#whyte avenue

[yegactivist]

All Out for Palestine by Paula Kirman

#edmonton #yeg #Whyte avenue #old strathcona #palestine #gaza #Middle East #protest #rally #ceasefire #photojournalism #yegphotographer #flickr

[yegphotographer]

Ukraine Protest Truck by Paula Kirman Via Flickr: Protesting the possibility of Russia having a pavilion at the 2023 Heritage Festival in Edmonton.

#edmonton #ukraine #protest #truck #yeg #Whyte avenue #old strathcona #flickr

[sacredsocialjustice]

Edmonton March for Gaza by Paula Kirman

#edmonton #gaza #palestine #ceasefire #yeg #photojournalism #whyte ave #whyte avenue #old strathcona #yegphotographer #flickr

[allthecanadianpolitics]

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/were-terrified-hundreds-rally-in-support-of-alberta-trans-community-opposition-to-coming-government-gender-policies

Hundreds rallied near Whyte Avenue in Edmonton on Saturday in opposition to the provincial government’s proposed series of new policies regarding children and LGBTQ+ rights.

The forthcoming changes, revealed by Premier Danielle Smith in a seven-minute video posted to social media on Wednesday, include bans on gender reassignment surgery for those aged under 17, on hormone therapy for children aged 15 and under, and also introduced plans to explore limits on sports participation for transgender athletes.

The crowd gathered just after noon around the gazebo at Dr. Wilbert McIntyre Park while touting signs and chanting slogans calling on the premier to reverse her plans.

Rally organizer Rowan Morris, a 23-year-old transgender person, said the changes put others like him at risk, adding, “trans people everywhere are terrified.”

“If Smith truly cared about trans youth she would not make it illegal to support them,” Morris said.

“We’re terrified because we’re watching the next generation of our community lose the ability to grow up as themselves.”

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #alberta #trans rights #trans youth #transgender #UCP #danielle smith #united conservative party #conservatives #transphobia #transphobia tw #protests #edmonton

[felassan]

A conversation/interview video with Casey Hudson called "Casey Hudson Interview: Mass Effect Director on New Studio Humanoid Origin and His Next Game": [source and watch link] In the video they discuss topics like previous BioWare games and the early days at BioWare.

Part of video description:

"In this career-spanning interview, I talk to Mass Effect creator Casey Hudson about his philosophy on game development, projects like Star Wars: KotOR, and his new remote-friendly studio, Humanoid Origin, which is hard at work on an all-new sci-fi game IP."

Some quotes/notes under the cut:

Covid was a strange time for everyone. Casey was a studio head at BioWare when the pandemic and lockdown hit; everyone went home. this was very surreal, but he "was sitting in [his] home office as the General Manager for a studio of several hundred people", and "it kind of worked pretty well, and then it just makes you realize that if that's possible, then maybe you don't need the big infrastructure, huge studio locations, maybe there's a different way to do it."

Casey is also a concept artist. when they were starting creating Mass Effect, he was really concerned with the Citadel and what the shape of it was going to be, so he did tons of drawings trying to figure out what it would look like.

In the early days of BioWare, the old BioWare culture had devs often out dancing on Whyte Avenue. many of the devs in the early days at BW worked on Whyte Avenue. just downstairs from them is where all the bars and restaurants were, and many of the devs lived within walking distance. at that time work was most of their lives. if they wanted to meet their friends at the bar, they were just downstairs or across the street. "This is not a lifestyle that you wanna maintain into your 30s and 40s, but that's kind've what it was like at that time. But because it was so, I think it was a really narrow existence in a lot of ways and half of it is in the winter, bitterly cold outside, that we then first of all have a lot of time to focus and imagine something but also you then really start thinking of like, what does the escape look like? Where do you want to be right now? Instead of in the middle of the winter in Edmonton working 12 hours a day. Where would you, what do you fantasize about? That I think is kinda what propelled a lot of the vision for these really epic places and a sense of escapism." - Interestingly KOTOR and ME1 both have levels/scenes near the end with beaches.

It took people 15 years to notice that the sentence in the opening segment of ME1 "and the civilizations of the galaxy called it.. mass effect" was an homage to Top Gun ("the pilots call it Top Gun"). this was put in there because Casey used to want to be a fighter pilot when he was younger.

Why did they have the Reapers in ME, these lovecraftian terrifying horror things? They originate from 2 things. BW really envisioned ME as "imagine that there was a movie that came out in the late 70s or early 80s". it was to be kind of in the vein of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, or Alien, and like it was like a major sci-fi hit that just didn't get released, only now you get to play it and be in that experience. "So that's kind of where we went with, not necessarily horror, but that sort of sci-fi suspense feeling. And then I think the other piece was, we were just really swinging for the fences. like, if there's a threat, what is the biggest threat? And if you're gonna make a decision in this game, let's make them agonizing decisions of the highest stakes, and so ME kind've has this feeling like, of everything being big and important and difficult choices and huge scale. And I think that's where it came from."

