Training Postproduction Prodigies
Mark and Ria Bénard both attended Vancouver Film School in the '90s but only crossed paths a few years ago. Each had found success in their shared profession. Mark did visual effects work for feature...
View ArticleBright Sparks: Fuel Vancouver Conference
Steven and Jane Cox, architects of Pecha Kucha Vancouver, have initiated their next local iteration. The Future of Urbanity, the Environment, and Our Lifestyle places more weight on audience input and...
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Vancouver Celebrities: July/Aug 2010
VANCOUVER LIFE VIEW Click to launch slideshowRichard Bell and Jay LenoJack Evrensel and Frank PabstSherry, Natasha and Sienna DomanBarb InglisManjy Sidoo, Christopher Bates, James ElliotLubica...
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Vancouver Celebrities: September 2010
VANCOUVER LIFE VIEW Click to launch slideshowDiana Krall and Elvis CostelloJason Nesseth, Harvey Perens, Justin Breault, and Mashiah VaughnMatty Finochio and Ali LiebertAleisha Jones and Ania...
View ArticleStand and Deliver
I t's 1 p.m. in an unremarkable boardroom on the ninth floor of Bentall One, and one of the world's 312 Masters of Wine and one of the world's 140 Master Sommeliers are both seriously unimpressed. "It...
View ArticleThe Wine Doctor
UBC is home to many a strange room, but few are so unexpected as the Wine Library. Tucked away discreetly in the basement of a nondescript building, painstakingly designed, the library is capable of...
View ArticleSponge Blob Rare Plants
At 160 metres beneath the ocean waves, it's snowing hard. Streams of sediment, particulates, and bacteria drift past the wide-angle lenses of the robotic submersible as it descends. "We're getting...
View ArticleThe Art of War
Back in the sightlines of another war in the Middle East, we're counting blessings and mulling the wisdom of pacifist artists Benjamin Britten and Wilfred Owen, whose orchestration and poems transform...
View ArticleRiot Grrrl of the Middle Ages
"We live in a culture where individuals feel they don't have agency, and here is a single person who made an enormous impact," Kim Collier says of Joan of Arc, pointing out the martyr roused thousands...
View ArticleHit the Street
The annual pilgrimage around East Van studios, art spaces, and (occasionally) living rooms likely brings more people into proximity with art and artists in its four days than many galleries manage in...
View ArticleCinema Scope
There's something splendidly synergistic about the fact that The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller is coming to Vancouver. This "live documentary" by New York/San Francisco multimedia filmmaker Sam...
View ArticleThe Nouvelle VAG
Choosing renowned Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron for the proposed new Vancouver Art Gallery was a bravura move. Will a grand design actually materialize a few blocks east of the gallery's current...
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