Sean and I attended one of his best friend’s wedding at the end of August. I got to see Sean don on a tux, as he was the best man.
I’ve been following 2D Code for a while now. They’re my go-to website to get inspired on all the latest and greatest in QR code usage. So imagine my absolute delight when the founder/CEO of the website contacted me to learn more about our Lillian Alling QR codes.
Here’s their little blurb on my initiative:
QR Code guerilla street posters are not only for indie bands and dance music, they have now appeared in Vancouver, Canada advertising the world premiere of a new opera. In addition to the street posters, during the run of “Lillian Alling” at Vancouver Opera there will be QR Codes throughout the theatre to enable opera goers to access backstage videos, trailers and reviews. A world first all round it seems! – 2D Code
WIN.
My heart has broken.
Miss and love you forever, Edie.
Oh happy day!
Vancouver Opera landed in the Georgia Straight’s Best of Vancouver 2010 issue. Under the arts category, Vancouver Opera was named best arts web site.
Here’s what the Georgia Straight contributors had to say:
It may specialize in a centuries-old art form, but the Vancouver Opera is ahead of the times when it comes to its Web presence. Head to www.vancouveropera.ca and you can watch videos of rehearsals and audience responses, listen to podcasts, or, funkiest of all, check out the Opera Manga—illustrated versions of the pieces on its seasonal roster. The VO also has its own blog, plus a phalanx of live bloggers covering its shows; it sponsors a video contest via YouTube called Operabot; and it ranks as one of the few arts organizations in North America to employ full-time staff dedicated to social media. Yes, the team even tweets from backstage on opening night.
Thank you for this amazing honour!
Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to run out and empty all the new stands for this week’s issue to paste up on our office walls.
We don’t really know the actual date Jonesy was born on, but we do know she was 3 months old when we adopted her last December. So Sean decided to christen Saturday, September 18 as her birthday from here on outwards.
We bought her all the toys. And she got to play with her rubber duckies in the bath today.
A purr-fect little Saturday that we had been looking forward to for the past couple of weeks.
Started the morning off with brunch at The Well. Our first time there and my what big servings they have! I got the smoked salmon scramble, while Sean got the buon giorno, an omelette filled with Italian sausage, mushrooms and peppers and served in a toasted baguette.
Vancouver Opera’s social media presence, headed by photography/fashion buff and technology maven Ling Chan, goes where few opera companies have gone before. In order to achieve their goal of increasing brand awareness and facilitating two way communications with their followers, the $9 million opera company has launched initiatives like manga (a traditionally Japanese style of comic) and an annual animation contest, for instance. Currently on the company’s blog is a serial feature written in the voice of the main character of their world premiere opera, Lillian Alling.
If you want tons of green space to walk around and none of the crowd, a cemetery is your best bet.
Another day of mixing things up with Sean, starting with brekkie at Sophie’s Cosmic Cafe in Kits. Then we decided to have a wander in Vancouver’s oldest cemetery, Mountain View. The cemetery was built in 1887 and is located on Fraser Street, spanning 106 acres from 31st to 43rd avenue. There are 92,000 grave sites and 145,000 internments.
Sure, it may not be as fancy as Highgate in London, Pere Lachaise or Montmartre in Paris, but we did come across some interesting things.
Twice the zombies and thrice the crowd.
Saturday’s Zombiewalk Vancouver was hella crowded and hella busy, compared to last year. Perhaps it was due to all the buzz from Zombiewalk 2009? Or maybe some of the crowd spilled over from the Brazilfest happening the next street over? Or maybe it was the additional zombie cast from the Bong of the Dead indie movie joining in?
There are few things more romantic than your boyfriend renting a rowboat and rowing you around a lake on a hot summer day.
The last time we went to Deer Lake was last July. We had spent most of the time walking around the park and didn’t have time to hit the water. Sean had left a comment in that post saying “We will return for a boat ride soon…”
I was tickled pink that he wanted to make good on his promise.