I originally was going to do the Grouse Grind today at around 11am, but after looking towards the North Shore and seeing the haze and smog cooking off of the mountains, I decided to wait until later on in the day to try and workout…big mistake, cause when I started working out at 4pm, it was like 33 degrees… – FlashAddict
After the P90X routine, I got into my car and drove to the bottom of Burnaby Mountain and hiked up back to my condo, then jumped on my bike and went down to the base again to pickup my car – dear lord it was hot and muggy coming up the mountain, but I tried my best to come up at a good pace. I also did several 1 minute sprinting intervals at various points of the ascent to work my cardio even further.
Burnaby Mountain Trail Guide
I started off at the Pipeline Trail and then onto the Power Line Trail all the way to the Trans Canada Trail and then coming up appropriately named Cardiac Hill to finish off the hike – I then ran on the SFU perimeter road to my condo building and grabbed my bike so that I could head down and grab my car – from the base of the mountain back to base again gave me the following stats:
Well, Vancouver is in the midst of quite the heat wave – was over 30 degrees both yesterday and today with a projected high of 33 for tomorrow = HEAT WAVE – FlashAddict
Today’s workout of the day was a mashup ofthe CF WOD posted and a few other items I threw in there to mix things up. All told, here’s how things broke down:
Started off with 20 minutes on my recumbent bike – 5 minute warmup – 10 minute high intensity – 5 minute recovery
Then I did 30 Turkish Get Ups (15 lbs weight)- these seriously get your heart pumping fast and hard – along with 30 Burpees.
I then turned on the P90X Ab Ripper X video and blasted through that routine to finish things off and cap an all-body workout.
Here are my stats:
Total time working out: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Total Calories Burned: 935
Average Heart Rate: 133
Max Heart Rate: 167
Also, my girlfriend Raewyn and I went kayaking up Indian Arm again and were severely beat down by the heat, wind and salt water to the point that we were on the water for only an hour and a half. It was so hot out there that we were losing energy to paddle! All in all though, it’s a great place to get out on the water and have fun in the waves, I highly recommend it.
Forgot to put in the fact that I rode my bike from SFU to downtown Vancouver – only one way though, cause I had to then take the bus to Richmond to meet up with my brother to pickup my car – all in all it took me 52 minutes to get there – not too bad… – FlashAddict
I felt ambitious today, so I rode my bike from on top of Burnaby Mountain all the way to the CrossFit Gym near Clark and Terminal in East Vancouver. Once there, I did an hour long workout there that had me doing 3 reps of max back squats + Weighted Pull-Ups and then back on the bike to ride back to Burnaby and up that long a$$ mountain…I R TIRED :S – FlashAddict
Total Time: 3:47:06 – even more impressive was the fact that it only took me 30 minutes flat to get from the bottom of Burnaby Mountain to the peak, especially after 3 hours working out already!
Total Calories Burned: 2756 (Holy Crap that’s a lot!)
I figured that I would give my legs a bit of a break today, seeing as how I biked over 26 km yesterday, so I decided to do the P90X Core Synergistics workout for $hits und giggles – here are my stats:
Google Maps only allows you to select either Car, Transit or Walking as the default modes of transportation, so here is the breakdown if I were to have walked the route from waypoint to waypoint:
Walking directions to 9266 University Crescent, Burnaby, BC, Canada
26.1 km – about 5 hours 32 mins
Suggested routes
9266 University Crescent
Burnaby, BC, Canada
1.
Head south on University Crescent toward E Campus Rd
0.3 km
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Turn left at E Campus Rd
13 m
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Slight right to stay on E Campus Rd
57 m
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At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto University Dr E
1.5 km
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Slight right to stay on University Dr E
0.3 km
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Continue on Burnaby Mountain Pkwy
2.0 km
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Turn left at Hastings St
12 m
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Turn right to stay on Hastings St
0.2 km
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Turn left at Duthie Ave
0.3 km
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Turn right at Union St
0.9 km
5.5 km – about 57 mins
Grove Ave
Burnaby, BC, Canada
11.
