Posts Tagged ‘vancouver’
Vancouver, Japanada - editor’s picks
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Vantrealonto is Awesome
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Photos by Jef Choy from vancouverisawesome.com
The phenomenon is spreading like wildfire through the cold Canadian winter.
It has become indisputable that Awesomeness abounds and people seem to want to join in.
And apparently, though this one is up for debate, Toronto is Awesome too.
The awesomeness is chalk full of city photos, city happenings, and all things, well, city awesome in their respective locales…
Vancouver - Downtown Eastside
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Vignettes of the disenfranchised and dispossessed who call Vancouver’s troubled Downtown Eastside neighbourhood their home. From the blog of filmmaker Austin Andrews.
Also, a related video from Homeless Nation a web based project of the NFB , a group of Eastside residents speak out about homelessness.
Dope sick and broke, Phil “gets better” in the alley behind Insite, the government-funded supervised injection site. He doesn’t like shooting in the alleys, where police take a harder stance, but would rather take the chance than queue for a spot inside. “Ten minutes is a long time to wait when you’ve got heroin in your hands.” The high is gone in another ten.
Eat fresh? Bear self-serves @ Subway in Vancouver
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Image taken by 顔なし, Flickr Creative Commons
This year in British Colombia there have been a proliferation of bear attacks. Vinnie Jones, the all round UK ruffian (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) was apparently terrorized by the bears on a recent trip to the Western Canadian outback.
It isn’t only reserved for far the hinterland regions. The Vancouver region saw a serious mauling a few weeks ago. Is this the natural conclusion to seamlessly attaching a lush forested city to a vast rain forest?
Fortunately, in this instance the bear was only going in for the kill on the all-dressed twelve inch veggie special. A young bear with questionable table manners opened the door to a Subway restaurant and then sniffed around before leaving. The bears every move was caught on the store’s security camera.
In New York, the reverse is true — this is what kind of bears you get if you cover every inch of a town in concrete and packs things so tight you have to put the trains under the ground, with only the air grates to breathe from… this is an entirely different sort of subway.
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