February 7, 2010 - 9:09 am
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From February 4 – 28 between dusk to dawn, 20 robotic spotlight will create a canopy of lights over English Bay known as Vectorial Elevation. The art work was created by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer from Montreal for the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
Vectorial Elevation is an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Vancouver, [...]
January 26, 2010 - 1:58 pm
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Today while reading some news sites, I came across this wonderful video featuring our lovely city Vancouver as it gets ready to host the world for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. What is fasinating about the video is it is shot in timelapse HD. The pictures are truly amazing and it captures the mystery and [...]
December 28, 2009 - 7:09 pm
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In my 8 years that I’ve lived in Vancouver I had yet to visit VanDusen Botanical Gardens. I had always wanted to get my camera and walk around the 55 acres and just go crazy, but never just got off my butt and just went. It’s interesting to note that the lands was the Shaughnessy [...]
November 27, 2009 - 11:29 am
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Yes folks, the MO is now 27 days old. 27 days of growing facial hair from scratch (ignore the fact that I had a goatee and shaved it all off).
This has been an amazing month of Movember. I’ve had so much fun participating in this great cause to raise awareness for men’s prostate cancer.
Alas [...]
October 6, 2009 - 3:30 pm
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This past Sunday I attended another photowalk from the No Compacts Allowed Facebook group. The group is for digital SLR camera enthusiasts (no they don’t discriminate) and meets twice a month having a daytime walk and a night time walk each month.
We started up by meeting a Prospect Point in Stanley Park at 3:30pm with [...]
July 28, 2009 - 6:08 pm
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This has been making the rounds on the internet, but on July 25th, Vancouver experienced a crazy weather day, especially during the end of the day when a freak thunder storm hit the city and not only was that strange, but check out the freaky colour of the sky as the sun sets.
Not only did [...]
July 24, 2009 - 6:00 am
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In just about 24 hours from now, starting at 6am July 25, several bloggers from around the world will participating in Blogathon where they will create one unique blog post every 30 minutes for 24 hours. Why are these bloggers doing this? Well they are raising money for their favourite charity.
A few bloggers from Vancouver [...]
July 21, 2009 - 7:44 pm
Posted in Events, vancouver | 2 comments
Tomorrow begins a 4 day event spanning 2 weeks of a fantastic display of pyro-musical fireworks by HSBC dubbed Celebration of Lights.
100 thousands of people will flock to English Bay and Kitsilano beach areas to get the best views of the fantastic display of pyrotechnics which almost didn’t happen this year due to lack of [...]
The 13th Eastside Culture Crawl begins tonight at 5pm and runs for 3 days. The crawl is an annual FREE art festival event that highlights local artists in the East side of Vancouver.
