It’s a pleasant experience walking around Gastown in the fall. The air is sweet, balancing delicately upon a floating haze of soft sunlight. The streets are quiet, the cobblestones warm, and as life unfolds, crisp brown, yellow and orange leaves descend gently to the ground.
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(McGyver enjoying a refreshing strawberry cone as he strolls past the Steamclock in the show’s opening credits). It’s hard to deny that Hollywood has an ongoing love affair with Gastown. Walk through the neighbourhood on any given day and there’s a very good chance of encountering a film set covering a few blocks, or …
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Summer light plays upon the buildings, casting shadows, and illuminating colour. People sit and enjoy the day, live life, eat, drink, work, or move from one place to the next. The steamclock chimes, marking the hour. Here’s a moment, then another.
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“There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin.” ―from ‘Flowers for Algernon’ by Daniel Keyes. Doors can reveal a lot about the space to which they allow one to enter and to leave from. They are often your first point of physical contact, and your last, between the divide that separates …
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This April marks Gastown’s second year participating in the Capture Photography Festival. From April 3 to 30, Torrie Groening’s intriguing photographic collage work; Alley View Bouquet, A Delivery for Mrs. Deighton will be displayed in the alley at 321 Water Street. The images in this installation are adapted from Groening’s still life montage entitled Destiny Bouquet, in …
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Sometimes, I’m not exactly sure how an interview is going to turn out.
I’ll do my research on somebody and put together a few questions, but mostly I just like to facilitate a conversation, because that’s where you’ll start talking about something that’s actually interesting. I don’t know about you, but I’m far more gripped by an honest conversation than something so clearly charted.
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