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…and all over Vancity,
indie bands were playing,
some sweet little dittys.
If you missed ANY of these shows, you missed some very good music.
Saturday the 12th:
Jody Glenham & Aidan Knight @ The Media Club, Lab Magazine Party
Tonight there is a group photography show at Anti Social that I am taking part in. The theme is favorite photographs, photographs that you have taken, photographs taken of you and or the photographs you find that are your favorites!
Anti Social Gallery 8pm- 11pm
2337 main st.
After Party at Fortune 147 E. Pender st
Free all night long with stamp from Anti Social
Even if you’re not a ‘gamer’ I think you might be excited about attending this thing that The PuSh Festival is putting on and that we’re co-sponsoring. Basically 200 people hang out at the Cultch and play an interactive video game together. Everybody has a controller. It’s gonna be nuts…
photo: jeremy lim
The official word from PuSh:
The PuSh Festival needs your help! We are looking for 400 participants over 2 sessions (that’s 200 people a test) to be a part of the development and testing of a brand new work entitled Best Before that the PuSh Festival has commissioned from the renowned German theatre company Rimini Protokoll. This show will premiere in late January 2010 as part of the PuSh Festival.
A large part of this show involves an interactive video game, with each of the 200 audience members participating with their own game controller. In the late stages of development we need YOU to help us test this complex gaming system prior to the opening of the show.
WHEN: Friday, January 22nd from 7pm – 9:30pm and Monday, January 25th from 7pm – 9:30pm.
WHERE: Historic Theatre at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (Venables @ Victoria)
WHY: Because you will be previewing ground breaking theatre and video game technology as it continues to move towards production.
HOW: If you want to attend please R.S.V.P. to PuSh’s Associate Producer Dani Fecko at dani@pushfestival.ca
About the project:
Best Before pulls the multi-player video game out of the virtual realm and plugs it into an intimate theatre setting. A simulated city evolves as each of 200 spectators add their personal touch, game controller in hand. At first you are an anonymous avatar but then you take on human dimensions as audience members clash, collaborate and negotiate the forces that shape reality here in the third millennium.
The work of Rimini Protokoll is a theatre of Münchausian escapades. Having created over 20 new works – all sharing a very distinct house style – the company has attracted attention throughout Europe for blurring the line between reality and fiction. With non-actors such as construction flaggers, game designers, professors of pathology, elderly women, unemployed air traffic controllers and retired miniature train enthusiasts, “experts in daily life” are the real protagonists for Rimini Protokoll.
Just when I thought the Japanese izakaya boom was starting to slow down in Vancouver, one of the more venerable members of the scene opens a fifth location in the Lower Mainland! Guu Garden launched with little fanfare in late December and buzz is just now starting to build via blogs and social sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks to a last minute change in plans, I had the opportunity to stop by for dinner recently, and first impressions were very good. The menu is a bit more limited than at other locations and oden is prominently featured, but there are lots of old favorites and new creations for all to enjoy. In short, Guu Garden definitely lives up to the well-established Guu reputation! Read on for more details and photos…
Nicole Phillips aka visualheart, is a Graphic Designer and artist, she spends most of her days at an agency in Yaletown. Outside of the 9-5, she freelances, crafts and writes her blog, visualheart.com. On her blog you can find recipe adventures with photos, design work, photography and her retro/vintage collectables. Nicole also enjoys the home design industry, since her family runs a business on the North Shore (coordinatedkitchens.com).
The Proof
1. A shelf in my apartment holds a few of my collections: old toy piano, vintage suitcase, avocado plant, vintage Coca Cola mirror, cameras: Holga and Polaroid.
2. 1980′s toy collection: Fraggle Rock, Simpsons, Gumby, Troll and more.
3. My desk at work, this is where I spend most of my days, complete with a glowing rock, piggy bank and pen tablet instead of mouse.
4. The office space, it’s a big old loft style building in the heart of Yaletown. You can find out more at cowieandfox.com.
5. Capilano River in North Van. The North Shore is where I grew up, so it’s always nice to spend hot summer days down in the river exploring with my boyfriend, dipping our feet in the icy waters.
6. For 2 winters in a row, my banner designs for Dunbar Village have been spreading the joy!
7. One of the recipe adventures you’ll find on my blog, visualheart.com. It’s a black bean burrito. nom nom nom.
8. One of my recent crafting projects: feather headbands with vintage jewelry attached.
The Questions
What do you do and where?
I’m a Graphic Designer and Artist. I work full time at Cowie and Fox and I do freelance occasionally on the side.
What neighborhood do you live in?
Kitsilano.
What are you working on?
Learning how to be a senior designer, it’s tough work managing interns!
Photography skills.
Obsessing over interior design, furniture, vintage collectibles, old cameras, shoes..etc…
Helping my boyfriend hunt down cart photos for his blog: jwalkerandrew.wordpress.com/
Where can we find your work?
visualheart.com
cowieandfox.com
follow me: twitter.com/visualheart
Not long ago I shared the free suspension bridge in Lynn Canyon with you. Did you check it out? If not I just found this virtual tour to whet your whistle a little more. You can click through and “walk” across that bridge and poke around other areas of the park. The site doesn’t appear to be a part of any sort of parks board but some sortof independent effort at promoting it. Cool.
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