{"id":3526,"date":"2011-10-17T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:19:24","slug":"price-points-baby-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Points: Baby Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shining black baby with webbed wings &#8211; both cute and ominous.\u00a0 But where is it?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3532\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/a7\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3532\" title=\"A7\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you recognized the portico of the Town Hall or some of the distinctive buildings on Swanston Street, without one of Melbourne&#8217;s characteristic trams to provide a clue.\u00a0 For indeed, this is a view up the main street of the world&#8217;s most livable city <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?q=Swanston+and+Collins+Street,+Melbourne,+Victoria,+Australia&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=-37.816548,144.966981&amp;spn=0.007323,0.008562&amp;sll=-37.815073,144.967325&amp;sspn=0.014714,0.017123&amp;vpsrc=6&amp;hnear=Swanston+St+%26+Collins+St,+Melbourne+Victoria+3000,+Australia&amp;t=h&amp;z=17\" target=\"_blank\">(map here<\/a>), as their residents graciously remind a visiting Vancouverite.\u00a0 And the ominous cherub is one of the reasons why.<\/p>\n<p>The sculptures are part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournefestival.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Festival <\/a>&#8211; now a quarter-century old and a gourmet buffet for a city already satiated with culture.\u00a0 (Melbournians are quick to quote the number of theatres demolished in Sydney, while they preserved theirs.)<\/p>\n<p>And you don&#8217;t have to pay to see all the offerings.\u00a0 There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournefestival.com.au\/program\/free_events\" target=\"_blank\">an extensive program <\/a>of free events, including several that take advantage of the fine public spaces spotted throughout the downtown core, many invaded by black babies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sculptures, ranging from 6 to 7.5 metres high, will be installed by avant garde Russian arts collective AES+F as part of their Angels-Demons Parade, one of the highlights of the festival&#8217;s 2011 program.\u00a0\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Festival director Brett Sheehy\u00a0said the &#8220;beautiful&#8221; figures, which are covered in resin, would be put in place under cover of darkness, to be greeted by shocked commuters on the opening day, and would remain in place for the duration of the festival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even in front of\u00a0St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral.\u00a0 Imagine that in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>More images of the angel-demons <a href=\"http:\/\/pricetags.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-melbournes-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shining black baby with webbed wings &#8211; both cute and ominous.\u00a0 But where is it? Maybe you recognized the portico of the Town Hall or some of the distinctive buildings on Swanston Street, without one of Melbourne&#8217;s characteristic trams to provide a clue.\u00a0 For indeed, this is a view up the main street of<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Price Points: Baby Demons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11232],"tags":[5980,5976,5979,1132,5977,299,1133,5978,214],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-aes","tag-brett-sheehy","tag-festival-director","tag-melbourne","tag-pauls-cathedral","tag-price-points","tag-sydney","tag-town-hall","tag-vancouver-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Price Points: Baby Demons - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Price Points: Baby Demons - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A shining black baby with webbed wings &#8211; both cute and ominous.\u00a0 But where is it? Maybe you recognized the portico of the Town Hall or some of the distinctive buildings on Swanston Street, without one of Melbourne&#8217;s characteristic trams to provide a clue.\u00a0 For indeed, this is a view up the main street ofContinue reading &quot;Price Points: Baby Demons&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-10-17T16:39:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-01-21T15:19:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gordon Price\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gordon Price\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/\",\"name\":\"Price Points: Baby Demons - Spacing Vancouver\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-17T16:39:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-01-21T15:19:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#\/schema\/person\/2ccd924eaf8e2cb7e72ac13004526550\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Price Points: Baby Demons\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/\",\"name\":\"Spacing Vancouver\",\"description\":\"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered  |  Vancouver Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#\/schema\/person\/2ccd924eaf8e2cb7e72ac13004526550\",\"name\":\"Gordon Price\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b36df5afca7a760172ea9cbe8e7222ff?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b36df5afca7a760172ea9cbe8e7222ff?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Gordon Price\"},\"description\":\"Gordon Price is the Director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University. He sat for six terms as City Councillor in Vancouver, BC and also served on the Boards of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (Metro) and TransLink. He publishes an electronic magazine and blog on urban issues, with a focus on Vancouver, called \\\"Price Tags\\\" - www.pricetags.ca as well as www.pricetags.wordpress.com He has written several extensive essays on Vancouver and transportation issues - The Deceptive City, Local Politician's Guide to Urban Transportation \u2013 and in 2003, he received the Plan Canada Award for Article of the Year - \\\"Land Use and Transportation: The View from '56\\\" - from the Canadian Institute of Planners.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.pricetags.wordpress.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/author\/gordonprice\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Price Points: Baby Demons - Spacing Vancouver","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Price Points: Baby Demons - Spacing Vancouver","og_description":"A shining black baby with webbed wings &#8211; both cute and ominous.\u00a0 But where is it? Maybe you recognized the portico of the Town Hall or some of the distinctive buildings on Swanston Street, without one of Melbourne&#8217;s characteristic trams to provide a clue.\u00a0 For indeed, this is a view up the main street ofContinue reading \"Price Points: Baby Demons\"","og_url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/","og_site_name":"Spacing Vancouver","article_published_time":"2011-10-17T16:39:57+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-01-21T15:19:24+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Gordon Price","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Spacing","twitter_site":"@Spacing","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Gordon Price","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/","name":"Price Points: Baby Demons - Spacing Vancouver","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg","datePublished":"2011-10-17T16:39:57+00:00","dateModified":"2013-01-21T15:19:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#\/schema\/person\/2ccd924eaf8e2cb7e72ac13004526550"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A7.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/17\/price-points-baby-demons\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Price Points: Baby Demons"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#website","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/","name":"Spacing Vancouver","description":"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered  |  Vancouver Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#\/schema\/person\/2ccd924eaf8e2cb7e72ac13004526550","name":"Gordon Price","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b36df5afca7a760172ea9cbe8e7222ff?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b36df5afca7a760172ea9cbe8e7222ff?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Gordon Price"},"description":"Gordon Price is the Director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University. He sat for six terms as City Councillor in Vancouver, BC and also served on the Boards of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (Metro) and TransLink. He publishes an electronic magazine and blog on urban issues, with a focus on Vancouver, called \"Price Tags\" - www.pricetags.ca as well as www.pricetags.wordpress.com He has written several extensive essays on Vancouver and transportation issues - The Deceptive City, Local Politician's Guide to Urban Transportation \u2013 and in 2003, he received the Plan Canada Award for Article of the Year - \"Land Use and Transportation: The View from '56\" - from the Canadian Institute of Planners.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.pricetags.wordpress.com"],"url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/author\/gordonprice\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17014,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/17014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}