May 2011
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A Yellow Bear and what I was thinking part II
INSPIRATION FOR ‘STRANGE THINGS DONE’
When I was in grade four or five my class preformed “The Cremation of Sam McGee” for the rest of the school and other in attendance at Parkview Elementary. I can’t remember it in its entirety but I still remember my verse:
‘Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee/ Where the cotton blooms and blows/ Why he left his home in the South to roam ‘round...
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Lions and Fountains and what I was thinking part 1
I had a class; a survey of western art history. One of the profs. was English and a pretty funny guy. His lecture on baroque architecture took a detour when he began pointing pout how many of the building he was featuring were topped with horses. Writhing, rearing, contorted, snorting, frozen horses. They must have had a great warehouse full of them, he said. ‘Horses in an English Fountain’...
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doodling
Doodling/sketching is the backbone of visual culture as the purest depiction of an idea.
Take poor Marie (above). What I love about it is what surrounds it. David was a great painter and this is far from the most beautiful work nor is does it showcase his technical abilities as a draftsman. With a piece of paper and a pencil he stopped and quickly jotted down what he saw, a woman sitting...
Shop is Open
The LAKE&CHAPEL shop is open. Our first three shirts are 10% off with the code: ‘LAUNCH’. Printed on American Apparel organic cotton t-shirts and featuring free shipping to Canada and the USA. Too good not to buy.
I’ll be going into more detail about each shirt later. Now, I would like to thank all the people who have helped we get to this point and to my wife who has...
