There is an omlet in this weeks batch of feed food: Christopher Niemann repurposes Google Map aethetics to make cleaver pictures. Jordon Cooper points to a beautiful tilt-pan movie of my favourite city: New York. Laura McGrath’s blog. A new friend and colleague.
Chewing on these: Performing the world is a conference in New York this fall. Teaching social media to environmental activists. Lianne Raymond gives the gift of words for International Women’s Day. Rob Paterson on new careers in sustainability. Andre Hardin posts an outstanding video of a Rube Goldberg machine from the band OK Go. Jordon Cooper with a nice find: a video about the photographer BlueJake of New York City.
Back to the weekly collection of interesting finds: Rob Paterson fins cool stuff on the new shape of non profit boards. Viv McWaters on how she decides to say yes to a job. Rolling Stone on Wall Street’s trickery. Harper’s on the junior hockey life in Flin Flon, late 1990s. No gold medal glamour there. New York Times on the sound of a close finish at the Olympics You Tube: a stunning clip of a high tension power line worker. Stunning
The view from my home island, Bowen Island, looking across the Queen Charlotte Channel to Cypress Bowl, where the freestyle skiing events will be held during the Olympics. It’s 10 degrees and raining, and that cloud deck shows no sign of lifting. Yes there is very little snow. It’s February in Vancouver. It’s always like this. In fact I should have had my snow tires off the car two weeks ago. Daffodils are coming up and spring is just around the corner.
Been here nearly a week now and I’m starting to get a very limited sense of this incredible place. I have a few random thoughts and notes, offered up as they come to mind. *** I visited The Apartheid Museum today. The museum sits next to a small amusement park with roller coasters and helicopter rides. The screams from the roller coaster and the thwapping of the helicopters could be heard at the museum and had the unnerving effect of recreating the soundscape from the late 1980s when the state of emergency was in effect here and helicopters and screams …