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#Art

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Self · 4 min

Events and Art in Vancouver

Where to find art and events in Vancouver, last updated September 2026

#Art#Vancouver#Journal#Maps
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Bookmarks · 2 min

2026-March Brain Dump

Bookmarks from March 2026: maps, 3D printable trail generators, tools, and references.

#Bookmark#Art#Fabric#Code#Maps#Vancouver
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Projects · 2 min

Glitch in the CounterProductive Button – June 28 to July 4

The CounterProductive button went offline June 28 to July 4, 2025 after a WiFi and MQTT failure, and version 5 adds a backup server.

#Art#ESP32#Code#Sensor
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Ongoing Project status updates 2025 June 10th

Status update on the Counter Productive button, which hit 1000 presses in 71 days, and the Sky Pixels project.

#Art#Code#Journal
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Year of Ideas · 6 min

100 ideas project retrospective (2023)

Looking back at 100 days of daily project ideas in 2023, what got built, what got scrapped, and why I burned out doing it.

#Ideas#Wood#Paper#Plastic#CNC#PCB
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Idea 100 - Lavender Farm

Plans for a Gulf Islands lavender farm with distillery, beehives, chickens, and a hillside field for retirement.

#Flowers#Ideas#Art#Vancouver#Photo#Video
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Year of Ideas · 4 min

Idea 099 - Stevens projects club

A Patreon subscription where members receive one of Steven's small hardware projects twice a year.

#Ideas#PCB#Art#Birds
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Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector

A cheap stencil projector made from a plastic lens, cardboard tubes and a flashlight that casts a message onto a building.

#Art#Ideas#Video
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Idea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage

A bike-towed carriage with a row of 16 water nozzles that spells messages in dots of water on the sidewalk.

#Art#Ideas#Video
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Year of Ideas · 4 min

Idea 091 - Honeypot terrarium

A Conway's Game of Life visualization of bots attacking fake BACnet honeypot devices exposed to the internet.

#Art#Ideas#Maps#Robots#Flowers
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Year of Ideas · 1 min

Idea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs

3D printed jigs for building dead bug style electronic circuits without a PCB, with tutorials for Instructables.

#Ideas#3D Printing#Art#Video
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Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?

A Where's Waldo style search book for each region where a wren in a striped bobble hat hides among local birds.

#Art#Bookmark#Birds#Ideas#AI#Journal
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Year of Ideas · 1 min

Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives

A walk-in dome with many head-sized windows that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope.

#Art#Glass#Ideas
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Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama

Paper origami flowers and plants sealed in a glass terrarium or mason jar so they stay dust-free.

#Paper#Flowers#Art#Ideas#Fabric#Glass
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Year of Ideas · 4 min

Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards

Baltic birch plywood postcards, one for every mammal in BC, mailed through Canada Post.

#Paper#Art#CNC#Wood#Ideas#Laser Cut
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Year of Ideas · 1 min

Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp

A lotus-shaped lamp of LED-lit acrylic shards holding pressed flowers, in a 3D printed base.

#Flowers#Art#Ideas#Wood#Plastic#LED
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Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation

A staircase tunnel of dried flowers sandwiched between acrylic plates and lit from within.

#Flowers#Art#Ideas#Plastic#Glass#LED
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Idea 082 - Classic video games maps posters

A poster of level maps from classic 80s and 90s video games such as Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario Kart.

#Paper#Art#Ideas#Laser Cut#Maps#Vancouver
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Year of Ideas · 1 min

Idea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system

Old corded phones wired point to point between a house and a tree house over cheap RJ45 or three-wire cable.

#Art#LED#Ideas
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Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels

Equilateral triangle LED PCBs that join into regular polyhedrons; built as the Dodecahedron PCB.

#Art#LED#Ideas#Paper#Soldering#PCB
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Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone

Cheap wind-chime devices tossed into Vancouver's boulevard trees to give the city its own ambient tone.

#Art#Ideas#Wood#Maps#Vancouver
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Idea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network

A festival mesh network of birdhouses that pass messages to each other with ultrasonic bird chirps.

