CBC Vancouver reporter Rafferty Baker works the late/overnight shift gathering and reporting the news to us, which means he gets to see all sides of our city from its ugliest tragedies to its most beautiful sunrises. He says that "After midnight, a lot of times the stories are bad news — violent crimes, crashes, house fires. But we live in a beautiful city and at night, Vancouver can absolutely sparkle at times".
Since February Baker has been gathering pieces of that sparkle in the form of time lapse video clips which he has put together into this video below accompanied by a track by Lee Rosevere, the sound guy on CBC's Early Edition. Every few months you'll see one of these appear and while they're usually awe inspiring there's generally no context, no back story aside from dazzling imagery. In this case we've got a man who as a profession is paid to peek into the darkest corners of the city and report them back to us, and as a larger personal project has delivered the brightest. Sure there are fire engines in there at the 1:30 mark, but overall this piece is just the best.
h/t CBC Vancouver
