Mad Times And Fun!

Howdy, haven't had tome to upload pics, but hope to get that done the next couple days. I've had a housepainting gig and its taken up most of my spare time. All fantastic to have a job here in Vancouver. We've been to the beach a lot and spent a lot of time playing crib with my nephews. It's so good to be with everyone out here on the left coast.

More in a bit...

The Secret You

BBC doc with Marcus Du Sautoy on consciousness.... Check out the website "Documentary Storm" in general. It has tons of really good movies available to watch, including several I have written about here. Like "Garbage Warrior".

Best Music Video Ever

So This Is How Liberty Dies

"The establishment came down with a constitutional package which they put to a national referendum. The package included distinct society status for Quebec and some other changes, including some that would just horrify you, putting universal Medicare in our constitution, and feminist rights, and a whole bunch of other things."
- Conservative leader Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.


"We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system."
- Stephen Harper, Toronto Star, October 2002.



"It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act."
- Stephen Harper, then Vice-President of the National Citizens Coalition, 1997.



"What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care]."
- Stephen Harper, then President of the NCC, 2001.

"Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta... "
- Stephen Harper in an "Open letter to Ralph Klein," January 24th 2001.

Yipppe Kayaya!!!!!

Good riddance!!! One of the biggest sore losers in the world is dead. Well done President Obama!!

Whhhooo Hooo!!!!

Now That's Royalty!

Rivers And Tides

There are about 9 parts to this documentary on Youtube....

The term environmental art is used in two different contexts: it can be used generally to refer to art dealing with ecological issues and/or the natural, such as the formal, the political, the historical, or the social context.

Depending upon how you look at its definition, earlier examples of environmental art stem from landscape painting and representation. When artists painted onsite they developed a deep connection with the surrounding environment and its weather and brought these close observations into their canvases. John Constable’s sky paintings “most closely represent the sky in nature.” [1] Monet’s London Series also exemplifies the artist’s connection with the environment “For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life, the air and the light, which vary continually for me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere that gives subjects their true value." [2]

It is possible to trace the growth of environmental art as a "movement", beginning in the late 1960s or the 1970s. In its early phases it was most associated with sculpture—especially Site-specific art, Land art and Arte povera—having arisen out of mounting criticism of traditional sculptural forms and practices which were increasingly seen as outmoded and potentially out of harmony with the natural environment. From Wikipedia

Andy Goldsworthy is a an "environmental artist" or "site specific artist".








Part 7