I have been working on a short film the last while, and now it’s finished! It’s a compact one minute and twenty five seconds impression of Vancouver. I did the photography and image manipulation, Alex did the editing and music. Please have a look, and if you like it, forward it on to your friends! [...]
We’re still wondering how exactly to describe the experience. Many people told us a lot about it before, and they all said that you can’t really explain or understand it till you’ve been there yourself. To an extent it’s true – I think though mostly because everybody lives and experiences the city differently, and so [...]
We’re just back from Burning Man – more about that later, but first a short post about solar cooking! Prior to Burning Man, I made a solar cooker based on the CooKit plan – it cost about $10 in materials (a mylar emergency blanket, some thin (3mm) chipboard, and glue), and took about 2 hours [...]
As a last trip before we leave, we went for 3 days to Mayne Island. Mayne Island is one of the small Gulf Islands between BC and Vancouver Island, and a very pretty one it is! We got the bus to Tsawwassen, the ferry over to the island, and then cycled the 2km from there [...]