99% of the creature models for Neverwinter Nights were thrown in the trash. Casey made a bunch of models over the course of a year, as a major part of his role that year. Then the D&D 3rd Edition rules came out with concepts in them for how things were supposed to look. "I believe what happened was we were asked to just snap to those concepts, so all of these character models that I had made were just never going to get used. the irony of it is the one thing that did end up getting used was the giant spider model I did in my first day or two."

(on his first day at BioWare they gave him a concept for a giant spider, and in his first week he made this spider monster model.)

early screenshots of NWN were from a prototype as opposed to the proper game engine.

the interviewer mentioned that the NWN era was a stressful time, a dark time at BioWare. the publisher was going bankrupt.

the co-founder doctors Ray and Greg were very good at providing an environment that felt stable because they were shielding the devs from a lot of the existential crisis the business was in, so it felt stable, but they also provided real stability. "The games that we worked on, for many years, everything we worked on shipped and became a good game that brought revenue into the studio and elevated our status as a developer. But I know that it was a lot rougher waters than what we experienced. I'm always curious to follow up with Rey and Greg and find out what that would have been like for them."

The interviewer then mentions that things then got a little more exploratory at the studio at that time, and the fact that there were some cancelled projects. Casey: "At that point, we were becoming larger as a studio and growing the number of projects we had at a given time. I think at one point there was just more projects than we could sustain in terms of focus and just the logistics of getting that many things out. Prior to that though we had an amazing run, it was very rare to be able to ship everything that you work on, and I think we had that for quite a while."

At that time in games development, devs just worked on the game they were working on all day. Nowadays in game development there's lots of other things they often have to do during their day at work (like instead of and in addition to). in his new studio, Casey said he wants to try and work smarter or faster, and without ending up doing crunch time, and without working on things that end up needing to be downscoped.

He also discussed the development of KOTOR at various points in the video and relayed some anecdotes about KOTOR. for example, Jolee Bindo is named after his imaginary friend from childhood that he had.

On the naming of Anthem: "So that one, I've only heard the story secondhand because I came into Anthem at the very end. I was on that project at the very, that was going to be the next full game that I was gonna work on right after ME3. We moved onto what was going to be our new IP and it was called Project Dylan at the time. I worked on Dylan for about a year before I left EA. I was at Microsoft for a while. then after a few years, that project was still going and then had actually been announced as Anthem and had its E3 debut. So they already had their name, as of that point. As I understand, that was another one where it's just, you try a number of different names, and at this point, there are just so many things being copy-written that it's really hard to find a name that isn't blocked by an existing product. But I thought that was a great name."

In the early days of BW they generally didn't have much interaction with the publisher. "It just really felt like we could just go off and design something that was true to itself and was amazing for what we were making". it's harder and harder to do this nowadays as publishers and studios get bigger and bigger.

[source]

#bioware #mass effect #video games #covid mention #long post #longpost #alcohol cw #anthem

[punkrockhistory]

Legendary punk rocker Mr. Chi Pig honoured with Whyte Avenue mural

Edmonton mural artists Layla Folkmann and Lacey Jane Wilburn are painting the piece

#punk #punks #punkrock #MrChiPig #SNFU #hardcore #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory

[shefanispeculator]

It’s time to green-light Ole Red.

Blake Shelton’s Ole Red Las Vegas at Grand Bazaar Shops at the Horseshoe opens 11 a.m. Monday. This is the largest of six Ol Red locations across the county, taking up four stories, 27,000 square feet with a 686-seat dining and performance venue. Upside-down tractor, too.

The entertainment calendar is taking shape. DJ KC Ray, Ryan Whyte Malone and Jacklyn Hayden open. Sarah Jessica Rhodes’ SJ & the Ruckus plays Jan. 23. Sam Riddle, Dez Houston, Dan Fester and Downtown Avenue are among the Vegas artists on the club’s entertainment roster.

[xtrablak674]

If You're Giving to Get, You Missed the Point

I was minding my Black ass business, leaving my house having just checked the mailbox, and was determined to throw out the junk mail I had just acquired, and then head up the block to the postal box on the corner. Its a blessing and a curse to live on a main street that is highly trafficked and usually very busy, for this reason alone, I usually try to handle my business in the wee hours of the morning, so I don't have to fucks with the riff-raff going up and down the avenue.

