fowl air

New Scientist Tech reported in February of '06 that a new media artist and her students were designing a small electronic device to act as a homemade cell phone which pigeons could wear on their backs. These cell phones would send information on air quality to a blog via text messaging each time the pigeons fly. The information and photos captured by a tiny camera would be on displayed for all to see. Beatriz da Costa of the University of California is one of a number of artists who are combining art and science.

everyone does it...once

This morning my sleepy 8 year old daughter came out of her room rubbing her eyes. I was excited to see her as I had been away the previous night, but my happiness turned to shock when I saw her bangs. It appeared she had taken the scissors to them last night after her bath. The Dad guy, hadn't really noticed the night before and just put her to bed. Well, I stated in a shocked voice: "what did you do to your hair?" She replied, "nothing", and began to cry and clutch her tummy. After a sympathetic discussion about how most kids try to cut their hair at least once, I tried to fix her creative cut. She now has quite the set of micro-bangs. At the end of it all, one questions still remains in my mind. How could the Dad guy have missed seeing that?

sketches

sketches by me for a tryptic I'm working on. Emotional packages, tied up, bound, one cannot penetrate, to see what is inside.

So,

I have been trying to post a set of drawings that I have documented, but, alas this fancy new blogger will not let me. I will go to flickr and try from there.

a late migration

Most others have flow south long ago, but not this bird who has only just arrived at the new blogger, feathers intact. Looking forward to tinkering with this blog, especially to using categories to file my posts. Oh it feels like a shiny, new toy...

bad hair

Remember when your mom had to cut a big wad of gum outta your hair? Let me take you back to those days with my $47.00 hair hack. I have not received such a bad cut for a very long time, but this one is quite nasty. After being miserable for several days, I had to accept that the ONLY thing I can do to improve this is 'wait'. (Or buy a couple of nice hats) And you thought watching the grass grow took a long time ... no way!

cold day

need I say more?

seek and find

Hey, I discovered a wonderful tool for locating Canadian artists. It resides on the Art Dealers Association of Canada website. Go ahead, look up that friend you went to art school with, maybe they are famous by now, Check out that girl who could draw in high school. If there is a registered Gallery in Canada representing her, it will show up in your search.

a glimse of holiday past

Monday is the beginning of a new semester at work. My kids start a new semester at school. "Its a new start.", says my son who was plagued by unfinished assignments only a few short weeks ago. The celebrations are over, we have returned to our home and now we hold our breath and wait... No need to make resolutions, the year will bring changes of its own. My resolution, if I had one, would be to react calming and adapt to whatever comes my way. Live one moment at a time, enjoy and be thankful.