Like a lot of people, Doug Welch gets a kick out of watching stuff blow up. We’re not talking about fiery crashes orchestrated by some B movie director holding a can of gasoline. Think bigger — the sort of KABOOM that could jostle the USS Enterprise off course and make Captain Kirk and company wince […]
Local Colour
Originally published in April 2009 in Canadian Geographic
Christopher van Donkelaar paints gleaming Byzantine-style icons when he’s not designing websites, but last year, the 34-year-old artist put himself on the pigment equivalent of the “100-mile diet.” He came up with the idea after reading a book by the same name by Vancouver writers Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. Their experiment—to only eat food […]