CODE: Vectorial Elevation.

As a continuation from the night before, I found myself with Timm and Kemila strolling along English Bay in the wee hours of the morning. We went down to the beach to see the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition (CODE) installation called Vectorial Elevation, a series of twenty robotic searchlights in which people from all over the globe with an internet connection can control to make intricate patterns in the sky. This was amazingly beautiful to see up close, right in our own backyard and it complimented quite nicely with Vancouver’s skyline.

More information about this project can be found here: http://www.vectorialvancouver.net/

Later at night, I went down to check out Vancouver’s newly restored and recently opened public ice skating rink at Robson Square. Anyone with a pair of ice skates can come down and skate away and those without skates of their own could rent a pair for only a few bucks. Above the ice rink was the newly installed Zip-Line where one can zip across from one side of Robson Square to the other along a cable line. It wasn’t yet open to the general public, however, but the construction crew seemed to be having a lot of fun.

Granville Street was all abuzz with people enjoying new installations of its own. This pedestrian friendly street was lined with public art and sculpture including a forest of metallic trees with lanterns which created a festive environment in which to walk through, day and night.

This city’s turned even more beautiful with the run up to the Olympics! If only these were here to stay...