Last year I wrote about the massive accumulation of plastic garbage known as “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch”, “Plastic Soup”, or “The Pacific Trash Vortex” that’s double the size of Texas, and floating around in the North Pacific Gyre. Good Magazine’s recent Transparency examines the Pacific Gyre and the plastic particulates floating within.
View in large format here.
I don’t think colleague and friend Brett Macfarlane could have been more spot on with the following tweet he posted earlier this evening, which read “Thinking the three R’s - retail, real estate and renewables - will surprise us with innovation in the coming decade.”
On the retail front, it would be tough to be more inventive than Italian practice Studiometrico’s recent transformation of an old Milan cinema into the new Bastard flagship shop.
The concept is genius. In order to maximize the 15,000 square-foot space, the skateboarding bowl is suspended from the ceiling providing more than enough capacity below for sleek product merchandising and administrative space.
More info and photos about the project can be found at Arch Daily.
Today, Gavin Froome and I ditched the agency at high noon in hot pursuit of a Black Cod lunch at Aki. According to Gavin, Aki has the best Cod in the city. Apparently, the owner has some type of fresh fish connection that ensures your delicious Omega-3 filled lunch was just snatched from the sea. And if it’s not ‘fresh to death’, “no soup for you”, know what I mean?
Sadly, Aki was closed. Rather than smash down the barred up doors and fry that fish our damn selves, we opted for Guu. There, we had a savory bowl of deep fried chicken, rice and egg. Hearty, delicious, cheap.
Aprés lunch, we took the long route back to office. There’s nothing like taking in the Cherry blossoms on a beautiful spring day in Vancouver. Work to live, don’t live to work. Work supports life.
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