In the last few months, I’ve used my lengthy commuting time to get a lot of reading done. Specifically, I’ve read several books about the aboriginal art of the northwest coast. They are, in the order I finished them: -Solitary Raven: The Essential Writings of Bill Reid, edited by Robert Bringhurst -The Raven Steals the [...]
The Sun, a necklace pendant by Nancy Dawson This will probably be the last post on the subject of my doings at the 2010 Winter Olympics. While the Olympics were taking place, my wife and I made two visits to the Aboriginal Artisans’ Village in Vancouver Community College. On one occasion, I purchased this necklace [...]
The Sun; Royal Canadian Mint limited edition one dollar coin for the 2010 Winter Olympics; designed by Xwa lack tun [Corrected] The recent 2010 Winter Olympics came during a time of profound personal upheaval which the artistic events of the Games had a part in healing. To commemorate the Games, I purchased from the Royal [...]
UPDATE: The contest is now over; thanks to all who voted for me. I took down the embedded links below because the scripts in them seemed to be causing the blog to load slowly. – ORIGINAL POST: Note: this is a more informal post than is usual for this blog. I’ve entered a wacky contest [...]
I created the current header image* for this blog from my own photograph of Roy Henry Vickers’ Eagle Aerie Gallery in Tofino, BC. This gallery was built by Arthur Vickers, himself an accomplished artist and Roy Vickers’ younger brother. I am not adept at “photoshopping” images, but I added black-and-white effects using Microsoft Windows Live [...]
Eric Friesen, the man behind the signature voice of classical music; image taken from the CBC Radio 2 website [Note: this is a slightly fuller version of a comment I left on the CBC Radio 2 Blog.] I am putting together this post to the accompaniment of Eric Friesen’s last Studio Sparks program from the [...]
Canada Post stamp commemorating UBC’s 100th Anniversary On a personal note, this recently-issued Canada Post stamp marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the University of British Columbia, known locally as UBC. I’m pleased to have taught in various roles at this university for parts of 2008. Interestingly, (at least to me) this is [...]
A good friend A good friend of mine, Kevin Kim, (the one who created the image at the top of my sidebar) stopped by today on his way from Washington DC to Washington State. Kevin’s goal is to walk across the continental United States from west to east as he seeks to learn about the [...]
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