Vancouver: Andreas Gursky

Tomorrow night Colin and I are headed to the Vancouver Art Gallery to take advantage their *admission by donation* tuesday evenings. Last night I took a look at the exhibitions there now (Dutch painters Rembrandt and Vermeer), and found a really cool artist whose work will be shown at VAG starting May 30. His name is Andreas Gursky and he's based in Düsseldorf, Germany (I went there last summer to visit a friend - what a cool city!). 

His large scale photographs were just so fantastic I had to share. So, if you're going to be in Vancouver post-May-30... be sure to check out Andreas Gursky!  

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{James Bond Islands - 2009}

{May Day V - 2006}

{Chicago Board of Trade II - 1999}

{Rimini - 2003}

{Library - 1999}

{99 Cents - 1999}

{Prada - 1996}

*Note: This upcoming exhibition will present his photos in a smaller format, not done since the 1980's. 

Vancouver: Happenings!

So much has been going on lately that I haven't had a chance to update! So here's a bit of what's been happening.... 

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Colin turned 24! 

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Schatz!

We spent the weekend at his mom and dad's and came back early on sunday to go to Les Miserables (it was fantastic!) and have a 7-course meal at the Banana Leaf (malaysian food).

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Dad turned 50!

Happy Birthday Daddy! (He still looks like he's in College!) Amy and I took him and Mom to a Mariner's game... they lost, but we had a good time anyway! (especially because there were tourists from England sitting behind, comparing everything to cricket...)

{Mariners}

{Mom and Dad at the game}

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Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's day to all the mom's out there! We hosted our family for a lunch of fried chicken, BBQ ribs and meatballs. Delicious! It was good to catch up with everyone.

{Me and mom in Seattle}

{Mom's Mother's Day Present... pot by amy, flowers by me}

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Plus I got a sweet Graduation present from my folks and grandparents... super nice luggage!!! I always seem to mutilate suitcases when I travel to Europe, but this time these guys will hold up! Vienna, here I come!

Vancouver: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Last week my friends and I went to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine at a special midnight showing. Although we'd arrived an hour and a half early, it seemed there were already a hundred people there! I asked someone at the front what time they'd gotten there: 7:30 pm!! Anyway, after a long time in line, we all got to go into the theater for the film.  

{Susanne and Hugh}

{Waiting in Line}

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Of course there was a good reason we'd go through the agony of watching a film at midnight: it was filmed on our campus! And not just any old building on campus, either... but our very own Buchanan Tower!!! 

Here are some pictures from when we went to watch production:

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Buchanan Tower was dressed up to be a Nigerian Diamond Headquaters. What's really exciting, is that Buchanan Tower was shown 5-6 times right at the beginning of the movie! Now, although I couldn't find any movie stills of our Buchanan Tower, the website bamkapow has these shots from UBC: 

With that said, although the film itself wasn't that great, our Buchanan Tower was amazing!