business in the front

firstly, i must tell the internet that it is my friend jeremy’s 30th birthday today. it’s nice to have him in the same age-decade as me now. although, as he said to me the other day, he’s always been older than his DOB would have you think. i was planning on posting a slightly embarrassing photo i have of him from our first and only visit a couple of summers ago (crap, has it already been two years?), but then i remembered how much he’d kick my ass if i did. see, jer? this is my gift to you! ;)
yesterday afternoon (that’s the bit between noon and five o’clock, right?), christopher and i went to view an art installation by the local artists’ collective Futura Bold — which includes author douglas coupland as a member — called The Vancouver School. from coupland.com:

i quite enjoyed it and would actually like to go back again before it closes next weekend — but this time i’m going to avoid the very nice, but distractingly chatty, older ladies monitoring the space — just to have a little bit more time to absorb the memories. i was very surprised and delighted to find artifacts from my highschool in the installations. it just added that little bit more of a connection to the recollections it was meant to evoke.
if you’re in the vancouver area, i highly recommend you attend. it’s a little out of the way for transit users, but if you ever went to a public school you’ll find something there to give you pause for thought. plus, there’s one absolutely brilliant video installation i think everyone should see.