#Art#Ideas#Sensor#Code#Birds
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Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy

A dandelion-shaped sculpture of a reflective earth sphere with steel tubes ending in LEDs that show the night sky from outside.

#Art#LED#Ideas#Metal
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Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster

A 20-foot glowing tentacle monster made of flexible vinyl ducting and LED strips, with eyeball monsters in a Pepper's ghost dome head.

#Art#LED#Ideas#Maker Faire
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Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism

A CNC machine with a paintbrush holder that paints a photo as 2mm dots, one dot at a time.

#Art#CNC#Robots#Ideas#Painting#Photo
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Year of Ideas · 9 min

Idea 069 - One Liners

A dump of 36 throwaway one-line ideas, posted on idea day 69 to clear the backlog.

#Ideas#Wood#Paper#Glass#LED#PCB
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Idea 064 - Inflatable crowd

A matrix of mini inflatable air dancer figures made of fabric tubes and controlled by sound.

#Art#Ideas#Fabric
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Idea 063 - RootedIn

A spoof social network for Vancouver's 100,000 public trees, each with a generated name, hobbies and a wall of ChatGPT conversations.

#Art#AI#Ideas#Vancouver#Photo
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Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts

A robotic marionette that listens to a music festival and turns the sound into generative artworks, one per slice of time.

#Art#Paper#Robots#Puppets#Ideas#Painting
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Idea 061 - The Dark Side Of The Moon in a million parts

Generative line drawings in sand, one per song on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, drawn by a CNC zen garden.

#AI#Ideas#CNC#Art#Flowers
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Idea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts

Layered paper craft light boxes, one per chapter or planet of The Little Prince.

#Art#Paper#Ideas#Tutorial
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Idea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts

Stained glass windows, one per location in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, built with the digital stained glass technique.

#Art#Stained Glass#Ideas#Plastic#Glass
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Year of Ideas · 8 min

Idea 058 - In a million parts

A series of small artworks, one per quotable line from a book, movie, or album, made and shared on a steady schedule.

#Art#Painting#Ideas#Wood#Paper#PCB
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Idea 055 - Truchet tessellating bathroom tiles

Ceramic bathroom and kitchen tiles based on Truchet tiling patterns instead of the usual plain squares and hexagons.

#Ideas#Art#Video
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Idea 054 - Digital Dices

A six-sided die with an LCD on each face and an accelerometer inside that shows a random number in a range when rolled.

#Bookmark#Ideas#LED#Art#Furniture
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Year of Ideas · 2 min

Idea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb

Build the yearly Blurb photo book from HTML and CSS, exported to PDF, instead of using Blurb's BookWright tool.

#Bookmark#Ideas#Web#Art#Tutorial#Photo
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Year of Ideas · 4 min

Idea 052 - Landscape Table

A coffee table with a CNC-cut topographic map in layered plywood, about 6 inches from lowest to highest point, topped with glass.

#Maps#CNC#Furniture#Ideas#Wood#Glass
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Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture

An interactive origami tessellation wall sculpture with an individually addressable RGB LED in each cell.

#Art#Paper#LED#Ideas#Plastic#Glass
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Idea 038 - Club House co-op

Idea: a club house owned by its members and open to them for their own use.

#Ideas#Art
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Idea 031 - Fabric Floral Cyberpunk Armor

Idea: cyberpunk cloth armor for raves, based on the pattern of a Japanese cloth armor from the 1800s.

#Ideas#Fabric#Plastic#Art
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Idea 025 - Skull card game

Idea: laser-cut or PCB versions of the Skull card game.

#Art#Ideas#PCB#Flowers
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Idea 020 - Many styles of Vancouver

Idea: a photo of the Vancouver skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style.

#Art#Ideas#Painting#Vancouver#Photo
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Idea 019 - Big Red Button

Idea: labeled buttons installed around the city to see which ones people push the most.

#Art#Ideas#ESP32#ESP8266
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Idea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book

Idea: a coffee table photo book of only the tops of very tall buildings, the top few floors.

#Photo#Bookmark#Art#Ideas#Furniture
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Idea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures

Idea: a traveling art exhibit of every sculpture by one great master, 3D printed to look like marble.

