tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295026632024-02-06T20:55:59.273-08:00Dean HannasDean Hannas Boutique Photography BlogDean Hannashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13046952486819652332noreply@blogger.comBlogger352125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29502663.post-63500707804551224452016-10-16T19:34:00.001-07:002017-02-09T15:13:27.946-08:00“Scary Stuff” Compositing Demo ReelVancouver Film School Visual Effects Compositing Demo Reel "Scary Stuff". I built and photographed practical miniature sets as well as a live-action Ghost character. I composited them together using Maya and Nuke.<br />
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Finally! After almost a year of work producer/musician John Lee and I present the sizzle reel that we created for "Planet Underground". It's a video pitch for a documentary tv show. (Description below)</div>
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<br />Dean Hannashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13046952486819652332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29502663.post-53521983678663093492016-05-07T08:37:00.002-07:002016-05-07T08:38:32.147-07:00Cheers!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Dean Hannashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13046952486819652332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29502663.post-73890063683636634802016-03-19T19:51:00.000-07:002016-03-19T19:56:51.724-07:00The History of Animation<div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Here’s an assignment that I just completed for the History of Animation at Vancouver Film School for their 3D Animation and Visual Effects Diploma program. The instructor is Keith Blackmore. He asked us to draw a caricature of him on a sheet of animation paper as one of our assignments. I thought he was joking. “I can’t draw” I told one of my classmates. It’s true. I draw the same way that I did when I was eight. I’ve never grown beyond that in my drawing abilities. Maybe that’s a good thing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From the first ever animated film, “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” (1906) to barnyards full of Disney’s talking animals, and to infinity and beyond, animation has always been an innovative, political, creative, and relevant art form. Not just for kids. Not even for kids. Kids were not meant to watch most of these!</span><br />
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Dean Hannashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13046952486819652332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29502663.post-68835488012617146112016-02-23T08:07:00.001-08:002016-02-23T08:08:28.894-08:00New scene for "La Femme Ecarlaté"<div style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">
A still frame from a new scene in my stop-motion animated short film that I'm making. Yes, it's a Tiki dream sequence. I'm guilty.</div>
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<br />Dean Hannashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13046952486819652332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29502663.post-29753850951995078692016-02-15T11:35:00.000-08:002016-02-15T11:46:15.364-08:00Popcorn movie theater set and charactersHere's some stills of a miniature set and characters that I created for Social Motion Media Vancouver (<a href="http://socialmotion.media/">socialmotion.media</a>) for an upcoming short-form advertising campaign.<br />
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Like kids waiting for Christmas, January 11th 2016, the date of our departure, was the day we were all waiting for. My Father and I have been researching and planning the Hannas family trip to Cuba for almost a year. It's the first time our entire family (my parents and two older brothers) have travelled together on a real family vacation since touring California in a brown van (with Elvis playing on 8-track) in 1980! </div>
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We flew from Vancouver to Mexico City (6 hrs) and then to Havana (3 hrs) on AeroMexico for five days at the beach in Varadero and then to Havana for five days. After leaving Havana at the end of the trip, we stayed overnight in Mexico City in the posh Centro Historico district at the Fiesta Mexicana Reforma. We had a half day of sights, shopping, and lunch before flying home to Vancouver. Comped breakfast that morning in the hotel's white linen executive lounge made us feel like Royalty. My shopping in Mexico included the usual; Day of the Dead skulls and a bottles of anejo Mezcal. Beautiful.</div>
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It was an intense trip. It wasn't relaxing but it was extremely interesting. The weather was terrible the whole time. In Havana I counted fifteen minutes of actual sunshine. It was either raining, overcast, windy or a combination of those with the odd day that had scattered clouds. It was cold too. The temperature ranged from the low to mid twenties with pleasant humidity. Because the weather was so crappy, I think it forced us to do more. Walk more. Shop more. Repeat. Repeat.</div>
