Recent Work
TckTckTck
New Media Coordinator
Award-winning campaign to raise awareness and public pressure for a Fair, Ambitious, and Binding agreement at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Talks.
Drupal theme & module development
Spacing
Developer
Spacing's online network including Magazine Archives, Store, bi-weekly Podcast and city blogs for Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the Maritimes.
Wordpress theme & plugin development
Cursive Mechanics
Developer
Updated blog design for Jodi Lewchuk: editor by profession, cook and writer by passion. Site includes custom photo and recipe treatment.
Wordpress theme & plugin development
Onward Lookup - Beta
Developer
Web Service (in beta) that allows individuals to lookup their Toronto Municipal Ward based on address -- includes an initial API for query through external sites.
Custom PHP
1834 Roller Rider
Co-Developer with Patrick Dinnen/MLT
A stationary bike-controlled video installation to celebrate Toronto''s 175th birthday at the annual Toronto the Good party.
Arduino/Processing with video.
TXTris - Nissan Hypercube Launch
Co-Developer with Patrick Dinnen/MLT
Interactive display of live SMS messages from party-goers at launch event held simultaneously in Montréal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Processing with SMS.
Good Wood Watch
Developer
Website promoting the use of FSC-approved wood products in the design and construction of 2010 Vancouver Olympic Venues.
Wordpress theme & plugin development
TXTris - v2
Co-Developer with Patrick Dinnen/MLT, Gabe Sawhney, and Dory Kornfeld
Another take on the TXTris installation, this time with attendee messages cascading and interacting with real-life physical elements -- in this case Toronto's (cardboard) skyline.
Processing with SMS.
CMHA, Ontario
Developer
Website for the Ontario division of the Canadian Mental Health Association includes resources for analysts and those living with mental illness.
Proprietary CMS
30km
Developer
Campaign site and Facebook application to raise awareness and influence government against renewing the Pickering Nuclear Power Station.
OpenLaszlo (swf), Facebook Application Platform
This project has been retired following the Province of Ontario's recent decision not to upgrade Pickering.
Toronto Tree Tours
Developer
Online home for LEAF's popular arborist-led Tree Tours that have helped raise awareness of the urban canopy in Toronto and beyond.
Drupal theme & module development
Elsewhere
Beyond this domain I also post to twitter and tumblr.
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About
monkeycycle is the online home and identity for Michael Pereira: freelance web developer, technologist, occasional producer, and friendly observer.
Most of the projects here are web-based, either stand-alone or with social media integration, but I also do physical/hardware installations and the occasional bit of SMS play.
This is both a standard site and an online sandbox, likely in flux.
Contact
Interested in working together? Have any qustions about past, current, or future projects? Drop me a note.
Collaborators
Over the years I've had the good fortune to work with some really smart collaborators. Sometimes the sharing is simply a conversation over food, drinks, or a walk. Or a session of solder, breadboards, glue, and paint. We can use a whiteboard in person or an online wiki and mindmap. Maybe a weekend code-sprint. And occasionally it's regularly scheduled chats synch'd across multiple timezones.
Among the smart set are Patrick Dinnen, David McCallum, Gabe Sawhney, and Dory Kornfeld who are known to don reversible Wireless Toronto and Media Lab Toronto hats. Together we've deployed a city-wide network of free hotspots, mapped the character of a neighbourhood's wireless, built SMS walls for various events, hacked together a backpack WiFi node, and most recently created a unique quasi time-traveling bike experience.
Others in the mix include: Todd Irvine who helped raised the profile of the urban forest through walks and story-telling, Jason Roks who always provides a future leaning bit of media insight, Matt Blackett and the Spacing team, Dave Meslin who has given birth to a stream of creative local engagement efforts and woken up a generation of fun-loving urban activists, Rami Tabello who has been tireless in his efforts to rid the city of illegal billboards, Mathew Borrett who illustrates to expand thinking and perspective, Eric Squair who continues to work hard at empowering the non-profit sector, Marlena Zuber who can beautifully illustrate her way into hearts and minds, a thoughtful and dedicated bunch of campaigner, activists, and coordinators at Greenpeace Canada (and International too). Christopher Murtagh, Eric Smith, and Karl Jarosiewicz at McGill's WSG. Pascal Paquette who produced amazing designs for a CMHA, Ontario microsite, and Andrew Male along with the guys from Communicopia, Biro, and Advomatic who helped design and build what became the shape of the climate movement in 2009.
Clients
Recent clients include the following businesses and organizations. Contact me for details.
Colophon
This site is built using the most excellent Wordpress Content Management System, extended with a variety of stock and custom plugins.
Standard tools include gvim (though increasingly giving Komodo Edit a whirl), FireFTP, good old Photoshop, Subversion and Git for keeping track, and various sundry utilities on and offline.
I browse mostly with a well-extended Firefox, you probably do too.
All of this runs on my three year-old MacBook and my triple-booting OSX/Linux/XP Dell Mini 10v (aka, a hackintosh).
Roving photos are typically shot with my iPhone 3G, the lens is terrible but the phone is handy. Those shots are often run through Format126 to remind me of the older analog cameras I'm fond of. The occasional video that makes its way online is courtesy my Nokia N82 — Zeiss optics are fantastic, if only the mobile online experience were smoother.