Connecting the Dots / An Agency Blog

Check it out. The band Editors recently released an impressive campaign for their new album In This Light And On This Evening that integrates a fully functional Google Street View of London along with music and images from the band. We often experience the city with music via our headphones or car stereos so this makes perfect sense, and man, London is gorgeous.

I’m kind of using London to talk about Vancouver though, since Vancouver was just inducted into the Street View canon along with a select few other cities in Canada. Since it became available just last week Vancouver blogs, Facebook and Twitter accounts here have been abuzz with this new way of experiencing the city.
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Social media is unavoidable for anyone with a desk job and a finger (at least a little bit) on the pulse of things. Let’s face it, for those of us connected, sooner or later you’re going to get the distraction and head over to Facebook. For some employers, time equates 100% to money and every minute wasted is a dollar lost – an unfortunate but realistic factor of capitalism. But for many on the employee side, powering through the day can be a challenge when the social sphere is only a click away.

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Engine has always been Gastown based. Some of us have only ever worked in this neighborhood, myself included. Some of us live and work in Gastown. It’s a second home for some, and an only home for others. And so when we decided to create Engine, Gastown was not just an obvious choice, it was really the only area to consider.

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