Fall at Hay Lake

Snow Dog

I'm experimenting with oil paints, this was my second attempt. This dog is painted from a photo I saw on Facebook, I haven't seen or talked to its owner for about a decade but she sure does have a nice looking dog.

off-kilter

I did this one back in November 2008, it's Patrick on a beach in Ireland.

You should be so proud of yourself

This is a tribute to me finishing med school. It looks a little bit different now, I turned the blue sky grey. Not sure which one I like better...

Red Poppy

This one was for my mother, beautiful flower that she is.

Jon Rock

This is a painting I did for my brother-in-law for his Christmas/Birthday present. It was my first attempt with oil paints.

Batface-Warmified for the Cold Weather

Entitlement

 

Tribute to a Tart aka ufo

This series is dedicated to a friend who one day found this tart in his bed covers, it just appeared out of nowhere, how very gross and miraculous and....awe inspiring...

Grouchy Lauren

You can see my black eye from the accident in this picture, I guess you could say the whole ordeal sort of put me in a bad mood for a while. 

why me? why like this?

Dear sweet lord, can someone tell me why I'm struggling to put together a presentation at the absolute last minute on venous return and cardiac output while I play peak-a-boo with a silverfish that seems to have taken up residence in my keyboard????? They truly are disgusting creatures, truly they are......wait, I think I may have gotten the little bugger with the TAB key...and again...why me? why like this?

Evil Eye

 

I blame The Bullet

Last Friday night, after my first med school exam, I decided to celebrate... Apparently, the festivities weren't enough for me, and I felt the need to add a concussion, a broken nose, a busted lip, and two loose teeth to the night's events.

I was biking home. I was drunk. I hit a pot hole, was thrown over my handlebars and landed smack on my face and neck. I woke up in Emergency after an ambulance ride and don't remember much.

When I got home, my left eye was so swollen I couldn't even open it to take out my contact lens. The cyclops effect wore off after a couple of days and it looks like I'll recover just fine, after all, my nose wasn't really straight to begin with...Other than that, I seem to be healing at superhuman speed but the take home message is pretty clear:

WEAR YOUR HELMETS boys and girls!

I know I learned my lesson.

As for The Pink Bullet, well, she's taking a leave of absence until we can rekindle our friendship again. 

Lauren and the Serpent

 

if a tree falls in a forest, does anybody hear?

Next Stop: Blessings and Illuminations

"It is not possible to get blessing without the madness", wrote Norman O. Brown in his book Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis. "It is not possible to get the illuminations without the derangement." His words ring true for you right now. Lately, you've been pursuing (and getting pursued by) wickedly twisted yet fertile opportunities, and now you're near the climax of the madness and derangement. Next stop: blessings and illuminations.

The Scientist

 

"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even as a duty."

Simone Weil

Detached

 

Two Little Mischiefmongers

 

Banana-rama

 

Sketches of Julia, some old, some new

The Whistling Debate

(I just discovered there was such a thing this morning courtesy of the Globe and Mail)

Too Little or too much? Seems to be the question at hand here.

On the one hand, whistling supporters say that it's a dying art, "why doesn't anyone whistle any more?" It's free, it's natural and it brightens up the day AND it relieves stress! But now (apparently) it's no longer "cool" to whistle and sadder still, whistlers aren't passing on the tradition to the youth. Sigh.

But some people would disagree....some say that whistling in the workplace can distract people from the task at hand by getting tunes "stuck in their heads". How horrible. This terrible affliction is know to Scientists as 'muscial imagery' and obviously has no place at work.

Thoughts anyone?

from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"The 'it' is a kind of force that gives rise to technology, something undefined, but inhuman, mechanical, lifeless, a blind monster, a death force... Somewhere there are people who understand it and run it, but those are technologists, and they speak an inhuman language when describing what they do. And their things, their monster keeps eating up land and polluting their air and lakes, and there is no way to strike back and it, and hardly any way to escape it.....All this technology has somehow made you a stranger in your own land. Its very shape and appearance and mysteriousness say, "Get out". You know there's an explanation for all this somewhere and what it's doing undoubtedly serves mankind in some indirect way but that isn't what you see...the natural feelings of very many people are similar on this matter; so that when you look at them collectively you get the illusion of a mass movement, an antitechnological left emerging, looming up from apparently nowhere, saying "Stop the techonolgy. Have it somewere else. Don't have it here."...It is against being a mass person that they seem to be revolting. And they feel that technology has got a lot to do with the forces that are trying to turn them into mass people and they don't like it."

Just another night with the Shwarmas

This one's courtesy of Anites 

Julia painted this one 

hay

Welcome to Teenage Rebellion #2

Hello friends, so I've been looking at all our blog postings, from this crowd of mostly mid-twenty somethings, all of us trying to dig out and intellectualize what's "important" in life. And what comes up? Evolution, Technology vs Nature, Where are we? What are we? Where did we come from? and Where are we going? (as a species). Why might we be so interested in these questions at this particular time in our lives? Well, for the most part, this is also a time in our lives when we think "Where am I going?" "What am I going to do with my life?" and "HOw did I get to be this person anyway?".

And thrown in everywhere are these anti-society comments about how "science" is taking over all good and creativity and how "technology" is bulldozing nature out of existence. Well, I suppose it's as good a cause to rebel against as any, but does anyone else see parallels to the classic teenage rebellion most of us went through a few short years back. Of course, back then everyone discovers that their lives have largely been shaped and controlled by their parents and in order to grow into an "individual" they have to behave in drastic and illogical ways. Now, we realize that, in fact, it was "society" that was controlling and shaping our beliefs on a bigger scale and now we turn against something or anything in society so we don't feel like we're just all fresh out of society's conforming cookie cutter punching out brainwashed consumers. And hey, maybe it's just another selfish need for individuality.

What Drew Drew

 

More Hinky Pinkies!

(This one's actually a Hink Pink)

Flying into a rage whilst cleaning yourself