Head north on Grove Ave toward W Georgia St
0.3 km
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Turn right at Hastings St
0.4 km
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Slight right to stay on Hastings St
0.1 km
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Continue on Inlet Dr
1.2 km
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Continue on Barnet Hwy
7.4 km
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Turn right at St Johns St
Destination will be on the right
0.2 km
9.7 km – about 1 hour 57 mins
2000 St Johns St
Port Moody, BC, Canada
17.
Head west on St Johns St toward Charles St
6 m
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Turn left at Charles St
0.1 km
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Continue on Clarke Dr
0.3 km
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Turn right at Cecile Dr
0.6 km
1.0 km – about 16 mins
Angela Dr
Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Head west on Angela Dr toward Tuxedo Dr
0.4 km
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Turn left at Glenayre Dr
0.2 km
0.6 km – about 8 mins
Glenayre Dr
Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Head south on Glenayre Dr toward Valour Dr
0.3 km
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Turn right at Glencoe Dr
Destination will be on the left
1.1 km
1.4 km – about 16 mins
800 Glencoe Dr
Port Moody, BC, Canada
25.
Head southeast on Ailsa Ave toward Fenwick Pl
0.9 km
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Turn right at Glenayre Dr
0.1 km
27.
Turn right at Clarke Rd
0.1 km
28.
Turn right at Chapman Ave
0.7 km
1.9 km – about 22 mins
Chapman Ave
Coquitlam, BC, Canada
29.
Head west on Chapman Ave toward Stoney Creek Ct
0.1 km
30.
Turn left at Gilroy Crescent
0.3 km
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Turn left at North Rd
0.5 km
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Turn right at Broadway
11 m
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Slight right to stay on Broadway
0.5 km
34.
Turn right at Gaglardi Way
2.6 km
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Slight right to stay on Gaglardi Way
25 m
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Slight right toward University Dr E
0.2 km
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Slight right at University Dr E
1.5 km
38.
Slight left to stay on University Dr E
23 m
39.
At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto E Campus Rd
For my Video Art class at Emily Carr, I decided to move forward with the “Personal Journeys” project and so I went ahead and recorded the story of the day my mom died from ovarian cancer in 1994 and the Journey that I and my family went through that day and made a video about it. I published it on YouTube last night and wanted to share it with all of you:
– FlashAddict
John DeVeaux is a second year Film, Video and Integrated Media student at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Classifying himself as a Digital Artist with future aspirations to work in either the film or video game industry, his work focuses on combining a wide range of media including crowd sourcing, data capture, film/video, installation, storytelling and web based material.
My Personal Journey tells the story of the day John’s mother died from ovarian cancer in 1994 and features the artist providing a solitary monologue over a black screen with white text providing an ongoing narrative, as he describes the mental images that haunt him to this day.
Inspiration for this video comes from Derek Jarman’s film, Blue, which showcases the director looking back on his life as he was losing his sight and dying from AIDS. The film is 79 minutes in length and features a single shot of saturated blue covering the entire frame of the screen.
My Personal Journey is also part of an ongoing digital art project dealing with personal storylines about significant or memorable Journeys in peoples respective lives and can be viewed at:
I wanted to take this opportunity to invite everyone to check out the Personal Journeys Blog that was publicly unveiled and launched earlier today for my Digital Interactive Arts class at Emily Carr. Everyone was very interested in reading about the stories that people submitted to the art project and would like to extend my deepest thanks to everyone who submitted their stories.
This is not the end of the project however, and I will be working with several faculty at school in pushing the project further over the summer. For those of you who wanted to participate, but haven’t had a chance to write up your stories, don’t fret because you still have the chance to send them in and I will put them up on the blog as they arrive.
