It is hard not to view this frozen waterfall as an artwork, but it only functions as art inadvertently. Its effect is quietly visceral, though, a response I don’t have to art often enough.
Waterfall
April 25, 2013
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Condo marketing company’s own employees posing as buyers from China to drive condo sales; busted by blog
February 14, 2013
On Thursday, February 14, Business in Vancouver ran a story detailing how the editor of a high-profile blog was being paid by a real estate marketing company to write about living in Vancouver’s pricey Olympic Village, without disclosing the fact to readers.
“Endgame Strategy” by Pulitzer Prizewinner Chris Hedges
June 24, 2011
“We will have to rapidly create small, monastic communities where we can sustain and feed ourselves. It will be up to us to keep alive the intellectual, moral and cultural values the corporate state has attempted to snuff out.”
If you think the essay below is apocalyptic raving, remember that Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer prize winner and former New York Times political journalist.
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Real estate speculation: high home purchase and rental prices in Vancouver & beyond
May 26, 2011
Photo of Vancouver by Colleen Hardwick
Vancouver is in the throes of a real estate gold rush. While Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and China have passed legal deterrents such as property speculation taxes on second homes, Vancouver (and all of British Columbia) have not.
The Man with the Golden Gun – James Bond
October 27, 2010
So this is how the last energy crisis looked, in spy fiction anyway. The James Bond film The Man With the Golden Gun, 1974, which unfortunately starred Roger Moore rather than Sean Connery, revolves around the capture of an innovative solar energy device funded by the villain Scaramanga and coveted by MI5, which desires the world-dominating powers it confers for itself.
The Cowichan sweater of Vancouver Island
December 21, 2009
The late Amelia Charlie, prominent designer and promoter of the Cowichan sweater
Above is an example of the Cowichan sweater (photo courtesy Cowichan Tribes).
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Depth in surfaces – Wang Shu’s Ningbo Museum
May 4, 2009
Museum designed and built as if by archeological time. The Ningbo Historic Museum was designed by Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio. Photos by Iwan Baan, via archdaily.
Round windows
January 6, 2009
Why are round windows so uncommon in North America? Not a rhetorical question. When you do see them here, either in house or garden, they seem magical and out of the ordinary. Round, eye-level windows are quite prevalent in many other places, including Central and South America, the Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe.
Street Use – “The street finds its own uses for things.”
December 9, 2008
This post is about design in the broadest sense, as a process of problem-solving that leads to interesting and strangely compelling solutions. Above is an improvised streetcleaner in China found on Street Use, a truly fascinating blog about DIY and general inventiveness.
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