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[Click image to enlarge: bottom image is updated version, can you see the difference ?] These days I've been stressing about all sorts of things and it is time to put the breaks down on all this irritation and anxiety. I feel like a locomotive with too much steam barreling through the landscape. At times like this, I feel that the only way to relax, is to do yoga breathing exercises or just

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[Click image to enlarge] This weekend, I took some time away from the city and lost myself in some energizing, peaceful country-air, invigorating bird sound and good garden food. It's amazing what silence can do for the mind and the body, before I left the ever-noisy city, this little battery was really due for a recharge... I should remember this more often!

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[Click image to enlarge] On Tuesday we went to see Slava, a Russian [Siberian] clown and his entourage. Visually, it was stunning. Every movement, every scene, the costumes, the colors, the sound, the movements, the expressions and the scenes were like an illustration, atmospheric like an Andersen story. Intense, sadly funny and just amazing! Thank you, Kati! [For now, here's a quick pencil +

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[Click image to enlarge] ha, ha, ha ! hi, h...h...h. euh... ssso-rrry

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watch and listen to this: http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/?fbid=B6bNUQ [if it's jerky or slow,turn H/D off and let it load for a while] For anyone who's a little down and needs a little pep, who needs a little up-beat, This will make you smile. :D [thank you Manon ! SUPER!!]

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[Click to enlarge] For a little too long now, I have been looking for the perfect place to settle down. It is one thing to set ones standards high. Is there such a thing as setting ones standards too high ? High standards, reasonable budget. I think it is possible, but it requires an enormous amount of persistence, perseverance and nerves of concrete.. and a whole lot of looking, searching and

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[Click to enlarge] For a little while now, I have been completely absorbed in the going-ons of city life. For some reason, despite the summer heat, the frenzied activity around me and in my own life has given me energy but also tremendous stress. How else can I express it with this photo I took in the country ?

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[Click image to enlarge] This morning, quite early, I was woken up by hammering, laughter and voices. Little did I know that they were setting up the Giants, ready to go to the parade...

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[Click image to enlarge] The "Collyer Death Chair" has an unnerving feel to it and a dark history that will bring chills to anyone’s bones. The Collyer brothers were famous examples of hoarding and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Even today, if the fire brigade comes to your house and you hear them report a Collyer Mansion call back to the firehouse, you’ll know its time to start tidying

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[Click the image to enlarge] The obvious solution, I know, would've been to continue the series with the inventor as the main subject matter. The reason I chose to depict these two boxers, was for 1, to put more action into the invention/fish series, for 2, to reverse, somewhat, the weekly subject to an absurd one and to make it a bit of a baffling combination and there is a 3rd reason,

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I've been absent from this blog for a little while due to iMac issues. I hope to post by the middle of June. Meanwhile summer in Montreal has really made its entrance with temperatures hovering around the 30ºC and humid.. 'til soon ! ;D

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[Click image to enlarge] A little while ago, I started with a series about inventions and famous people. Most of the inventions are things we take for granted without thinking twice about it. There are times I like to know just a little more about a mixer, radio-waves, a peddle of a garbage can or even consider the layout of an ergonomic kitchen.. and maybe some of you like to know too. So here

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[Click image to enlarge] A brief update from my posting on February 29th..

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[Click image to enlarge] Lillian Moller Gilbreth [1878-1972] is perhaps best remembered for motherhood. Her children wrote the popular books Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes about their experiences growing up with such a large and famous family. But Lillian Moller Gilbreth was not only a mother; she was also a scholar, inventor, author, industrial engineer, industrial

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[Click the image to enlarge] “Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.” --Helen Keller-- From the moment early humans created words,

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[Click image to enlarge] Here is a link with some photo's of the show, May 3rd 2008. ..and here are some links that cover the Lecce exhibition 1,2,3,4. [**ERRATUM: Suana Verlest should be Suana Verelst] [Translation Button]

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[Click image to enlarge] [watercolor paper, collage, gouache, aquarelle, pencil..] Look carefully, and you see the tiny wrinkly waves the fish produces while she knits.. This collage-sketch is absurd, strange and perhaps somewhat disturbing. Does it come close to surrealism ? Does it have anything to do with symbolism ? Or any -isms aside, what does it convey ? A group of artists, the

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"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning." Igor Stravinsky [Click image to enlarge] A Russian art movement originated from the book Neo-primitivizm (1913) written by A. Schevchenko. This book introduces a new style in painting with elements of cubism, futurism and traditional Russian folk art. The work

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[Click image to enlarge] Above are 3 of my prints that are flying to the International exhibition of Illustration at the Apuliae Libreria in Lecce. Anybody who's in the vicinity between the 3-24th of May, hope you can check out the exhibition...

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[Click image to enlarge] Feelings of self-worth Each of us has a concept of self and each of us decides how worthy that self is. We also have a self ideal, a standard against which we evaluate our behavior. Threat to our ego occurs when we fail to reach goals dictated by our ideal self. Such failures lower our self worth and lead to feelings of inadequacy which manifest themselves in "hurt

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[Click image to enlarge, click this link to get to know more about the hobblebush] Quebecs' winter is finally making room for the next season. The snow is melting and spring is here; with it comes all the ickiness of left-behind dog poop and garbage that was covered by an almost 6-month long winter! Hurrah!

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[Click the image to enlarge] "Over exploit, cheat, deplete. The cycle of greed behind the global whaling industry drove one whale population after another toward oblivion.It is still not known if some species will ever recover, even after decades of protection. The statistics say it all. The blue whales of the Antarctic are at less than 1 percent of their original abundance, despite 40 years of

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[Click image to enlarge] The image I created, is a copy of a detail of the painting "The farmer's dance", by Breughel, which I originally did in pencil and then digitally manipulated. It turned out as if it was a woodcut or lino. I'll post the original pencil drawing soon. My hero, or at least, one of my absolute heroes, Pieter Bruegel (the Elder) was a Flemish artist active in Antwerp and

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Does he personify "The pet peeve" ? Miffed ? peeved or p***ed off ? [Click image to enlarge] And what does it all stand for ? [Pet Peeve]: "The term originated from the word 'peeve', and is relatively recent - its first usage was in 1919. The term is a back-formation from the 14th-century word 'peevish,' meaning ornery or ill-tempered." A "peeve" is something that annoys or irritates one

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[Click image to enlarge] "NO, I am not going ! Never again do I want to move, never again do I want to drag my stuff to another house, never again do I want to lose my friends, never again do I want to be in another neighbourhood, another school, never again .." "Why?" asked his mother. "Because it is just too heavy, " sighed the boy.— [published by Cego Publishers 2006/collage, pencil,

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