tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98467852024-03-07T18:38:17.009-05:00#BingoRageStudioThe website for #Ahnishnahbeh / Ojibway artist, Eric C. Keast
and the creations of his #BingoRageStudio #painting #sculpture
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.comBlogger775125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-45216714317930067112020-02-21T15:19:00.000-05:002020-02-21T15:19:04.120-05:00Another Modest Suggestion re: #globalwarming #sealevelrise <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>See, also, my</b><i><b> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sentinelsofthenorthwestpassage/" target="_blank">IG posts re: #SentinelsOfTheNorthWestPassage </a>: </b></i><b>A painting, </b><br />
<b>and previous BingoRage</b><i><b> <a href="https://bingorage.blogspot.com/2017/01/sentinels-of-northwest-passage.html" target="_blank">blogpost proposing the "Sentinels" idea as a #Canada150 project</a>. </b></i><br />
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We are all worried about #climatechange, #globalwarming, #polarmelting, etc.... or, should be.<br />
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Unless you're not. You may be oblivious and really don't give a shit. you may be powerful, and think the problem can be managed... handled. You may be wealthy, and think #Greenland will have great #oceanfrontproperty. *<br />
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* Personal #filmtheory : #WestWorld is set in post-warming polar regions. Unless they lied, and it is in space. Then it's probably a #Halo thingie.<br />
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#Terraforming has a bad reputation, because ... well... we don't know what will happen if you fill the atmosphere with synthetic crud and turn the limestone quarries inside out, into the oceans. Needless to say; these "solutions": may be beyong our current capabilities, and just further excuses to pad corporate coffers with "technological solutions" that end up being low-tech embarassments like #oildispersants in the #gulfofmexico. Poison, to hide #poison.<br />
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The current #hubris behind that kind of self-delusion, is that we can fix, or reverse what we have done. that does not look possible. international accords are fighting an uphill battle, just to stop the accelaration of CO2 dumping. Nevermind, reduce, or eliminate. #PolarMelting is occurring, and will continue. <br />
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So. Here is a big, crazy idea for today; a form of terraforming that may be more within human logistical scale:<br />
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<b><i> Instead of trying to change the weather and global climate, with "more stuff", we can reduce the ocean levels, a little bit, slowly, and use that effort to generate power, new coastline and fishing grounds. It may give us a few millimetres (?) of ocean drop. Hopefully decades, not centuries, of protection against unchecked melting.</i></b><br />
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No problem. The #icecaps are melting, just bail out the oceans. :) <br />
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Let me preface the "How?", by saying that there are obvious problems and unknown consequences of this idea, ( lol ) a few of which i will enumerate, afterwards. But, of course, I start with where?<br />
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The #DanakilDepression for starters. That should set sane people laughing. :) ... and anywhere else that we can find that is dry and under sea level. Those were the two that came to mind.<br />
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1) How would you fill the lowest places on Earth, with Ocean water ?<br />
2) What sort of results would you expect; on oceans, land, people and climate?<br />
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1) I think it was the physicist #EdwardTeller, who thought that we could carve the planet to our liking, with atomic bomb construction tools, and advocated for their use in making harbors and such. :0<br />
I was thinking #internationalmegaprojects.<br />
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The Danakil Depresssion will become a Sea one day, as will the #RiftValley of Africa, as #tectonicplates separate there, and the land drops away. Currently, it is one of the most inhospitable, hottest places on Earth. hotter, on average than #DeathValley, which has hotter spikes (? no citation). My geography sucks, but it is basically bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopa, and some Gulf States, separated from the Red Sea by some low mountains.<br />
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Why would anyone want part of their small land base flooded? In a region of political turmoil and instability?<br />
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<u>#TheIdealGood</u> <br />
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- New coastline and interior waterway:<br />
- This could provide new, shallow fishing grounds, with<br />
- desalinisation/salt plant infrastructure opportunities,<br />
- plenty of new coastline for people to build on, in hard rock deserts that are currently very hard to live in.<br />
- Water, and possibly rain, in areas that are very dry, currently. Adding continuous water input into areas that currently dead end in below sea-level salt pans may not be a great idea. see the #SaltonSea. However, forming new bodies of water that circulate with the existing seas and oceans can distribute the salt load more equitably.<br />
- Power generation: "Below sea level" means that there is an altitude gradient that can be harnessed by #hydroelectric #powergeneration. Using the same #tunnelboringmachine technology that digs our subways, highway and railway #tunnels, we could create 100+ miles-long turbine-spinning water pipes. After the sea levels start to equalise, power may still be generated by circulation, if a second tunnel, or canal is built to the Ocean, and by local evaporation ala the Mediterranean currents.<br />
- Invigorated trade and agriculture, along a new inland sea, hopefully. The world would have to build state of the art sewage and water infrastructure as well, not just #shantydevelopment.<br />