#3D Printing#Art#Ideas#Painting
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Idea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks

Idea: addressable RGB LEDs for Lego builds, with the Lego bricks acting as light pipes.

#LED#Art#Ideas#ESP32
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Idea 015 - AI Create your own story book

Idea: an AI-written personalized children's story book that works in details you provide and follows common plots like the hero's journey.

#AI#Art#Ideas
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Idea 014 - AI Pictionary

Idea: a Pictionary-style game where an AI draws the picture and players guess the prompt that generated it.

#Art#Ideas#AI
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Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge

Idea: an ear-shaped electronic badge that records speech to text 24 hours a day using OpenAI Whisper, feeding a personal AI assistant.

#AI#PCB#Art#Ideas
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Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map

Idea: a constellation star map PCB made with overlapping LEDs.

#PCB#Art#Ideas#LED#Maps#Tutorial
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Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle

Idea: birdhouses that double as cryptographic puzzles for humans to solve.

#Birds#Art#Ideas#Painting#Security#Flowers
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Idea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile

Idea: a hanging mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometric shapes made from papercraft.

#Paper#Art#Ideas
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Idea 009 - Princess Peach castle stained glass window

Idea: a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window, made with the digital stained glass method before the Mario movie release.

#Stained Glass#Art#Ideas#Glass#Video
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Idea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project

Idea: a series of postcards mailed in packs to friends and family, who send them onward to reconnect people.

#Paper#Art#Ideas#AI#Birds#Recipe
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Idea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB

Idea: procedurally generated mushroom art PCBs for the GameOfShrooms art project, with backlit LEDs for a glow.

#Art#PCB#Ideas#LED#JLCPCB#Code
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Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC

Idea: a series of PCB art badges, one for each of the 130 mammals in BC, with LED eyes and an SAO connector for an art show display.

#PCB#Ideas#LED#Art#Furniture#Vancouver
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Idea 001 - Cherry Blossom Profile Photo Booths

Idea: a free portrait photo booth in a park during cherry blossom season, as practice for portrait photography with consenting strangers.

#Ideas#Flowers#Photo#Security#Art#Birds
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Self · 19 min

Year in review 2022

Year in review 2022: Lori moving in, painting the townhouse, cherry blossoms, a CBC interview about the bird cards, travel, and fostering a puppy.

#Birds#Review#Video#Paper#Glass#Painting
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FlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem

Post mortem from showing the Flocking AI bird gallery at Maker Labs during Eastside Culture Crawl 2022: the wall layout, what people said, and what to fix.

#Art#AI#Vancouver#Metal#Paper#Robots
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Samsung The Frame TV art

A gallery of MidJourney-generated 4K UHD artwork sized exactly for Samsung The Frame TV to avoid the mat border, free to download.

#Art#AI#Photo#Web
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Self · 5 min

Current tools and equipment (2021)

The software, gadgets and gear Steven uses day to day in 2021, and what changed since 2018 after the move to working from home.

#Code#Security#Art#Birds#Photo#Journal
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Bookmarks · 3 min

February 2021 brain dump

February 2021 brain dump on getting into birding with a Sigma 150-600mm, plotter twitter projects, and a 52-card bird playing deck plan.

#Bookmark#Journal#Paper#CNC#Web#AI
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January 2020 brain dump

January 2020 brain dump: links on polyhedra, plotter art, LED lava lamps, capacitive touch PCBs, and tools for makers.

#Bookmark#Paper#LED#Laser Cut#JLCPCB#PCB
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Projects · 28 min

Panels - Stained glass windows project

Walkthrough of every panel in the digital stained glass window series: beehive, mountains, stars, hexagon weave, heart, sun, and more.

#Paper#Glass#LED#Laser Cut#Stained Glass#Code
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Digital stained glass workshop

A workshop at MakerLabs Vancouver where attendees design a 9x9 inch illuminated stained glass window with WS2811 LEDs and CNC-cut foam.

