Archive for the ‘Vancouver’ Category

English Bay and Grouse Mountain

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Last Thursday and Friday we had lovely weather, and Chrissi had her two days off – we had a nice time of it!  On Thursday we went down to the beach just below Burrard bridge, had a burger at a promenade vendor, sat in the sand and took photos for my film project (more on [...]

What is Vancouver?

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

A few days ago, I was inspired by the short film Bathtub IV (have a look at the other films too!), so today I wanted to see if I could do it too.  Those films are done with special tilt-shift lenses, but with imagemagick and some batch scripts, I’ve been able to replicate the style [...]

Jenga – Canadian style

Friday, April 17th, 2009

There’s something really funny going on with a house down the road from us – it looks like they’re playing Jenga with it!  They’ve stripped the inside, stripped the outside, and put the whole house up on four Jenga towers, and are digging underneath.  I guess they’re putting in a basement, but it seems like [...]

A walk around East Vancouver

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

A diary entry long after the date, but it was a nice walk and some nice photos, so it deserves a short entry. We walked down commercial drive, turned left on Venebals, and then meandered through to Chinatown.  On our way we saw some cool graffiti, a totally covered pedestrian overpass over the railway lines, [...]