No. 4373 - 26 Oct 2010 - 13:26:05
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20 October 2010
Bejewelled
No. 3561 - 12 Jul 2010 - 22:12:03Here is a thin-slice of landscape from a random perspective: eight storeys over the last hill before sea-level, facing southwest, in the downtown of Metro Vancouver. This image signals the transformation of a three year practice, which is drawing to a close at the end of the year, as the bloG continues from fresh perspectives.
The building in the foreground is 100 years old in 2011. Although it is handsome from afar it is also neglected by the not-for-profiteers of the social housing society; exploited for its unfortunate location at the southeast corner of Gastown.
In the background, City Hall shines bright white on the left side of the skyline, while Library Square emits red beams of light on the right.
Little Sky House sits mid-ground, off the centre line adjacent to Yaletown's towers of lit windows.
The sky is a moving backdrop.
I watch for signs.
19 October 2010
Seasonal Retreat
No. 7368 - 17 Feb 2010 - 14:09:01 * No. 7382 - 17 Feb 2010 - 14:13:25
The warm, dry winter of 2010 will bookend a cold, snowy winter that is being forecast by meteorologists for 2011. Perhaps this year's resplendent return of the sockeye salmon to spawn (or to be caught, sold and eaten) will be followed by an non-existent return next season.
Firstly, Vancouverites should prepare for the cold with snow tires for their automobiles. Our reputation in the ROC (rest of Canada) for poor winter driving abilities is due in large part to an immigrant population (mostly from east of the Rockies), who is unused to driving on crisco (a kind of wet snow), over mountainous hills (on bald tires) because they hoped it wouldn't actually snow (this winter). The game is to survive the drivers who fail to learn and repeat the same behaviour, year upon year, while they slip and slide over the Lower Mainland.
As a teenager growing up in North Vancouver, where down and up (the mountain) were the main directions, and with a sergeant-major for a father, who taught officer cadets to drive army trucks and perform hill starts on terrifying inclines, I was well schooled in how to drive his Ford Custom anywhere up the mountain on snow packed roads. Usually, the most difficult part was getting the thing back down the lane and into the carport after an afternoon's snowfall.
Secondly, the only reason I did not indulge my taste buds during this season's salmon extravaganza was due to a vegetarian-style food budget. But if this was their last great run and they do not return next year, in healthy numbers, I will never eat tasty and delicious fish again. I am done with eating random species to death.
We have control over very little in the natural world including our egos. Civilizations come and go and history is made and lost. For now I plan to sit still, enjoy the view, and try not to complain.
18 October 2010
17 October 2010
Nine Minutes and Forty Dimes
No. 7533 - 10 Apr 2010 - 19:45:27 * No. 7573 - 10 Apr 2010 - 19:54:27
The word dime, in this context, refers to an arbitrary amount of DIgital MEdia space between images as produced by a digital camera and, is referenced in the DIME of the Chronicle.
16 October 2010
15 October 2010
14 October 2010
13 October 2010
12 October 2010
In Urbanity
No. 1678 - 05 Oct 2010 - 07:30:17 * No. 1784 - 05 Oct 2010 - 16:53:56
No. 1685 - 05 Oct 2010 - 07:31:12 * No. 1776 - 05 Oct 2010 - 16:52:20
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03 October 2010
Return To Music
No. 1428 - 05 Apr 2008 - 07:33:23Gastown, Vancouver
The St. James' High Mass Choir begins the autumn schedule with O Westron Wynde by Healey Willan which was first published, in 1936, at about the time this church was being built at the corner of Cordova and Gore. Devotees of music and architecture are welcome to join the service which begins at 10:30 am.
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