Tag Archives: vancouver

Big-Head Mode IRL

December 3, 2009 – 11:24 pm

Vancouver artist Eric Testreote:
I made this as my costume for Halloween 2009. It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe.
How great is this? So disorienting. Someone please start a make-your-own-big-head (MYOBH) business. I will be your first customer.
via BERG. Yes, [...]

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Vancouver: Come for the mountains, stay because you’re weird

November 14, 2009 – 3:17 pm

We do more world-changing things [in Vancouver] than the rest of the country combined. Why here? Is it because we have mountains? The best brand-new breakthrough ideas come from people who don’t think like everyone else. They have to be weird people. What was it that got them here and how do we preserve that [...]

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Vancouver ahead of the curve on open civic data

October 20, 2009 – 10:00 pm

The O’Reilly Radar blog speculates on what a city with open data access might look like, in a recent post cleverly entitled How Long Is Your City’s Tail?:
It has all of the familiar city-run departments providing all of the services and assistance they’ve always provided – that’s not going away. Then it also has public [...]

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