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Hear me out – since bubly water came out fairly recently, only in 2018, how would its marketing and branding have been different if it was introduced to the market 20 years ago? This was a design activity that was also sparked by my obtaining of a few early 2000’s design books this weekend. To…

This post is a branch-off from my previous post, about water park awards. I understand that achieving a water park award would involve not just coming up with an idea, but actually making the idea a reality. However, what I think is that as long as there is a cool, viable blueprint to build a…

The world of water attractions is larger than meets the eye – at least, that’s what I learned when I started looking into water parks for this blog. Based in the United States, there exists an organization called the World Waterparks Association, whose main objective, according to their About page, is to educate and expand…

I could give a full movie review, but I can’t Given that my blog is intended to cover ‘anything about water’, I realize how strange it would be to never talk about pop culture pieces that talk about water. This includes movies; namely, “Shape of Water”, which won a few Academy awards a couple years…

Could I be homies with a capybara? Just because we, humans, do not share habitats with them, we often do not get many opportunities to interact with aquatic and semi-aquatic mammals. Personally, the only place I can think of that I can rely on to consistently see mammals are at the Vancouver aquarium, or, if…

By the 2010s, we were supposed to be able to power our phones with water Since the beginning of the history of mobile phones, batteries have come a long way, yet, in an era where 84% of Canadians report owning a smartphone, the struggle for long-lasting battery life seems to have become a universal one.…

Introduction: A look at Palkia https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokedex/palkia Pokemon is a well-known video game series that has been ongoing since 1996 and has since evolved into a mega-franchise. Only beginning with 150 Pokemon in the begining, as of early 2024 they’ve reached 1025 kinds. This means that over the years, their number of water-type Pokemon have expanded…

Evaluating bodies of water that surround our communities is an important way to understand how our relationship with nature. Thus, I will be creating a subjective report of lakes and rivers, based on randomized suggestions and a criteria filled purely based on my preferences. Initially, I was going to rank all 10 bodies of water…

The relationship between people and water, a basic need for survival, is a topic that’s so silly yet interesting. To me, it’s the most straightforward representation of how trends work: We have an element that’s been around since the beginning of the planet, its structure unchanged, yet somehow there’s a ‘new’ way to drink it…