Archive for April, 2009

My good friend Kelsey Plummer has put together a great little PSA about Coyotes. He is just one peach of the great harvest of young filmmakers coming out of Vancouver. Enjoy Kelsey’s latest and greatest.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R5ctpz93b4

Every week we show you one of our favourite photos pulled from our Flickr pool, but have you ever gone in and taken a peek around at all of the amazing images that we don’t show you? There’s so many gems in there, picking a single one every week is a nearly impossible task (sorry, Jennilee!). Here’s a few of them to give you an idea:

Sorry it took so long but you can now keep up to speed with VancouverIsAwesome.com on Twitter. In fact, you could possibly be the very first person to keep up to speed with VancouverIsAwesome.com on Twitter…

A few minutes from good ol Metrotown mall is Deer Lake (just east of Royal Oak, south of Burnaby Central high school, Burnaby City Hall and the Bby Po Po) and its got a nice set of trails around it. Have a look…

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Perched high atop what might very possibly be not simply a branchless, dead tree but maybe a giant log uprighted into these people’s yard (I’m really not sure) is quite the impressive multi-storied birdhouse.

This thing rules, if you have photographed a more awesome birdhouse in the city I would love to see it. Here’s another photo of the thing and the actual house behind it…
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Over the coming months, in conjunction with artist Jeremy Shaw, we’ll be bringing you images from his project Something’s Happening Here that we previously told you about!

Jeremy Shaw’s Something’s Happening Here is a year-long public poster project mounted as part of the 2009 Cultural Olympiad that memorializes and celebrates the legacies of past civic events, notably those of Expo ’86. Shaw’s images include current and archival photographs of buildings and sites from Vancouver’s iconic World’s Fair, as well as news articles, promotional materials, and souvenir ephemera from the era. These images are used to create street-style posters that will be distributed across the city of Vancouver, beginning in late February 2009 and continuing during the run-up to, and through to the beginning of the 2010 Olympic Games. Something’s Happening Here is intended to open a discussion on how global events like Expo and the Olympics impact on the creation of civic space through an architectural legacy of buildings and monuments, and significantly, how such events live on through a collective civic memory. In redeploying images that invoke a recently bygone era, Something’s Happening Here affects a momentary, recuperative snapshot of Vancouver’s history on the cusp of a new moment.

I hope you’ve got a few minutes because here are images of the first 3 posters along with a ton of photo documentation of them all over town…
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We told you about OFFICE BOOYZ a little while back…

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P3 is a Vancouver audio podcast put together by Elianna Lev. Audio stories where she interviews musicians, her friends, people who make cool stuff out of roadkill, etc etc etc…

Have a look/listen.
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