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In both spots we stayed in Casa Particulars. They are family ran bed-and-breakfast businesses which are much cheaper and a lot more interesting than a generic all inclusive resort. You'll be surrounded by a warm Cuban family with home cooked food instead of being surrounded by lumpy white complaining tourists sun burning on the beach with their toxic smell of sweat and coconut sunscreen as they eat club sandwiches with the crusts removed. Gross! Casa Papo's House in Varadero and Casa 1935 in Havana are both highly recommended. You can find them easily online and you can book by e-mail or phone. No credit cards are accepted. You'll pay cash with Cuban CUCs, the tourist's money at par with the US dollar, when you check out.</div>
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My brother Kurt bought a nice set of bongos and he had them thoughtfully engraved with his friend's name on them. They are fragile so he brought them through Cuban customs as carry on when we were leaving the country. They seized them. No reasonable explanation was given. I guess bongos are a threat to national security? A weapon of mass destruction? They let him keep his maracas though. The logic escapes me too? Moronic and blindly rule abiding customs officials make for good Nazis I say. </div>
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We were gone for less than two weeks but if felt like several months. No email. No cel phones. No news. Perfect! I kept on wondering which famous celebrity had died while I was gone? If something catastrophic had happened I'm sure I'd hear some tourist going on about it. Upon return I had eighteen e-mails, thirty FaceBook updates, and four messages. Not bad. Manageable. To my great disappointment upon my return it seemed like only a few days had passed in the real world. Was Cuba all a dream one of my brothers had asked? Or was Cuba real and life in Vancouver is still a dream? Okay. Back to reality. Whatever that is?</div>
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My first impressions of walking out onto the nearly empty white sand beach was that it reminded me of Indonesia; Thatch huts, palm trees, and very little development on the actual beach. It was weird. It felt more like being in South East Asian than in the Caribbean. But all of the wonderfully beat-up vintage 1950's American cars colour coded like summer popsicles put a weird time warp spin on the place that wouldn't make sense in any fictional novel. </div>
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Normally I avoid the souvenir stands in the tropics as they are filled with what my Father calls, "trinkets and trash" but in Cuba the usual made in China junk is replaced with mass produced but hand crafted junk that is much more charming. Again, the money that tourists use, the Cuban CUC, is on par with the US dollar. And with the exchange rate and fees that meant that Canadians were getting about 63 cents on the dollar. Cuba wasn't cheap. It was cheaper. If you want cheap you'll have to head to south East Asia or Mexico.</div>
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The highlight of Varadero is when my oldest brother Kurt got to play guitar live on stage at a packed out door club! He played, "You Really Got Me" with the local classic rock band (including the solo!) in front of several hundred people at an outdoor patio restaurant called The Beatles. He told me later that he hadn't played with another musician let alone playing live for several years. At the end of the gig he told me in all seriousness, "I don't think I'll be falling asleep early tonight." When my Dad was recording the event on his camera at the front of the stage he mentioned to the woman beside him that it was his son who was playing the lead guitar. She replied, "Your son is fucking awesome!" My Mom later joked, after we all shared a bottle of rum in the park like teenagers, that her sons are all fucking awesome. Thanks Mom!</div>
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Golfing in Varadero is exceptional. The ninth and eighteenth holes are right along a cliff that drops into the wave crashing Caribbean Sea. Our sunset sundowner cocktail on the outdoor patio along the same said cliff at the back of the Dupont Mansion while smoking a fine Monte Cristo cigar was for me, sublime. I had the best lime Daiquiri ever and watched the colour of the clouds change. All with my family for once!</div>
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Even though the weather was crap I still managed to go for a quick chilly swim three times. Nothing beats swimming in a warm ocean with it's frothy waves, sun, and white sand. And afterwards, the relaxed feeling flowing through your bones. I can't wait to jump in again. Hopefully soon!</div>
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Walking through Havana for me was like time travelling. Actually, more like place travelling as not to brag but it constantly reminded me of so many other places that I have been. Walking down the grand Prado boulevard reminded me of strolling up Barcelona. Having lunch in a square reminded me of Florence. Rounded corner buildings with ornate wrought-iron railings reminded me of New Orleans. Creamsicle orange facades and Key Lime walls reminded me of Key West. The view from the walled El Morro fortress reminded me of San Juan and the choking petrol fumes took me bact to Kuta Beach, Indonesia. The chunky Russian concrete beach hotels of Varadero paired well with austere and grey architecture of Revolution Plaza in Havana and felt oddly Soviet; I'm now in Latvia. Another plaza with an ancient looking domed building took me to Rome and grand Greek steps with their classic ionic columns moved me to not to Greece but to Washington DC. The Mob created icon, the Hotel Nacional was soulless with it's cold heart and felt like it could be the hotel in The Shining. Or maybe it was the weather? A stormy and chilly early morning walking along the wave-crashing Malecon seawall seemed more like Scotland. Aggressive street vendors selling counterfeit cigars and bartering with street vendors over trinkets reminded me again of Indonesia. On an Art Deco tour of the city, some of the buildings were straight out of New York City. Only King Kong was missing hanging from the top clutching Fay Wray in his mitt.</div>
