The great thing about Spiderman is that as Peter Parker he makes a living as a news photographer so he knows what photographers need. A local radio dude strikes an action pose for photographer Jesse Hlady.

Main press centre in Vancouver.

I picked up the last of my Olympic credentials on Saturday and so am officially official. Lots of Olympic workers and media, with special clothes and accreditation tags around their necks,  and police in the downtown core but hard to see ‘Olympic fever’ among regular folks. Most of the Olympic signage you’re seeing is commercial but there are a few small signs of locals stepping up and adding to the real (as opposed to paid) spirit by decorating windows or hanging Canadian flags. Hopefully we’ll see more of that as the events progress.

Royal Bank building on West Georgia Street.

Home made decorations in the windows of a downtown office building.

The Bay Store Olympic decor.

Surfers head out

Beautiful BC wheel cover and surf board

Boarders and kayakers on the water

Waiting for the right wave

Catching a wave

Stand up surfer paddles back out

Surfers walk along highway

Dog on the beach, surfer on a wave

And on that note, here’s a group you might want to join:

This British based group Not-A-Crime wants photographers to take self-portraits holding  a sign saying either “Not A Crime” or “I am Not A Terrorist”. You can see the results on Flickr. An example of a portrait below from Ravel/Javi Valero and an appropriate t-shirt beneath that..

Ravel/ Javi Valero photo

Or get the Fraxinus designed tshirt here.

The Furies at the Japanese hall. I believe this was the second local punk rock show in Vancouver.  My first. Tom Harrison of the Georgia Straight used the photo. If memory serves me, the bass player is Malcolm Hasman, now Vancouver realtor to the famous.

The Dishrags. I think they opened for The Furies although this photo was taken at a later date.

Detail from a contact sheet of the Skulls playing the Easter Be-In in White Rock. I remember getting whacked by beer caps the unnappreciative crowd was flipping at the band. The Skulls metamorphed into DOA.

Another details from the Skulls contact sheets. A number of stalwarts from later bands were in this group, Joe ‘Shithead’ Keithley, Brian Goble, Ken Montgomery, Brad Kent.

Early photo of the classic DOA line up of Joe Keithley, Chuck Biscuits and Randya Rampage

Detail from a contact sheet of another early DOA show or maybe they were still the Skulls at this point

Subhumans with Ken Montgomery playing guitar, Brian Goble and Gerry Hannah. Not sure of drummer.

Gerry Hannah of the Subhumans

Ken Montgomery of the Subhumans. No idea why he had the stocking mask on.

Rabid -Sid Sick and John Doe say my notes on the print