We are very pleased to present another in the series of VR Media music videos. This edition features a solo oud improvisation by one of Vancouver’s great musical treasures, Gordon Grdina. Gordon may be most widely known for his role as the guitarist in Dan Mangan’s group but those with their ears tuned to the...Read More
Up on a hill, in a far off and distant land known as Dunbar on Vancouver’s mystical west side, there stands St. Philips Anglican church. And often seated at one of two prize instruments owned by the church is Michael Murray whose role as Director of Music has brought a great deal of musical joy...Read More
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
