Archive for January, 2010

Contrary to our original plan of simply gleaning peripheral stories here and there, we’ve actually got quite a bit of coverage of the 2010 Games planned for next month. We’ve got folks attending a bunch of Cultural Olympiad shows (starting tonight with Phoenix!), we’ll be blogging from our Awesome Showcase at Shine delivering stories from out-of-towners and their experiences in our city and even though we got denied media accreditation some of us might even be attending some sporting events as fans with point and shoot cameras. Go figure.

All of that being said, I think what I’m most excited to report to you is that our DAILY FLICKR PICKR series of photos that we post from our Flickr pool will be all Olympics themed until the closing ceremonies. Every day we’ll be bringing a new image that one of our readers has uploaded to our pool that is somehow Games related, making our Olympic coverage your Olympic coverage! I believe we’re still allowed to use the “O” word up until February 12th but if I am mistaken then you will see this title change from “Your Olympic Coverage” to “Your Fun Time Non Summer Sporting Contest Coverage” soon enough.

So join our Flickr pool and upload your photos!

Today’s DAILY FLICKR PICKR is a photo courtesy of Clayton Perry, and the title is “With Glowing Hearts”:

We’re giving away two free passes to the Grassroots Wedding Fair taking place this Saturday, January the 30th at the Heritage Hall! All you have to do is leave a comment after this post telling us where your significant other proposed to you. We’ll randomly select a winner on Wednesday.

The Grassroots Wedding Fair will help you plan a local, green wedding that truly reflects how you’ve chosen to live. Come meet, and try the wares, of the artisans, businesses and service providers who can help you make your wedding green and locally rooted. Have a look at TheGrassrootsWeddingFair.com for more info!

Over the next few days I’m going to be sharing some of the Google maps that have been put together by the city as a part of their Open Data Catalogue project. Originally it was a bit Jonny Mnemonic and I was struggling to find actual uses for the data they were providing (which is available in all sorts of computer languages and database formats) but with their 2.0 launch it’s definitely something that normal folks are able to benefit from.

Here’s a Google map of all of the community centres in the city!

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If you haven’t heard of The Zolas yet you’ve been missing out.

You might recognize musical partners Zach Gray and Tom Dobrzanski from the former Vancouver band Lotus Child, but more recently …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>

The cats rule East Vancouver. They’re everywhere…sidewalks, roads, hiding in doorways, supervising stores, sprawled out anywhere to have a bath. The cats I meet while wandering through East Van are probably all house-pets but it’s not clear who ‘owns’ them. Cats are all about territory, but all space is public to them.

Stay tuned…When the project is finished I hope to have photographed every one of the East Van Cats!

Contrary to our original plan of simply gleaning peripheral stories here and there, we’ve actually got quite a bit of coverage of the 2010 Games planned for next month. We’ve got folks attending a bunch of Cultural Olympiad shows (starting tonight with Phoenix!), we’ll be blogging from our Awesome Showcase at Shine delivering stories from out-of-towners and their experiences in our city and even though we got denied media accreditation some of us might even be attending some sporting events as fans with point and shoot cameras. Go figure.

All of that being said, I think what I’m most excited to report to you is that our DAILY FLICKR PICKR series of photos that we post from our Flickr pool will be all Olympics themed until the closing ceremonies. Every day we’ll be bringing a new image that one of our readers has uploaded to our pool that is somehow Games related, making our Olympic coverage your Olympic coverage! I believe we’re still allowed to use the “O” word up until February 12th but if I am mistaken then you will see this title change from “Your Olympic Coverage” to “Your Fun Time Non Summer Sporting Contest Coverage” soon enough.

So join our Flickr pool and upload your photos!

Today’s DAILY FLICKR PICKR is a photo courtesy of Susan Gittins, and the title is “Fleet of Official Vancouver 2010 Vehicles at Olympic Village”:

With 20,475 artists, boasting 90,499 tracks, the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada. Recently relaunched with some fancy new tools for members (free to join!), we’re taking advantage of what they’ve set up by bringing you a fresh batch of music every week featuring local groups who have tracks (entire albums, even!) on the R3 site.

This week we’re excited to bring you Bend Sinister frontman, Dan Moxon, as our guest ‘lister! Dan’s band took 3rd place – $50,000 – in the first Peak Performance Project which wrapped up last week! Click below to listen to his playlist containing some of his favourite songs by Vancouver artists.

photo: adamandkev.com

Many other concerts happened last week (not just the PPP finale) and I managed to get out to see two of these shows on Wednesday & Thursday… …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>