Boston, via Instagram

Last month I took a trip to Boston to visit my brother, who's doing his MBA at Harvard. Boston is a quick 1.5 hour flight from Toronto's downtown airport. Harvard has a stunning campus with manicured lawns and exceptionally smart-looking people shuffling from building to building. I spent most of my time in Cambridge, where Harvard is located, but also took a quick jaunt downtown to see some historical sights.

From top to bottom, left to right: Spangler Center at Harvard Business School, an iconic Harvard bridge, the cemetery where Paul Revere and John Hancock are buried in downtown Boston, the dining room in the Spangler Center, a charming lad wearing B.C. hydro sunglasses and a charming couple.

A Series of Sunsets

I've been fortunate enough to spend the last two months living in Vancouver. The city inspires me in a way that others don't. Its natural beauty makes my heart race. I've been even more fortunate to spend time at my parents' home in West Vancouver, which just happens to have a stunning view of the University of B.C., Vancouver Island and Burrard Inlet.

As a sucker for sunsets, I can't help snapping a photo each time the sun starts to dip below the horizon.

I'm around

I'm around here somewhere, I promise. There's been a lot of change and upheaval in my life recently, and I think I owe the Internet a blog post. In the meantime, check out this photo of some lovely buildings along Dundas St. West, taken on a sunny morning in September.

Using Storify to Enhance Content

Storify, a social media application, can be used to build stories using multiple content sources from the web. It's not all that different from the way journalists tell stories anyway (using text, photos, tweets and video) but Storify nonetheless provides an easy-to-use platform to ease the process of combining all these elements together to create a multimedia package.

As well, Storify can be used by any social media savvy user, not just a journalist or editor. Here's a sample story I threw together today after reading about sexual assault against women in the U.S. military.

I didn't write any aspect of this story, but even if I had, I could use Storify to enhance my text with video, tweets, photos or other stories.

Somewhere over the rainbow

Hawaii, via the 8mm Vintage Camera iPhone app. Swoon. Music by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.