This was one of those days that I had to walk smack into the path of a Karen or at least a Karen-like looking woman. I wasn't really studying her, I was off to complete my main task, mail a letter. Taking the sojourn out of my apartment in the first place is so rare, I don't look forward to getting accosted the first thing out the door. But I knew it best to put letters in the box during the daylight hours because of recent mailbox theft, and also the temperature was at the highest it would be for the day, so a good time to make a secondary errand to the supermarket and re-up on my yogurt.

She's ooo'ing and ahh'ing over how beautiful my sweater was and I am like, I really don't need this right now. I knew I was cute before I left the damned house, I don't need you telling me what I already know. But I was raised well, and said in a low annoyance-tinged voice thank you. I am sure that mildly inebriated Black man who was closer to me heard me. But nano-seconds after her compliment was a nasty, well you're welcome. #😤 It took all my effort to NOT stop my forward motion and go back and whoop her ass! I had two errand to do, and none of them had anything to do with affirming a Karen.

So she expected to give something to get something, in my mind no different than a crafty pan-handler who leads with some creative line hoping it will get you to give them some money. Her attention was given as an acknowledgement or affirmation, but clearly something that was serving her ego and her own needs. I know this because I can feel the difference when someone is genuinely seeing me, and when they are just seeing what they want, the latter is where this Karen was at clearly.

I have no desire to get into her head, it doesn't sound like a very pleasant place to be, but in seconds she turned my initial moments outside sour, and irked me enough that I had a flash of wanting to commit violence because my personal peace had been violated with her unnecessary rudeness. This is exactly the reason I don't leave my mother fucking house. Can't I go outside with having to take on the burdens of whatever disposition or energy folks are carrying that day?

When I give a compliment to someone if I even verbalize it, because I don't always, its a nod or just making eye contact and a small smile, but if I do say something its to let that person know, I see you! #👀 My intentions come from a place of encouragement with no expectation of anything from that person.

Black women in my experience are very good at this, they have a cornucopia of affirming phrases they can say to you that lift you up, because you sense their sincerity and their unnecessary need of reciprocation. They give a gift, with no expectation of getting anything back. This is the kind of human I want to be, the one who spreads love, not necessarily expecting love back.

This Karen was like a sooty cloud darkening my doorstep, tripping over alleged good intentions masked in some personal need for recognition. As far as I am concerned, she could have kept her damned mouth shut.

I shared this story with a girlfriend and she reminded me that this was a form of street harassment, which is so curious because if anyone would know that walking down the street isn't a transaction you would think would be a woman.

This whyte woman's entitlement and self-absorption wouldn't allow her to see that she was wrong from the front to the back. As a queer person street harassment has been a part of life especially as a young queer. Its part of the reason I don't expose my body when going outside, folks don't know how to act. But it seems even when I am fully covered up, folks don't know how to act. It blows my mind that a protected group can cause as much harm and damage as the group that targets them, and not even be aware of it.

#street harassment #leave me alone #can I walk down the street #white entitlement #not a compliment #nasty remarks #Karen #hurtful behavior #unsafe streets #running errands #brooklyn #journal entry #i know I look good #sweater weather

[pwlanier]

SNIPE AVENUE, GALWAY, 1982

PATRICK LEONARD HRHA (1918-2005)

Whytes

[katblu42]

Day 15 Banff

Today was a free day just to wander at leisure. It was a fairly lazy day for me, but still included 4 hours on my feet, and over 200 photos!

Started with a walk down The Avenue (Banff Ave), and when you look north the skyline is dominated by Cascade Mountain.

I did walk (south) to the Bow River, but I'll show you pics from there later . . . Most people won't think a magpie is all that exciting, but our magpies don't look like this!

Stopped in at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, which had some interesting interactive displays about the national parks and railways and the people behind them, but I really liked the exhibition of artworks about birds.

Owl sculpture in bronze is called Slipstreaming and is by Niel Clifford

Steel sculpture called Little Bird by Peter McFarlane

and this one called Owl which is ink on paper by Robert J Hope looked kind of 3D as I approached it on an angle, but I couldn't capture that effect with the camera.

Okay, photos from the Bow River. I'm not sure what mountains are in these shots, maybe Norquay and Edith?

This one is Mount Rundle

and from the other side of the river we can look back across as Cascade Mountain.

Next stop was the Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum. Wandered through the gift shop before I went in and loved these buffalo horn carvings, but chickened out of buying the one that was begging me to take it home.

(The eagle near the middle of the second pic was the one I nearly bought.)

