My friend Rebecca is doing some Olympic coverage for News 1130 and went for a quick tour today….I tagged along with my camera: I’m kind of a news nerd…my clock radio wakes me up with News 1130 and I listen to it a lot while commuting. It was pretty cool to meet some of the…
Inspired by kk’s bag photo, I thought I’d document ‘most’ of what I’ll be carrying around with me during the Olympic Games at any given time. I’ll most likely change things up depending on where I’m going to be on a given day but this stuff won’t be far from me at all times. Click…
I was invited to check out two prototype models of Chevy’s upcoming Volt plug-in electric vehicle today. I can safely say nobody has ever offered to let me drive a pre-production vehicle before so I jumped at the chance. These cars were handmade in at GM’s design factory and are in town during the Olympics…
Bridges on Granville Island has been taken over and become the House of Switzerland during the Games. I attended their open house and got a preview of some of the things they have planned. The lineup was around the building: The place was PACKED! One neat feature of the House of Switzerland is the in-house…
This morning, Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia opened the BC International Media Centre and took the first ‘official’ ride on the zipline over Robson Square: I said ‘official’ because ZipTrek staff have apparently been riding it for a few days testing it all out…after seeing the Premier on it today, I can’t wait for…
One of the cooler benefits the Olympic Games brings to the host city is all kinds of side events. The Cultural Olympiad is one of them and tonight was the preview for the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition (CODE). Located at a number of locations around Vancouver, this post will cover some of the current installations…
Today I paid a visit to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre to find out more about their current exhibition, “More than Just Games”, which focuses on Canada’s involvement with the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. It’s a fascinating, yet haunting look at the games that occurred over 74 years ago just before World War…
Bad jokes about the name aside, I’ll be ordering an iPad just as soon as they are available: I’ll probably order the 32gb model with 3G radio. Not 100% sure I’d use the 3G network option but I’d rather have the option…especially since it’s unlocked – which is a big deal by the way. This…
After a great wrap-up dinner with the 12×12 committee last night, I got inspired to play with all the entries and made this: I highly recommend checking it out full size. It was made with the Photo Collage tool that I wrote about previously….such a fun little tool. While at dinner, we discussed the next…
Thanks to an invitation from LG Canada back in December, I was able to meet and photograph some of the team members of the then proposed team for Canada’s Snowboard Cross (SBX) Olympians. From left: Maëlle Ricker, Rob Fagan, and Drew Neilson They still had a number of qualifying events to compete in before the…