Get to know me by enjoying some of my personal faves. And do let me know if there are broken links &/or which are your favourite bits.

Watch

• (Brief) Intro to the Beat Generation, 2022 & Upgrade your Heroes Six Poets at Six Gallery, 2021
• Japan Cottage Musings, video diary 2019~
• HempenRoad, Vancouver (with annotations), 2021 (orig 1997)
• Poets, Punks and Revolutions Forgotten Vancouver Stories, 2013 – Northern Voice
• On the Road to Creativity, 2012 – TEDX Capilano University
• Let’s Get Lost, Vancouver Stories – Pecha Kucha All Star, 2012
• ‘True North Media House’ – 2010 WGHthemovie.ca- Webisode #2
• Hootsuite’s new office etc. – Guest on The Rush Shaw TV
• myVancouver Dave Olson: Hootsuite Visionary – Telus TV spotlight
• Generation Social – The Vancouver Network – CBC Documentary (preview)
• Art and Tech are Old Pals – Social Media Clubhouse at SxSW
• DaveO’s Social Media Renegades – Convo At StudioSX 2009

Listen

• Pecha Kucha Whistler, 2013 “Things I’ve Learned” talk (audio with slides)
• Choogle On Podcast “special” series:
  • Rainforest Dispatches
  • Jamaica Scheme
  • Tracks On Tracks
• “Art and Technology are Old Pals” from WordCamp Vancouver 2010
• Poetic Stories about Goalies ~ Postcards from Gravelly Beach #62

Read

Items, Forgotten, 2017-18 – poems combined with stationery letterhead – usually from expired and forgotten hotels, ships and the like – then inky and postal stamps added for amusement and fake context

Requited, 2016-17 – poems of love, confusion, yearning, hope and coming together and drifting apart and the resultant emotions evoked (naturally)

Varley in Vancouver, 2014 –Mixed media, 3-part essay about the Group of Seven’s “bohemian” painter’s 10 years in Vancouver. See also: Uncle Weed’s Dossier featuring articles about transportation, culture, urbanism, history, music festivals etc.

in Vancouver Observer:

1. The Group of 7 “bohemian” heads west
2. Following Varley’s Trail from Jericho to Lynn
3. Influencing and remixing art – join the G7

Rolling to the end of the Line – The Buzzer blog » I Love Transit Week essay: Dave Olson

Hemp Culture in Japan,  1998 – Cannabis Culture #13 (first issue after switching from Cannabis Canada to Cannabis Culture) – Note: At 6000 words, still the longest article they’ve published. Also appeared in Journal of International Hemp Assoc. and a travel-focused version in Heads Magazine called “Zen of Rambling in Japan” and HempJapan.org, Hemp Horizons, Hemp for Victory.

Letters from Russia, 2004 – original text and art (plus remixes, interviews etc) from an epistolary literature project with letters ostensibly written by a cobbler in Napoleon’s army marching to Russia – bound with hemp, wood and vellum

Uncle Weed’s Red Rock Adventure, 1988 – an illustrated (by Brandon G. Kiggins) story from 1988 about Uncle Weed monkey-wrenching with some young ‘uns – a mix of Tintin and Edward Abbey perhaps

Bonus

The Evergreen State College named Top Cannabis Colleges – High Times – Featured in article by Chris Simunek

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