A poster created for an upcoming production of "The Moors". I hope I've captured the play's absurdist dark comedy. Theatre Inconnu, Victoria BC, Canada #yyjarts
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A poster created for an upcoming production of "The Moors". I hope I've captured the play's absurdist dark comedy. Theatre Inconnu, Victoria BC, Canada #yyjarts
I am an artist who has worked three dimensionally and I can assure you it must be a challenge to arrange delicate wispy fibres into a structurally sound form resistant to the elements.
He has mentioned in the past he alone crafts his dome; no stylist he trusts has the gift to sculpt it.
A big problem is yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese and dozens of other common foods packaged in those virtually unrecyclable plastics. Rare to see these in 1s or 2s.
Fourth anniversary of the unsolved homicide death of Victoria artist Jeremy Gordaneer. #justiceforjeremy
Just stop making packaging out of plastics 3, 6, and 7. If they have to make single-use materials, make it out of 1, 2, and 4 because that's easier to recycle. The others usually end up in the incinerator.
Simultaneously pissing off the Quebecois, the rednecks and the BC hippies is a singular achievement.
For example, read this minor incident involving a plane running out of gas in Quebec. Nobody was injured and the plane landed safely. But extensive investigations are underway to ensure it never happens again. www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/enquetes...
Will we ever know the circumstances surrounding this crash or will it remain a mystery as most car crashes are? Even minor aircraft incidents are thoroughly investigated and recommendations made. Car crashes are generally limited to who's financially liable.
Charles wearing his Canadian military decorations at the height of Trump's 51st state rhetoric was as powerful a message as he could deliver under the circumstances. It was noticed and appreciated.
“A downstate Illinois boy loves the Steak ’n Shake as a Puerto Rican loves rice and beans, an Egyptian loves falafel, a Brit loves banger and mash, an Indian loves tikki ki chaat, a Swede loves herring, a Finn loves reindeer jerky, and a Canadian loves bran muffins.” -Roger Ebert
Ryoichi Nakagawa (1913–1998) was a Japanese fighter plane engine designer at Nakajima Industries during the Second World War. After the war Nakajima was broken up into Subaru and Prince Motors where Nakagawa helped develop the Prince Skyline, which is now the Infiniti G-series.
The McCartneys had Irish ancestry. Paul's brother was Peter Michael (known as Mike) and their father was also James (known as Jim). So the son had the father's name formally, but not around the house.
I have a feeling it's an English tradition eg: James Paul McCartney.
I like watching seniors swiping on a phone. They really get their shoulder into it like they're starting a lawnmower.
I suppose if the line that supplied the data also carried enough power to activate the device independently of the house's electrical connection would be a bonus but the technology to do that is likely a century away.
One of the highlights of Canadian singing comedian/impressionist Andre-Philippe Gagnon's 1980s act was recreating this video in all its high-stepping glory live on stage.
I'll work on that after I'm done with my new invention for when your phone is lost or dead. A free printed paper book with the numbers of every person and business in the city. It would be paid for by the ads placed by respected prominent businesses--no spam, bots, SEO boosting or fake ads.
Most competitors seem to be in the frozen aisle, which means you have to plan several hours ahead to thaw it out.
I was hoping for a juicy Yves cheeseburger but thanks for the suggestion of broth.
Yves wasn't the most dynamic brand but it was reliable and everything you could want was found in one place. You never had to go on a scavenger hunt in the freezer aisle or attempt to evaluate unfamiliar brands that only made a couple of products.
The parent company is struggling and corporate investors want a quick financial turnaround so they're shedding their "low-margin SKUs". So why not just sell it off since Yves doesn't conflict with anything in their existing portfolio? Yves is a unique company with a broad range of products.
My great-grandfather was plumber sent to Vimy Ridge. When the drinking water pipe he was ordered to install reached the front line he said it produced barely more than a piss trickle. Those were the only words he ever spoke about his army years.
Already people are saying this is the "nice parkade".
If the music was satiric it might pass, but just using the mark to represent a normal band infringes the copyright. Remember, these laws also protect small companies from having their work stolen by large corporations.
Oh man. Imagine escaping your 32 degree apartment only to find the library is 33.
Here in Saanich our public library is listed as an official public cooling off destination in case of extreme heat.