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If depressing paintings are your thing then Cuba's national museum, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, won't disappoint. It's lined with loads of dark paintings of dreary people throughout the ages. There are some stunning works that you won't see anywhere else and the modern pop art section is a refreshing change from the usual Americana influences; Replace the colourful Marilyn's with trippy Ché's.</div>
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Havana is the perfect storm. There is no place on earth quite like it and there never will be again. Go now as it is already changing. The Hemmingway bars now are all cruise-ship tourist traps in the worst possible way. It will only be a matter of time before this cancer spreads to the rest of this Caribbean gem. On lanes where the pale pear-shaped tourists fear to tread, there are dozens and dozens of lively side streets, all with too many stories to tell, filled with dog shit and busy locals living their lives in the open amidst the fading crumbled beauty that is Havana.</div>
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<br />Dean Hannashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13046952486819652332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29502663.post-271764285064482592015-09-16T17:15:00.001-07:002015-09-16T17:15:19.209-07:00Scene 1, Shot 4.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">A frame grab from shot 4 of the opening scene from "La Femme écarlate" (The Scarlet Woman) a 1960's style surrealist/horror stop-motion animated project I'm now creating. In my apartment!</span><br />
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Sweet! My bizarre Tiki book is now available at the Apple Store! (eBook for iPad/iPhone)</div>
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LINK > <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1019751835?utm_medium=email&utm_source=application-ebook&utm_campaign=distribution-ibook_available&utm_content=0244am-07_17_15-body" target="_blank">Terrance Ignatius Tipple the Tiki Time Traveller - Book 1- Apocalypse 2012: The Hyper-Dimensional Luau.</a></div>
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Coming next week … Android phone/tablet users can get the eBook PDF at <a href="http://Amazon.com/">Amazon.com</a> and the updated Hardcover and Softcover versions will be available at <a href="http://Blurb.com/">Blurb.com</a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Forget the sissy name. A true Kentucky Derby Mint Julep is pure booze. It's just Bourbon and cracked ice with a touch of sugar and muddled mint. On race day in the hot Southern sun they go down like ice tea. Scary. After a couple of these you won't be feeling any pain. After a couple more you won't be able to feel your face.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I was inspired to make my own boozy popsicles after reading a recipe for Gin and Tonic Popsicles that's been floating around FaceBook. But the recipe has barely any Gin in it. What's the point of that? I wanted to make Mint Julepsicles because Mint Julep's packs a potent punch but because it's mostly booze it doesn't freeze solid enough to make a proper Popsicle. Instead I poured my version of a Mint Julep into six shot glasses and put them in the freezer. By breakfast time they were ready!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Below is my own Mint Julep recipe. I add a touch of lime as well as using a bit of soda water. Instead of just adding a teaspoon of white sugar, I make a simple syrup (1/2 boiling water + 1/2 sugar) so the sugar mixes evenly. Also, I prefer to use Red Palm Sugar (Cane Sugar) because it has a lower glycemic index, has a slightly nutty flavour, and it has a beautiful amber colour adding to the drink’s appearance. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For a Mint Julep, muddle a mint leaf by rolling it in your hands. Do not over muddle it or the mint will become bitter. Drop the mint leaf into the bottom of a Collins glass. Add some crushed ice. Layer the drink with muddled mint leaves and ice. Add a sprig of mint garnish and a straw to the glass. In a separate glass stir the Bourbon, lime, and simple syrup. Pour this into the Collins glass, top with soda, stir lightly, and serve immediately.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I've given up on using fresh limes in my cocktails as the quality of limes varies drastically in Vancouver throughout the year. In the winter they taste like potatoes and in the summer they are too bitter. After years of testing I've come up with a simple bar lime mix that is consistent and easy to prepare. I leave a bottle in the fridge and also use it in salad dressings and any other cooking that requires lime.