Came across this remarkable art in honour of dead miners. “The Mammoth Miners Memorial honors 55 miners who lost their lives over the years in the San Manuel, St. Anthony and Tiger mines. Along with a statue of a hard-rock miner and ore buckets, the memorial features a sculpture of
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PostArctica: How Climate Change Will Kill Us in the Dumbest Possible Way
Couldn’t agree more, stupid is our our story to the end… AKIRA WATTS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When we’re not actively engaged in killing each other, watching TV, or occupied in other such entertaining diversions, one of humanity’s favorite hobbies is imagining that we live in the end times, with
Continue readingPostArctica: How Climate Change Will Kill Us in the Dumbest Possible Way
Couldn’t agree more, stupid is our our story to the end… AKIRA WATTS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When we’re not actively engaged in killing each other, watching TV, or occupied in other such entertaining diversions, one of humanity’s favorite hobbies is imagining that we live in the end times, with
Continue readingPostArctica: Pretty Boy Floyd
Saw Dan Bern on stageit tonight and he played this song. Who are today’s outlaws? More than a couple billion people on the wrong end of the pen, my friends, it could be almost everyone. Pretty Boy Floyd Words and Music by Woody Guthrie If you’ll gather ’round me, children,
Continue readingPostArctica: Pretty Boy Floyd
Saw Dan Bern on stageit tonight and he played this song. Who are today’s outlaws? More than a couple billion people on the wrong end of the pen, my friends, it could be almost everyone. Pretty Boy Floyd Words and Music by Woody Guthrie If you’ll gather ’round me, children,
Continue readingcultural sn:afu: The Internet is hard and makes your brain hurt… but there are easy ways to build your own online arts community
One of the easiest lies artists believe is “you need to use the Internet to sell yourself”… that, somehow, ‘the Internet’ will drag you up and out of obscurity, and bring you to a huge audience who will buy all … Continue reading →
Continue readingPostArctica: Maple Syrup in Verdun
Met John on Wellington in the late afternoon today at the annual maple syrup party and there is no way you normally see that much snow, ice and slush on the streets this time of year, but heck, it kind of really lays on that “cabane a sucre” atmosphere, right?
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Another important day for self-acceptance
If I have learned nothing else about my bipolar II today, it is that I am certainly not the only one in similar circumstances who has found photography to be a healing past-time. Facebook is teeming today with some of the creative works of the bipolar support community.
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Another important day for self-acceptance
If I have learned nothing else about my bipolar II today, it is that I am certainly not the only one in similar circumstances who has found photography to be a healing past-time. Facebook is teeming today with some of the creative works of the bipolar support community.
Continue readingPostArctica: Katie Rentzke
Excellent street photographer who works for social change. Urban Voice Youth Photographic Project is a program that gives an artistic voice to underprivileged youth by teaching them basic photography skills. The project goals are to use the camera to motivate youth’s discovery of the world around them, show youth that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Nahlah Ayed in Regina for Minifie Lecture at #UofR
She was crunched for time in writing a speech, something she’s not used to doing either, so she wrote a diary of her recent coverage in Ukraine and made it interesting by giving the back story to reporting in a region that could break out into open war. She grew
Continue readingPostArctica: More Winter
Might as well, storm blowing out there…
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Last Winter Pictures
With the end of the Winter trimester at Hebron comes the end of Winter (hopefully). Below are a few pictures I took of the kids at a local mountain. Hope you like them. Here’s the rest of the set. Filed under: Photography
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: It’s Cold
It’s cold tonight. It will be an actual -40 by morning, for the first time in a long while. The wind chill will be brutal.
Continue readingPostArctica: Bookish Butch
Proud to say my favorite former used bookstore owner has won best blog in the GLBT category! Way to go, Caroline!! Canadian Blog Awards 2014 results Bookish Butch
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Guys & Dolls at Hebron
I forsook acting after a traumatizing performance growing up in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Snug (a joiner who plays the lion, has four lines, and is best known for being afraid he’s be unable to memorize his lines). Thankfully my lack of acting ability was forgiven and instead I was able
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: Newhouse Mobile Magazine Contest
Working in such an immersive environment with so many ongoing projects it can be easy to lose track of what’s happening outside of the bubble. The exact same thing happened at Mount Allison but I think that’s part of what made it such a special place. However, the other day
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