With lines of escape in my mouth » kitsilano http://www.nigeldowler.com A Crumbs Effusion Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:56:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Fireworks in Vancouver http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/07/24/fireworks-in-vancouver/ http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/07/24/fireworks-in-vancouver/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:05:23 +0000 admin http://www.nigeldowler.com/blog/2008/07/25/fireworks-in-vancouver/ A tradition every summer in Vancouver is the ‘Celebration of Light‘, a fireworks display competition held over four different nights in English Bay. Last night was the Canadian entry and many, many thousands of people crowded the beaches and streets of the West End and Kitsilano to catch the show.

The 30 minute display was accompanied by some well-chosen orchestral pieces which synchonised with the fireworks. I recorded the following 4 minute segment which uses a track by the great Bernard Herrmann.

Click here to view the embedded video.

I also took a few photographs…

Fireworks

Fireworks

Fireworks

More photos are available in the gallery.

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A children's park at Kits Beach, Vancouver View from Kits Beach looking across English Bay to Stanley Park in Vancouver

I decided to walk back home from Kits. I wasn’t totally sure of which way to go or how far it was but I have a good sense of direction and I like to gamble so away I went. It took just under an hour which wasn’t too bad.

Browsing the web this evening I was pleasantly surprised to read that The X-Files 2 is a runner. The long rumoured second movie will be filmed right here in Vancouver where the first five seasons of the TV show were filmed. They’re shooting it over the winter which means that they want the dark, rainy atmosphere that was such an important part of the show before production was moved to LA. Can’t wait for this!

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