Had a delicious catch-up dinner with colleague Cameron Reed this evening. We went to Guu on Robson St. and gobbled down a feast of Japanese treats. Cold beer, fried rice, sashimi, chicken and deep-fried potato. Rather than discuss agency life or how to use social/digital media to discuss/promote social/digital media, we chatted about extra curricular activities. We touched on a wide variety of subjects: music, culture, fashion, relationships and even private investigation. Cameron’s got some tight projects on the go. Peep Babe Rainbow, Mental Beast and Music Waste. Mad decent Tuesday night.

I had the good fortune of meeting the owner of this 1957 Chevrolet Corvette this afternoon. It not only captured my attention, but the attention of everyone that passed by. The vehicles polished chrome, teal exterior and red leather interior form a perfect vintage colour palette. One can’t help notice the beautifully designed cockpit and all its subtle details. The speedometer, radio and associated gauges are perfectly positioned within the elegant crème dashboard.

When it comes to drinking, beer is my preferred poison. Sometimes though, you need to switch it up. If you’re after cocktails in Vancouver, Diamond has it on lock. My personal favorite is the Jersey. It’s a pleasant mix of bourbon, malbec, tuaca and aromatic bitters.

I’m officially obsessed with the Archigram Archival Project. I discovered it via Charlie Gower’s blog Tantramar and have spent the past two hours sifting through a wide variety of projects ranging from plug-in nodes to small-scale portable environments.

The images contained within this post are from two separate projects. The first four images are from Nomad - a small speculative design for a small-scale portable environment - and the second six from Lump - a speculative proposal for a development including offices and entertainments, entirely camouflaged by landscape.

Other projects of personal interest include: Manzak, Tuning London, It’s A and Bournemouth Steps.

Explore the site and let me know what your favorite projects are and why.

Life Magazine captured these beautiful photos of skateboarding culture circa ’65 for an article titled The Craze and The Menace of Skateboards. The simplicity, style and finesse of the sport during this period was really inspiring and inexplicably cool. Barefoot bar jumps? Insane.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Piping hot coffee, three eggs, a stack of butter drenched toast, crispy bacon and a heaping pile of home fries. Yeah, that will do!

Vancouver mansions. Old money. New money. Nature. Inspiring people. Good fashion. Great music. Tasty cuisine. The past. The present. The future. A shared taste for the finer things. Beautiful.

Photographic processing is the way in which photographic film and paper is treated after photographic exposure to produce a negative or positive image. The processing transforms the latent image into a visible image, makes this permanent and renders it insensitive to light. Here are some recent experimental shots.

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.

Branded, reusable chop sticks, for the serious Guu patron.

Spring is in full effect.

Gavin.

I first had the pleasure of meeting Josh Michnik a.k.a Charles Lee a few summers back. He was dating the sister of the woman that I was dating at that time. Over the years we’ve had some serious fun together. Most notably, doing navy seals dives off the back of a ripping speedboat on Tulameen Lake while intoxicated off of cheap liquor. And an impromptu acoustic music show we hosted at his apartment starring Sam Bradley - the then unknown musician behind the #1 hit from the film Twilight - myself, and a stand up bass player from the VSO. He’s a chilled out dude - a creative that understands the balance between producing work of the highest quality, while simultaneously managing to enjoy life and not take things too seriously.

Since our nights of taking hipster parties at The Limerick Junction and The Columbia by storm, he’s traveled extensively and spent two years living in London where he worked for clients such as VH1, MTV, ITV2, Wowwow, Diesel and RedBull.

Currently, homie has some serious irons in the fire. He’s relocating to Venice beach where he will reside with Paul Devro from Mad Decent, work and surf.

We recently reconnected this past weekend for the first time in over a year to kick it old school, so to speak. Over Sapporo, saki, and tuna tataki we discussed what agencies are currently producing the best creative, and ways that we can collaborate in the future. He then showed me his demo reel. Kids skills are off the chains.