Posts Tagged with "Life"

The Beautiful Push // 1965

April 25, 2010

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.

The Greasy Spoon Process

April 24, 2010

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!

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Lifestyles of the Rich & English

April 20, 2010

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.

AP Blog Camera Test

April 19, 2010

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.

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Black Cod Monday

April 13, 2009

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. [...]

Sex Doll Homicide

September 22, 2008

Back in August, a jobless man in his sixties from Shizuoka, Japan, wrapped his 1.7-meter tall, 50-kilogram silicone sex doll in a sleeping bag, drove into the woods, and dumped her. A short time later, a couple stumbled upon the body - bound around the neck, waist and ankles - while walking their dog and [...]

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Seylynn Bowl

May 27, 2008

On Saturday October 17th 1978, the district of North Vancouver opened Seylynn Skateboard Park to the public. Now in its thirtieth year, it’s the oldest surviving park in Canada, and arguably the longest lasting park in North America. Its authenticity and classic design has surpassed skateboardings many popularity waves, and it was a featured venue [...]

Bike Polo: Palais de Tokyo

May 24, 2008

In Vancouver, fixed-gear bikes have achieved a cool factor that’s been compared with skateboarding culture circa ‘92 - ‘95. They’ve evolved from being the lightweight and low maintenance choice of bike couriers into a sought after fashion accessory. Is Vancouver’s single-speed obsession more about being seen with a fixie than actually riding one?
In Paris, fixie [...]

On The Cheap

April 9, 2008

With the euro now fluctuating between 1.6 to 1.7 CAD, traveling France is extremely pricey. For the most part, everything costs double what it would in Canada. To put it in perspective, the average pint will run you between five and nine euros, which after converting to Canadian dollars is somewhere between eight and 15 [...]

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