Archive for March, 2009

Anyone have any awesome memories of the Grizzlies? I know that for myself, seeing the Grizz (awesome mascot by the way) bounce off trampolines and dunking was definitely a main highlight (I was 11 when they moved to Memphis). Also, the tracksuits were a thing of beauty.

This video is pretty fun to watch…it sure makes it look like the Grizzlies won a lot of games on buzzer beaters. They gave it out to all the fans at the end of the first season as sort of a highlight package/documentary and I actually have two copies of this on VHS in my room somehow. Unfortunately I don’t have  a VHS player, but one day I hope to be able to check them out in all their glory.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq8F3ynjzws

Every once in awhile I like to troll the Canadian Design Resource site (AMAZING!!!) and pick out things that have to do with Vancouver and re-appropriate them here so you can enjoy them and hopefully be inspired to visit the C.D.R.. Click the titles to check out the full posts…

Vancouver Roller Skating Club Decal

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Got this from the folks at Color mag this morning:

Skaters interested in entering the [Skate And Deploy] contest, there is a limited number of spots. The cost is $30.00, but that includes a ride from Van to Whis in the Coors Light limo/bus hosted by the Coors babes/free beer. You must be 19+. The bus will also take you back down to the city at 10pm.

Here’s the LINK to more info. If you skate and you’re kinda good and you like to drink beer then you can’t not enter. Even if you’re not that good if you calculate a bus/limo trip to Whistler and back with most likely all the beer you can drink: the Greyhound costs $48.80 + all the beer you can drink for $40 (I hope?) = $88.80. That’s a savings of $58.80. Basically you can’t afford not to enter this skate contest… and you could WIN money on top of those savings. F a recession!

Our next featured artist for The Proof is photographer Jeff Otto O-Brien, who’s work was recently selected for VIA’s Photo of The Week.  He is part of the upcoming group show, The New Photographers, which opens this weekend at Gallery Atsui. Instead of presenting images of material possessions and daily consumptions as a representation of his day-to-day, Jeff shares his ideas, intuitions and emotive states inspired by the rooted things in his environment.

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High Fiving Celebrities is a feature where we give high fives to random celebrities that we run into at the airport and in restaurants, stores, hotels, etc in Vancouver.

Last week I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Strombo for a Most Awesome interview that’ll be going up on the site this coming week. Before I started in with the questions I figured a high five was in order…

For all you nay sayers claiming that West Van is uneventful and banal…let me in on a little WV event that happens about this time every year. WEST VAN FLEA MARKET, is held at the ice arena juxtaposing the newly constructed West Van Rec Centre (SR…). As a warm up today, I hit up the St. David’s Baptist Flea market and picked up a sweet mountain lion poster. It starts at about 9 on Saturday and goes to about 2 i think. ITS HUGE, definitely worth a look

to get there, take a right off Marine heading west at 21st street then a left on gordon, should be parking there, underground parking or another lot on 22nd

I’m a sucker for landmarks…..