Correction: not "...a northbound Honda Civic lost control and struck them". Instead: "...the driver of a northbound Honda Civic lost control and struck them.
There's a recent clip of Mick and Keith backstage jamming some old blues riffs and I thought that a lot of "classic" bands would do well by shedding what's expected of them and just getting back to what inspired them in the first place, even if it doesn't resemble their last album.
If McCartney puts out an album five years from now he can say he's written and recorded music in nine consecutive decades.
This was made clear to us even when I sat on non-governmental boards, like the board of directors at an arts organization. Any conversation with a majority of members constitutes a meeting, so never do it.
1963 Ottawa restaurant review: #ottawa
Here on Vancouver Island he's known as Diana Krall's husband.
Victoria has dabbled in municipal party politics on an off for decades which has worked OK but if the councillors are whipped, or forced to vote a certain way it's a cancer. They may be free to vote but party apparatchiks may decide the dissenter isn't a team player and won't get future support.
I remember Rob Woodland, Victoria's former director of legislative services and I can't comprehend him signing off on such a scheme. I wish to believe there are still people with integrity.
It's crazy--they're having a full-on, off-the-books council meeting. How did staff get roped in to that?
Wow, all these decades I thought it was a Bangles original. I do like the Rew version.
As for the frightened man in his underwear, I assume he was changing out of his work clothes so he got the fright of his life literally with his pants down. I wish I had it on camera but who could anticipate such a thing?
The rear truck had his passenger window open so no glass was broken but the heavy steel pipes could have easily hit the head of the driver had he not stopped. This probably should have been reported to Worksafe.
Anyone see the string of Starlink satellites over Victoria last night?
Can't afford summer in Paris so we settled on a late dinner on Oak Bay Avenue. #yyj
800 block Fort just now a roofing truck was pulling out onto the street and didn't notice the work truck in front had steel pipes strapped to the roof and the pipes noisily went into the PJ truck cab which scared a guy in front who was in the middle of changing his pants. #yyj #yyjtraffic
We are following it here in Canada although we find it Cheezie.
I got the Agnew shirt because it was tax free.
A local politician once told me of a man that lost his wife and kids in a car wreck. He fell apart and lived on the street for a spell. I think about that a lot when people talk of cleaning up vagrants.
I can't fathom it
The sheer audacity: let's turn Blanshard into a highway and bulldoze everything in its path. OK, let's do it.
That's why I like that Big O Tire is still there on Quadra. If they relocate to Keating and replace it with another gym I'm taking a long walk in the woods.
Love the location for a cafe but it reminds me there's more to an active urban ground floor than endless coffee shops and fitness gyms.
My father and his father attended Vic High.
Hilariously tragic that whenever we learn about a vast pay discrepancy within a corporation it's always a female-dominated job. Like the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders getting minimum wage and no health benefits.
And since a crashed plane is, I believe, not in motion does that mean the flight crew is not being paid as they drag your flaming carcass out?
Supposedly, if they started the clock while the plane was on the ground they'd have to pay local payroll taxes. Airlines claim flight crews are adequately compensated but I'm skeptical it truly makes up for it, especially when there is a lengthy delay.
Marlon Brando, Portrayed Gangster in Matthew Broderick film The Freshman Dies Age 80
He was 103!
Representational drawing can be a small part of the fine artist's skillset. It could be vital, it could be irrelevant. A piece of fine art can be sitting on a stage while audience members cut away your clothing with scissors.
Interestingly, Joe Caroff died today. He had a successful career as one of the top mid-century movie poster designers (West Side Story, Cabaret, 007 pistol logo) done for hire and after retirement created a body of personal fine art work.
YYZ --> ICT
It's like saying to be a great singer you need perfect pitch and a three octave range, ignoring Joe Strummer, Leonard Cohen et al.
I mean, being a life drawing expert is a good skill to have as it helps you to interpret, sort, and translate the three dimensional world onto a two dimensional plane. But it's not a mandatory skill. I know a lot of people who are life drawing experts but lousy artists (and vice versa).
Someone must be living in a box to cling to the blinkered, outdated idea that being a good artist means being a human Xerox machine.
As someone who lived through the entire Reagan presidency it's mind-boggling to see Trump fawning over Putin.
