They …

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TEDGlobal 2013

Gigapixel.com was an exhibitor at TEDGlobal 2013. In 2011, I met Samuel Cox and invited him to Vancouver to have an exhibit of my gigapixel images using GigaLinc, an interactive user interface he developed which allows viewers to navigate and explore a gigapixel image in detail using Kinect-based hand-gestures, zooming in and out of areas …

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The Making of Paris 360°

While in Prague, I got in touch with a very close friend, Carmela Borgers, whose husband, Alain Borgers, was the General Manager of Shangri-la Hotel Paris. Since it was their last year in Paris before her husband gets re-assigned to another Shangri-la Hotel property, I asked if I could visit her and also shoot the …

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Prague 2013

I’ve always been intrigued and fascinated by Prague in the Czech Republic. Because it is the epitome of classic, elegant Europe, it has always been the #1 place for me to visit in Europe. After my tour of Germany, I spent 4 days in Prague and soaked in its rich culture, architecture and history – …

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Clauss Reseller’s Meeting

Being the exclusive distributor of Clauss Image and Data Technology GmbH in North America, I was invited to a reseller’s meeting planned for the last week of March at the company headquarters in Zwönitz, Germany. Morning in Zwönitz, Germany It was a very very long trip from Vancouver to Zwonitz: a 10 hr flight to …

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