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28 October 2011

Exhibit

No. 0094 - 08 Oct 2011 - 15:05:23

Heart of the City

This neo-Gothic church building set in a neo-Dickensian downtown neighbourhood is St. James' Anglican* - frequent photographic muse, home to my beloved High Mass Choir (alto) and on Saturday, October 29, from 12 noon to 4 pm, host of an Open House for the Heart of the City festival.
It comes with a guided tour (12:30 pm), John Donne sermon in costume (1:30 pm), St. James' Music Academy performance (3 pm), photo exhibit (12:00 - 4 pm) and all for free!

* 303 East Cordova at Gore

30 November 2010

Property Management

No. 1407 - 24 Jan 2008 - 12:46:50

16 November 2010

Homeless

No. 0248 - 08 Jul 2010 - 20:41:04

Gastown, Vancouver

When 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.

04 November 2010

Campbellized

No. 6239 - 18 May 2010 - 16:50:16 * No. 6416 - 19 May 2010 - 06:38:52

No. 5931 - 01 Nov 2010 - 10:28:12

An umbrella camp has persisted at the back door of the former Contact Centre, for several months, while the space remains unrented: on the edge of the Portland Hotel Society's Roosevelt building in the alley behind the Carnegie Community Centre. It is uninhabited and swept clean today but could return at any time.

Regarding the resignation of Gordon "Gordo" Campbell from whatever it was he was doing; public governance, accountability, and confidence have ebbed along with social and cultural ethics. Could a scandal involving rivers, railways, and infidelity be close at hand? Cut and run baby and thanks for the memories!

UPDATE: While writing this post I witnessed actual sweeping. Coincidence or post hoc fallacy?

No. 6337 - 04 Nov 2010 - 11:51:34 * No. 6348 - 04 Nov 2010 - 12:09:41

16 October 2010

Chasing The Dragon

No. 6176 - 31 May 2008 - 10:44:46

05 October 2010

The Dark Side

No. 2909 - 27 Mar 2008 - 14:13:11

04 October 2010

Semiotic Relations Between Buildings

19 September 2010

Ford Building

No. 3405 - 22 Sept 2007 - 09:40:20

15 September 2010

Stop

No. 1012 - 15 Jan 2008 - 16:26:35

02 August 2010

Local Hero

No. 3210 - 31 Jul 2010 - 10:16:30

Gastown, Vancouver

Here is a man with a mission; a downtown character who is recognized for the ball he has tucked under his arm at all times (except when he has a clear shot at a kick down an empty stretch and somewhere in my files is a picture of him doing such a thing at 05:00 on a snow-covered Hastings Street). He practices pride of place on his daily tours of the neighbourhood; picking up every bit of trash he sees in his path and stopping only for a cigarette or to do a spot of calisthenics with the aid of his football. He is a fine example of a person making the best of a tricky situation while maintaining his humanity. Somebody should validate him for his effort but this is 2010 and the system has been thoroughly campbellized.