RIP Duncan, BC resident and ichthyologist Bill Beamish who died age 89. Beamish was one of the world's leading experts in the lamprey, a species of jawless fish that dates back some 360 million years.
Like that list that was circulating here recently; the things you needed to know to get hired at Vogue in the '90s. Some ancients but also Evan Dando, Larry Gagosian and Dorothy Parker. I'd much rather have a conversation with Vogue person than Peloponnesian Wars person.
This is the age-old art vs. illustration debate updated for these times. While there can be a great deal of overlap it's important to recognize the difference.
I have been to this meeting.
Looking at that catalogue I realize it's basically Amazon printed out minus the counterfeit scam crap.
I understand in the 1960s a German naval ensign was run up the Legislative flagpole by some mischievous Royal Roads students. Never underestimate the ingenuity of highly-motivated young people.
Ah yes, good idea. archive.org/details/eato...
Yes, the collapse of Capitol Iron and Eatons/Sears/The Bay has made it hard to find just regular household stuff for Downtowners.
Sen Sōshitsu XV has died aged 102. He was the 15th-generation Grand Master of the art of the Japanese tea ceremony. 🍵 #obits #tea
I really enjoyed Weimar and the museums devoted to Goethe and the Bauhaus.
Loved the museums and culture of Munich but the Dachau camp just outside the city was a sobering visit.
Times Colonist 3 Oct 2023: "A house in Oak Bay recently sold after 14 years on the market when it was repriced at $7.5 million after being listed as high as $13.5 million..."
Thanks for opening this song back up for fresh ears.
A lot of people around here were watching Steve Nash long before his NBA rookie year.
This sounds exactly like an SNL skit.
Like life insurance salesmen combing the wedding announcements.
A masterpiece of graphic design. That it's literally carved in stone is even more remarkable. Backstory in a nutshell; 1990 poll riots and the court's dental expert's testimony suggests the cop bit himself to frame Mitchell.
Some of the very early strips could be sharp, even cruel. But as the decades went on and the strip became Schulz and Schulz became the strip, well...
You'd never see this in Hi & Lois or Blondie. Only Peanuts creates a space that could allow this.
@timescolonist.bsky.social Why was there no follow-up on this story? I need to know what happened.
Monkey shenanigans have decreased 89.4%.
First, the last thing you want to do to a monkey that's been on a train from Texas for three days is strap metal wheels to his feet and set him in front of shrieking children. Maybe the children were torn limb from limb and the newspapers buried the story. That's the most logical outcome. 🦵 🦴🦶 🐵🩸🦵🚑
I combed the archives and couldn't find a follow-up to this. No further mention of Rombo or Miss Gauthier in the papers. Yes, I have questions...
Exactly 90 years ago in Victoria: This sounds like a terrible, terrible idea. #yyj
This is why I'm saying conservatives can't even conservative any more. The right wing used to be screw unions and government meddling; let the market sort everything out. Now in opposition they're carrying the union banner calling for billions in subsidies to prop up a disinterested industry.
Art imitates life: kenlumart.com/signage/
Road curved; truck kept going straight.
Nobody sent to hospital according to CHEK. Driver couldn't make the curve on the slick road.
Cycling to work this morning on Mt. Doug X road I heard a giant crunch and saw a huge dust cloud--a tractor trailer on a slick curve crashed into Galey Farms on Blenkinsop. #saanich
People expecting their Uber driver to be William Strunk?
Highly unlikely as the cycle path goes through property owned by the Borden family. Getting them to OK a giant overpass that inhibits their plans to redevelop the property would be tough.
I've been riding through there every day for 15 years. I can't think of an easy fix. It looks like the driver blew the red light, either accidentally or intentionally. Google Borden Quadra Rail Crossing to see when it was a train crossing.
It's like Covid. A problem unique and unexpected came up. Scientists came up with a solution to fix it. Then afterward dumb people rewrote the narrative to say the whole thing was a hoax/over-rated/scam.
From the beginning churches would blame any residential school problems on limited government funding while the government would say they only provide the funding, the churches were responsible for conditions. And so it went.
His desiccated husk is wedged behind the hot water tank in the furnace room.
My first act as Premier will be to change the name from Point Roberts to Pernell Roberts.
Used to be illegally overstaying in the US was a source of American power and prestige, ie: Baryshnikov, Federov, Navratilova, Milos Forman et al.
