Olympic Spotlights

A ballet of lights above English Bay delights both locals and those far away. Watch the lights live on vectorialvancouver.net

(we can actually see these lights from our English Bay residence)

Video: Snow being trucked in for the Olympics - Video Vancouver Sun

Hands to yourself, wear the right socks, city workers told - Vancouver Sun January 26, 2010

Smile gently, don't point and make sure you wear socks that match your pants when the Olympic dignitaries come to town.

Those are just some of the pointers given to city employees to make sure they don't offend Olympics dignitaries and foreign guests and embarrass the city during the 2010 Games.

City of Vancouver pays $377,000 for Olympic tickets - Vancouver Sun January 25, 2010

The City of Vancouver is spending $377,370 to buy just over 2,000 tickets to the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Of that, more than 70 per cent is for just two sports: hockey and curling.

But the city is also buying some of the best seats in BC Place for elected officials for the opening and closing ceremonies.

Helicopter Parents

The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting

Clayton Hollingsworth on Dragon's Den - November 25

Summer of 2009













Higher Vibrations Wholistic Healing and Wellness
November 25, 2009 Clayton appears on Dragon's Den

Link to Episode (begins at roughly the 35 minute mark)
Clayton's Facebook Page

Robotic searchlights to light up Vancouver sky during Olympics - The Province newspaper

VANCOUVER - Beams of light pointed towards the stars will illuminate English Bay and the night sky in downtown Vancouver next February as part of a Cultural Olympiad and City of Vancouver special event for the 2010 Winter Games.

The cool part? The robotic searchlights will follow designs created by people around the world and delivered via the Internet. Called Vectorial Elevation, it is the first time the internationally celebrated work of art will be displayed in Canada and over a body of water.

The light show, which organizers say will create a "quiet canopy of light in the night sky above and on the sparkling surface of English Bay below" will launch at dusk on Feb. 4.This large-scale temporary public art installation is co-commissioned by the City of Vancouver's Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program and Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, presented by Bell, with support from the Province of Quebec. The installation - considered one of the world's largest interactive artworks - is by Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and is part of CODE, the Cultural Olympiad's Digital Edition.

"Vectorial Elevation is a unique, magical work that local residents, visitors and people from around the world can enjoy," Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said in a release. "The installation will not only brighten our night skies, but also bring the Games to the world in an unexpected, interactive way."

More than two million people are expected to view the installation in person in Metro Vancouver, as well as internationally via www.vectorialvancouver.net or www.vancouver2010.com/code. The event runs regardless of the weather until Feb. 28.

Visitors to www.vectorialvancouver.net can design how the lights will move, their angles and how they are clustered in timed sequences to create their own patterns for the world to see. A personalized webpage will be automatically created for each participant to document their design. Organizers estimate 130,000 different patterns will be created in the 24 days the project operates from dusk to dawn.

Not nice!

Chris Angel - walks through glass?

Picture from friend ("J.P.") who went to U2's final concert of tour in Vancouver on Wednesday

U2 on YouTube live tonight

From the Rose Bowl in LA - at 8:30 PST - just go to www.youtube.com/U2

Evening view from penthouse of Jeff's hotel

Jeff Berwick to open new hotel in Acapulco

Leftists riot at IMF meeting

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Vision's rough trade - 24H - ALEX G. TSAKUMIS

You still don't think Vision Vancouver is a callous group? Last week, when I exposed the Burrard Bridge bike trial as the unnecessary eco-fraud that it is, I was the subject of Internet scorn from the people I have appropriately labeled 'cycling fascists': Manipulating my column and lying about what I wrote, subsequently spreading them to the zombies in their midst.

Then, I received a polite note from a Jonathan Ross, who is a failed Vision Vancouver organizer and Internet troll, who runs a Vision Vancouver-inspired blog called civicscene.ca.

After a brief e-mail exchange where I told him what he could do with his baiting, he replied (and this is verbatim, my darlings):
Click here to find out more!

"...you bald, fat mother f#%&er".

These are the people "defending" Vision Vancouver.

It should scare you.

(Article from the previous week which stimulated the vemonous attack on Alex this week)
Cyclists put boots to drivers

U2 360 Tour in Toronto

The most amazing water slide you'll ever see!