A Night in Vancouver

I came across this amazing time-lapse video today of Vancouver by a video artist named Daniel Chen (Vimeo: here). It made me fall in love with Vancouver all over again, and even almost got me teary eyed thinking about how lucky I am to have the luxury to call this beautiful city my home.

Upon watching this video, I felt a strange sense of new found excitement and exhilaration from seeing this place I've called home for almost my entire life. What is this spectacular and almost whimsical place I feel so unfamiliar with? Where is the sense of homeliness I expected, despite the familiar landmarks?

I realized that what was captured was a different perspective of the city. One in which we are not capable of experiencing from just walking down the streets.

A city can always be exciting if you make it so; if you live and experience it through different perspectives from time to time. Time-lapse allows us to perceive our city from afar and bring a fast paced lifestyle into an even faster paced art piece. The same goes for the opposite. If every once in a while we take the time and slow down our steps, we may find a new gem embedded within the very walls of our city that we wouldn't have discovered otherwise.

Each corner of every street holds historical value; a hidden story can be unraveled if you take the time to learn it.