Notes from a bemused canuck
The tree is up. It is beautiful. It looks like John Lewis barfed on it :-) This is probably the last time we will get to see it in its full glory because, between the child and the cats, there’s no way it’s going to survive more than 24 hours.
Edit: See? This is why we can’t have nice things…
Marinated some chicken in lime juice, ginger, coriander, onion powder, sambal oelek, salt, pepper, turmeric, paprika, olive oil and Greek yogurt. Oven baked for 30 minutes. Served on Lebanese pita with homemade tzaziki, pickled carrots, mixed salad, onions and Dijon salad dressing.
I’ve started hacking in python and, for a long time java developer as myself, a lot of the language constructs are… odd. I’ve been trying to get my hear around inheritance and constructor calls all afternoon. I finally made some headway and was thinking of how I was going to make it all work tomorrow. Then I realised that tomorrow was Saturday, and I was sad for a moment.
I know I’m behind the times with this, but I just came across it and it rocks :)
Scissors cut paper
Paper covers rock
Rock crushes lizard
Lizard poisons Spock
Spock smashes scissors
Scissors decapitate lizard
Lizard eats paper
Paper disproves Spock
Spock vaporizes rock
Rock crushes scissors
The truth is, effective multitasking is an oxymoron. Research has shown that your brain can only process one activity at a time.
I have collated all of my recipes into a single file:
After having spent two decades in the non-figurative style, Pauline Gagnon has adopted the portrait as the major genre of her work. Her larger than life portraits include oriental and calligraphic signs.
Pauline Gagnon’s process is very specific. She first takes hundreds of pictures of her models, then goes on to work on her approach, her angle and structure. The artist explains: “I do not paint from the model in a classical way, but I take a series of picture of him/her, one hundred, two hundred, which I reframe on the computer, I print a few copies that I enlarge to a square. A centimeter square of the photographs becomes ten centimeters square of the canvas. With this grid traced on the canvas as a guide, I paint with large strokes the face or the silhouette and then freed from the constraint of representation, I paint in between the lines”.
To paint the body, the face of another, brings beyond the apparent simplicity of the action, a number of questions. What kind of relationship is established between the painter and her model? What links them to one another? What is the place of Desire? Seduction? Why has the body been an unavoidable theme in the arts since the beginning of its time? Why is it still such a fascinating theme whichever medium is chosen today? If the relationship between the model and the artist faces us with many questions, the relation with the observer is by the same token also to be defined.
The day is only 4 hours old and it promises to be a beauty. In the latest installment of kick-Richard-in-the-balls, I left the house at 8:50 and I’ll be lucky to make it to the office before 10:10. This should normally take me at most 30 minutes. Woke up in a funk, that hearing the child whine about the fact I never buy him anything when I come back from work didn’t do anything to help. Not in my happy place at the moment.