Furthermore, two other avenues for the project that I would like to explore are to setup a venue at the Athlete’s Village for 2010 Winter Olympics, which I had previously mentioned; but the most important one to my heart is to contact the BC Cancer Foundation and see if they would like to work together in recording and documenting the Journeys of Cancer patients currently going through radiation treatment and chemotherapy as well as the stories from their families.
I will be contacting them tomorrow to look into the feasibility of this project as well as starting to piece together a video which recounts the details of My Personal Journey, which I wrote about January 28th, 1994, the day my mother died from ovarian cancer at the BC Cancer Clinic in Vancouver. I will keep you guys posted on how both of those progress.
So without further ado, here is the link to the blog:
Read through the Journeys, click on the links to view the maps and also look at the Visual Journeys section of the blog to see other outcomes that I developed as well.
Hello everyone, it’s Reading Week break here at Emily Carr, so I have been taking some time off from my blog and been relaxing a bit – although relaxing probably isn’t the best way to describe yesterday as I went to CrossFit and got my ass and abs kicked by the workout! But here is an interesting read about Google Streets that I thought you guys would like to check out…
– FlashAddict
By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley
Google’s Street View has been criticised on several occasions
A legal claim by a Pittsburgh couple that Google’s Street View feature violated their privacy has been thrown out by a federal judge.
Christine and Aaron Boring sued the search giant after photos of their home appeared on the free mapping program.
The couple accused Google of privacy violation, negligence, trespassing and unjust enrichment.
In her ruling, Judge Amy Reynolds Hay said the Borings “failed to state a claim under any count”.
“We are pleased the judge agreed the suit was without merit,” said Google in a statement to the BBC.
Street View displays street level, 360-degree photographs of areas taken by specially equipped Google vehicles.
Failure
The photographs at the centre of the lawsuit, launched last year, were taken at the foot of Mr and Mrs Boring’s driveway and shows their house, a pool area and detached garage. Signs marked the road as private.
The suit alleged that Google’s Street View had caused Mr and Mrs Boring “mental suffering” and diluted the value of their home.
Google removed the offending pictures after the lawsuit was filed
“While it is easy to imagine that many whose property appears on Google’s virtual maps resent the privacy implications, it is hard to believe that any – other than the most exquisitely sensitive – would suffer shame or humiliation,” Judge Amy Reynolds Hay of US District Court for Western Pennsylvania wrote in her 12-page decision.
The judge also suggested that the Borings’ lawsuit made it possible for more people than ever to view the picture of their home.
“The Borings do not dispute that they have allowed the relevant images to remain on Google Street View, despite the availability of a procedure for having them removed from view,” wrote Judge Reynolds Hay.
“Furthermore, they have failed to bar others’ access to the images by eliminating their address from the pleadings, or by filing this action under seal,” she said.
The publicity has actually perpetuated dissemination of the Borings’ name and location, and resulted in frequent re-publication of the Street View images, the judge concluded.
“The plaintiffs’ failure to take readily available steps to protect their own privacy and mitigate their alleged pain suggests to the Court that the intrusion and that their suffering were less severe than they contend,” wrote Judge Reynolds Hay.
The Borings had sought $25,000 (£17,700) in damages.
‘Removal tools’
Google said the company respects individual privacy and provides ways for that privacy to be maintained.
“We blur identifiable faces and licence plates in Street View and we offer easy-to-use removal tools so users can decided for themselves whether or not they want a given image to appear.
Photos of real world locations are tied to maps
“It is unfortunate the parties involved decided to pursue litigation instead of making use of these tools,” said Google in its statement.
Privacy concerns following the launch of Street View in 2007 prompted Google to start blurring faces of people caught in the photographs.
The company had argued earlier in response to the lawsuit that “today’s satellite-image technology means that even in today’s desert complete privacy does not exist.”
“Privacy claims are not easy to prove,” said Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre.
“One of the challenges is showing what’s the damage, what’s the harm. But Google is more at risk here because there is always the possibility someone might prevail in one of these cases, so I don’t think the issue is resolved in terms of Google.”