Archive for August, 2011

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!)

A really sweet photograph, one that I thought you might enjoy, comes to today us courtesy of Keath Ling. You could either look at it as an awesome shot of a seagull in action and a child happened to be there, or as a cute photo of a child who is enthralled by – and simultaneously learning about – the power of the ocean just as a seagull enters the frame. Doesn’t really matter, as the resulting shot is pretty darn fantastic. And absolutely adorable.

From the recently pier-free Jericho Beach, and hot off the press, is AUG30.

(for that child’s sake, I hope that this seagull doesn’t possess the same pin-point accuracy and dry sense of humour as the one that flew over me in North Burnaby on Sunday)

Gary

It’s a new dog once a week! Click here to find out how to get your dog posted if you haven’t sent in your photos yet!

Today’s dog featured in Dogtown Vancouver is Mona, Billy L’s pup. Here’s what he had to say about her…

NAME: Mona. BREED: Shihtzu. HOOD: Port Coquitlam. FAVOURITE SNACK: Taste of the Wild Wetland Duck Formula. OTHER INFO: Mona came to us from Texas, when we first got her we noticed that she had a gimp arm as soon as she arrived. We soon found out it was permanently dislocated and that it will never stay in place. Given the news, we were advised by the doctor to send her back to Texas, amputate, or put her down. If we were to send her back to Texas it would have been her death sentence. As devastated as it was to know she will never walk on 4 legs, we decided that when we picked her we would raise her no matter what. She is now 7 months old and is a speed demon, running around terrorizing our other shihtzu, Koko. She also has limited function with her left arm where she actively punches our faces every day when we try to kiss her good night. We fell in love with her since we first met her and even on 3 legs, she is happy as can be. If you’re interested in adopting a pet, check out our Happy Tails feature. If you adopted your pet from the SPCA and would like to share your awesome story on Happy Tails, send an email to Rory.Blanchard@novusnow.ca.

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Last year Erin Sinclair and Jason Uglanica launched the book, This Is East Van, containing photos shot by community members from all walks of life depicting what East Vancouver means to them. As they’ve recently made their CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for a second edition we thought it’d be cool to share with you some of the two editors of the next one’s personal favourite images from the first one, which you can still purchase HERE. The project is fully volunteer based and portions of the proceeds are donated to a local non-profit voted on by the photographers featured in the book.

Check out some of Rob Forbes’ and Erin Sinclair’s favourite images below, along with their thoughts on each of them…

Snow Day
Robert Dall

Erin: It is not often that you see Vancouver covered in snow. I lived not far from this park for a few years and the view is a familiar one. Although, it was usually a scene of summer time picnicking, Fall leaves, or (more often than not) rainy, wet grass and umbrellas. Never have I seen it covered in snow, kids and toboggans. That is probably what I love most about …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>

Last week Rick Hansen gave V.I.A. readers a VIRTUAL HIGH FIVE from Newfoundland as he set out on his 25th Anniversary Relay. As we reported, the relay consists of 7,000 participants from across Canada who have made a difference in their own communities and in the lives of others. They’ll be walking, wheeling and running in the nine-month, 12,000 kilometre Relay that retraces the route of Rick’s original Man In Motion Tour through 600 communities.

Instead of a baton or a torch each of the 7,000 participants will be passing this fine silver medallion across the country, to ultimately wind up here in Vancouver on May 22nd, 2012. It was produced by the Royal Canadian Mint who have also made participant medals as keepsakes as well as a smaller replica that anybody can PURCHASE off of their web site. Included in every purchase is a $2 donation to the Rick Hansen Foundation.

I had the pleasure of speaking with the Senior Engraver on the project, Susan Taylor. Susan has 30 years of experience and her role in this project was to develop the artistic design of the medallion and work with engineers to make something extra special, and I think you’ll agree that’s exactly what it is.

Photo: Erin Taylor

Start to finish it took about 3 months and Susan had a team of 12 people working on it, inspired and guided by Rick and the crew at his foundation. If you look closely below at this photo of the front of the medallion you’ll notice that there’s a subtle pattern on it. That’s the texture of the palm of an actual …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>

Thrice weekly I bring you personified pieces of our city. Reaching into all of the different neighbourhoods I collect images of all types of inanimate objects, then bring them to life!

OBJECT: Rescue buoy
NEIGHBOURHOOD: Kitsilano

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Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!)

Today I found myself with a craving; I was looking for a photograph that was, at it’s core, a study of lines. It could have been subconscious, or perhaps not – but when I saw the image below I new that it was just what I needed.

Submitted by Patti (who may have the best Flickr handle in vermillion$baby), the photo also reveals a stark contrast in bridge design over a span of a half-century and strong, ordered lines throughout. A long focal length helps to compress the depth, and extra bonus points for capturing the traffic actually moving on the Pattullo Bridge. This is Off into the wild blue yonder…

Gary

Leigh here, with an update from the PEAK Performance Project Bootcamp (Christine McAvoy would have done this but she’s busy shooting and editing super rad photos of everything we’re doing, so she asked me to jump in and post an update). We’ve been here for 5 spectacular days, and I know the artists must be learning an amazing amount because I am, and I’m here as Music BC staff.

Interested to see what we’ve been up to? Christine has posted photos from every day on Facebook. Click through the photos to see more!

Stay tuned to the PEAK Performance Project Facebook and Twitter pages for more updates as they happen!

This series had its genesis when I began photographing Vancouver area location shoots last summer to get over a long post-Olympics funk. Film and TV productions like This Means War, Mission Impossible 4, Fringe and the new AMC series The Killing showcase our city in similar fashion and sometimes put a celebrity actor or two in the frame.

Friday night delayed-viewing hit Fringe did something unprecedented with its third season finale: it made Peter Bishop, one of its trio of main characters, cease to exist and asked Joshua Jackson, the actor who plays him, not to appear in the show for an unspecified amount of time in the fourth season filming  now.

It appears much has changed since Peter Bishop averted the apocalyptic future of season three and created a bridge where Fringe’s two warring parallel universes could cross over and interact. Early episodes of season four are said to focus on what the lives of his beloved Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) and ”father” Walter Bishop (John Noble) , as well as their alternate universe dopplegangers Fauxlivia (also Torv) and Walternate (also Noble), would be like without him. Lives that are not necessarily worse in the two universes, just different, except for Walter, who is a very sad man without Peter, as you can see in the photo below of Torv and Noble filming a scene of the two of them sitting on the back of an ambulance.

FOX began promoting the upcoming Fringe season with a sublimal teaser which spelled out “Where is Peter Bishop?” backwards and there have been several more teasers since, as well as promos for the aptly-named premiere, Neither Here Nor There, the latest of which appeared last night during a FOX commercial break. And of course the Twitter-savvy Fringe has its own hashtag #WhereisPeterBishop?

Filming of the season four opener began in mid-July and included a stint inside the old Terminal City Ironworks compound …READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY>>>