Tag: Vancouver
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The Public Art of Susan Point
I bought my first copy of People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point in the fall of 2019 from Iron Dog Books, a charming fixture on Simon Fraser University‘s Burnaby Mountain campus. It was tagged as a City of Vancouver Book Award winner and highly recommended by owner, Hilary Atleo. I knew… Read more
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Would You Let This Man Sell Your House?
I’m guessing that someone somewhere at sometime told this fellow that he looks like Owen Wilson’s male model in Zoolander. It’s the only reasonable reason I can imagine he would slap his ‘Blue Steel’ face on gigantic posters around White Rock, B.C., to push his unique brand of real estate sales in Greater Vancouver’s steaming… Read more
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On the Waterfront
While on the Canada Line from Vancouver to Richmond, B.C. I spied a sculpture on the skyline. One right and a quick left from our hotel and an old-school waterfront appeared, featuring a walking path and imaginative art installations. The photographic conditions were spectacular: warm, morning light, a fierce hoar frost embalming the rocks and vegetation, and not a breath of wind. I… Read more
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Oh Yeah, Vancouver
Impressive, impressive promotional video produced by Barbershop Films for Tourism Vancouver. Sexy/happy music by Vancouver-based duo Watasun. It makes me want to jump right back on that plane…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIAYPopVBXM And life in Vancouver IS like that, a little different of course when you need an umbrella. I confess I miss seeing any shots of… Read more
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A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver (and Montreal and Toronto)
Sure wish I had found this coolio little book BEFORE I got to Vancouver; I would have saved myself a lot of time in assembling architectural walking tours of the city. Read more
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Birds of a Feather
On the evening of the ninth anniversary of 9/11, the twin columns of light projected as a memorial over the World Trade Center site became a source of mystery. Illuminated in the beams were thousands of small white objects, sparkling and spiralling, unlike anything seen on other nights. Some viewers wondered if they were scraps… Read more