#Wood#Metal#Paper#Glass#LED#CNC
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Bookmarks · 4 min

Jun 2019 brain dump

June 2019 bookmarks: a Casper nightlight teardown, the Etch-A-Snap Pi camera, SVG Nest, and stacked paper stained glass.

#Laser Cut#Art#Web#Paper#Glass#CNC
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Bookmarks · 8 min

Feb 2019 brain dump

February 2019 links on Arduino LED projects, an Etch A Sketch CNC, a zombie ESP8266 game, and James Clar's neon art.

#Art#Arduino#LED#CNC#ESP8266#Code
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Bookmarks · 5 min

Nov 2018 brain dump

November 2018 bookmarks on Wobble Garden, PCB art, SI playing cards, sand tables, and Islamic geometric design books.

#Bookmark#Art#Video#PCB#Code#Maps
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May 2018 brain dump

May 2018 grab bag of links: pen plotters, ESPEasy firmware, the TWANG dungeon crawler, and a wooden lego planter.

#Robots#ESP8266#ESP32#Art#Wood#Code
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Projects · 3 min

Inspiration - Stained glass windows project

Inspiration for the stained glass windows project, from Lumina Lab's Stoicheia dodecahedron to mandala work on Instagram.

#Stained Glass#Wood#Glass#LED#Laser Cut#Code
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Bookmarks · 4 min

January 2018 brain dump

Notes on dropping Evernote for are.na, TeamViewer alternatives, blockchain art, the Ice Cold Beer game, and a pile of bookmarks.

#Paper#Arduino#Raspberry Pi#Motor#Code#Art
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Bookmarks · 3 min

Notes from May 2017

May 2017 links: ESP32 sniffers, a giant laser-cut Bulbasaur, an 8-bit computer from scratch, Big Poop Data, and the BLACK 2.0 paint.

#Paper#LED#Laser Cut#ESP32#ESP8266#Sensor
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Bookmarks · 3 min

Notes from April 2017

April 2017 links: Google AnyPixel, a drinkable tequila cloud, the Cubic Cyphercon puzzle badge, ESP8266 deauther, and Shodan.

#Paper#Plastic#CNC#ESP8266#Code#Markdown
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Vancouver · 4 min

Laser cutting in Vancouver

A guide to laser cutting in Vancouver from someone with 4000 hours on the machines: where to cut, who to follow, and which shop to avoid.

#Wood#Metal#Paper#Laser Cut#CNC#Code
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Bookmarks · 4 min

Notes from March 2017

March 2017 links: a laser kaleidoscope, Lixie nixie alternatives, Vancouver crime maps, Eruv wires above Manhattan, and PBF comics.

#3D Printing#Art#Maps#Robots#Vancouver#Photo
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Bookmarks · 4 min

Notes from February 2017

February 2017 links: laser-cut art from 1000 Errors, paper beetle kits, Mongoose OS, the USB Killer V3, and the CIA cartography map drops.

#Paper#LED#Laser Cut#CNC#Art#Maps
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Bookmarks · 4 min

Notes from January 2017

January 2017 links: HexCells, the Universal Play Machine, makerjs for laser drawings, Mosquitto MQTT, and Node-RED home automation.

#LED#CNC#3D Printing#Raspberry Pi#Code#Web
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Bookmarks · 4 min

November 2016 interesting link dump

November 2016 link dump: open source car control, ESP8266 MQTT LED controllers, the Maslow CNC, Boldport, and the poop emoji oral history.

#LED#CNC#ESP8266#WS2812#Code#AI
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Year of Making · 1 min

Day 97 - Giant fox mask

A 1.5-metre coroplast version of the Wintercroft fox mask, built during a VHS giant fox head build night.

#Plastic#Art#VHS#Code
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Day 94 - Radiant acrylic fox mask

A laser-cut acrylic Wintercroft fox mask for Burning Man, ruined by Gorilla Glue foaming under the panels.