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Say hello to my new roomie, Maynard! Someone had abandoned him a couple of days after Valentine's near my building's laundry room so I decided to give him a nice warm home. (Don't tell him that I'm currently working on a show called Yukon Trappers, he might get upset!) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I must admit that part of the reason I have him around is selfish. I knew he'd be a great chick magnet. But like any beauty, after awhile you have to wonder, is that all you've got? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm not sure where he came from originally? Maybe the Island of Misfit Toys? He doesn't talk too much. And damn can he meditate! He can hold the pictured pose for hours without moving. Impressive! I think I can actually learn something from the little guy. I guess I already have?</span></div>
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<br />Dean Hannashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13046952486819652332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29502663.post-32910691726170094352015-02-23T16:14:00.001-08:002015-02-23T16:19:21.371-08:00Dinner for Four at Chez Deano's<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Last night I made my first ever French Bistro-style dinner. It was inspired from the amazing lunch I had a few weeks ago in Hong Kong. It turned out great. The pictures don't really do it justice.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My cousin Lisa brought over a bottle of Lillet, a French aperitif wine. Excellent. She added ice, gin, and lime to make a fine cocktail.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dinner was served with three wines, a New Zealand Savingnon Blanc, a Cotes du Rhone, and a BC Pinot Noir. I spilled a good third of the Cotes du Rhone all over the table and Lisa. Sorry!</span></div>
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I left Bangkok for a two hour 2am flight to Hong Kong. My final flight to Vancouver was not until 4:30pm. The original plan was to see if I could sleep somewhere in the Hong Kong airport and then head out downtown for a few hours. But when I arrived at 6am Hong Kong time I was jazzed and keen to explore. By 9:30am I was wandering around Hong Kong in a coffee craving coma because I hadn't really slept yet and my body clock was set at 3:30am. </div>
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It's scary how much Hong Kong looks like Vancouver and not just in the wide shots. Some of the intersections and even the main pier where all the ferries are looks a lot like it. Same same but different. (I had to use that one last time)</div>
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I began in central Hong Kong with a horribly bland breakfast that did not look at all like the splashy advertised photo. My main quest for the day was to find a memorable place to have one last tasty meal on my holiday and finish on a high note. Next I went for a ride up the touristy cable car and was surprised to enjoy it. It's very steep at certain points. It's like a San Francisco cable car that climbs up a roller coaster on a formerly British tropical island, if you can imagine that one. By foot I explored the trendy nightlife areas of Central called Lan Kwai Fong and Soho pausing to refuel on coffee, enjoy the city flow, and take more photos. I had my restaurant in Soho cased out and waited nearby for it to open at noon. It was a classic French bistro on Elgin Street called Bouchon. For about $45 Canadian (including a good tip) I had one of the best meals of my life. For the set lunch menu there was a choice of one main course and one appetizer or desert. I picked the lamb stew and the chocolate mousse with a glass of <span style="font: 20.0px Arial;">Côtes du Rhône. After being served the excellent glass of wine I got a basket with a freshly baked oven-warmed sour dough baguette and farm butter. I could of ate just than and been happy. The stew was the best I've ever had and you could tell they cooked it with at least two glasses of wine. The five star waiter said the chef used both white and red wine in it. It also came with some creamy and rich mashed potatoes. The chocolate mousse was very light and tasted more of whipping cream than of chocolate. When I scooped to the bottom I discovered soft and warm salted caramel. Sublime. When I arrived to the restaurant at twelve sharp there were already two or three tables, by 12:15 the tiny and charming Parisian bistro was full; A sign of a good restaurant in my books. I would be frightened to know the price of a meal at dinner time but highly recommend the place if you're ever lucky enough to have time for a fine lunch in Hong Kong. They're part of a group of restaurants called Dining Concepts so there's more tasty places to try.</span></div>
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Oddly enough I did not have a real sleep on my eleven hour flight home from Hong Kong to Vancouver. I walked into my apartment just after 2pm. The first thing I did was check myself in the bathroom mirror. I thought I'd look darker but liked the beard. I still wasn't tired and picked up some groceries and the obligatory sushi take-out meal. I crashed at 4:30pm and woke up at midnight craving a snack. I took the handful of left-over rice from my take-out and invented an egg fried rice dish with bacon and basil. I thought my holiday was over once I opened my apartment door? I guess the journey doesn't end once you get home.<br />
