Heart of Vancity 2K
A lot of people would say Paris is the City of Light. With this beautiful time lapse video of downtown core, I think Vancouver can give Paris a run for its money.
Made by the talented Joel Schat.
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Take My Money
No truer words have been said on TV, Fry.
A few years back, a friend and I had a running joke about the words “need” and “want” because in most cases when you say you “need something”, you actually don’t. To illustrate:
- Need is when something is necessary, like when I whisper into the telephone to the police, “I NEED this stalker out of my house.”
- Want is when you desire something, such as, “I really WANT my dad to stop asking me what am I doing when I am in the bathroom.”
In most cases, people say they need some sort of object, like a jacket, a new computer or some space. We’d correct each other and say, “Is that a need or a want?” or “What kind of space, like the one between your eyebrows and your hairline because it’s come soon, dude.” But then there are instances when we knew in the depths of our hearts that we really needed this object in our lives because it’s too awesome and for f***’s sake just TAKE MY MONEY NOW.
Here are some things I recently saw and then proceeded to throw money at my laptop screen but nothing happened because I realized that I am an unemployed student and the “money” I was throwing were pieces of my hopes and dreams. Yes, this just got dark fast. Now onto the beautiful objects of necessity.
Macbook Pro with Retina Display
TopBrewer Coffee faucet by Scanomat – with iPhone control
Leap
Monolito and Megalito carbon fiber table
GroundWave Shadow Trainer that teaches you how to dance
So Scary It’s Funny
I’ve always loved haunted houses at carnivals since I was young. My friends and I always get scared the crap out of ourselves yet we keep coming back. The process is always horrible, but it’s always a great laugh afterwards when we relive our near-death experiences. This hilarious video where Ellen Degeneres sends her writer and her mother to a haunted maze reminds me just how much fun being scared and makes me want to go to Fright Night at the PNE even more!
Warning: you might get addicted watching this and jaw pain from laughing uncontrollably is substantial. You have been warned.
Harry and the Gang Ends 8 Films with a Whimper
As a die-hard Harry Potter fan, I went into the movie theatre 10 years ago to see the first film adaptation with scepticism. Like most fans, this feeling was purely that the film would not live up to my expectations, that something would be missing or changed which is blasphemy, and that the actress portraying Hermione Granger wouldn’t be cute enough. I walked out of the film a satisfied fan because the first film was almost scene-by-scene the book, almost nothing was changed or missing, and Emma Watson was cute and adorable.
One of the only reasons I continued to pay to watch mediocre sequels.
Over the years, my expectations that someone could fit 500-700 pages into a 2-hour movie without butchering the book went down and I let some things go without much criticism. And then I saw the trailer for the seventh film part deux. I was blown away by how awesome it was. The pace was fast, the scenes moving, and Mrs. Weasley fought like she meant to kill. After seeing the trailer a dozen times, I set a date and prepared to see the final film of the series in IMAX to end the series in style.
Boy, did that money go down the drain.
To get you up to speed: Harry, Ron, and Hermione are out to destroy several magical objects called Horcruxes so that they canfinally defeat the Dark Lord/He Who Must Not Be Named/Lord Voldemort. Thing is, they only have hunches of where and what these darn things are so they’re running around a bank (Gringrotts) and a school (Hogwarts) while trying to escape from everything that’s trying to kill them (a dragon, Death Eaters, Lord Voldemort, giants, etc).
“Why do I need glasses when I know magic?!?”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 didn’t live up to the hype nor to how the trailer portrayed the film, the latter of which should have been obvious but I didn’t want to believe it. All the big scenes were covered by the film, even the moan-worthy 19 years later scene, but nothing was particularly memorable or rewatchable. 3D simply meant that the characters appeared to be 3 inches closer to my face, the pace was fluctuated between slow and slower, even the Battle of Hogwarts scenes, and none of the supporting actors could get anything more than 1 line or said something for cheap laughs which I didn’t laugh at. By the end I only felt a sense of relief that the movie wasn’t longer and agony that I spent $19 for a movie.
That being said, I wouldn’t completely stay away from the film. Additional elements in the Battle of Hogwarts that weren’t in the book were fine by me, everything looked beautiful and Mrs. Weasley said her fan-famous PG 13 line. All in all, the franchise comes to a satisfactory end and thank-god the cast was perfect, save for Ginny Weasley. But hey, if JK Rowling supposedly says it’s awesome, who am I to judge?