About Jaime
Jaime is a writer/filmmaker and community organizer based out of Toronto whose interests include topics as diverse as finance, technology, and social issues. He is currently a staff writer at Torontoist, a commentator for Mark News, and his work has appeared in Financial Post, NOW Toronto, Vancouver Sun, and Xtra. His visual works have been recognized by the Luminato Arts and Creativity Festival and the CBC.
In addition, Jaime is a games maker and his first, an outdoors game called Gargoyles, was recently featured in the August 4th issue of the Grid. He is also the co-founder of Gamercamp, a games festival dedicated to the arts and creativity in video games. In 2010, over 1200 people attended the Gamercamp events, and there was coverage in the Globe and Mail and CBC Radio's Metro Morning.
Gamercamp Jr., aimed at inspiring children to create video games, launched summer 2011 with a meetup on September 10, 2011.
In August 2011, Jaime was named a research associate with the Experimental Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab at Ryerson University.
Videos
Toronto Community Foundation's Recipe For Community Program
Toronto Community Foundation's Beyond 3:30 Program
Toronto in 6 Words (short film, made with Suresh Doss)
The Start Show Trailer (made with Mark Rabo)
Recipe For Community: St James Town Teaser
Recent Articles
Torontoist - Refueling the Debate On Oil
Key line: "While using travel mugs and reusable bags may keep us mindful of being green, the impact isn’t enough. 'You try to save the environment—you shower with a friend,' he quips, but 'as individuals, it only solves 2 to 10 per cent of our footprint.'"
Torontoist - Ponycorns Bring Magic On- and Off-Screen
Key line: "The game is brief, lasting no more than five minutes, and yet it captures childhood innocence, playfulness, and creativity with stunning acuity."
Torontoist - Checking In On Our Urban Forest
Key line: "The city has a tree cover of around 18 to 20%, while cities like New York are far ahead with 24%. Recently, environmentally friendly Portland made a goal to increase its tree cover from 26% to 33%."
Read more of my pieces from Torontoist here.
Vancouver Sun - CRTC's support of Internet metering a losing game
Key line: "Even more troubling is wondering about the repercussions for Canada from the many other industries we aren't hearing from that the CRTC has unwittingly sabotaged."
Xtra - Building Queerness Into The Future of Video Gaming
Key line: "Anna Anthropy, an outspoken trans-dyke game developer, sees her differences as an opportunity to bring fresh perspectives to the industry."
The Mark News - Diaspora v Goliath
Key line: "Facebook brought much of this on itself, given its ubiquity, confusing and convoluted privacy policy, and flippant disregard for public opinion."
The Mark News - The Social Media Bubble
Key line: "Similarly, if social media users stop chasing unrealistic expectations in relationships and focus carefully on cultivating the right social circle, there shouldn't be a bubble."
Torontoist - Reality Check-in on Gowalla, Foursquare
Key line: "The convenience of using Gowalla or Foursquare to find out instantly which sessions or restaurants your friends are at trumps any other social web tool around (no more trolling for location tweets or clumsily mass texting friends!)."
