Canon 5D Mark III has maybe been spotted. Canon 5D Mark III has maybe been spotted by someone on a safari shoot in Kenya. He spotted a Japanese man with, what appears to be a new canon camera body. The man works for Canon and he was doing some field testing of the upcoming canon 200-400 mm lens with built in tele-converter. He was also testing the new Canon 600 mm lens. The camera body also [...]
Surrey One Act Play Festival 2012 “The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all” – African Proverb Lots More Photo’s Can Be Found Here! On January 12, teenagers from across Surrey came together with their simple props, grease paint, heart, talent and enthusiasm to share an evening of exhilarating theatre. Funny, poignant and brave the Surrey One Act Play Festival went for 5 full hours. During this program, high [...]
Marconi Company Chelmsford Marconi Company Chelmsford – On a recent trip back to my home town of Chelmsford, Essex, England, I noticed that the premises is slatted for development. My dad worked there since he arrived in Chelmsford in 1951, he was head of the radio engineering department. I know times change, but it is always sad when you get older to see a landmark disappear. I would like the developers to keep the same [...]
Occupy Vancouver 2011 I was at parts of the occupy Vancouver event yesterday. Despite normal Canadian political correctness , the debate over the People’s Mic vs the Electric Mic went on for over an hour, it was almost impossible to figure out what the hell was going on during that time. Also the hour long quest for translators was getting a little tiresome. Occupy Vancouver had the usual mixture of good and bad speakers. However [...]
What is Remembrance Day? Remembrance Day 2011 (Veterans Day, falls on the same date in the U.S.) is a day set aside by the Commonwealth countries to remember and honour the men and women who have died in war and military operations. Remembrance Day names and traditions may vary by country. In Vancouver the Remembrance day ceremony begins at the cenotaph in Victory Square. When is Remembrance Day? Remembrance Day in Canada is observed every [...]
BC Place Renovations BC Lions football club is at present playing in an outside arena due to this face lift of BC Place .. It’s due to be finished sometime in 2011. Update.. It’s now finished Photo below. The new, $500-million retractable roof at BC Place stadium won’t be able to close when it’s raining or there are high winds. Officials say the retractable roof, which seemed an ideal fit for the West Coast’s rainy [...]
Stolen Photographs .. A Real Problem Stolen Photographs are a problem for me and other photographers on the internet. I can’t believe that people simply stop by a page and steal photos and content just to post on their websites and blogs and think they can get away with it. Some are even brazen enough to place a copyright notice on the bottom of their pages, it’s a joke! I am in the process of [...]
Pink Monkey On A Fire Hydrant In A Vancouver Ally Us Pink Monkeys have a tough time finding one another. Now, before you start calling the loony bin to make sure my room is ready, let me explain. Some time ago, some behavioral psychologists were studying a tribe of monkeys and how they interacted with one another. For some reason which only a behavioral psychologist could hope to understand, they dyed one of the monkeys [...]
Village of Idiots Performed By Kwantlen Park Secondary School Village of Idiots is directed by Kwantlen Park schools drama teacher Laurie Brazzill .. Performed by students of the theatre company. More Photo’s Here. Setting for Village of Idiots: Chelm, a small Stetl or Jewish village, an a folkloric version of 19th Century Poland. Most of the text below taken from UBC Theatre. In Village of Idiots playwright John Lazarus adapts several Jewish folktales to tell [...]
Time Top By Jerry Pethick Time Top is a piece about time traveling. The artist has created what looks like a 1940s-style space ship. The piece was submerged for two years so that the surface would become encrusted with sea life. The sculpture was given a low-level electrical charge to attract crustaceans to its surface. Its position on the shoreline encourages the idea that it has washed up from the depths. Artist Statement: “The inspiration [...]