#Plastic#Laser Cut#Art#VHS#Code
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Day 92 - Yellow jacket

A laser-cut wood yellow jacket in a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series, made at VHS.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Art#VHS#Code
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Day 91 - Cockroach

A laser-cut wood American cockroach wearing a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Art#VHS#Code
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Day 90 - Blowfly

A laser-cut wood blowfly in a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series, made at VHS.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Art#VHS#Code
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Day 89 - Jumping spider

A laser-cut wood jumping spider with a top hat, another entry in the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Art#VHS#Code
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Day 88 - Preying mantis

A laser-cut wood praying mantis wearing a top hat, part of the Fancy Bugs series for Burning Man.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Art#VHS#Code
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Day 87 - Burning man plaque

A large map of Black Rock City for camp visitors to mark cool spots with push pins and flags.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Maps#Art#Code
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Day 86 - Fox head mask

A low-poly Wintercroft fox head mask cut from coroplast, ready for mirrored acrylic panels.

#Plastic#Laser Cut#Art#Code
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Day 85 - Mustaches

Laser-cut mustache pendants strung on ribbons, hung from the dome roof as Burning Man gifts.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 84 - MeeBox

A nesting laser-cut gift box for Burning Man, sitting in the dome for people to trade trinkets in and out of.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 82 - Visualization of DNA

A Processing-generated visualization of my 23andMe DNA data, to be laser engraved on the MeeBox for Burning Man.

#Code#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 81 - Voronoi tower

A 20 by 10 inch laser-cut prototype of a voronoi pylon lantern, aiming for a 7-foot final version.

#Wood#Laser Cut#LED#Art
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Day 77 - Little red riding hood paper craft

A Little Red Riding Hood layered paper scene with trees worth doing more of, plus a misplaced wolf.

#Paper#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 76 - Princess Mononoke paper craft

Layered paper kodama from Princess Mononoke, with 5mm layer spacing that works better than the old 10mm.

#Paper#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 75 - Moose layered paper craft

A layered paper moose whose antlers are too thin and flimsy, popular on Instagram so due for a second try.

#Paper#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 73 - AT-Walker layered paper craft

A three-layer paper craft AT-AT with notes on tightening the 10mm layer spacing down to 5mm.

#Paper#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 70 - fairy door off cuts

Small pieces made from leftover wood off-cuts after the fairy door workshop.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 69 - Installing fairy door two

A photo set of bad spots where fairy doors do not work, the counterpoint to the good locations post.

#Wood#Vancouver#Art#Photo
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Day 68 - Installing fairy door

A photo set of good spots around Vancouver to install tiny magic fairy doors.

#Wood#Vancouver#Art#Photo
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Day 66 - Pointy fairy door

A pointy-arch fairy door design, too small to use but with a shape worth keeping for the next round.

#Wood#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 51 - Circles panel

A laser-cut wooden panel with a circles pattern for the LED light wall.

#Code#Laser Cut#Wood#Art
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Day 50 - Unfinished panel

An unfinished laser-cut wooden panel from the LED light wall build.

#Code#Laser Cut#Wood#Art
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Day 49 - Branches panel

A laser-cut wooden panel with a tree-branches pattern, a favorite from the LED panel series.

#Code#Laser Cut#Wood#Art
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Day 48 - Maze panel

A laser-cut wooden panel with a maze pattern for the LED light wall.

#Code#Laser Cut#Wood#Art
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Day 47 - Twelve sided star

A laser-cut wooden panel with a twelve-sided star pattern for the LED light wall.

#Code#Laser Cut#Wood#Art
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Day 46 - Voronoi pattern panel

A laser-cut wooden panel with a Voronoi cell pattern, part of the LED panel series.

#Code#Laser Cut#Wood#Art
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Day 23 - Spiral panel

A spiral Pocket Universe panel test cut in paper after running out of wood, designed by Adam Barlev.

#Code#Paper#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 22 - triangl line panel

A triangle-line Pocket Universe panel cut in wood on the VHS laser cutter, designed by Adam Barlev.

#Code#Wood#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 19 - failed maze panel

A maze-pattern Pocket Universe panel test where the paths only connect at one point, too fragile to keep.

#Code#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 18 - Failed array panel

A test-cut Pocket Universe panel that came out too flimsy to use and was rejected.

#Code#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 17 - Tiny Star panel array

A dense tiny-star test panel for the Pocket Universe, likely too detailed for the ShopBot and due for a redesign.

