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About
I’m Brian Fitzgerald, and I lead the campaign-winning and (multiple) webby-award-winning digital communications team at Greenpeace International. This blog is (mostly) a glimpse behind the scenes at Greenpeace and a repository for lessons learned and experiments in online activism and social media. It will also occasionally mention iPhones and bicycles. I am a digital hippy. I believe that Planet Earth is evolving a mammalian brain, and that the internet is knitting the neural cortex. We are the synaptic nerves that constitute its conscience.
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Category Archives: Photography
Skating on the Ijsselmeer
Skating on the Ijsselmeer Originally uploaded by Brianfit One downside of living in Holland is the near-absence of Nature. But being out on a frozen lake that stretches for miles on a crisp, sunny day can make you forget details like the fact that the lake itself was hand-crafted as a works project in the 30s. …
It takes a village…
I use Photoshop Elements to catalogue, arrange, and manage my digital library of 20,000 snapshots of my children around xmas trees and in birthday hats. For the most part, it’s love-it and hate-it software. It does some things astoundingly great — its tagging and advanced cataloguing functions are ace, and it’s better than a …
Flickr DNA
I was looking for Veerle Pieter’s blog about designing the Greenmyapple site on Saturday and my search on “Veerle Pieters Greenmyapple” stumbled upon my own Flickr DNA page — something I didn’t know existed.Flickr DNA just does a great job of aggregating everything that Flickr knows about you: who your friends are, what your favorite …
How to geotag and map the work of the prophetic lyricist poet graffiti artist of Amsterdam
I went hunting on my bicycle the other day. Armed with only my Sony P900 cellphone and its rather silly built in camera, I was on the trail of Laser 3.14. Anyone who lives in Amsterdam has seen his work. “Nimrod Built Babel“ “A woman should bloom“ “Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence …
Geocoding Flickr photos & other idle occupations
Stretchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Today is a holiday in the Netherlands and I took the day off (well, most of the day, there was a story on GE Papaya and what it has done to the Hawaiian papaya market to post.) Other than that, a day of playing with the boys and pursuing idle thoughts and interests: –I …
Italian pix
Here’s a slideshow of our trip to Italy. I used one of Photoshop’s prepackaged slideshow gizmos for this and it’s unspeakably awful. Apologies for that, I’ll try to improve the presentation with my favorite widget for this stuff, Slideshow Pro, when I get a chance.
Better pictures through social software
Well I think this is just too cool. I posted a picture at Flickr and got feedback from Lisa (“I’ve got a Canon EOS”) Kitson about how I might improve it: Crop the top, convert to black and white. Damn. Snapshot turns into a piece of art. This is a new experience for me — putting …
