April 1st, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in ARCHITECTURE, HOME & GARDEN, FEATURE | Comments Off on Cliffs Impasse – Senneville-sur-Fécamp, France
| “At the end of an impasse, on top of a cliff, at the end of the world. What better place to escape from the world, to create a space that allows thoughts to run wild?” — Antonin Ziegler, Architect | Image Credits – Antonin Ziegler There’s a rural region in northern France on the […]
March 30th, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, FOOD | Comments Off on Review – Pallet Coffee Roasters – East Van
| Image Credit – Urban Spoon | Something I avoid is a packed eatery. Crowded restaurants seem more trouble than their worth for me: Congee Noodle House on Broadway, Sentouka Ramen on Robson, and Rangoli on West 11th (Is Vij`s any better?) to name a few. I`ve been to all these places when less busy […]
March 25th, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, TRAVEL | Comments Off on Wulingyuan – China Natural
| There was a movie called Avatar a while back that featured breathtaking views of what many of us thought was a magnificently misty fantasy world filled with enormous stone pillars and teeming with natural beauty. I later found out this setting was not created out of nothing. It was based on a real place. […]
March 9th, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on Women in Film Festival 2014 – Mattress & All the Time in the World
| I received an email from my cousin recently about a screening for a film she was recently in. Not knowing anything about the project, when I arrived at Vancity Theatre I was pleased to find that it was part of a 4-film program for the 10th Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, an event […]
March 8th, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SCIENCE | Comments Off on Simin Qiu – Mainstream Ambition
| At certain points in history, communities of art and science have found themselves at odds: one focused on function, the other on form. We have seen that when the two work together, there can be amazing success. Cellphones have come a long way from the clunky Zack Morris variety. Hybrid cars are now something […]
March 7th, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on Chvrches – Synthpop Re-Born
| Last Saturday there was a plan to visit Basho Cafe on Hastings and squat a while. On the way to Basho, a Pallet Coffee Roasters (article coming soon) across the street was noticed and plans to visit there in the future were formed. Plan Basho was scuttled upon realization it be not a place […]
February 23rd, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in ARTS, FEATURE | Comments Off on Unscrolled – Vancouver Art Gallery, Institute of Asian Art
Back in October, with the opening of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Forbidden City attraction, the Vancouver Art Gallery launched their Institute of Asian Art and its premier exhibit entitled Unscrolled. The Institute, per a September report published by the Gallery, has been created to reflect the strong connections between British Columbia and China in a […]
February 22nd, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on Steven Tanaka Presents: Next Music from Tokyo
Image Credits – Next Music from Tokyo and Toronto Star | Occasionally I will run searches on things I like that I normally can`t find in Vancouver to see if anything has changed around town. About 2, maybe 3, years ago I searched something like “Japanese band Vancouver.“ What I found: For the past 6 […]
February 21st, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, TRAVEL | Comments Off on Japan – Yasugi, Adachi Museum of Art, the Gardens
In my ongoing search for peaceful places on Earth, tonight’s search for “famous rock garden japan” revealed that in Shimane, Japan’s second least populous prefecture, there is a city with a population of 42,000 called Yasugi. There, one will find Adachi Museum of Art with its celebrated gardens that have offered tranquility since the 70s. […]
February 19th, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in ARCHITECTURE, HOME & GARDEN, FEATURE | Comments Off on Dwell 100 – Chichibu Mountains, Japan
Dwell.com published a top 100 that looks at the most popular living spaces written about over their 12 year history. I thought I would go through and share with a bit of my take on some, maybe all. I don’t know what order these are in and which ended up being THE most popular. Maybe […]