Summer 2006 Vancouver BC - 4 groups of Police Officers
that rode thier bikes much distance throughout
the Lower Mainland to help raise money for Cancer.
I was able to take some footage when they passed
  more...Port Coquitlam BC - Enjoy.  less

Happy Holidays, everybody! Please enjoy a sampling of our winter hummingbirds.

Lovely evening concert of bird songs...on a walk threw the forest on a Fraser River Island

TV's "Evening Magazine" takes a 2008 look at hippies in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, in the Summer of Love, 1967. Copyrights for this material belonging to CBC Television Vancouver and King 5 TV   more...Seattle  less

ArtXcapes Cultural Art Workshops located in Santa Fe combines excellent art instruction for all levels of art enthusiasts in a relaxed and fun atmosphere. We focus on the culture of the region by visiting   more...pueblos, artist studios and the many wonderful galleries in Santa Fe.  less

Just an a little visit to the Fraser River...Currently it looks very placid because it was low tide and the spring run off has not started.

VANCOUVER - Animalistic cries of pain are the last the world hears of a newly-arrived immigrant in dramatic video released Wednesday.

The images are so explosive Robert Dziekanski's mother, who hasn't   more...seen the whole video, has been driven into seclusion to avoid seeing it repeated on newscasts, her lawyer told The Canadian Press.

But they also raise serious questions about why the police resorted to using the Taser only seconds after encountering the non-violent man last month at the Vancouver airport.

And it contradicts what police said happened that night.

Zofia Cisowski sits on a waiting list for psychiatric care to help her get through the loss of her only son, Walter Kosteckyj said, and so he hopes the gripping video holds the police accountable for their actions that night.

"People need to know the circumstances under which they seem to be willing to use (Tasers)," Kosteckyj said.

"I think it's a judgment for the Canadian people and it's fair for people to understand and see how these things are dealt with on a day-to-day basis."

The bystander's camera clicks on early in the morning of Oct. 14 as the 40-year-old Dziekanski appears to be attempting to barricade himself inside a secure area of the airport's arrivals terminal.

No one yet knows why Dziekanski spent 10 hours in that secure area already, having arrived via Frankfurt earlier the day before.

Police were trying to find other people who had been on his flight as part of their investigation.

In the video, a tall and swarthy Dziekanski lines up desk chairs, a small wooden table and a clipboard along the doors separating the secure zone from the public waiting area.

The doors wave open and shut as he builds his barricade.

People gathered in the arrivals hall look on and Dziekanski glances furtively over his shoulder. His blue-and beige-striped shirt is open at the collar and appears wet with sweat.

He steps outside the doors, wielding the table in front of him, fear apparent in his eyes. He is muttering in Polish - the crowd thinks it's Russian - and some try to soothe him.

"There's nothing wrong, it's OK," one man says. A woman approaches, holds out her hand and beckons.

But he turns away and goes back inside, ignoring the woman now trying to speak with him through the glass.

Kosteckyj says of the segment of video that Cisowki has seen, it is this section that most breaks her heart.

"She saw her son, at the beginning, looking for help. She thought that maybe he was trying to write a message, he was looking for help and he was frightened," he said.

"He, in her mind, was trying to get help and he ended up dying as a result of seeking that help."

The woman eventually turned away from Dziekanski and chaos begins.

"He's freaking out," a bystander yells on the video as Dziekanski heaves a computer onto the floor.

The wooden table shatters against the glass. He picks up the computer a second time.

"Sir, sir, put it down," someone yells. Dziekanski stops.

Security approaches the doors, and Dziekanski, chest heaving, mops his face with the sleeve of his dirty white jacket.

He stands waiting, fear evident in his eyes, but calm.

"He's so scared," a woman can be heard saying. "Just leave him."

Security officers turn their backs and talk to each other, and in the background what sounds like airport officials discuss what to do next.

A Cathay Pacific flight with 300 people aboard is due shortly and someone can be heard suggesting customs officials hold passengers back.

Four RCMP officers arrive, the camera panning from the frustrated looks on security guards' faces to the men in uniform striding through the hall.

Loud cries of what sound like "polizia," can be heard as the officers are told by someone that the man is behind the door and only speaks Russian.
  less

Sorry...but the approach to Vancouver was so beautiful...I could not help to bore you with it ..
Flight over Coastal Range of the Rockies...toward Vancouver. On the way glaciers, steep, unpopulated vallys...ariel   more...views of the Vancouver area..including deep Fjord-like Pacific Ocean inlets.. North Vancouver, English Bay, SFU, and the Fraser River ...the low lands of the delta..with the geometric grid of the roads ..  less

A stroll around the Seawall of Stanley Park in Vancouver...on one of the last days to enjoy swimming in the Pacific for this season...
Stanley Park is a large peninsula, surrounded by inlets of the ocean   more...and adjacent to the downtown area. It is coverd in the interior with Pacific Rainforest...and surrounded by a lovely seawall to walk and enjoy the vistas..and the smell of the forest...and several nice sandy beaches...  less

CBC News coverage of oil spill on Johnstone Strait near Robson Bight Vancouver Island, home to a large number of orca whales, salmon, seals, sea lions, dolphins and other sea life.

See more video at www.coastwatchsociety.org

North Vancouver Pickup Truck with HHO Generator - Saves Gas by Half

February 16, 1987 – May 29, 2008 Vancouver Canucks defenceman Luc Bourdon died in a motorcycle accident in Lamèque, New Brunswick, near his hometown of Shippagan on May 29, 2008.

HP PhotoSmart M425

Paragliding off Mt Strachen Vancouver BC Canada

A video walk-through of our downstairs guest apartment, just in case you happen to be planning to drop by sometime soon.

I composed this little piece in canada, vancouver island
the painting I made in spain, cadaques, that is the village where. picasso, dali, and miro used to work

HP PhotoSmart M425

end of
How Many More Times
by Led Zeppelin

A reverse-engineer's view of the "800-lb" electrolysis generator [electrolyzer] in a 1971 Blue Mustang muscle car in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

(6 0 4) 5 1 2 - 9 5 6 7
backup tel 6 0 4 - 9 8 0 -7   more...1 9 7
R o b M a t t h i e s
126 W.3rd St, #38682,N. Vancouver, BC, V7M 3N1


What the Gadgeteers Have Done So Far
http://vancouver-gadgeteers.blogspot.com/
To order, please send your payment to:
R. Matthies
306-349 E. 6th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5T 1J9
  less

Jarrett Plyley of Ford Models introduces the big kick-off event in Vancouver for the Supermodel of the World search in Canada. For the search Ford Models has partnered with Diesel, Maybelline, and Redken.

PART 11 - Vancouver Amateur Inventors & Gadgeteers January 2008

HHO gas part one (alternative to fossil fuels)

Snow is coming, but, baby, it's warm inside!

Working on my web sites, coffee, squirrels and talking to people over Skype about Site Build It. Good stuff!

Duxford workshops and hangar with Beaufighter under long-term restoration.

Duxford workshops and hangar with Tigercat II