Sports | The Land That Ugly Forgot

16Aug/112

Pineda Throws a Pitch

Here's Michael Pineda of the Seattle Mariners pitching. The expression is enough of a visual intimidation factor for me. It says whatever he's throwing, it's going to be really, really fast.

Tagged as: baseball, game, mariners, michael pineda, People, pitcher, pitching, seattle, Sports, throw 2 Comments

20Jun/110

Home of the Vancouver Rowing Club

The expansive skies above, and expansive waters below where the Vancouver Rowing Club resides. The Clubhouse is the brown and white building on the left.

Tagged as: boats, canal, clubhouse, paddle, skies, Sports, stanley park, vancouver harbour, vancouver rowing club, water No Comments

14Jun/114

Lord Stanley Statue Predicts Win

Even the statue of Lord Stanley himself at the entrance to Stanley Park says this will be the year the Canucks bring the Cup home. We'll see Wednesday night how his prophecy holds up!

Tagged as: fans, game, Hockey, hope, Humour, joke, lord stanley, People, playoff, prediction, Sports, stanley cup, Statue 4 Comments

26May/114

If this is what the street is like after the Vancouver Canucks win the Western Conference and advance to the Final, I can't wait to see what it'll be like when they win the Stanley Cup! I'd better go find an air horn now. Store shelves throughout the city will probably be empty of any sort of noise makers pretty soon.

Tagged as: 2011, advance, canucks, celebration, cheering, crowd, downtown, final, granville, Hockey, noise, party, People, robson, Sports, stanley cup, street, Vancouver, video, western conference, win 4 Comments

2Mar/113

Canucks Cubed

I've always wanted to have the Canucks hockey team in my own living room, and now thanks to Spencer Dubas' creativity I kind of do. He created patterns that you print out then cut and fold to form these three dimensional characters. Warning that if you like the Canucks and you like being crafty then you're going to get addicted to making these. If you've done origami or napkin folding in a restaurant in the past, that may give you a leg up on the manufacturing process involved here. Download the patterns to make them for your own fun, and keep checking back because it gets updated with more players pretty regularly.

Tagged as: 3D, canuck cubes, canucks, characters, cube men, cube team, dimensional, display, folding, fun, Hockey, nhl, origami, paper, patterns, players, Sports, team, toys, Vancouver 3 Comments

7Nov/103

It’s All About the Goalie

This appears to be a regular play; the goalie is keeping an eye on the player from the opposing team rounding the back of the net with the puck, but take note of the placement of the butt end of the goalie's stick:

The goalie now turns around to face the play... but where's his stick? Got stuck - haha:

Lucky in this instance that the league didn't vote on increasing the size of the goal nets:

Sometimes the limbs just aren't long enough:

Tagged as: arena, game, goal, Hockey, Humour, junior A, langley chiefs, langley events centre, net, People, play, puck, recreation, skates, skating, Sports, stick 3 Comments

28Oct/104

Hockey Spectating Translated

Taking a good hockey action photo is difficult. Personally, I'd want to see some ice flying, an emotional face, a puck and some stick movement in the frame to communicate the stress of the moment. Of course I didn't capture anything like that at the hockey game last weekend, which was a disappointment. That was made up, however, by the background crowd that I found I could tell more of a story with by imagining different speech bubble scenarios. And it was a good prompt for me to learn how to draw them to boot.

Tagged as: arena, audience, cheering, crowd, emotion, fans, game, Hockey, Humour, ice, junior A, langley chiefs, People, recreation, rink, skating, spectators, Sports 4 Comments

24Oct/104

Hello Out There We’re On the Air

The best game you can name is the good ole hockey game.

Some Junior A hockey at the Langley Events Centre: Surrey Eagles at Langley Chiefs on October 23, 2010.

Tagged as: arena, families, fans, fighting, fights, game, Hockey, junior A, kids, langley chiefs, langley events centre, movie, People, play, puck, recreation, referees, skates, skating, Sports, surrey eagles, video 4 Comments

15Sep/105

Rounding the Motocross Corners

More Mission Raceway Motocross practicing.... my shoes need a scrubbing but I didn't need to enrobe my camera in plastic this time because it was a drier track. Either that or I'm learning to stay out of harm's way.