Vancouver
and Vancouver thought transit was crowded during the Olympics…
I remember before the Olympics happened a lot of people in Vancouver thought that during the games transit would look like this,
Neill Blomkamp on the future
Attending TEDx Vancouver this year was a huge honor as the talks were inspiring and the conversations were refreshing. By far the most amazing talk was by Canadian/South African District 9 director Neill Blomkamp on what aliens would look like. He jumps from Karashev to Kurzweil to the inevitabilities posed by Heinberg (even though he [...]
my own closing ceremony
And now that it has been more than a week since the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony, things are returning to normal. Classes have started back at UBC and the grind of assignments, lab expectations, long term projects, and midterm exams has provided a nice break from the breakneck pace of the Olympics. Moving [...]
Vancouver Before and After
Learning what its like to live in Vancouver now has me wondering what it was like to live in Vancouver even 10 or 20 years ago, especially since so much of the city’s growth has taken place since 1980. These photos from the Miss 604 Blog really demonstrate that growth,
The 100 Mile Diet on Vancouver Island
Loved this short little animation for the 100 Mile Food Society! Home is Where the Food is:
things are about to get a lot more frustrating around here
As the street closings and bus re-routing begins, fellow Vancouver residents and I are in for a memorable experience.
Vancouver’s Chinatown
From Frances Bula’s latest writeup on the issues facing Chinatown,
As Vancouver busily transforms itself into a bland anime city, there’s another momentum as well. It feels as though unreconstructed Chinatown is more cherished every year by people looking for a different quality of urbanism. “I arrive at work as the Chinese grocers [...]
British Columbia rules
Flying into Charlotte-Douglas airport today was an emotional experience. My return home for the first time in five months was a great time to reflect on the beauty of all the amazing experiences I’ve had. However, I think I was mostly disappointed in the pristine landscape ruined by cookie cutter homes and cul-de-sacs cutting through [...]
my thoughts on the dark side of Vancouver 2010, a talk by Dr. Chris Shaw at UBC
I’ve been sitting in the library this morning studying for my materials chemistry class and thought that the next 20 minutes would be an opportune time to summarize notes from yesterday’s talk at UBC’s Green College by Dr. Chris Shaw.
Dr. Chris Shaw is a professor here at UBC in the Department of Opthamology and Visual [...]
Siva Vaidhyanathan on the “Googlization of Everything” at UBC
The best thing about being back in a university environment is the opportunity to explore talks from great thinkers outside my field of materials engineering. Thanks to the magic of a running twitter search for UBC I found out at 11:45 that University of Virginia cultural historian and media theorist Siva Vaidhyanathan was giving a [...]
