Posts Tagged ‘Chinatown’
Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
Men in British Columbia, 1859, one in a newly discovered collection of early photographs of white settlers and First Nations in B.C. Via Vancouver Sun © Royal British Columbia Museum, reprinted with permission
An abridged version of this essay has been published in the May/June 2015 issue of Briarpatch Magazine
I am probably as bored of casual hipster-slagging as you are.
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Tags: 1886, 1890s, 1910, antiquarian, antlers, Asiatic Exclusion League, beards, Chinatown, class tourism, colonial, colonialism, Depression era, Downtown Eastside, First Nations, gentrification, Glen Coulthard, Head Tax, heritage hipster, hewers of wood and drawers of water, hipster, hipsters, Idle No More, Japanese internment, Komagata Maru, Lumberjoke, Lumbersexual, male, Mamie Taylor's, masculinity, middle class, plaid, Portlandia, revivalism, settler, settler colonial, settlers, Tsilhqot'in, Vancouver, white supremacy
Posted in British Columbia, Canadian design, cities, craft, design, DIY, fashion, politics, Vancouver | 26 Comments »
Thursday, May 29th, 2014
This made me laugh quite hard.
Also, courtesy of the enjoyable fuckyournoguchitable tumblr: antlers, actual real taxidermy, fake taxidermy, steer skull and cardboard antlers.
Meanwhile, as Vancouver’s historic Chinatown gets very quickly gentrified–evacuations of historic businesses, sales and demolitions of buildings, and the erection of new glass luxury condos—we see it filling up with upscale little restaurants and cafes full of… antlers.
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Tags: antlers, Chinatown, death of design, design magazine, frontiersman, gentrification, great white hunter, heritage hipster, hipster, pioneer, settler, taxidermy, Vision Vancouver
Posted in Canadian design, politics, urban planning, Vancouver | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
The frantic festival of demolition continues in Vancouver, a city whose demolition rate is double that of Toronto’s. And Toronto is no paragon of heritage either.
The City of Vancouver is attempting to force demolition of the 122 year-old building which belongs to the Ming Sun Benevolent Society. The building, on a significant block of Vancouver’s vanishing old Japantown, functioned as a clean well-run SRO with eight units and a community reading and meeting room, all above an extensive cultural space rented out to an art collective called Instant Coffee.
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Tags: 19th C, Chinatown, City Hall, demolition, eviction, Gregor Robertson, heritage, history, Instant Coffee, Japantown, Ming Sun Benevolent Association, Penny Ballem, tirade, Vancouver, Vision Vancouver, wooden building
Posted in architecture, art, British Columbia, Canadian design, cities, politics, urban planning, Vancouver | No Comments »
Sunday, February 17th, 2013
Everybody works but the vacant lot, Henry George as quoted by Fay Lewis
This is a parody artwork at Vancouver’s 221A Artist-Run Centre, parodying the “Micro Loft” building being erected next door to it in the current lightning-fast condo land rush taking place in Chinatown.
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Tags: 221A Artist-run Centre, 221A East Georgia, Alex Grünenfelder, art, Chinatown, condos, genfrification, parody, property speculation, shoebox, speculation, unaffordability
Posted in art, British Columbia, cities, design, favourite, politics, urban planning, Vancouver | No Comments »
Friday, September 25th, 2009
Artwork by Martin Creed, installed on the Wing Sang building in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Artwork and building are owned by collector and condo marketer Bob Rennie. Photo from Kathy Stillwell. More information here.
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Tags: anxiety, art, art collector, Bob Rennie, capitals, Chinatown, irony, Martin Creed, neon, Pender Street, Vancouver, Wing Sang Building
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
These photographs are from my husband grandparents’ house, a blue Edwardian two-storey that still stands in Strathcona, Vancouver’s oldest residential neighbourhood. The house is less than a block away from our studio and very close to where we both live. Strathcona was – and is – home to many of Vancouver’s early Chinese immigrants.
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Tags: 1950s, 1950s electric guitar, architecture, armchair, Chan, Chinatown, Chinese Exclusion Act, decor, Downtown Eastside, family history, immigrant experience, immigrants, immigration, interior design, interiors, Keefer Street, sparseness, Strathcona, Vancouver, Vancouver house, Vancouver's East End
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