Vancouver

So the first way that we did this.

I'll pass Vancouver, Drop down in Seattle

These are my buildings.

This ship is bound for Vancouver.

Vancouver. All the way up in Canada.

Next week I will go to Vancouver and visit my younger sister.

I'd like to reserve a flight to Vancouver.

I'm going off to Vancouver next week to see my sister.

But before we go the inevitable riot porn montage from our peeps in Oakland,

It's a fabulous city.

And the British would get everything north of this line, right over here.

And then we were asked to do something really big for the Olympics.

In order for us to build safely, we've engineered these buildings, actually, to work in a Vancouver context, where we're a high seismic zone, even at 30 stories tall.

Miranda and I are here today because we'd like to share how our accidents have led to discoveries.

We were invited to create a massive installation at the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics, were used in Vancouver, got to control the lighting on the CN Tower, the Canadian Parliament buildings and Niagara Falls from all the way across the country using their minds.

I started receiving secrets in my home mailbox, not just with postmarks from Washington, D.C., but from Texas, California,

I've come to talk to you about addiction, the power of addiction, but also addiction to power.

If we can change the dynamic, by first of all creating cities that are denser and more livable ...

Now, I was taken by inspector Brian Cantera, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to a cavernous warehouse east of Vancouver to see some of the goods which are regularly confiscated by the RCMP from the smugglers who are sending it, of course, down south to the United States where there is an insatiable market for B.C. Bud, as it's called, in part because it's marketed as organic, which of course goes down very well in California.

We're starting to push the height up of these wood buildings, and we're hoping, and I'm hoping, that my hometown of Vancouver actually potentially announces the world's tallest at around 20 stories in the not so distant future.

It's Mother Nature's fingerprints that make our buildings connect us to nature in the built environment.

For the last 28 years, I've been documenting indigenous cultures in more than 70 countries on six continents, and in 2009 I had the great honor of being the sole exhibitor at the Vancouver Peace Summit.

And I say all this just to stress how very old fashioned and straightforward my background is, because when I go to Hong Kong or Sydney or Vancouver, most of the kids I meet are much more international and multi cultured than I am.

Disrupting the torch relay all over Canada, educating the public about this corporate sham, and organizing a massive anti Olympic mobilisation.