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Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.

LB — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:30:30 +0000

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.

Application to the City of Vancouver to develop an abysmal chasm for purposes of facilitating public reverie

LB — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:32:53 +0000

“Application to the City of Vancouver to develop an abysmal chasm for purposes of facilitating public reverie, contemplation and longing.” Makes me laugh every time I look at it. By my friend & Vancouver artist Aaron Carpenter.

Door canopy by architect Robert Kleyn

LB — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:00:34 +0000

Beautiful canopy by Robert Kleyn for Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. The design of this canopy is clever not just because it’s a visually interesting addition to an otherwise aggressively plain warehouse, but also because it effectively deflects wind in what is an exposed windy laneway.

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101 Nights

LB — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:09:54 +0000

Add a ladle every night
To every ladle, add a light

101 Nights is an art installation by Vancouver writer and broadcaster Bill Richardson, and it ended tonight on the winter solstice.

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Now that it’s November this is known as a “fall pumpkin carving.”

LB — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:15:14 +0000

Hallowe’en is over but this fantastic Japanese raccoon figure survives. I wish it could stay there all winter. It was seen at this cool little bungalow – brick, which is unusual for Vancouver – a block away from the studio.

Urban Farm on Vancouver’s infamous Hastings Street

LB — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:26:53 +0000

The above location is about 2 blocks north of where I live and work, and if you walk down to the water another 7 or 8 blocks to the northwest, you’re standing on the birthplace of Vancouver.

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So you think you’d like to live in a church…

LB — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:22:18 +0000

When I was a kid my parents had Arlo Guthrie’s record Alice’s Restaurant , a spoken folk song plus narrative set in a converted church in Massachusetts in the sixties, and I knew the full monologue off by heart.

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Dram lamp by Propellor, made from vintage tumblers

LB — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:25:03 +0000

This fantastic new pendant lamp or chandelier is by my friends Propellor, an award winning collaboration of three Vancouver designers whose ridiculously beautiful studio is a few blocks from mine.

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Chan family house in 1950s Vancouver

LB — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:55:07 +0000

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.

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These are the people in your neighborhood.

LB — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:11:17 +0000

Yesterday a police officer came to my door and asked me if he and his team could use my backyard as a stakeout for something going down in the alleyway. Of course I said sure.

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