#Code#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 16 - Star panel two

A second star-pattern test panel cut for the Pocket Universe dome project.

#Code#Laser Cut#Art
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Day 13 - Layered paper craft dragon

A layered paper shadow puppet picture frame cut on the VHS laser cutter as a test for more complex scenes.

#Paper#Laser Cut#Art#Puppets#Code
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Day 14 - Test polyhedron

A paper trapezohedron test for a planned set of twelve laser-cut wooden lantern shapes lit with LEDs.

#Paper#Laser Cut#LED#Code#Art
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Day 8 - Moster mustache

A mustached monster vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.

#Laser Cut#Plastic#Art#Code
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Day 7 - Moster dog

A monster dog vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.

#Laser Cut#Plastic#Art#Code
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Day 6 - Moster lizard

A monster lizard vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.

#Laser Cut#Plastic#Art#Code
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Day 5 - Moster frog

A monster frog vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.

#Laser Cut#Plastic#Art#Code
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Day 2 - 20x hexagon

Twenty laser-cut hexagons taped together around a single light source, made on the VHS laser as a light study.

#Laser Cut#Paper#LED#Art
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Projects · 1 min

Layered paper cut with spacers between each layer

An old layered red paper-cut design reworked with coroplast spacers between each layer, after seeing Charles Clary's work.

#Paper#Laser Cut#Plastic#Art
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A blue star sign

A glowing backlit star sign cut from coroplast with 12 RGB LEDs behind it.

#Plastic#LED#Art
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More laser cut Guilloches

More guilloche patterns generated with an Inkscape macro and cut on the VHS laser cutter, with source files on GitHub.

#Laser Cut#Code#VHS#Hackspace#Art
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Projects · 1 min

Chinese paper cutting done with a laser cutter

Converting Chinese paper-cut silhouettes into vectors and cutting them on the laser cutter, with a branches design as the favourite.

#Paper#Laser Cut#Art
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Year of Making · 1 min

Laser cut Frabjous

A laser-cut Frabjous sculpture by George W. Hart, scaled from 4mm to 6mm birch and given to my mother for Christmas.

#Laser Cut#Video#Wood#3D Printing#Art
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Projects · 1 min

Drawbot results

Prints from the Marginally Clever drawbot, made as a birthday gift for a nephew.

#Paper#Art#Photo
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Projects · 1 min

Reddit Holiday Greeting Card Exchange

A holiday card drawn on a Marginally Clever drawbot for the Reddit Gifts greeting card exchange.

#Paper#Art#Code
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Projects · 2 min

Laser cut layered Crystal skull

A clear acrylic crystal skull built from stacked laser-cut slices, threaded together with fishing line.

#Plastic#Laser Cut#Art
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Projects · 1 min

The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth

Accepted into the 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action in Vancouver with a button design called Teeth, shown at Hot Art Wet City.

#Art#Canada#Vancouver#Photo
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Projects · 1 min

Simple acrylic pendants

Quick laser-cut acrylic Hibiscus and ukulele pendants as gifts for family stops on a World Maker Faire trip.

#Art#Jewelry#Laser Cut#VHS#Plastic#Flowers
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Media · 1 min

I like the weird

Two Burning Man videos worth rewatching, Hula Cam 2012 and Home from 2011.

#Video#Bookmark#Art
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Projects · 1 min

Crowdfund the Rygo

A crowdfunding push for the Rygo, a Bathsheba Grossman sculpture aiming to be the biggest 3D print in North America.

#3D Printing#Art#Vancouver
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Vancouver · 2 min

Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011

Notes from Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011: sign posts, a spin-art box, the milk jug dragon, and the Mondo Spider.

#LED#Art#Robots#Maker Faire#Vancouver#Video
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Media · 1 min

Burning Man 2011 - Rites of Passage

Recap of Burning Man 2011 with favourite installations Charon's rowing skeletons and El Pulpo Mechanico.

#Art#Video#Journal
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Junk · 1 min

GOLD, lighting project.

Note on Evan Roth's Gold project, which lights up holes drilled into acrylic by reflecting light through the sheet.

