Monday, December 30, 2013

Home again...


 ... Home again, jiggity jig!

I've lived quite the life these last 4 months since I last wrote to you.

I went on the trip of a lifetime to the UK and parts of Europe.

I came back and went into full toy store elf mode for work, and had a wonderful Christmas with my family.



Not to mention adjusting to now living with my partner after 4 1/2 years of being in my life.

These last 4 months have been : wonderful, challenging, testing, exciting, mind-blowing, and whimsical.
I am so lucky and blessed to have experienced them they way that I did, and I am slowly but surely adjusting to my everyday life again. 

I've been thinking that the best way to show you guys what I was up to on my trip would be to post the highlights of things you should check out in each city I went to. I'm all about the hidden gems that I city has to offer, and I did a lot of research before and during my trip to find some truly magical places around the world. And now I would like to share them with you.

Enjoy my city by city account of my 80 day "trip around the world"!

Sunday, September 8, 2013

What A Trip

What a trip this summer has been....








Concerts, Night markets,
Graduating, Fall downs, and fall ups....












Watching friends blossom in business and pleasure.
Stumbling upon magical moments in the city I call home.























Sewing my little heart out.
Creating a company doing what I love to do.
Playing. 
Biking, and learning how to drive.
Overall having fun :)
This is why I have been MIA this summer.
And in a week from now (actually less than a week...),
I am leaving for 2 and a half months on the trip of a lifetime,
to the UK and Europe...
Seems still surreal...
and I am nervous, excited, and a floodgate of all types of other emotions.
Bare with me as I continue to journey into myself.
I will post when I can.
Much love,
Britt
xoxoxo etc...

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Community Creativity

 
Not only have I been feeling more inclined to create.
But I have also been feeling more inclined to see what others have been creating.
Whether it be in artwork, plays, movies, books, or whatever creative medium you prefer. 
Its been really inspiring getting to hear what makes others do the amazing life full filling 
projects that they do.

Luckily for me I am a generally open person to engaging in these sorts of adventures,
and my only problem is having enough time to fit them all in.
Tonight my friend David invited me out to the Pacific Cinematheque for a book launch,
which seems odd for a movie theatre,

David has been recently very intrigued but film locations and has posted two blogs on the subject :

Both have inspired me to keep on track with a project
 I am thinking about launching in the next year online which actually doesn't have anything to do with movie locations, but its all about using the Internet as a medium for sharing information about creative endeavours.

Back to the book launch :
The night brought up some interesting thoughts in their panel :
1.) When did we lose the "desire" and "realness" of film? We have become so incredibly removed from films. For when they were first conceived they were used to capture the essence of life,
and the real day to day feeling of being in someone else's shoes. 
Now blockbuster cinema is jam packed with explosions and fantastical stories,
which don't get me wrong have their place in this world. 
But whatever happened to seeing pure real emotion on screen,
and capturing real looks that people share with one another at our basic human level.

2.) The producer of 1999 Canadian film "Better Than Chocolate", was part of the panel and talked about the trials of trying to film a film about living in East Van, in East Van. Apparently they could only manage to film on Commercial Drive (in Grandview Park which I eat my lunch in every day the I am working) for one scene and then had to recreate "Commercial Drive like shops" on Victoria a couple of blocks away to actually get the shots that they wanted without breaking the bank on a low budget film. Which is an utter shame that a film showcasing an aspect of the culture of the community doesn't even have the ability to film at locations familiar to the community.
 (This is the park)
I loved this film in High School, and still do. Maybe even more now after touching on it in my recent Canadian film class, and because of my love for living in East Van in the last 3 years. 
 The producer was talking about how location plays a huge part in the films that she has worked on,
and how this movie was no exception as it really speaks volumes about East Van culture.

I'm really glad that I attended tonight's launch,
and that I have been actively seeking things like this to see in my city.

One of my friends lately said that I must be really in sync with my surroundings lately
because there are so many signs that just point in the right direction of what I am talking, thinking, doing, craving, seeking for... but I think its just because I am open to the signs.
 I believe that the universe in constantly giving us clues to 
what we are supposed to be doing with our lives... all we have to do is look.

Creative Flow

Finally I am getting back into my art of crafting again...


And it feels like I am whole again
It's funny how much of a part of me it has become...
I remember a darker time in my life (years ago), when I would just come home miserable,
with nothing to keep myself occupied with except for watching films by myself,
as my (at the time) boyfriend would sit in the living room ignoring me at his computer.

I had no outlet. 
Nothing that aiding me in letting my creativity flow.
Now I have it tenfold.
I love what I have become,
and the skills I continue to collect :)

Love Britt