- An injection of water, food and trade, in areas currently challenged by geology, scarcity and heat. <br />
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The Obvious Bad and some unknowns:<br />
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- power struggles over new waters and coastline.<br />
- Whom gets flooded, how are they compensated, etc?<br />
- What gets flooded:<br />
- Some of the oldest known deposits of early<br />
#humanancestors , the #australopithecines and other<br />
#archaeological #paleontological #cultural remains.<br />
- Unique and rare #flora, #fauna and #geological<br />
places.<br />
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- "Unique and rare geological places" includes volcanically active #hotsprings #geysers and #volcanoes. (A #lavalake ? citation!)<br />
- Who pays for the drilling? the power generators? the new cities, with adequate or better infrastructure?<br />
- Unknown ecological effects??<br />
-What happens when you flood a large volcano, essentially? Will<br />
the current volcanic features form productive, shallow hot vents,<br />
or blow up?<br />
- Some island-building,<br />
- radical erosion,<br />
-poisonous water zones that need to find new equilibriums (ala<br />
ocean-bottom brine/methane lakes) that could become very<br />
productive underwater,<br />
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- and a long-lasting injection of #watervapour #watervapor into the immediate region, areas downwind and the entire #atmosphere.<br />
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- Local rain in current deserts?<br />
- Modified monsoons, greater hopefully?<br />
- More water vapour to circulate to the poles, made<br />
available to fall as snow and accumulate as ice, again.?<br />
- Or catastrophic flooding in unforseen places? Drying in<br />
others?<br />
- Warm water takes up more room. Does connecting some of the dryest, hottest, lowest places on Earth with the current ocean system <br />
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As they say, in the Biz: #amodestsuggestion<br />
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However, now; imagine a #MiddleEast, where #Palestine, #Israel #Syria and #Jordan share a new #inlandsea, that is no longer dead. At least two big canals/tunnels/combo circulating the water in, gradually, sealing the #brine and drawing power from the growing #oasis. <i><b>#DeadSea</b></i><br />
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<br /> Revitalise the Salton Sea. too? It is below sea level and the North end is in the #USA, the South end, is in #Mexico. It is the sort of mega project that could bring two countries together.<br />
- invigorate a Stagnant ecological and economic zone, that has suffered the loss of water from the #ColumbiaRiver, but<br />
- is already in a prehistoric estuary/alkali/brine setting, that will not suffer from becoming part of the ocean. It may benefit greatly from circulation, rather than deadend accumulation of brine and runoff.<br />
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There are other, large basins in #China and #Kazahkstan. Also, hot, dry regions where scarcity feeds conflict and tensions.<br />
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What else am I missing? Any more pros and cons to add, below? Tweet, to the right. <br />
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:) Cheers<br />
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:Eric #BingoRageStudio Feb20-21, 2020Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-41703060445951796842020-02-20T13:05:00.000-05:002020-02-20T13:05:00.978-05:00Hey Internet.<br />
Hi, #BingoRagers.<br />
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To say that I haven't posted here, in a while, would be an under statement.<br />
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Mostly; I have been posting on Instagram: documenting my studio work on a near-daily basis and cross-posting to facemonster and Twits. :)<br />
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I have been told that I actually abuse short-form social media, with too much stuff, sometimes. lol<br />
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If I want to muse and wander, in text, then I am going to have to revitalise this blog.<br />
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Are you out there? Did I just ping, long burnt out RSS alerts and feeds around the world? :)<br />
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#BingoRageStudio Blog ... back on the air.<br />
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Instagram @eric_keast<br />
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<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-13671170846562049052018-06-11T16:10:00.002-04:002018-06-11T16:10:32.325-04:00Hey BingoRagers;<br />
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I haven't posted in a long time. Needless to say, it was a long Winter, filled with illness and bouts of darkness. Thankfully, Spring has finally arrived and everyone seems buoyed by it, myself included.<br />
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I have been housebound for ridiculous reasons, far too often in this fine weather, waiting for appointments and technicians, treatments and t-shirts, paint and money.<br />
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I find myself bewildered by the times and environs of my life; surrounded by a present made foreign by the onrush of a future, eroding certainties and the solid ground of my assumptions about people and culture. The "right wing" has spent decades degrading public educations, ostensibly to save money, but really to punish teachers for talking about evolution, sex and the big bang. Trumpism and the #BlackMirror immediacy of a household generational gap, is only the tip of my psychological iceberg.<br />
