We’ve been fortunate to have quite a few sunny days for this winter of 2013/14. Who in Vancouver wouldn’t want more sunshine when we mostly get dripping, grey days? Video was shot handheld with my Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone. Continue reading Olympic Village Sunshine
It’s been over two and half years since the Winter Olympics and Paralympics took their show out of town. The legacy of the Olympic Village, now renamed the Village at False Creek is still up in the air. However, the Village has started to have some life come to it. A friend invited me down there to take some photos. I haven’t had the chance … Continue reading Photographing False Creek at Dusk
To ease up on the time it takes me to blog and to force me to work with my photos more, I am starting a weekly Friday Foto Feature. I take a lot of photos during the year, but I am one big lazy arse when it comes to processing my photos. For a while the last photos I had worked on were from the … Continue reading Friday Foto Feature (2010.09.10)
For all the controversy about the Olympic Village leading up to these games, it seems that the Village has gotten a good reception from the athletes. VANOC has their own promotional video about the Village, but the word from the cyberworld of the athletes is that they have been impressed. Continue reading Glimpse of Olympic Village
I’m really starting to chomp at the bit to ride the demonstration streetcar, aka the Olympic Line, between Olympic Village station on the Canada Line and Granville Island. The Buzzer Blog has a post on the event and there are quite a few videos online for some lucky few who got to ride the rails early. Stephen Rees and the Transit Fan from re:place magazine … Continue reading Demo Streetcar to run Jan 21st, 2010
I’m surprised I didn’t come across this video earlier. The video is from May 2009 and is a time-lapse (albeit in reverse) of a run along the Canada Line from Waterfront Station all the way to the airport. The video actually stops short of YVR station, which is a shame. However, it gives you an idea of how the line will feel like if you … Continue reading Canada Line preview – time lapse video
In Vancouver, we’ve got some new garbage cans rolling out around the city. I’ve seen them in two different places – the Cambie Village and Southeast False Creek. These huge black garbage cans are known as BigBellys. As one of my friends told me, an regular garbage can often has to be emptied twice a day. Imagine all those cans along Robson Street. Maybe those … Continue reading More About Garbage
Paul Hillsdon Paul has written a quick little post on Vancouver borrowing a couple of Bombardier Flexity Streetcars for the Olympics as part of the city’s streetcar demonstration project. That we don’t have such streetcars running permanently is really sort of a downer. Check out Paul’s brief post and you can also follow details at the City of Vancouver streetcar page. We’ll take what we … Continue reading Streetcars to be loaned from Brussels to Vancouver
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