Vancouver

Vancouver is amazing. This is a very international city, with influences of USA, Aisa, India, Brazil, There is a strong creative force here it is literally creating Canada in real time each step you take down the street. I feel like I am walking thru the set of Bladerunner. Grainville St. is a lit up promenade full of shopping resturaunts, and clubs. There is old school neon signage mixed with wirless technology. The people on the streets are not afraid to dress up/dress down or kiss in public. I feel a bit like I am walking thru a Robert Burns comic book at times. I have mainly been confined to the city itself, but you can see mountain ranges direcly across from the convention center. Nature is very close to this urban space, the element of water is particularly strong in the climate.

A single picture does not do justice to how lively the city is day or night. There is even radical cuisine, we ate some sushi with ketchup on it. There was a huge fireworks event Saturday night, the streets were packed with everyone that was out to see the event. There were skateboarding contests during the day.

There is art everywhere here. Artisans and Street artists setup and selling.
This is a manhole cover. With a Northwest Pacific Style frog and tadpole theme.

On Friday I was lucky enough to see the Bill Reid Gallery of North West Coast Art. 639 Hornby St. Mayari is pretty well behaved in Museums. I could spend more time looking, but she needs to move on. The gallery had the cast gold version of "a depiction of the Haida creation story, where Raven opens an oyster shell on the beach to find the first Humans."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Reid

Bill Reid's art work is outstanding. I have always wanted to see his work in person. He created amazing sculpture and jewelery. I was introduced to his work thru my father who is also a sculptor,metal smith.

http://theravenscall.ca/en/art

There are still four days left here for us. Tomorrow Mayari and I are going whale watching. Then a conference party at night with Momma.