Cylon Cafe

Anybody recognizing this place? ;-)



A little note for the architects among you: It was built by Arthur Erickson.

War camp at UBC

On Saturday, I took a walk around the UBC campus during the break of my course and suddenly, I stood in front of a frightening war camp that had been erected around the Buchanan Tower: Concrete walls, barbwire, watchtowers with floodlights, crude warning signs: "HALT! Warning! Restricted area - Use of deadly force!" My first thought was that this was an anti-war installation and for that, it would have been a pretty good setup.

However, it came out that it was "just" a film set and two production assistants informed me that they had to re-shoot some scenes from forthcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Wolverine is a super-hero with the special power of extreme growth of hair and fold-out scissors like Edward Scissorhand). Well, I'm a fan of the X-Men series, so it was still pretty cool to watch and I'm looking forward to the release of the movie.

Everything's Gone Green

Vancouver's famous and usually great writer Douglas Coupland (Generation X has been the best description of a whole (maybe my?) generation) has not only written books, but he also wrote the script for a movie with lots of insiders about Vancouver:

Everything's Gone Green is a 2006 Canadian comedy film starring Paulo Costanzo, directed by Paul Fox and written by Douglas Coupland. This movie, Coupland's first screenplay, won the award for best Canadian feature film at 2006’s Vancouver International Film Festival (Wikipedia).

Well, I was a bit disappointed about the rather predictable story and some of the best jokes Coupland had used in JPod already, but still, you get lots to see of and laugh about Vancouver.