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The Collective Picture
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Who doesn't love a good picture and a great story. This photo and history haven displays archives images and uses them to look at the past in relation to the world of today. This space is designed to encourage viewers to think about history and current events. Examining such diverse areas of interest as technology, fashion and politics, to name but a few. Or you can just look at the pretty pictures.
Recent Posts
Silent Film
This past Halloween I was lucky enough to see the silent film Nosferatu accompanied by the Vancouver Orchestra. The scenes of coffins, death and creatures stacking in the night made me jump as music filled the room. The tension of some of the eerier ...
Back To School
With summer coming quickly to a close and labour day having skipped by we find ourselves at the beginning of the school year. As children march back to the daily grind parents, teachers and yes even politicians swarm over issues effecting the educati...
The Urban Forest: City Parks Around the World
Having lived in apartments for the past several years has been an adjustment. I grew up with a backyard and being limited to my one bedroom apartment and small deck is quite a difference from the sprawling lawns of suburbia. What makes city apartme...
The Great Depression & The Current Recession: Decline & Reform.
Times of economic uncertainty provide the fertile ground for change. When stability abounds we tend to ignore the potential for collapse and thrive in states of elated compliance. When the structures that we have come to rely on become undependable m...
The World Fair: Chicago 1893
The architecture of World Fairs have always been of particular interest to me and my favorite has always been Chicago in 1893 or the World’s Columbian Exposition. The ‘White City’ has an ethereal beauty to it unlike anything that I have stu...
B.C. Day
With a long weekend in full swing excitement abounds over having three days off. Why do we get the weekday closest to August 1st off? and what exactly, beyond being a holiday, does it mean? It is not that old of a holiday, to my surprise it was first...