#Video#Art#Bookmark
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Media · 1 min

Drawing with water and ink

Idea for a short story narrated over footage of ink swirling through water.

#Art#Video#Ideas
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Media · 2 min

Spin Art - Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011

Rebuilt the giant spin art box with a belt drive and splash guard three days before Maker Faire, then ran out of paper by noon day two.

#Paper#Plastic#Painting#Motor#Art#Maker Faire
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Vancouver · 1 min

Sign Posts - Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011

150 hand-painted directional signs mounted on four posts for Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011.

#Wood#Painting#Art#Maker Faire#Vancouver
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Self · 2 min

Status update May 12, 2011

May 2011 update covering a burned out spin art motor, a DC trip to HacDC, and progress on the POV globe.

#Motor#Art#Maker Faire#Vancouver#Hackspace#Journal
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Projects · 1 min

Giant spin art - Maker Faire 2011 Vancouver

A giant spin art box built in a weekend from a junkyard washing machine motor for Maker Faire Vancouver.

#Motor#Art#Maker Faire#Vancouver
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Development · 2 min

RGB LED POV Globe - Research other peoples projects.

Research notes on other POV display projects that influenced the RGB LED globe build.

#LED#Art#Jewelry#Video
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Projects · 1 min

Two layer Stencils

Cutting and spraying two-colour stencils as a step up from the single-layer ones, with a five-to-ten colour piece next.

#Paper#Painting#Art
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Development · 3 min

Status update Feb 15

Mid-February update: Ray Gun Revival launched, a Maker Faire spin-art rig in planning, and the outdoor sensor logging sunrises.

#Arduino#Code#Vancouver#Sensor#Art#Maker Faire
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Development · 1 min

Color survey

A color-naming survey borrowed from XKCD to find common ground on how people label the same swatches.

#Web#Code#Art#Journal
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Media · 1 min

Mear One Light Graffiti - Emily Wells

Frame-by-frame light graffiti video with Mear One shot at 30 seconds per image, scored by Emily Wells.

#Video#Art
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Vancouver · 1 min

BAXBEAR Release party Nov10 2007

BAXBEAR vinyl toy release party at EL Kartel on Robson Street, November 10th 2007.

#Vancouver#Canada#Art
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Bookmarks · 2 min

Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-23 - 2007-05-30

Weekly del.icio.us dump: a CSS border style wizard, stencil street art, eyetracking heatmaps, and quote sites.

#Web#Art#Furniture#Bookmark
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Bookmarks · 7 min

Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-16 - 2007-05-22

Weekly del.icio.us dump: oscilloscope art, a homebrew lava lamp, an ice-bulb instructable, and a pile of dice game writeups.

#Metal#Paper#Art#Tutorial#Bookmark#Photo
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Bookmarks · 2 min

Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-04 - 2007-05-15

Weekly del.icio.us dump: inflatable missile balloons, 1301 fluorescent bulbs lit by power lines, Seen in Vancouver, and a content-theft guide.

#Paper#Web#PHP#Art#Vancouver#Bookmark
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Games · 1 min

Fan works of Mario

A small roundup of dark and weird Mario fan art and flash animations including Communist Mario and Burly Mario.

#Art#Video#Bookmark#Ideas
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Bookmarks · 3 min

This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-24

Weekly del.icio.us bookmark roundup covering Paint.NET, freebase pancake photos, a DIY Digg button, and Vancouver oddities.

#Painting#Art#Vancouver#Bookmark#Recipe#Photo
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Bookmarks · 2 min

This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-17

Weekly del.icio.us bookmark roundup: a CSS optimiser, GVTV, Canada Post address rules, SIW, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

#Web#Art#Vancouver#Canada#Bookmark#Photo
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Bookmarks · 4 min

This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-09

Weekly del.icio.us bookmark roundup covering art, DIY electronics, Mobius chess, photo forgery detection, and a CSS list gallery.

#Painting#Web#Art#Chess#Vancouver#Bookmark
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Vancouver · 1 min

Camilla dErrico - One of my favorite Vancouver artists

Notes on Vancouver artist Camilla d'Errico, her helmet-head paintings, and where to find her prints and gallery shows.

