Posted in English on 17. Mar, 2010
St. Patrick’s Parade – Vancouver, March 15th, 2008 (via Vida Portatil)
It’s St. Patrick’s day, time to grab a huge jug filled with green beer and have fun! I am not Irish, but it’s impossible to resist the Irish carnival that happens on St. Patrick’s day.
Inspired by the Irish life style, my coworker Romanda Simpson and her friends [...]
Posted in English on 14. Mar, 2010
Author’s Note: “Águas de Março” is this blog post’s official soundtrack. Please press play and enjoy!
It may sound wrong to you, but in my mind, the year only starts after my birthday! I grew up in Brazil with the idea that everything starts after Carnival, which usually happen 40 days before Easter. School, new projects, [...]
Posted in English, Vancouver 2010 on 01. Mar, 2010
The Olympics are officially over. For 17 days, Canadians came together to celebrate the Olympic spirit and show to the world some patriotism. We were together on twitter, wrote enthusiastic blog posts about our Olympic experience, and discussed media and technology in conferences and pub gatherings around Vancouver. But, what’s next?
Today, the Canadian men’s hockey [...]
Posted in English, Vancouver 2010 on 20. Feb, 2010
Photo Credit: Clayton Perry on Flickr
In the past week, several videos have been produced or gained the spotlight for showcasing our beautiful British Columbia. After 9 days of Winter Olympics, I came up with this small selection. Enjoy!
Video Credit: Government of B.C.
Thanks to internet, “Vancouver City” came to life. Serge Chubinsky-Orlov and Linda Ganzini had [...]
Posted in English, Português, Vancouver 2010 on 19. Feb, 2010
The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC), the 2010 Vancouver Cultural Olympiad and Canada Code are inviting people from all over the world to be part of its virtual stadium and the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony. Brazil is the 11th country in number of submissions, but Canada Code wants to portrait a multicultural world in [...]
Posted in English, Vancouver 2010 on 17. Feb, 2010
This morning, a warm Vancouverite crowd welcomed the Colbert Report show to the 2010 Winter Olympics host city. By 7:00am, hundreds of people started to line up for the Colbernation stage at Creekside Park next to Science World. The live recording started after 10:30am, giving lots of time to the show’s stage manager to “train” [...]
Posted in English, Vancouver 2010 on 16. Feb, 2010
Science World has become a great Russian House. Thanks to my friend Veronica Rivas, Raul Pacheco and I had full access to the Russian Sochi 2014 House and the opportunity to mingle with Russians and people from all around the world.
Photo Credit: Sochi2014.com
The set up of the Sochi 2014 Russian House effectively brought a taste [...]
Posted in English, Vancouver 2010 on 15. Feb, 2010
Another day of Olympic crazinesss in Vancouver! Another day of exciting discoveries!
On our tour on Graville Street we discovered that the Vogue Theatre (918 Granville Street) will be screening Today all the Olympic competitions for free. Tomorrow, daily tickets will be sold for $25.oo and tickets for the gold medal games will be available for [...]
Posted in English on 14. Feb, 2010
Ipanema and Winston in a morning snuggle. Photo Credit: Vida Portatil on Flickr
Celebrating Valentine’s Day in February is a little bit strange for me. In Brazil, Valentine’s Day (Dia dos Namorados) is celebrated every year on June 12th. We do exactly the same things that Canadians do: we wake up our significant other with a [...]
Posted in English, Vancouver 2010 on 13. Feb, 2010
Vancouver is the best place to be for the next two weeks. The energy, the events, the people, everything is so powerful in this city that for the first time I am feeling overwhelmed.
Imagine1day did a great job in promoting a really successful flashmob on Robson street today. Mr. Ames, Sarah Ruediger and I watched [...]
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