Cranes in the Sky

"Cities aren't always so popular with birds. Venice was once an area of marshland where migrating cranes could rest their feet. Now they have to keep on flying."

Artist-run Cultured

Something that became apparent during Vancouver's Institutions by Artists conference of October 2012 was the growing relationship between state-sanctioned artist-run centres and the academy. I had to remind myself of this while waiting for my breath to return after reading ECUAD's typically proprietary April 30th announcement that had its Living Labs reifier and Prince George's civic art gallery (Two Rivers) "Partner[ing] to Launch a new Artist-run Centre in Prince George, B.C."

Gladstone Street

Last week Hannah and I drove southeast on Kingsway to New Westminster where we walked up and down Columbia Street, poked around the antique shops along the waterfront before a quick visit to the New Media Gallery at the Anvil Centre.

On our return we stopped at the Oasis Car Wash in Burnaby; and then, as we were nearing Gladstone  Street, I remembered that the City of Vancouver recently posted a "Literary Landmark" plaque to commemorate my book Kingsway (1995) and its mention of Kingsway's first settler-built structure, the Gladstone Inn, in 1865.

The two dots placed below my eyes are remnants of what Hannah said were "likely googly eyes." She tried to pick them off, but they were on there pretty good.

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What Blue

Behind Main Street (to the west), West Broadway (to the south) and Kingsway (to the east).

Never My Love (1967)

The Association of Blue Plastic Lip-Synchers -- singing one of the most beautiful songs I know.

Here they are opening the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival:

Trips Festival (1966)

Another screen grab, this one from unaired CBC footage shot at the Trips Festival at the end of July, 1966.

Below is the Trips Festival poster, with a calligraphic work by Judith Copithorne in the centre panel? (Nope, says Judith, "maybe Jack Wise.")