art in our new home
When we were in Salt Spring Island, we went to the Saturday Market, and I instantly fell in love with this man’s work. Salt Spring artist Lorne Tippett uses wine-barrel…
Art
virtual walking tours of new york city, hosted by ny times architect critic michael kimmelman
During the pandemic shutdown, there were so many offers of interesting things to do online — cooking, crafting, indoor exercise, art classes, author readings, and on and on. I didn’t…
New Ethnicity estimate at Ancestry
Less broad, more specific. Yes, nation names have nothing much to do with the ‘ethnicity’ of the people who lived on the land hundreds or thousands of years before. I…
Art Can Help us Understand the Climate Crisis
The world of art may one way to help people understand issues around the climate crisis. The impacts of climate change are diverse and interconnected, which makes it difficult to…
cpmvfsgu day 6: salt spring island (saturday)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times? Perhaps not as dramatic as all that, but yesterday was a tale of two days, for sure. We…
Impressionists were people too.
www.youtube.com/watch Loving this series. Especially the biographical and historical evident in this episode.
Escape
While I should be working on that, you know, legacy, make-me-famous, immortal and wealthy Covid lockdown project, for which I bought this last years model iPad Pro, I started doodly…
missing nyc: spontaneous political street art in bloom
This story in The New York Times made me miss New York City more than anything has in a very long time. All over the city, artists have created murals…
Our house …
In the middle of the street Just futzing with brushes and pens and tools in Procreate. Make a mark and see what it turns into into. Sometimes they remain scribbles…
Hey, Wendy read this!
It’s as easy as opening the Books app on your IOS device and searching. The book came up before I was finished typing the first words of the title. Hey…
The washing machines
So the sensor on the Maytag dryer gave up. Needed to take laundry out. New sensor installed. It’s good for another 20 years. That’s a long time between drawings.
Should we rename Dundas Street?
“On behalf of the Canadian Urban Institute and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, thank you for your submission to the Main Street Design Challenge. At this time, your application…
Aguirre
About 15 minutes in Already, he knows he is in Hell. Krause Kinski’s face carries all the f!ckin’ suffering in the world.
Jo March sells her first story
Saoirse Ronin as Jo March in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women’s