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Jul. 15, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

“Masks On” as Banksy Personalizes London Tube Car

Banksy is a British artist who has achieved fame by leaving public statements of art in the public realm in…
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Jun. 29, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

A Swiss Starry Night in the Zero Star Hotel

Have you heard of Switzerland’s novel zero star hotels? They are not what you think they are~they actually are starry…
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Jun. 03, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Power of Fifty Student Voices ~ North Vancouver and Orange County Virtual Choir Collaboration

North Vancouver District School Trustee Kulvir Mann has shared this YouTube collaboration with students from Carson Graham Secondary Choir and…
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May. 29, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Webinar: Enhancing Walkable Spaces Through Public Art

  America Walks presents a new webinar  on walkability and public art. Promoting walking in communities with noticeable disinvestment can…
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Apr. 27, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Beer, Bikes & Mads Mikkelsen

Here’s a beer commercial with actor Mads Mikkelsen showing why Danes are so happy. He of course points to Hygge,…
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Apr. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

A World Redesigned: The Face Mask

Ian Young, Vancouver columnist with the South China Morning Post, wrote a widely circulated piece which credited some of B.C.’s…
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Mar. 26, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Spring of Covid-19~Poetry of Resilience

A group of Vancouverites who work in trauma and counselling have been circulating an email asking their friends for their…
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Mar. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

A Whale of a Tale~People Magazine & the Hedlington Shark

Last year I wrote about an American named Bill Heine who became the “local character” in Oxford Great Britain.Heine ran…
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Feb. 06, 2020 / Gordon Price

West Pacific: How We Play

English Bay…
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Jan. 07, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Vancouver Life and Times of Postman and Usher Vern Frick

It is not often that a  Vancouver person’s  working life has a half century of documentation and film.  In 1964…
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Jan. 03, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Back to the 1990’s: The Rise and Fall of the Coffee Shop Transit Muffin

With thanks to Duke of Data Andy Yan for the reference, here’s a memory for those of a Certain Age…
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Dec. 20, 2019 / Gordon Price

Two artworks, one artist and the judgment of the righteous

It glitters!  It spins!  It outrages! Click here to see the Chandelier spin.  Whee! Since it was hung under the…
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Dec. 20, 2019 / Gordon Price

City Conversation: A City Without Artists? – Jan 16

Vancouver has the highest density of artists per capita in Canada. But they’ve lost nearly 400,000 square feet of studio…
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Dec. 03, 2019 / Gordon Price

The New York street we all grew up on

Sesame Street is 50. The Washington Post celebrates its Kennedy honours here. While us Boomers weren’t the target market (by…

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