"heaven's holdin' a half moon"

stolen from the my love for you blog, this image speaks to my attitude these days.

"you fail at life :D" - mark burke

while it may be true that some aspects of day to day functionality may escape me, I will not be perturbed: the sun is shining, trees are budding, reverse fall is in-season and I'm clam-happy and kitten minded. Catch me if you can!!!

Nilufar has a website?

Yes, Nilufar, patron saint of the cheap lunch, Saraswati to 49cent pizza's Lakshmi, home of the cornucopious 2 dollar egyptian style falafel* lunch (I guess I should say Maat to 49cent's Thoth)... has a website, and so will I, soon.. stay tuned!!!!

I used to eat Nilu all the time with dr. Digby Darbles after, and often during, class time at Dawson. I gotta say, though it isn't quite as bumping as Al Taib, it still is pretty much king in my book, peep the shoddy wall art, reminisce over the now missing 2nd floor(I hear elvis lives up there), grab some to go and go watch 3 movies for the price of 1 at the VMC movieplex. If you are in the 514 go check it out NOW!


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* It's green!

** Another reminder of how I dislike Edmonotone, the only real restauraunt discovery I've made here would be Joey's fish n' chips, and that's really only cause it's deep fried and a cute girl lives there.

*** Jack Welch's 3 rules of success: 1. Control your destiny or someone else will. 2. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it would be. 3. Be candid with everyone. 4. Change before you have to.

The Amen Break and the Golden Ratio

links to folks i <3

turf one

other flickr

kiu yi

kelly lynn jones

julie morstad

richard colman

evan b harris

amy ross

ronald searle

fred einaudi

jen corace

kev ferrara

mattias adolfsson

tiffany bozic!

samuel ribeyron

Katja MacLeod Kessin

real talk

burkey puked a river

MARRIAGE!

OFFICIAL, Peru, engaged to be married, and I sooo happy "I SO EXCITED I CRY... HUGS, million year hugs like what makes deep canyon from river of hug juice!!!"

Couldn't have happened to a nicer pear, or such a sweet peach, I wish them lifelong cuddles and many pets and whatnots.

post card with big clouds

blade runner

Along with a copy of the video game that Tom T. gave me I recently picked up the 5-disc blade runner box set as a present for myself (selfish bastard that I am). There are 3 commentary tracks I'm looking forward to hearing, so far I've just watched the film itself, (and maybe it's just my screen but..), I get the feeling that the digital remastering of special effects is prone to makes those effects look a bit out of place with the rest of the visual 'palate'... for example: Watching some of the fires over Los Angeles in the wide shots in the first scene, or the lights on the hover cars gives me a feeling akin to that one I have had when hearing an album I've enjoyed on tape for years on a CD for the first time. It's not wrong, it's just not right... (see: akira VO redub)

sean young, of course, is still breathtaking

gaddamnit

looking for a friend's email amongst old ones sometimes yields unwanted trips down memory lane... ughh...

dook dook dook

woot, drawn.ca wins again, today I found a link to an interview with personal hero: tony millionaire... here's a memorable memento of monsieur millionaire's machinations:


"First of all I don't stipple... I don't crosshatch either...
I don't like to put a line through another line, if you look at the drawings you'll see there are little lines next to each other...
I don't like crosshatch... crosshatch is kind of lazy and it doesn't look that good, it looks like 'aah yeah, he's trying to put in a grey'...
stippling is ok, but it's kind of a gimmick. I remember Art Spiegelman once said: "Never crosshatch when you can stipple" and I agree, stippling is better than crosshatching..."

the sincerest form of flattery

Interesting story here regarding inspiration vs. theft. To sum it up quickly, a guy with the same last name as a famous illustrator, is making his name by imitating the illustrator's style, albeit poorly, right down to signing his pieces in with almost the exact same signiature. The signiature thing, to me, pushes this well past imitation or influence and into the realm of forgery. But enough has been said on this issue in the link.

What I was thinking after reading the article and the subsequent replies to it relates to my own feeling as an "artist" of how fine the line is between imitation and influence. I think that many folks are unaware of this, or not concerned by it at all. I would say that you can't really afford to be a curator and a creator, one is going to overwhelm the other. This sort of thinking is often discouraging to me, and I believe it is both invalid and irrelevant, a painting isn't a pure bred pooch, or a master's thesis, there is no need to provide a pedigree, nor parenthetical references...

to expand:

Classical training

Sampling

Redefinition

Ideas

Conception

Passion -> Release, Enjoyment

Peace