Like photography, videos brought many of our print and online stories to life, while other videos stood on their own — whether to profile unique and unusual artists, tell the history of the PNE’s wooden rollercoaster or explain why there are so many wildfires in B.C. every summer.
Here are the 11 most-watched videos created by the Vancouver Courier in 2018.
1. This 82-year-old artist spends years making massive tapestries of cities
82-year-old tapestry artist Sola Fiedler spends thousands of hours recreating cityscapes with recycled yarn and thread.
2. Vancouver's Wooden Roller Coaster celebrates 60th birthday
PNE/Playland's Wooden Roller Coaster is still powered by its original 1923 motor... and other little known facts about the coaster's 60 years of ups and downs in Vancouver. Read more: https://bit.ly/2OXnnsP
3. Piece of Vancouver's automotive history is moving on
After 70 years on Fraser Street, Alec's Automotive is moving, and the 1924 heritage building where it's located is likely not long for this world.
4. B.C wildfires explained in two minutes
This summer, there were more than 500 wildfires across the province, Vancouver skies were blanketed in haze and satellite images showed B.C. smoke wafting as far as Ontario. Why is this happening? This two-minute video explains.
Read more: https://bit.ly/2Na5MfP
5. No fixed address: Danielle
Faced with rising rents and lack of affordability, some Vancouver millennials such as Danielle Eastveld are foregoing conventional apartment living for life on wheels. Read more: http://bit.ly/2EIgVB7
6. Getting down with snake yoga
Snake yoga is stretching its way across Vancouver, and Tristan Risk and her albino boa, Eros, are down with it.
Read more: https://bit.ly/2rgiL6w
7. David Martone's hands of fury
You'll never hear "The Theme from the Pink Panther" the same way again as guitar hero Dave Martone lets his fingers do the talking before his master class at the Vancouver International Guitar Festival. Read more: https://bit.ly/2vqoDMI
8. It's alive! It's alive! Rare corpse flower stinks when it blooms
The Bloedel Conservatory's corpse flower, a.k.a. Uncle Fester, bloomed and Vancouverites lined up by the thousands to see and smell what the big stink was about.
9. This is how 107,700 copies of the Courier newspaper get printed every week
In honour of National Newspaper Week, we pulled back the curtains to show you how 107,700 copies of the Vancouver Courier get printed every week.
10. Vancouver luthier builds guitars from the ground up
Luthier and co-founder of the Vancouver International Guitar Festival Meredith Coloma discusses the artistry and effort that goes into hand building a guitar. Read more: https://bit.ly/2vqoDMI
11. How Canada’s largest grass roof gets mowed
The Vancouver Convention Centre's six-acre grass roof is the largest in Canada and one of the 10 largest in the world. Landscaper Mike Rist and his crew oversee the massive lawn’s annual trim, which takes approximately two weeks and produces 11,000 pounds of cuttings. Read more: https://bit.ly/2z7qcjH
