welcome to eastvan x family

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it’s a family affair

the O.G. eastvan t-shirt

Welcome to eastvan online store

Sharks + Hammers online store
the welcome to eastvan selection is beefing up quite nicely

This community doesn't tolerate…

I saw this street sign during a trip to Edmonton… I’m surprised we haven’t seen something similar to this around Vancouver.

spring/summer 2010

Chinatown Rebirth

Urban renaissance combines modern sensibility with Asian heritage, in a balancing act that whispers ‘everything is going to be alright’

sent to me from NoEgosAllowed

Taken from http://www.6717000.com/

(the sun originally i believe) On a Friday night in early May a private party is being held beside a rooftop sculpture garden in the Wing Sang building, the oldest in Chinatown, and now the home of condo marketing wizard Bob Rennie’s new contemporary art gallery and his business operations.

To the 1889 building on Pender Street where Chinese immigrant businessman Yip Sang once lived with his four wives and 23 children, Rennie has invited close friends, art collectors, curators and a few media types, in honour of Richard Jackson, the Los Angeles artist whose conceptual work he has purchased extensively and is exhibiting.

After the party has wound down, Rennie Collection director Wendy Chang gives a mini-tour of the new exhibit. A wander through the gallery leaves the mind boggling at what Yip Sang, who made his fortune as a labour contractor for the CPR, would have made of some of the art now in his former home. There are bears with urinal heads and urinals with bear heads, for example; products of an imagination so wonderfully twisted, it’s as if the visiting neo-Dadaist Jackson absorbed some lingering fumes from the opium produced out back in Market Alley in the late 1800s.

The bizarre bears can be seen as symbolic of the new economic and cultural values giving Chinatown a fashionable buzz after more than two decades of decline.

Chang, a first generation Chinese-Canadian, accompanied her parents as a young girl when they went shopping in Chinatown in the years after they moved here from Taiwan in 1977.

“Growing up Chinese in Vancouver, Chinatown used to be where your parents went,” said Chang.

But in the following decades, Chang spent little time in Chinatown, preferring to get her “Chinese fix” in Richmond or other suburbs.

“But now Chinatown is cool, it’s hip, it’s fun. You don’t go to Chinatown now because it’s the only place to get Chinese goods.

full story here

Ricky Powell x Vancouver

we already did a POSt on the fortune sound club
http://welcometoeastvan.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/let-me-upgrade-you/

but now there is an event to promote that is going to the cities new favourite club east of downtown.

Ricky Powell SLIDE SHOW
Celebrating 25 years of rocking classic flicks
Wednesday June 2nd
Fortune Sound Club
147 E. Pender Street
Chinatown, Vancouver
Show @ 10:30pm
Free before 11pm

as found on wiki
Ricky Powell (born November 20, 1961) is an American photographer, who has also worked as a bike messenger, Frozade vendor, dog-walker, columnist, substitute teacher and Public Access cable TV host. He is the author of four books.

Looks to be a fun show full of cool images of one of the greatest cities in the world.
here is the facebook link with all the information about the show
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124749127539898&ref=ts

Banksy Movie

Banksy – Exit Through the Gift Shop

So, i went and watched this movie. How impressed and surprised was i. From the trailer i thought it was something totally different.
I don’t want to say the movie did too much to change the person who i am but i feel as though it helped with the constant inspiration i face everyday.

I suggest you go watch it.
The world is a cool place if you just react to your surroundings instead of walking blindly with your head facing the ground.
Remember my name, Werd.
R.I.POS. Avers

Purple wall

I’m just guessing here… maybe it was all planned to happen in this way. And yeah, I’m not gonna get bored with a speech about urban art, urban expression and blah blah blah. I will just say that I think graffities are cool.

The east wall of The Cambie started to get a very cool grafitti like 2 weeks ago, I thought it was going to look great. But yesterday Mercedes Benz filmed a commercial on that lane and they painted purple the complete wall.

Kinda lame. And double lame… I had a picture of that but I have no idea how to upload it. Well, day sare nice and you can walk over there and see it by yourself.



the Cove x FREE DVD

sorry to bring you down on a fantastic friday

The Cove – Official US Theatrical Trailer HD

so i watched this documentary last night, recommended by one of my friends.
the film is about the slaughter of dolphins in Japan.

i am not a tree hugging hippie but every now and then i learn something new about the world and whats going on around us and it changes me.

dolphins are intelligent beings. if you watch this film and look into it, you will see that. they communicate. they demonstrate culture. they show emotion. they communicate for crying out loud.
we farm chicken and cows. we grow those animals to eat. dolphins aren’t grown/mass produced (as far as i know).

i’ve never really looked at animals as being intelligent like humans are, until this film. to think of another being even close to as mentally aware as humans are on this planet drives me bonkers. it’s hard to describe with words in the amount of time i have to write this POSt.

the slaughter of these dolphins makes me think of any race slaughtering another race in humans. it just doesn’t sit right with the world. why? because we are humans, we are intelligent. well if you look into what dolphins are, they are intelligent.

anyways,

this is a cause i feel as though i want to help, in any way i can.

if you feel as though you want to watch this film, i will personally send you my disc for you to watch. then i hope you send it to someone else. help this world become more aware of what’s going on.
just leave a comment and ill give you a DVD.

side note: earlier this year i started using recycled toilet paper to help contribute to the cease of destruction of the canadian boreal forest and other such trees.

*sigh
this is the only world we have and we know so little about it and still we destroy it.