Jason Hargrove

“One day I found a big book buried deep in the ground....

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:40:53 -0800

“One day I found a big book buried deep in the ground. And, to my surprise, it started writing itself” ### Designing Life

Audio Singlestream. Click to play...

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:07:00 -0800

Audio Singlestream. Click to play above.

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This is the single track “the w00dz” (press “click to play” above the image). I wrote the written piece in 2007 and couldn’t help but think of it today as I watched James Cameron’s Avatar.

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+ + Download the zip album for the iTunes ready full release

Podcast January Preview Package - - http://bit.ly/7w1HrP (Amazon, Zip)

4 tracks, 1 album art, 7 minutes of real

Podcast January Preview Package - - http://bit.ly/7w1HrP...

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:43:22 -0800

Podcast January Preview Package - - http://bit.ly/7w1HrP (Amazon, Zip)

4 tracks, 1 album art, 7 minutes of real

Audio Remindercast. Click to play...

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:18:00 -0800

Audio Remindercast. Click to play above.

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+ + Regarding… this Wednesday’s event

the Children of the Sun

WHEN — January 13, 2010, 6pm to 10pm
WHERE — IX Gallery, 11 Davies Avenue, Toronto, 416 461 3233
WHY — Silent Art Auction, All Proceeds to http://foreverangels.org

+ + Full detail: http://www.aprilmaciborka.com/events/january_2010/children_of_the_sun

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+ + More from Jason Hargrove

” 1-2-3, 1-2-3-3, I’m a ninja sitting in my tree. “

Podcast January Preview Package - - http://bit.ly/7w1HrP (Amazon, Zip)

4 tracks, 1 album art, 7 minutes of real

Self.

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:45:14 -0800

Self.

“I came here to be Heard!” - Ayn Rand, The...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:48:23 -0800

“I came here to be Heard!” - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Clackitty-Clack-Clack-Clacking Out Code

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Clackitty-Clack-Clack-Clacking Out Code

For My LinkedIn Profile

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Posting this here because LinkedIn just doesn’t give one enough room to tell one’s story: http://www.linkedin.com/in/soulular

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###### My Lifelong Dedication of Passion & Craft

### Act I - Teeny Bopping Into the Big Leagues

Jason Hargrove began freelancing as a graphic designer at age 13 out of sheer passion for design and client demand. During this early period he had little ambition to purse a professional career in communications. Instead his long term interests were focused squarely on computer systems, specifically in the area of human interfacing. It was this that lead him to pursue an education in Computer Systems Technology at the Northern Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton, Alberta.

Alongside his base passions in communications and IT, Jason illustrated an early interest in entrepreneurship and business. By the time he had enrolled at NAIT he had created three companies that would give him a basic foundation in brand identity, visioning, planning, business management, human resource management and account management. While most of his peers were flipping hamburgers or pumping gas, Jason was exercising day to day responsibilities very similar to those of the present day, nearly two decades after he began.

It was during the dot-com boom in the late 90s that Jason forged his professional career that would harmonize his passions in communications arts and IT. Working in the Edmonton, Seattle and Vancouver markets primarily, Jason built a portfolio and a personal brand name that centered primarily on web interactive. While he appreciated the experience of working within larger firms and agencies, it was long known that Jason was best suited for entrepreneurship. Unsurprisingly, the dot-com collapse of the early 2000s gave him impetus to evolve up.

### Act II - Learning on the Job / Redefining the Job

In his early twenties Jason set out as a sole-propietor based in Vancouver, BC. His business was digital media and his clients were primarily in the entertainment, online gaming and dating industries. Much of his work during this period was early social networking in nature. His most well known clients of this period were NHL teams such as Los Angeles Kings and Nashville Predators.

The work Jason did for these higher profile brands inspired a new body of interest in brand positioning & communications, and so Jason eventually created a new company to specialize in this. In 2003 Soulular Brand Experience was born – giving way to “The Soulular Level” mentality that would shape the rest of his decade.

Based primarily on his own theory and hands-on experience Jason would go on to establish processes for building and maintaining brand identity in application to personal, small, medium and large brands. Well known clients included the RCMP, BCIT, ELS Language Centers (Berlitz), Techvibes.com (the original incarnation), Massive Technology Show, and Nokia Group.

It was a valuable period of growth and experience for Jason that opened many doors for him in Vancouver. As rewarding as it was, he’d eventually long for change once more.

### Act III - World Stage, Here We Come

By the time he was 27 Jason had spent 14 years helping other people build and position their brands. At an age when many of his friends were just setting out in their careers Jason began to seek a reinvention.

With the proliferation of open source software and social media, and the significant evolution in consumer and enterprise usage of the Internet, Jason saw considerable opportunity for the application of his skill set to his self-owned brands. To the surprise of many he closed his company and at age 28 moved to Toronto, Ontario. There he began an intense period of development in stealth mode.

Nearly two years later he is poised to launch and in private beta he has been actively recruiting worldwide clients, strategic partners and freelance staff from what he affectionately refers to as, “the old days”.

To be continued…

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/soulular

◰ Drunk Birth ◲ Dream Death ◱ AKA, The DJ...

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:11:00 -0700

◰ Drunk Birth ◲ Dream Death ◱ AKA, The DJ Mix

http://www.flickr.com/photos/salty_soul/346849438/in/set-72157594276546464/

Purgatorio

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:57:00 -0700

Ignorance sits up upon her pedestal and casts forth a wicked gaze. No words. It’s dull malice in her eyes. I avert mine and look out across the landscape adorning my porch and ochroid vista.

