Sunday, February 7, 2010

Downtown Vancouver & Olympic Saturation

Today I went to Downtown to film a lizard for his web show and in between filmed I took lots of photos of the Olympic & Canadian branding of Vancouver and other bits of randomness.

Anti-Olympics Propaganda.


A skyscraper covered in graphics.

The Olympic countdown clock & an installation on the art gallery.

The Robson Square Ice Skating Rink, with the line to but Olympic tickets on the right side.

Orca Zamboni.

Another skyscraper covered in graphics, this one with the Vancouver 2010 mascots.

Apocalyptic Christians doing a happy dance, click the photo for full view. If the world is coming to an end where am I supposed to flee?

Lantern trees on Granville.

Olympic athlete silhouette sculptures. 

First Nations inspired giant lanterns.

A random cool sculpture.

More sculptures.

Looking along Granville St.

The New Zealand & British Columbia flags.

Canadian chocolate bears, that make be a toffee apple.

A yeti chillin on a ski lift.

The Vancouver 2010 Countdown Clock

Canadian Flag on a building.

O Canada

The sculptures on Granville St at night.

Canada Place with a changing light show.

The info kiosk & Olympic pendants.

A giant globe in the convention centre foyer.

One of the many buildings with light sculptures.

Official Vancouver 2010 barrier fences.

A crane showing Canadian pride.

The Olympic Rings in the harbour.

A building with randomly coloured windows.

Vancouver 2010 bus for the thousands of media & athletes & other official people.

SkyTrain Olympic advertising.

The International Village sculpture is not so international, there is no New Zealand.

Olympic 'welcome' sphere & Science World.

Ilanaaq the Inukshuk sculpture with the Athletes Village in the background.

Rock & Metal Towers.

Science World dome reflecting in the waters of False Creek.

Multi-language 'welcome' sphere.

Panoramic view of looking towards downtown.

Promo for the next Winter Games in Russia.



The Golden Arches with a Golden Medal.

I plan to go back into downtown next weekend to take more photos & film more of boB the lizard for his web show. It should be fun because the Olympics would have begun & there will be lots of people & randomness.

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