http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com Creativity, Culture, Life Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:31:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/06/01/evening-moonlighting/ 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 ... http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/05/09/miracle-whips/ One man's trash is another man's treasure, so they say. While walking home from work today, I came across this chair and abandoned vintage refrigerator sitting side by side in a Kitsilano alley. The fridge's logo indicates that it's a vintage Super Freeze from Italian manufacture Indesit. It was sad ... http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/05/09/vintage-refrigeration/ 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. http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/05/09/jerseys-diamond/ 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 ... http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/04/25/archigram-speculative-proposals/ 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. http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/04/25/the-beautiful-push-1965/ 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! http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/04/24/the-greasy-spoon-process/ The majority of this afternoon was spent writing creative briefs and catching up on unread emails, tweets and RSS feeds. I experienced a moment of intense anger when I came across GQ’s The Girls of Coachella, 2010 slideshow. I'm not bitter that I missed the festival; rather I’m jealous that ... http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/04/23/creative-brief-coachella/ 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. http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/04/20/lifestyles-of-the-rich-english/ 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. http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2010/04/19/ap-blog-camera-test/