This weekend, or November 18th, 19th and 20th, myself and my house-mates will be opening up our studio for the Eastside Culture Crawl. It’s my first time ever participating (out studio was literally just finished a couple of weeks ago), and I’ve been busy needle felting and putting kits together.
Our studio is located behind our house in the alley, on Pender & Heatley. Head North East of the pirate house on the corner that you see in this google street view and you should find the alleyway. If you’ve reached Hastings, you’ve gone too far north. There are a few studios in the alley, and we’ll have our sandwich board in the alleyway.
At the event, I’ll be there demonstrating how to needle felt, and displaying some of the work that I’ve put together over the past couple of weeks. Along with the kit comes a special barbed needle for felting, a foam pad, fibre, and an instruction manual for how to make a needle-felted mushroom. All of the felt for the mushroom kit was hand-dyed with Kool-Aid!
This series is based on the characters from the stop motion Rudolph series that we all watched growing up!
(Yeti still in progress)
I will also have some knitted items, and greeting cards available for sale too. Hope to see you there!
Just finished watching this In this new RSAnimate where Iain McGilchrist explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. (I recommend viewing it at full size and pausing it to read some of the captions, they’re worth reading
While I was watching it, Vincent overheard me and told me to re-watch this. Really illuminates what’s happening.
image: HAROL BARKLEY/TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO
On Saturday, I heard David Suzuki speak at Occupy Vancouver. Here’s a video of his talk:
on #Occupy (in Vancouver)
For me, the occupy movement is about ‘ecos’, the greek word for ‘household’ or ‘domain’. It’s about defining our place in community, in the state, in the nation, and in the biosphere. What is our home? And how do we live in it sustainably, with opportunity, and meaning, and happiness as our highest asperations. The word ‘ecos’ is home; ‘ecology’ is the study of home; ‘economics’ is its management. But we elevate economy above ecology.
in Montreal
In 1972 Comparing Humans to Maggots:
David Suzuki is the shit.
“Science and knowledge only add to the excitement, mystery and awe of a flower.”
“The prize is the pleasure of finding things out … the honours are unreal to me.”
“[Made-up tales about the story of the earth] were wonderful stories, but the truth is so much more remarkable.”
The Accolade by Edmund Leighton
Miss Eveleen Tennant by John Everett Millais
My Sweet Rose (The Soul of a Rose) by John William Waterhouse, 1908.
Sunken Moai
The Schienenzeppelin (or “Rail Zeppelin”) which used a propeller to reach speeds up to 230 km/h. Germany, 1931