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Dean Hannashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13046952486819652332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29502663.post-11003473015533470412015-02-06T05:57:00.000-08:002015-02-06T06:06:55.322-08:00One Night in Bangkok<br />
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Bangkok is busy, crowded, noisy, polluted, over stimulating, and hot. For me, I found it is soothing and relaxing. I've never felt more at peace in a city even amidst all the random chaos. </div>
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Bangkok has balls. Bangkok has soul. Unlike Vancouver, Bangkok is alive with a beating heart. Vancouver barely has a pulse. Vancouver is like the pretty girl who has nothing else to offer. Everyone says she's beautiful but inside she's generic, boring, and self-absorbed. She's high maintenance, expensive and dull at a party. </div>
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Okay. Enough of the pretentious personifications already. I'm starting to sound like my Lonely Planet guide book for God's sake. All I'm saying is I love this place. What a fantastic city. There are so many nooks and crannies it would take you a lifetime to explore every street, alley, and neighbourhood. All of them alive with personality and charm.</div>
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Late yesterday afternoon I arrived and checked into my hotel in the Silom area. During the day it is white collar and all business. At night the alleys turn into a night market and is lined with seedy girly bars. The virtuous ladies inside perform talented feats with ping pong balls. In the market, one vendor will sell Chinese Viagra and sex toys next to another selling meditating Buddhas. The irony is inescapable. As weird as it sounds, there's an honesty about this place.</div>
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The only item on yesterday's checklist was to try out a rooftop bar at dusk. I went to the Moon Bar at the 61st floor of the five-star (or probably five diamond) Banyan Tree Hotel. It's an inspired setup. I was nursing my one and only expensive drink and started chatting with the guy at bar beside me. It turns out he's a pilot from Ireland and we got along famously. He ended up buying the two of us a ton of drinks and picked up my tab as well. I think the bar bill, without a tip was around $400! People from the UK are great (No, you're supposed to take the piss out of them) peeps from the UK are wankers! I can't believe how lucky I am. I'm so blessed it's retarded. </div>
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Today began with a maze-like Tuk Tuk ride to Wat Pho to view the ginormous reclining Buddha. Afterwards I stopped for a quick snack of stir fried basil and pork with rice for twenty Baht (less than a dollar) and some fresh pomegranate juice.</div>
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Next was a two-stop ferry ride to Chinatown. The waterway looked like an Asian Venice and we rode under a one-quarter scale version of the Burrard Bridge. I explored the massive covered market and some of the side lanes off the beaten path. I went around a corner of a narrow alley and walked through an open kitchen with a woman cooking prawn soup. It felt like walking through someone's home. </div>
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In my experience in Thailand, the cheaper the food is, the better the quality. My theory is that in the more expensive places you are paying for the atmosphere. Twice in a row I had meals that were about twenty-eight dollars and they were certainly good, but not great. I've consistently had excellent small, healthy and fresh meals here for about two dollars. Skip the Indian food. I've had it three times in three different regions and they all sucked.</div>
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My next stop was the Golden Buddha in the Traimit Wat. The Buddha is almost sixteen feet, weighs 5.5 tons and is made out of solid gold. Let me repeat that. The Buddha is 5.5 tons and is made out of solid gold. Let's do the math. At today's rate gold is $1,573.55 per ounce in Canada. There's 2000 pounds in a ton and sixteen ounces per pound so that makes the gold worth … about $278 million dollars. I'm sure Bill Gates has a few of these Buddhas scattered about one of his summer homes that he never visits.</div>
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I went back to my hotel for a short rest then had my last Chang beer on the street with a bowl of pork noodle soup and wontons. Followed by emptying my wallet of my final Bahts at the night market.</div>
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I fly out tonight to Hong Kong where I arrive at 6am and my connecting flight to Vancouver is not until 4:30 pm. I'm going to leave the airport for a few hours and have lunch in Hong Kong. Rough life.</div>
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Back in Vancouver there will be no more exotic blog post for a while as my life will be back to boring again.</div>
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