You Know Who 2.0 : Girl in a Wet Suit - Vancouver's modern-day mermaid, an artful homage to Copenhagen's Little Mermaid. #lifesized #statue #girlinwetsuit #girlinwetsuitstatue #publicart "Truth From Fiction" ~> I #sketch in pencil 'n ink & equally in #videoink like #sketching oughta be. The Girl in Wetsuit forever gazes longingly at the Empress Dragon #videosketchbook #Song by Supreme Beings of Leisure from self-titled Album: Supreme Beings of Leisure Released: 2000, Los Angeles, CA #easylistening #chill #lounge #electronic Waiting Leisurely Series of "VIVA-Vancouver" #vancouver - a town that'll seduce u w/it's k.o. #views | #relaxedattitude | #ecclecticstyle = #supremeplace of #leisure #rawfootage & #settomusic 🎵🎶(btwn 04:48 - 05:33 am ) #shipahoy #zenmoments #zenlikehell. ** trivia/History: The SS Empress of Japan Figurehead a colourfully/unique monument expresses best Vancouver's long link to Asia & Pacific Rim ties. This CP Empress aka "Queen of the Pacfic" crisscrossed the Pacific 400+ times, 1891-1922. So adored & treasured, during its dismantling in 1927, the Empress Dragon was "mistakenly" thrown away in the back of the junk truck. A Media frenzy & public uproar ensued - thankfully 'twas found, scathed & scarred. Lovingly restored by the The Province newspaper placed here in 1927. As the original deteriorated over 80+ years of weathering; a fibreglass replica became substitute surrogate. The original lovingly restored sits safe 'n sound at Vancouver's Maritime Museum, Vanier Park, Kitsilano.) The Empress of Japan "... reminds us, as one of the trio of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's first generation of 'White Empresses,' those ships that were the company's final links in its drive to create an extension of its trans-Canada railway system right through to the Orient & Australasia ..." ~ Leonard G. McCann, curator emeritus at the Maritime Museum wrote in a Vancouver Historical Society newsletter. McCann's, by far, the most knowledgeable person on local marine history. (at Girl in a Wetsuit)