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Protected: Enzo Mari’s classic 1970s chair modified by artists and designers – Presentation House Gallery auction

LB — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:29:00 +0000

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The brightest light in Vancouver is a giant digital billboard! Welcome to Idiocracy!

LB — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:30:47 +0000

I took this photo from my dentist’s office late on a dark November afternoon. That bright light in the upper right by the stadium is a giant electronic screen billboard. It’s one of 3 or 4 such billboards ringing Vancouver’s largest stadium, despite the fact that there are Vancouver by-laws forbidding such signs.

Test Pattern Dress by Douglas Coupland

LB — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:24:02 +0000

Doug Coupland (author of “Generation X” as well as an artist and designer) has done a line of casual clothes and accessories for the Canadian company Roots. The t-shirt dress is instantly classic.

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Montreal vs. Vancouver Olympics graphics – a little comparative photo essay

LB — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:36 +0000

Ignoring the problems of hosting the Olympics, which are serious and many (and as a Vancouverite I’m speaking from experience), let’s just compare the graphic design from two different Canadian Olympics.

William Gibson, Douglas Coupland and other Vancouverites speak out

LB — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:57:03 +0000

A number of Vancouver’s most high-profile cultural figures have spoken out recently about the British Columbia government’s recent assault on arts and culture.

Douglas Coupland’s magical white house

LB — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:33:36 +0000

This is by far one of my favourite houses in Vancouver. It’s in the municipality of West Vancouver, home to many of the best modern houses in the city, and it belongs to the novelist Douglas Coupland.

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Interiors from the film Tommy, 1975

LB — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:50:04 +0000

Ann Margret as Nora Walker Hobbs in Ken Russell’s 1975 film “Tommy.” This scene, not to mention the whole film, was absolutely formative for me (and apparently I’m not alone).

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Douglas Coupland’s Canada House

LB — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:03:44 +0000

The writer Douglas Coupland (“Generation X”), who has been interested in Canadiana for a long time, recently went about finding a classic 70s “builder’s special” house slated for demolition, filled it with objects constructed from the Canadian paraphernalia of his childhood, and then staged a party in it.

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