Ian Young and the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post have been publishing some of the freshest and most interesting reporting on the farcical and dangerously overblown Vancouver real estate market. While it may be unusual for the media to focus on other media, this is an exception due to the fact that it seems...Read More
Oh no! More talk about real estate. What will it take to end this madness? Have we reached critical mass yet? Nope. Things are just beginning … In late May, a group of articulate, well-intentioned millennials announced the beginning of a new push for their right to an affordable, comfortable, middle-class Vancouver existence at a...Read More
Sphaerae is a music video derived from scans and photographic treatments of Pacific Bull Kelp bulbs found on the shores of Galiano Island on BC’s west coast. Originally conceived as a photo series questioning the nature of artistic representations of space, it evolved into a video and is scored by internationally acclaimed Vancouver-based ambient music...Read More
If you follow the world of design, the name Stefan Sagmeister will need no explanation. Originally from Austria and based in New York, Sagmeister’s audacious and clever design strategies have earned him international fame over the course of his career. Chances are good that you’ve come across his work or at least seen his TED...Read More
The following post is an updated version of a piece that ran in the VR #17 in 2008. Some things never change…and sometimes they get worse. So after a recent stroll through Kits Point where a realty sign was spotted bearing the realtor’s name; Princess Pan, we thought it was time to revisit this one!...Read More
This piece originally ran in Vancouver Review #26, Fall, 2010. Since then, That Cold Day in the Park has finally been released on Blu-ray. Also, when making the VR Media book trailer for George Stanley’s After Desire (New Star Books, 2013) last year, I deliberately sought to recreate one of the opening shots from the...Read More
The following is a repost of an article that originally appeared on the old Vancouver Review blog in 2011. I’m reposting it here for a few reasons. First, the old VR is toast and this was at risk of getting lost. Second, Scott has a great new disc on Kranky called Sea Island which continues...Read More
Frequently, in the world of video production, a lot of the real meat of an interview is left on the bone to satisfy the presumably time-pressed viewing audience. With the Cutting Room Floor series, VR Media will occasionally package and circulate some of the great interview content that gets left out of our productions due...Read More
Simply put, this is Adrian Verdejo performing Rodney Sharman’s “In A Room” for solo classical guitar. Adrian is one of Canada’s foremost new music interpreters for the guitar and Rodney is one of the country’s best composers. VR Media interviewed them at Green College over the summer of 2014 and recorded this live and intimate...Read More
