PLAN ZEDD by Azrael (Video+AlbumDownload)

Welcome To Eastvan x Imaginations Treetrunk are proud to present Azrael’s new solo album, “ON THE TABLE,” featuring the video to the reverse-alphabetical track, “PLAN ZEDD.”

With The Doldrums and Pocket Watch under his belt, Azrael returns with his 3rd solo album featuring complete production by Vancouver beatsmith, MARS. The gritty, lo-fi beats play contrast to Azrael’s rumbling yet smooth delivery which can be likened to a medicine ball rolling down a rocky cliff. The title track, “On The Table,” shows off Azrael’s complex, full-baked vernacular, blurring echoing verses into a prepositional hook. Azrael never lets down this trademark Treetrunk style as he furthers the elaborate structures in “Plan Zedd” where he raps the alphabet backwards from ‘Z’ to ‘A.’ Still, he doesn’t abandon the form that built him. “Protection” and “Dummy” sees Azrael rhyming along side familiar Eastvan cohorts Fatt Matt, Kaboom, Shay Faded, Chadio and Cons. A product of the city’s underground scene, “On The Table” deserves to be played thru a pair of headphones out on the streets of Eastvan.

Download the FREE ALBUM HERE!

Previously, On The Table Promo x BOO!

EP Daily

EP Daily on Citytv

Make The Electric Playground your daily stop for all the latest info and interviews from your favorite videogames, movies, TV shows, comic books, collectibles and gadgets. Pledging to bring the latest on everything cool every single day, EP travels the world to take you behind the scenes of the global game business to meet the planet’s most respected videogame creators.

Watch their episodes here

KOTD Grand Prix

Damn, just when I thought battles were getting kinda boring, the KingOfTheDot (KOTD) series goes in with the Grand Prix 2011 2vs2 battle between Portland’s Illmaculate X The Saurus going up against Vancouver’s Manik X Spyte.

BIGS to Vancity, Ephin and Fortune Sound Club!

Eastvan History 101: Save the Heatley Block

taken from Heritage Vancouver Society

10. Heatley Block (1931; Houses 1889 & 1898)
684 East Hastings Street
405-419 Heatley Street

The Heatley Block, a well-loved Strathcona landmark, houses a cluster of local businesses cherished by the neighbourhood.
The main structure, built in 1931 at the southwest corner of East Hastings & Heatley, is a stucco-clad commercial/residential building. A handsome example of vernacular commercial architecture, the structure is remarkably intact, with pressed metal cornices, crenellated parapets, divided double-hung wood sash windows, original signage and decorative details.
The building contributes to the historic fabric of the neighbourhood as one of the last remaining character buildings on a particularly bleak section of East Hastings.

On the same property, but around the corner at 405 – 419 Heatley are two very early houses. Covered with asbestos siding, one of the houses, with an intact Victorian bay window, dates from 1889*. The Heatley Block and these two very old houses are not on the City’s Heritage Register.
The City of Vancouver recently purchased the Heatley Block with the intention of demolishing it to build a badly needed new community library. Heritage Vancouver encourages the city to incorporate the new branch library into the Heatley block. With the adaptive reuse of the block, the city would be able to give this community what it wants; the preservation of one of its valued heritage landmarks and the creation of a new community library.
We also encourage the city to proceed with the update of the Heritage Register, currently on hold, to ensure that restorable gems hidden under later asbestos and other sidings are identified and preserved.

Resource links (external)

Flickr – Heatley Block Group (photo gallery pool)
www.flickr.com/groups/heatleyblock

Online Petition – Save the Heatley Block
www.petitiononline.com/heatley/petition.html

Strathcona-Hastings Organisation
www.strathcona-hastings.org

Blog – The Heatley Block
heatleyblock.blogspot.com

Strathcona x Single Mothers

Here’s some great news for Strathcona and the DTES. Kristen Thompson for Metro Vancouver reports that a new library will be opening with affordable housing for single mothers near Hastings St. and Heatley St.

“This project will be a wonderful legacy in Vancouver and meets two major city priorities,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson.

“It expands social housing for women and children and establishes the first full-service Library branch in the Downtown Eastside (and) Strathcona neighbourhood.”

With the fallout of the Olympic Village suites still being too expensive even for low-income earners, this project is a step back in the right direction. The 20 units slated for a 2014 opening will be called YWCA Cause We Care House.

Still, the news is bittersweet as the fate of the now City-owned Heatley Block (pictured above) remains uncertain. Maybe they can integrate a bit of the heritage building into the new design a la Woodwards.

On a related note, WTEV is proud to present photographer laniwurm. Stay tuned for more amazing shots of Eastvan!

#EastVanLove Tweetup Version 2.0

Last night at the Our Town Cafe at Broadway and Kingsway was the second East Van Tweetup. The event was packed with tweeps of many different stripes. Good times were had. Beer was consumed. Photos were taken. Relationships were formed.

Welcome to Eastvan and others donated to the cause, with the cause being having fun and celebrating life in East Vancouver.

There were some speeches and some live music, but it was hard to see and hear due to the crowd. People kept arriving even after the festivities officially ended. You can search for the hashtag #EastVanLove to get a little taste of the evenings. If I have a complaint, and I do. It is the speakers didn’t seem connected or even really necessary. Perhaps one less speaker and some sort of theme for the next event. I took photos with my iPhone but I decided to steal, err borrow photos from John Biehler’s Flickr account, hopefully John is cool with that.

Dope.Girl.Fresh.

Wally’s Burger

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Painting by WERD

Video of the process

This is now hanging up in the new Wally’s Burgers in Killarney.

EAST FUKN VAN