Mosi Alvand, owner of Olympia Pizza on Denman Street. One takes one's heroes where one finds them.
Showing posts with label VANOC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VANOC. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Olympic Hero
Mosi Alvand, owner of Olympia Pizza on Denman Street. One takes one's heroes where one finds them.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
No Art Allowed - VANOC
Remember this wall?
Beatty Street across from the Armories. It was filled with bright paintings, known as the Beatty Street Murals.
Colourful and vibrant on a very plain street.
But as usual, VANOC didn't want anything that tourists would see as part of Vancouver's multi-faceted identity, even though all of the original 16 paintings were commissioned by the Steve Nash Foundation, so they had them painted over with blue paint. Perhaps they were afraid of secret messages woven into that artwork by Pepsi, or Mastercard, or Telus etc.
Ambush Advertising they call it in a feeble attempt to make themselves sound correct.
Just another reason for John Furlong to hang his head over the treatment of the citizens of Vancouver and their exclusion from the Winter Olympics.Beatty Street across from the Armories. It was filled with bright paintings, known as the Beatty Street Murals.
Colourful and vibrant on a very plain street.
But as usual, VANOC didn't want anything that tourists would see as part of Vancouver's multi-faceted identity, even though all of the original 16 paintings were commissioned by the Steve Nash Foundation, so they had them painted over with blue paint. Perhaps they were afraid of secret messages woven into that artwork by Pepsi, or Mastercard, or Telus etc.
Ambush Advertising they call it in a feeble attempt to make themselves sound correct.
Oh, by the way, that's an official Olympic vehicle parked there on Sunday.I assume standing guard over the blue wall in case someone dares put a happy face on it.
Whoops, someone did dare to make a rather sad statement.
These kinds of attacks on our visual environment need to be followed more closely. WHO actually hired the painters to slosh over the murals? We need to know the actual names of people who follow these directions blindly and stupidly and with no concern for their own city. SOMEONE gave the order.
And it reminds me of all those glorious tall trees that were brutally chopped down on Hamilton street by Concord Pacific to make way for the new CBC studios, none of which would have interfered in any way with the construction or look. And none of which were on Concord Pacific's property.
There IS a law that says if you cut a tree down from city property, it must be replaced by a like tree. Still waiting for that and the name of the person who gave the order.
These people who have so little regard for their own neighborhood couldn't be from Vancouver. Or even live here. Could they?
see my previous post and pictures about the CBC trees - October 2006 - CBC construction, your trees or theirs?
http://caterwauls.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html
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