Vancouver’s 17th Pecha Kucha Night, hosted at the Vogue theater downtown was an eye opening event.
The Zolas opened the event up with a great set, a band based out of Vancouver getting a lot of attention these days for their good music.
This perticular event was a special edition based on westcoast modernism, a specific style of architecture featured throughout Vancouver’s populated landscape. Each of the speakers represented a slightly different dynamic and view on what it means, and I felt that it really was a very stimulating experience to see what people are doing, what people have done, and what people feel about how it represents their culture.
The guest list included:
- Pamela Goldsmith-Jones
Mayor – West Vancouver - Mike Bernard, Gavin Froome
Filmmakers – Coast Modern Film - Bo Helliwell, Kim Smith
Architects – Helliwell + Smith Blue Sky Architecture - Julian Pattison
Design Director, Landscape Architect – Considered Design Inc - Free Lee
Owner, Designer, Integrative Healer – fre(E)quency - Isaac Vanderhorst, Joyce Song, Callum Kelpin
West Vancouver Museum - D’Arcy Jones
Designer – D’Arcy Jones Design - John Fulker
Architectural Photographer - Adele Weder
Architecture Critic and Curator - Sean Pearson, Alyssa Schwann
Creative Directors – RUF Project - David Scott
Architect – Peter Cardew Architect - Cathy Church
Owner, Curator – Tartooful Design
To read the full article, head to Chronicles of Times.
Photographs courtesy of Ned Tobin and Sarah Canning, representing King Kabuz Media.
Filed under: event review, Expression, Inspiration, Photography, World Conscience | Leave a Comment
Tags: vancouver, night, free, vogue, pecha, kucha, pkn, westcoast, modernism, architecture, west, pamela, goldsmith-jones, mike, bernard, bo, helliwell, kim, smith, julian, pattison, lee, isaac, vanderhorst, joyce, song, callum, kelpin, d'arcy, jones, john, fulker, adele, weder, sean, pearson, david, scott, cathy, church
On Wednesday, June 15th citizens of Vancouver took to the streets to watch the Vancouver Canucks take on the Boston Bruins in game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Vancouver lost. One would expect sad faces on Canucks faces, and happy ones on Bruins, followed by the shaking of hands of each team, which then was followed by various parades with the cup raised above the victors heads.
No doubt the parades will happen, and the players will congratulate each other, but what some people of Vancouver decided to do was attempt at destroying not only the city streets, but city culture, city security, respect for the city, and their own moral and respect.
Read the full article at Chronicles of Times.
Images courtesy of Fotographix de Ned.
Filed under: Photography, Rant, World Conscience | Leave a Comment
Tags: bruins, canucks, granville, riots, vancouver
Photograph by Rowan Pybus (@makhuluct) of Makhulu Productions
Indigo, a beautiful creature known for her sincerity, creativity, work ethic, and of course art has recently returned from a trip to Cape Town, South Africa, for a project called A Word Of Art, where she witnessed both rural and central townships in the surrounding area first hand with her paintbrushes.
She has shared here experience with the world to view on her blog, Indigo Goes To Cape Town which only highlights a small fraction of the experience she has had there, so I suggest to dig around the site for a while.
One of her projects was to paint a few walls at a home, called Percy Bartley House, where she did an outer wall portrait of one of the oldest, and most respected residents at the home. This may not be a big deal normally, but this house happens to be a residence for boys who have faced severe adversity, giving them a safe place to learn and grow with the necessary support to do so.
Photograph by Rowan Pybus (@makhuluct) of Makhulu Productions
Photograph by Rowan Pybus (@makhuluct) of Makhulu Productions
Photographs are courtesy of the artist (@indi_gone) , and Rowan Pybus (@makhuluct) of Makhulu Productions.
Read more about Indigo here on our previous artist profile.
Filed under: Artist Review, Inspiration | Leave a Comment
Tags: a word of art, art, cape town, indigo, mural, south africa
EPIC Vancouver Sustainable Expo
EPIC is a green living consumer expo. This year it was held at the Vancouver Convention center in downtown, a beautiful venue easily capable of such an event.
I was fortunate enough to get a pass to the event to explore it and learn as much as I could, and I did just that.
First off, I learned that parts of Vancouver and Burnaby have a mulch pickup program, similar to garbage and recycling, that they are piloting in a few neighborhoods to see how well it is liked. This means that we can divert a lot of household waste from the city landfills to compost heaps that can then quickly be turned into extremely fertile soil. I learn’t this from the people at the Bag To Earth booth. They were creating bags that were 100% made from recycled material and 100% biodegradable.
I had a great talk with the folks at Whole Foods who gave me a pep talk on the importance for bees to be around in order for pollination to occur. They reminded me that this requires plants, and gave me a coupon to go get a free 4″ plant from Whole Foods.
I also had a talk a girl representing I Heart Van Art, a new local project aimed at creating a space for vendors and performers to show off their stuff.
The convention center was filled with very local things like homemade jellies, lotions, clothes, and many other neat green ideas that I hope some of these pictures can give some insight into.
I really enjoyed the fish they had up everywhere. They were pretty cool. Great job by the artist, whoever it was.
Also, I went on the night George Stroumboulopoulos was interviewed. I think a lot of people went at the same time as it was pretty packed.
Listening to George, who also hosts the Strombo Show, which you may also know as The Hour, made me realize how much I respect him, and appreciate the change and ideas that he brings to Canadians through his influence.
To read more about the event, head over to Chronicles of Times, where the do a full report on the show.
All photos courtesy of Ned Tobin, you can view the full set on Flickr.
Filed under: Journey, Review, World Conscience | Leave a Comment
Tags: bee, biodegradable, EPIC, expo, George Stroumboulopoulos, green, honey, life, living, recycleable, strombo, sustainable, the hour, vancouver
….
It appears that there are a few events that really don’t favor mankind at all that are occurring in Japan right now.
With regards to the plant itself, as one would expect from such an organization such as Tokyo Electric’s (TEPCO), who run Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, we are experiencing a layer of secrecy and deceit, with the true details trickling out slowly.
From World Nuclear News (WNN) on May 16, 2011: “Investigations at unit 1 at Fukushima Daiichi suggest that most of the fuel in the reactor core melted and dropped to the bottom of the reactor vessel in the early stages of the accident. Work has started on installing a structure to cover the damaged reactor building. “
…. read full article here.
Filed under: World Conscience | Leave a Comment
Tags: diaiichi, fukushima, nuclear, plant, power, tepco, wnn, world
-
Flickr Photos
More Photos
