No. 1407 - 24 Jan 2008 - 12:46:5030 November 2010
28 November 2010
Motivation
No. 1436 - 14 Aug 2007 - 12:43:30
No. 2781 - 11 Sep 2007 - 19:53:19 * No. 2779 - 11 Sep 2007 - 19:52:54
Gastown, Vancouver
While some people come to the Ovaltine Cafe for a white bread, american-slice grilled cheese sandwich with a side of hashed browns for $3.50 and others come to get a picture of the most photographed neon sign in town, I lurk in the alley and ponder the mystery of the painted phone number.
While some people come to the Ovaltine Cafe for a white bread, american-slice grilled cheese sandwich with a side of hashed browns for $3.50 and others come to get a picture of the most photographed neon sign in town, I lurk in the alley and ponder the mystery of the painted phone number.
The restaurant's number is listed in my archive copy of the 1962 Vancouver Telephone Directory (B.C. TEL) as MU(tual) 5-7021 but the number painted on the wall lacks a numeral and uses the non-existent exchange MA(rine). What looks and sounds real is as fake as processed cheese. Yum!
25 November 2010
24 November 2010
Structural Constructivism
No. 6973 - 08 Nov 2010 - 07:45:20Accidental art forms and formalism at work on the landscape.
23 November 2010
21 November 2010
Abstract In The Concrete
No. 6643 - 11 Dec 2007 - 20:20:23 * No. 5111 - 27 May 2008 - 14:58:22
The concrete pillar reveals the play of texture and shadow
in winter's evening light
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An abstract-style graphic is splashed over a cement truck
bound for the construction site
20 November 2010
It's A Wet Cold
No. 5939 - 26 Dec 2008 - 16:41:36 * No. 5970 - 26 Dec 2008 - 16:44:44
Gastown, Vancouver
Today's snowfall inspired my posting these images of stoic hardiness. Although gulls have a talent for eating just about anything, it is probably more difficult to find food in the snow and, in spite of down and feathers, they look chilled.
Today's snowfall inspired my posting these images of stoic hardiness. Although gulls have a talent for eating just about anything, it is probably more difficult to find food in the snow and, in spite of down and feathers, they look chilled.
19 November 2010
18 November 2010
17 November 2010
16 November 2010
Homeless
No. 0248 - 08 Jul 2010 - 20:41:04When homeless people are put into single-occupancy hotel rooms or social-morass housing, they are being warehoused. Those folks (the silent majority that actually populates the DTES) who are merely old, poor, and crippled and who choose to live downtown, close to necessary services and facilities, are also vulnerable to the invalidating properties of the hotel and social housing industry. The lack of home causes alienation and unhappiness in human beings; the willingness of a society to profit from it provides more of the same.
15 November 2010
Chickalina
No. 6634 - 06 Nov 2010 - 08:40:36Gastown, Vancouver
A visit from one of the surviving gull chicks in my downtown vicinity caps a season of birdwatching. Only a few have successfully matured enough to face an upcoming winter of inclement weather and other restrictions. They practice flying and make ungainly visits during their endless pursuit of food.
A visit from one of the surviving gull chicks in my downtown vicinity caps a season of birdwatching. Only a few have successfully matured enough to face an upcoming winter of inclement weather and other restrictions. They practice flying and make ungainly visits during their endless pursuit of food.
14 November 2010
Tsunami
No. 3962 - 30 Apr 2008 - 10:15:31From within an overwhelming wave of change; Aung San Suu Kyi has been released, in Burma (Myanmar), after many years of house arrest.
Ward of The East
No. 5011 - 14 Jul 2010 - 18:43:33For want of electoral divisions an unequal amount of civic control lives west of Main Street and beyond.
13 November 2010
12 November 2010
11 November 2010
Sacred Ground
No 8249/1 - 25 Dec 2009 - 07:36:06Angel and unknown soldier ascend into collective memory on Remembrance Day.
10 November 2010
09 November 2010
08 November 2010
Mystery
No. 6516 - 05 Nov 2010 - 17:36:20 * No. 6525 - 05 Nov 2010 - 17:36:25
No. 6518 - 05 Nov 2010 - 17:36:4707 November 2010
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