When I was home, Di & Deb picked me up early Saturday morning for a visit to the Kingston Farmers Market. What great fun we had visiting old friends like Clark & Sue and checking out the cool foods. As with most Farmers Markets this is evolving quickly into a place to go and eat as well as shop.
You thought I struggled with picking a new name for this blog and writing my bio for In The Kitchen? That, my dear friends, was small potatoes. Baby potatoes. Seed potatoes compared to writing an Artist’s Statement. "Why?", you might ask, "would you need an artist’s statement?" The Saint John Arts Centre is doing an exhibit on the 50 Paces Project!! Once my mother, the art teacher, stopped laughing she offered to help me pull it together. My friend Lorna, whose show Honeytrap is on at akau inc. right now, has offered her advice on how to avoid sounding…
I’ve been back in Toronto for over a week now and it seems that the 50 Paces Project has taken on a life of it’s own. Sue told me that her friend, who works in Social Services, is using 50 Paces as an allegory to increase intra-family communications with her client. How cool is that!?!? Grant Kerr’s article ran in the Telegraph Journal‘s Salon on Saturday. It’s not online, but I hear the photos are great (thanks to Cindy Wilson). I haven’t heard much about the article. I’m hoping that’s not worrisome. (Okay, it’s worrisome because I’m paranoid. I’m hoping it’s ill-founded.)…
(say that 5 times fast…) Yesterday, Nancy and the rest of the good folks at TPH finished printing the photos for us! After a lot of back and forth trying to figure out the best way to print our photos with maximize resolution, consistency, and to minimize cropping, I finally decided to print all images at 2″x3″. This will allow us to easily hang up to 15 photos per tree without them catching the wind and blowing down the river immediately. A BIG thanks to gkaufman of the Monthly Scavenger Hunt who whipped off a program to generate labels for…
Yesterday, Nancy and the rest of the good folks at TPH finished printing the photos for the 50 Paces Project! Printing 50 Paces After a lot of back and forth trying to figure out the best way to print our photos with maximize resolution, consistency, and to minimize cropping, I finally decided to print all images at 2"x3". This will allow us to easily hang up to 15 photos per tree without them catching the wind and blowing down the river immediately. I may be doing a little packing tape lamination on them as well, since the weather in New…
Sunset From November to January 2004/5 I lived my father's life on a small island in New Brunswick. I looked after the animals and waited for the river to freeze so I could cross the ice safely and reliably to get to shore. [see Watching the ice form... a month spent on an island - off-line, off-grid, off-shore.] In order to know that the ice is safe to cross, you have to check it every 50 paces and mark the safe path to shore. That means chopping a hole in the ice to test its thickness. If it is safe,…
Yup, just over a week offline and offshore, we loaded back into the boat and headed back for the mainland. Now that I’ve washed the mud off my feet and the sand out of my hair, watch for many more photos and stories of island time, kayaks, dogs and raspberries, and road tripping in the RoadMaster(tm) down and back with Ger, Japor and the Travel Bunny.
Yup, mercurial Mercury has had his way with my week already with 2 missed meetings in one day. So we are following through on my previous threat to go hide away on a deserted island in a deep blue river far, far away. "As a rule, retrograde planets presage a period of seemingly inevitable or fated events…"** And certainly this trip seems to have been fated. Last minute changes at work permitted Ger to take the time. Then when asking if we could give our friend Japor a ride down with us, he suggested we all go in his car. …
Seriously! At a business conference in Saint John encouraging the eastern seaboard to work together for “business without boundaries”, local photoblogger Charles Leblanc was arrested for obstructing justice. He is asking for a public inquiry in the police’s actions in his arrest – which was captured on video by the CBC cameraman standing by his side when he was “obstructing justice”. And people wonder why I don’t move there.
50 Paces Project – Lex Shots So Far Did I tell you about my scheme to build a floating photo installation for my dad for Xmas? The scheme involves people from across the world submitting photos taken every 50 paces from their door to 2000 paces away, any and all directions. Then hanging photos along the ice path from the island to the shore on the trees marking the path every 50 paces. Using Flickr.com a group of people from Toronto to Germany have submitted photos of their neighbourhoods 50 paces at a time in preparation for this year’s installation.…
Gallery 78 in Fredericton New Brunswick is having a showing of Glenn Hall’s exhibit Painting Moose Island from November 25th – December 24th. For those of you who don’t know, Moose Island is officially Mather’s Island and affectionately known as "The Island". It is my father’s home. This summer, Glenn spent a lot of time painting on the island in preparation for this show. Some of you may have seen my photos from last winter of ice and snow, Glenn’s paintings really capture the lush and magical quality of the island in the summer. If you get a chance, take…
While on the island I was tracking this day-by-day, can-by-can. It shows what 45 days on an island will do to your mind… though of course I did start tracking it Day 1… hummm. Clipped from CBC News Thirsty bear finds missing Moosehead Last Updated Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:44:29 EDT DOAKTOWN, N.B. – A slightly tipsy bear with alcohol on its breath may be roaming the woods of New Brunswick, the RCMP said Wednesday. Police discovered 200 cans of stolen Moosehead beer at a marijuana growing operation in the forest near Doaktown, N.B., about 100 km northwest of Fredericton.…
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