On an otherwise sunny day, Allison and I saw a cloud hovering above the Vancouver Art Gallery. It only appeared to be growing in size so we thought we’d go check out what was going on.

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Coachella didn’t disappoint, in fact this year was somehow even better than last year.

I didn’t lose anything (actually I found waldo), witnessed 2pacs resurrection and my friend Amy crocheted a bunch of us an amazing hand made beer coozies. All in all a great success. The music was pretty damn good too. I managed to get my camera in to the festival one night to take a few photos:

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With a bit of time to kill between a friends wedding in San Diego and the first weekend of Coachella, I stopped off at Stone Brewery (best place in Southern California).
 

 
After I filled up a growler with 2 liters of Arrogant Bastard ale it was off to a trip around the Salton Sea… a bizarre inland sea that sits in the middle of the desert. The Sea was created by a flood in 1905, in which water from the Colorado River flowed into the area. It is now fed by delicious agricultural runoff.
 

 

At one point it was developed as a resort destination, but most of the shores have long since been abandoned, giving the whole place an eerie dead feel, reminiscent of a nuclear weapon testing range.
The beaches are littered with the skeletons of fish and shacks that have been desecrated over the years with uncontrolled sea level changes.

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I recently produced a video for the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra to promote their upcoming “extravaganza”. In a first time ever partnership with the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, 175 musicians will storm the magnificent Chan Centre for the Performing Arts stage on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at 2:30pm. Tickets are available through Chan Centre, VYSO office and Ticketmaster. Early Bird Tickets are $10 to $20. Regular tickets are $15 to $35. Group tickets and Premium Reserved Seating Tickets available.

This VYSO/TSYO Celebration Concert will feature orchestral favourites including Shostakovich Festival Overture, Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini and the tremendous mass orchestra finale of Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien. Conductors Roger Cole and Alain Trudel will direct the talented musicians of two of Canada’s most revered youth orchestra programs. The afternoon will include the VYSO annual lottery draw, and special season finale presentations.

Gone camping, canyoning, and Coachella-ing… Back in two weeks

Allison and I talk to BC residents about their concerns over the proposed Endbridge pipeline from Edmonton to Kitimat BC.

Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipelines would run along the Kitimat River to the coast where crude oil tankers would be introduced for the first time. In a recent filing by Enbridge, the company suggests that it would eventually expand to shipping 944,000 barrels a day, nearly double the current proposal. With over 400 oil tankers in Douglas Channel a year, that would mean even direr consequences for the Kitimat River. With condensate tankers and Liquid Natural Gas tankers thrown in to the mix, no one would be able to fish on the coast. You can learn more about the proposal at Forest Ethics

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Stay tuned as this vintage dumpster tandem bike get’s fully stripped down, repainted and retrofitted to cruise the mean streets of Kitsilano.

We were a little shocked to hear that Sears was closing down, so Allison and I set out to see what Vancouver thought of the news.

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