#Web#Art#Vancouver#Photo#Painting#Review
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Bookmarks · 3 min

This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-02

Weekly del.icio.us bookmark roundup on guitar stompboxes, an RGB mood lamp, ferrofluid Morpho Towers, Game of Life, and the Translink bus-stop hack.

#Web#PHP#Art#Chess#Vancouver#Tutorial
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Media · 2 min

Project: The $5 Cracker Box IPod Amplifier

Built the MAKE magazine cracker box iPod amp around an LM386 to drive a small 8 ohm speaker for a friend's metal sculpture.

#Soldering#Art#Metal#Tutorial
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Bookmarks · 6 min

This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 03/28/2007

Weekly del.icio.us bookmark roundup covering a Van de Graaff generator, an LED sequence learner, GPS loggers, password crackers, and more.

#LED#Web#PHP#Security#Art#Maps
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Development · 1 min

Extracting the IPTC data from an image in PHP

How to pull Picasa captions and other IPTC metadata out of an image in PHP using iptcparse and iptcembed.

#Photo#Code#PHP#Art#Tutorial
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Media · 1 min

Kyle Cooper - Single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form

Kyle Cooper has directed over 150 film title sequences, including Se7en, The Mummy, and Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3.

#Metal#Art#Video
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Development · 1 min

Photo Gallery that does not require a MySql database

An IPTC mod for Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery so it reads Picasa titles, no database needed, just upload and go.

#PHP#Art#Photo
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Projects · 1 min

Mark Jenkins - Plastic babies

Mark Jenkins makes cheap plastic babies from plastic wrap and clear tape, with ideas for turning them into LED-lit sculptures.

#Plastic#Video#Art#LED#Tutorial
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Media · 1 min

Stop motion drum and piano

A YouTube video by lassegg who hits each drum and piano note separately, then edits the clips into a song.

#Video#Art#Bookmark
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Media · 1 min

SnOil - A Physical Display Based on Ferrofluid

Martin Frey's SnOil, a playable Snake game built on a 144-magnet grid pushing ferrofluid around a tray.

#Video#Art#Bookmark
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Vancouver · 1 min

Portobello West Fashion and Art Market

Portobello West opens August 27 at Plaza of Nations with up to 100 local clothing designers, jewelers, and potters, free to the public.

#Art#Maps#Vancouver#Canada#Jewelry#Fabric
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Vancouver · 1 min

Larch Market

Larch Market on August 26 is a one-day community bazaar in Kitsilano with artists, musicians, books, records, antiques, and clothing.

#Vancouver#Canada#Art#Journal
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Vancouver · 3 min

Vancouver Zombie Walk

The Vancouver Zombie Walk on August 19 starts at the VAG, rides SkyTrain to Main Street, and ends at Mountainview Cemetery and QE Park.

#Art#Vancouver#Photo#Canada
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Vancouver · 1 min

Heritage Hall Comic Con

Heritage Hall Comic Con on August 27, 2006 gathers small-press and alternative comic creators on Main Street in Vancouver.

#Vancouver#Art#Paper#Canada
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Media · 1 min

Bard On The Beach - Midsummer night’s dream

Bard on the Beach stages A Midsummer Night's Dream at Vanier Park from June 1 to September 24, 2006.

#Vancouver#Art#Canada
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Vancouver · 1 min

Illuminares Lantern Procession

The Illuminares Lantern Procession lights up Trout Lake Park on July 29, 2006 with paper lanterns, bands, and fire sculptures.

#Vancouver#Paper#Art#Canada
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Vancouver · 1 min

Harrison Hot Springs Sand Sculpture Tournament of Champions

Past world champions carve sand at Harrison Hot Springs from May through October 9, 2006 for the Tournament of Champions.

#Art#Vancouver#Canada
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Vancouver · 1 min

7th Vancouver Chinatown Festival

The 7th Vancouver Chinatown Festival runs August 5-6, 2006 with food tours, a youth talent contest, and folk art demos.

#Art#Vancouver#Canada
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