Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

From the 2010 season. I returned from a fantastic trip to Guaymas, Mexico and straight into the anti-Olympic protests and street carnage. The action was close to where I live, so I took my camera into the streets to record the action. One of the most interesting aspects of packing around a high end camera...is that everyone automatically assumes that you belong there. So...I got up close and personal to both the police and the protestors. At one point, during the G-20 protest, a masked girl asked me what I was doing taking all those pictures....and she said that I was "scaring them".  I thought that this was interesting because I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a sun bleached baseball hat...standing in front of a crowd of people in masks, dressed head to toe in black. Mostly it was a personal experiment on my part in getting interesting and edgy photos, that I would normally not consider taking. These photos are from an altercation between Blac Bloc members and t...

Here are a few videos, mostly from my friend, Joe Tompai. ( joetompai.com ) Included are images from a bridge going in over the Stawamus River, Aerial video of the Segment 1 South interchange and the Garabaldi Overpass construction. A highspeed video of driving from Vancouver to Whistler in only 6 minutes instead of 2 hours. Comments from some of the managers and engineers on the project.  I will include links to some of the construction sites mentioned, for more detailed look at this interesting mega-project.  Walls and Bridges   http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/walls-and-bridges-on-sea-to-sky-project.html  Cut 9   http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-sevensea.html Link to video interviews with construction managers and engineers is here...  http://youtu.be/hH1Tcj9xJHI   And links to blog posts featuring more detail of some of the Sea to Sky Highway's most interesting...

This is on a property that has quite a few old logging machines laying about. Most were so grown over that we had to hack away at the brush and trees for quite a while before the cameras could start clicking. All of the machines that were parked here, used to be involved in West Coast logging...and are now rusting back into the ground. Video of the D-6 by Skadill is here Here's a video of the Skadill YouTube crew...

Photos specially selected for the Mechanics Hub group, S2S mechanics....and other gearheads and lever pullers. Covers Segment 3 to Seg 1....years 2006 to 2008 Cut 10  Segment 1...looking North Segment 1... Servicing the rock crusher Segment 1, Cut 4 area Close up..... Segment 1, Cut 4 Cut 10/11 Segment 1 Cut 10...  BC Ferry coming into Horseshoe Bay Terminal, Bowen Island in the background Early days of Cut 5, Seg 1 North end of Cut 10, Seg 1 Seg 1 shop at Westport Pit, West Vancouver Seg 1 shop Segment one shop and offices Concrete batch plant....Seg 2? I know what you're thinking...how did he drive off the road here???? Doodson's Corner North end of Doodson's Corner South end of Doodson's Corner Brunswick pit, Seg 2 offices Stretch of new road in the Seg 2/3 area Brunswick Pit offices Brunswick Pit Darrell Bay/Shannon Falls Shannon Falls shop Shannon Falls shop Seg 1, ...