Weariness rolls over the hills, limping crops and penises and flowers in vases. There are marigolds on the veranda in a pot that has seen far too many wet winters. The townside is sleepy. My hair is unkept.

Thought of Age has me traveling Duplicity. I am a hundred and fifty two years old and in my prime. Flipping fingers and pages written by my own hand and illustrated with the simple power of an aurous mind.

At floor seven and a half point five – and at the fourty-ninth stair I pause to say hello with much melodrama and flair. True to form, on Heaven I ascend.

“All hope embrace ye who enter here.”

Climb, Jason, climb.

– JH™

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Aft:

I wrote this as an email just now. Very “where I’m at”, rounding corners.

(Reference)

Stress Monsters! —ZWAP! —> Privately dedicated...

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:28:00 -0800

Stress Monsters! —ZWAP! —> Privately dedicated mashup, shared with y’all.

RIVES at Dev Poetry Jam. “If you can’t fathom That.....

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:28:00 -0700

RIVES at Dev Poetry Jam. “If you can’t fathom That.. Don’t fuck a poet.” —> (some CHEEKINESS for you)

"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews, Not to be born is the best for man; The..."

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:32:00 -0700

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The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews, Not to be born is the best for man; The second-best is a formal order, The dance’s pattern; dance while you can.

Dance, dance, for the figure is easy, The tune is catching and will not stop; Dance till the stars come down from the rafters; Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

”

- W. H. Auden, 1936

Erykah Badu @ Def Jam Poetry - Fans, Friends, Artists Must Meet

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:30:00 -0700

Erykah Badu @ Def Jam Poetry - Fans, Friends, Artists Must Meet

"More people need to take a basic philosophy class. This whole article is a basic primer in..."

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:24:10 -0700

“More people need to take a basic philosophy class. This whole article is a basic primer in consequentialism. If the consequences of doing action X benefit me, then I will do X. This is a simple justification for lying, as well as, well anything. The problem is, to put it simply, that human beings should be invested in unsculpted reality. So, her friend who is in Tartuffe. Let us say she is honest with her friend, that she hates Tartuffe and she wants to sit at home and soak her feet. Now, if her friend freaks out….does she really want to be friends with someone like that? What if her friend is cool, and says “oh, its no big deal…I understand.” Now, doesn’t that make her dramatic friend more awesome? Unfortunately, this author will never know…and she will have to keep lying. Lame.”

- Comment by Aaron. Oprah.com / CNN.com - www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/09/05/o.lying.game/

Circa 2005. Alias Sketchbook Pro + Toshiba M200 Tablet. —-...

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:32:41 -0700

Circa 2005. Alias Sketchbook Pro + Toshiba M200 Tablet. —- S.P is software that fundamentally changed how I interfaced with a computer, which lead me down a path that has dominated my life since late 2006. Today I met the man at Alias Wavefront (now Autodesk) who conceived of Sketchbook. And that, mes amis, is very cool.

"(Hire superheroes) Not superstars: superheroes! People who are freakishly good at what they do...."

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:35:57 -0700

“(Hire superheroes) Not superstars: superheroes! People who are freakishly good at what they do. People who finish things so fast that they seem to have paranormal assistance. People who can take in any new system or design for all intents instantaneously, with no “ramp-up”, and who can immediately bring insights to bear that are quite simply beyond your rustic abilities.”

- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-smart.html

Just for fun one day

Mon, 26 May 2008 10:56:00 -0700

Just for fun one day

Talli. The lil’ runner.

Tue, 06 May 2008 11:27:16 -0700

Talli. The lil’ runner.

Crayon Eater by James Jean

Mon, 05 May 2008 18:20:03 -0700

Crayon Eater by James Jean

Jason Hargrove

“One day I found a big﻿ book buried deep in the ground....

Audio Singlestream. Click to play...

Audio Singlestream. Click to play above.

This is the single track “the w00dz” (press “click to play” above the image). I wrote the written piece in 2007 and couldn’t help but think of it today as I watched James Cameron’s Avatar.

Podcast January Preview Package - - http://bit.ly/7w1HrP...

Audio Remindercast. Click to play...

Audio Remindercast. Click to play above.

the Children of the Sun

Self.

“I came here to be Heard!” - Ayn Rand, The...

Clackitty-Clack-Clack-Clacking Out Code

Clackitty-Clack-Clack-Clacking Out Code

For My LinkedIn Profile

◰ Drunk Birth ◲ Dream Death ◱ AKA, The DJ...

Purgatorio

Stress Monsters! —ZWAP! —> Privately dedicated...

RIVES at Dev Poetry Jam. “If you can’t fathom That.....

"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews, Not to be born is the best for man; The..."

Erykah Badu @ Def Jam Poetry - Fans, Friends, Artists Must Meet

"More people need to take a basic philosophy class. This whole article is a basic primer in..."

Circa 2005. Alias Sketchbook Pro + Toshiba M200 Tablet. —-...

"(Hire superheroes) Not superstars: superheroes! People who are freakishly good at what they do...."

Just for fun one day

Talli. The lil’ runner.

Crayon Eater by James Jean

“One day I found a big book buried deep in the ground....