#british columbia
Kwisitis visitor centre…
Wickaninnish Beach, Vancouver Island, BC. Canada
~Coast to Coast~Shades of Black & White~Abstractions~
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Winter in the mountains…
Elkford, BC. Canada
~Coast to Coast~Shades of Black & White~Abstractions~
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Textures of the forest…
Cathedral Grove,
Vancouver Island, BC. Canada
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In 1986, Expo 86 was held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Wanting to be the main attraction, McDonalds built a 57-metre-long barge which was named “The McBarge.” It had intended to showcase future technology and architecture. However, it wasn’t as popular as they had anticipated and was left abandoned to decay.
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I’m gonna be at the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival (in Canada) this weekend. Stop by to get yourself some queer witch comics or just to say hi!
I’m also hosting a very special panel: We’re Here! Non-binary Creators & Publishers Talk Shop! The map above is to the panel and panelists alike!
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Louisella
Reconstruction by Marianne Collins
When: Cambrian (~505 million years ago)
Where: British Columbia, Canada
What: Louisella is a worm-type organism from the Burgess Shale formation in the Canadian Rockies of BC. This organism was about 12 inches (~30 centimeters) long, with a proboscis at its anterior end that could be inverted into the body or extruded. In the images above it is inverted into the body in the fossil specimen, but shown at its full extended length in the reconstruction. This structure was ringed by a series of spines with shorter and more robust spikes on the end of the proboscis. These structures would rub past one another as the animal extended and retracted its proboscis, allowing it to ‘chew’ its food. The rows of short fringes on one surface of Louisella are thought to possible have been the animal’s gills. This worm has been reconstructed as a burrowing and carnivorous creature, and due to the grinding capability afforded to it by its proboscis, it likely ate animals of a relatively large size.
Louisella is currently held as a stem fossil on the lineage leading to the Priapulida worms, also known as the 'Penis worms’. I swear I am not making that up. These worms are very rare even today, with less than 20 living species known. They, like their ancient relative, are burrowing creatures which hunt other invertebrates. Fossils of priapulid worms are also rare, only a handful of Louisella specimens are known. What is far more common though are their distinctive shaped burrows, which are sort of an interlocking L-shape. The appearance of this type of burrows is one of the biostratigraphic markers of the start of the Cambrian period.
Louisella on the ROM’s amazing Burgess Shale website
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Alexander Park, Vancouver 1948
They are taking down the beautiful houses once built with loving hands
But still the old bandstand stands where no band stands
With clawbars they have gone to work on the poor lovely houses above the sands
At their callous work of eviction that no human law countermands
Calously at their work of hearbreak that no civic heart understands
In this pompous and joyless city of police moral perfection and one man stands
Where you are brutally thrown out of beer parlors for standing where no man stands
Where the pigeons roam free and the police listen to each pigeon’s demands
And they are taking down the beautiful homes once with loving hands
But still the old bandstand stands where no band stands.
Poem Lament of the Pacific Northwest
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Mount Baker, British Columbia November 1953
Whereas before the ferry was a Charon’s boat proceeeding to a kind of hell, now it is another sort of ferry proceeding, as it were, toward the Mount of Purgatory (Mount Baker).
Letter to Albert Erskine 27/12/1953
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In the shadows of giants… Cathedral Grove,
Vancouver Island, BC. Canada
~Coast to Coast~Shades of Black & White~Abstractions~
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Name: Dan Moxon
Band: Bend Sinister
Instrument: Vocals, Keys
Genre: Indie-rock, Progressive-rock
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