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Feb. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

08 – Colours

The best ones can be drawn by a child. They’re recognizable from a distance. They can be flown back or front…

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Feb. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Wall

Diane Switzer, the Executive Director of the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, sends along a much better pic of “The Wall” – the…

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Feb. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Spontaneous Inukshuk

From Gladys We: “These are from this gorgeous afternoon — so many people on that walk, and so many of…

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Feb. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

07 – Spaces

The Olympics have quickly taken on an emotional depth not many of us expected, having been inured by the ceaseless cynicism…

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Feb. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

O6 – Guides

As much fun as exploring our city garbed in red and white are the views and discoveries of those from…

Feb. 12, 2010 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Wow

Trust me: this is extraordinary. On the other hand, the Google homepage logo for the Games: blecch.…

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Feb. 12, 2010 / Gordon Price

O5 – Faces

Finally, we get to see who’s here, and who we are. The Torch has brought out the people of Vancouver. …

Feb. 11, 2010 / Gordon Price

O4 – Lessons

Is it just me – a carless West Ender – who finds the quiet streets of downtown downright eerie? I…

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Feb. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

O3 – Light

Confident prediction #2 – We won’t miss the helicopters after the Olympics. They’re a constant presence over the downtown now; one…

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Feb. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

O1 – Quiet Time

On return from Seattle this Superbowl Sunday: the traffic light, the border quick, the city gray and quiet. After three days away,…

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Feb. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Second Thoughts

I grabbed this shot with my phone last night, hoping to capture the look of the new cylindrical lights that…

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Feb. 01, 2010 / Gordon Price

Gentrification, Brooklyn-style

New York City-based graffiti artist Gabriel “Specter” Reese has as his latest project a series of hand-painted billboards promoting the Gentrification…

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Jan. 28, 2010 / Gordon Price

Game Changes

There’s more happening in Vancouver as the Olympics approach than I can keep track of. Fortunately I have PT readers…

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Jan. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Woodwards 3: Stan Douglas’s “Abbott and Cordova”

Is this “the most extraordinary piece of public art in Canada”? Extraordinary, no doubt – in size, in subject, in…

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