Stress

Wood grows with character through a number of ways under stress. Trees have a deep rooted history of truth which shares many tales of the past. Rubenovitch Furnishings & Co. is focused on revealing stories within trees that can act as inspiration in our lives. Trees are resilient organisms and we embody our works to focus on sharing and creating …

Sea To Sky Summit

Michelle from the Sea to Sky Start up and Vancouver Startup put together an amazing event last week. The jam packed day featured approx. 25 speakers with 2 panels speaking on various social businesses and sectors in the entrepreneurship, self, healing and consciousness field. The mix of participants provided a refreshing and eye opening from many of the more metaphysical based workshops …

Wallstreet

I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel Wall from Wall Street Woodworks. He was kind enough to show me around his wood-shops and land. We quickly connected with our mutual passions for woodworking and spalting and approaches to life.   Password: wallstreet Daniel is a retired long time Squamish local. He has been here long enough that he humbly got …

Social Venture Challenge Pitch Coverage

It was a pleasure to share my pitch  last week at the Squamish Lil Wat Cultural centre and participate in the Social Venture Challenge over the last 2 months. The SVC is a mentorship based social community building program created by the Whistler centre of Sustainability that encourages growth to create new social ventures in the Sea to Sky Corridor. The workshops …

Woodswimmer

We love wood. Textures, figure, colors, stress, burns, scars, spalt, burls, knots, species, destiny, durability, hardiness, decay and life. Wood holds so much character. Woodswimmer is a stop motion film that takes a look into the milling and inner dimension of some character woods. More details http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/06/woodswimmer-stop-motion-film/  -via www.Squamish.com

Dissapearing Dialogues -Nature

My Disappearing Dialogues research takes a look into the culture of Maiher region to see what “dialogues” are disappearing. The Disappearing Dialogues program intention is to bring attention to the dialogues that are disappearing and connect them to our environment, culture/heritage and the indigenous community. In this post, I share a sample of where part of the inspiration came from …