Inside they had a bunch of life-sized diorama displays, but I was mostly fascinated by the clothing/accessories, baskets etc decorated with porcupine quills and beads (which came later after trading with Europeans began).

How cool are these head pieces!

Getting close to the 30 pic limit again!!! So, just a couple of pics from the grounds of the Cascades of Time Gardens.

This impressive building is the headquaters/admin building for the Banff National Park. It's made from Rundle Stone.

Gonna say it again . . . 30 images is not enough! But then, I did have to choose from over 200! And I know I did not do justice to the things I saw with just these few, but I hope you get the idea! (and that I did not bore you with my photo spam)

#my big north america adventure #day 15 #banff #alberta #canada #yeah I know I take way too many photos #I am worse now than I was with film cameras! #but I was bad then too!

[nicagotshot]

"Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. We deceive or we are deceived, thus we flourish or perish. Nothing good ever happened to me when I trusted others. That, is the lesson." 💜💛❤️ This shoot was so fun to do & makes me giggle, because I dot smoke (I’m allergic) & I don’t drink pop either. I’m using a Popeye Candy cigarettes & an empty can of Diet Coke for me props. 😂 Photo by @rmb.99 📸 #fayevalentine #fayevalentinecosplay #cowboybebop #cosplayfun #photoshoot #videogames #anime #animecosplay #animecosplayer #diet #dietcoke (at Whyte Avenue) https://www.instagram.com/p/CemLwGYPaVx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#fayevalentine #fayevalentinecosplay #cowboybebop #cosplayfun #photoshoot #videogames #anime #animecosplay #animecosplayer #diet #dietcoke

[yegactivist]

All Out for Palestine by Paula Kirman

#edmonton #yeg #Whyte avenue #old strathcona #palestine #gaza #Middle East #protest #rally #ceasefire #photojournalism #yegphotographer #flickr

[yegphotographer]

Edmonton March for Gaza by Paula Kirman

#edmonton #gaza #palestine #ceasefire #yeg #photojournalism #whyte ave #whyte avenue #old strathcona #yegphotographer #flickr

[sacredsocialjustice]

Edmonton March for Gaza by Paula Kirman

#edmonton #gaza #palestine #ceasefire #yeg #photojournalism #whyte ave #whyte avenue #old strathcona #yegphotographer #flickr

[allthecanadianpolitics]

All across the country, rallies were held for and against gender identity and sexual orientation curriculums in schools.

That included Edmonton, where Saturday afternoon Whyte Ave. became the site of duelling protests.

People on the south side of the street had supporters from a group that held protests all throughout Canada, 1 Million March 4 Children. They say they’re against having SOGI 123, sexual orientation and gender identity, program in schools.

“They’re teaching young kids to doubt their own gender and exposing young kids to concepts of sexuality that are too mature, so we need to put a stop to this programming,” said Benita Pedersen.

On the other side of the street was a group counter-protesting, who support LGBTQ2 education in schools and wanted to show solidarity. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @abpoli

#cdnpoli #Edmonton #Alberta #reactionary politics #education #transphobia #queerphobia #homophobia

[hauptrealty]

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Honoring Laurent Garneau, a local luminary, the neighborhood holds a storied past spanning over a century. Wander its streets to encounter an architectural mosaic, from vintage heritage residences to modern condominium complexes. Further enriched by the University of Alberta’s presence, Garneau exudes an invigorating youthful vibe alongside its historical essence. You should look for the best Garneau homes for sale Edmonton.

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For those seeking permanence, Garneau offers a spectrum of housing alternatives. From quaint cottages to expansive family estates, the neighborhood caters to varied lifestyles and financial plans. Many domiciles in Garneau boast charming accents like hardwood floors, original woodwork, and manicured gardens. With its central locale and access to amenities, Garneau sets the stage for an idyllic urban lifestyle. The best Garneau condos for sale Edmonton can bring life-changing experiences.

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The Garneau homes for sale Edmonton are the perfect choice for long-term goals. If a maintenance-free lifestyle beckons, Garneau showcases an abundance of condo options. Whether you favor a sleek skyscraper with river valley vistas or a cozy boutique residence brimming with character, Garneau presents an array of choices. Enjoy amenities like fitness facilities, secure parking, and personalized services, all within walking distance of local boutiques, cafes, and green spaces.

Life in Garneau offers the best of both worlds – the tranquility of a residential enclave intertwined with the vibrancy of urban existence. Spend leisurely weekends exploring Whyte Avenue’s eclectic array of shops and galleries, savoring culinary delights at neighborhood eateries, or meandering through the verdant expanses of the nearby river valley. With its dynamic ambiance and close-knit community, Garneau promises a lifestyle brimming with opportunities.

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