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I have spoken with one of my housemates, trying to explain how I was seeing the English language shift under my feet, incorporating informational packets that are unavailable to me, referencing popular memes (in both the Dawkins sense of the word and its current "pop" meaning) and private micromedia. I tried to explain how it looked like the "next mass media" that Marshall McLuhan invoked, as the parabolic rise of television heralded its own demise, was the internet, sprawling into our pockets, tv's, references, allusions and metaphor. I may have lost him at some point, around Terence McKenna's theory that language is the result of self organising information in the environment, in the very physics of matter, invading and colonising the human mind, like a symbiotic memeplex. But he's patient.<br />
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Oh, Canada... What... are we going to do with you? I, and the world, often look to you, to buck the madness of the Behemoth to the South, but we inevitably get dragged along with their political currents. Do you really think that it's a great idea to give everything to the corporations and the wealthy, make people stupid and sick as labour jobs disappear? Forget it. Wake up. The capitalist carrot of "your share" of the big pie available to everyone, fairly, is being withdrawn. Trickle-down economics was a bad joke when it was coined, and just gets more dirty, every time it's invoked.<br />
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When I was a child, I made jokes about "cooks" being replaced by burger-flipping robots. Ten years ago, I made jokes about a Malaysian outfit subcontracting people in Mexico to take your order in Mississipi. Soon, the Mexican company might hire independent contractors all over the world through Mechanical Turk, to squeeze the last drops of available human skill before AI takes, makes and delivers your... whatever.<br />
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Ontario; do you really want to push Canada towards a long struggle of the masses? Why can't we make this country equitable and prosperous? It is not true, that we have amass everybody's capital and resources and give it to the incalculably rich. That's not commmunism, that's not socialism. It's not even: "radical" wealth-redistribution, class-war invocation, ideological nonsense, fake news. In fact, just about everyone is trapped in their ideological concrete; their inner monologue, unacknowledged and darting ahead of critical appraisal.<br />
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Conservatives: Basic facts and demonstrable principles of physics, time and biology are not an attack upon faith, just observeable reality. Intentional sabotage of the educational system, suppression of protest, hoarding resources, legislated distribution of middle-eastern deathcult mythology and iron-age moralities is no way to deal with the future, as it is actually happening.<br />
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I don't know what to do with the world. I can barely handle food, shelter and paint... and bus fares.<br />
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Later.<br />
:EricHoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-68038689761944822412017-03-03T03:20:00.001-05:002017-03-09T21:38:52.561-05:00Sunrise Sentinel ThunderbirdFollow the evolving project page, share and leave comments at this post: "<a href="http://bingorage.blogspot.ca/2017/01/sentinels-of-northwest-passage.html" target="_blank">Sentinels Of The NorthWestPassage</a>." A #Canada150 project.<br />
Thanks. :Eric<br />
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My proposal calls for several #sculpture installations, eventually. I would like to start with "<u>Sunrise Sentinel Thunderbird</u>".<br />
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This sketch is a first draft of a simplified #Thunderbird #pictograph 3D representation, to be fabricated from a model utilising<br />
1-foot diameter cardboard tubes and wax, cast in #bronze, fitted with indestructible red and white navigation-grade lighting and placed on a polished stainless steel cylinder base. With free power and a location of my choosing. :)<br />
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The piece in the sketch is a little skeletal, because it only represents the cardboard bones of possibility. Wax can be added to the paper and #papiermache model, built up and sculpted to detail the texture of the final metal surface. At a distance, such detail will be lost, but it is meant to be seen up close, as well as from afar.<br />
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The "tubes" of the design were penciled in centimetre increments. When designing the sculpture model, I was thinking in terms of imperial feet, imagining cardboard tubes in my studio of one foot diameter. It could easily scale up to a meter or more tube diameter, for some North Korea - level of monumental art (using steel pipe, not in the current budget).<br />
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The model was drawn flat, but the tube elements will be shifted out of the ideal flat plane in the studio, when the physical structure is put together (sketches to follow.)<br />
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Some of the quick numbers that I pulled from this sketch:<br />
- 16' base + 12'H x 24'W sculpture<br />
- Having the base of the sculpture 10m+ from current sea level puts red heart/beacon about 55' above sea level.<br />
- #Tbird head is 9' long.<br />
- The wingspan in the sketch is about 24', the "shoulders" are 11' wide, wing feathers are 3' and tail elements are 4'.<br />
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Edit (March 9): After thinking about my sketch; at the the 1-foot unit scale, casting #bronze this big (12'x24') would be prohibitive, but welded 1' pipe with cast bronze accents would be doable (in the price range that I am starting to formulate). </div>
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Looking at the sketch in the 6-inch unit scale, the Thunderbird figure would only be 6'x12', much more casting-friendly. To be appreciated up close. The 6' figure would not translate far out to sea, but its heartlight will still function as a beacon. Set atop a large enough polished stainless base, the sculpture will have a cool "knife of fire" effect, at sunrise on the NorthWestPassage. Of course, if someone drops $150 million in my lap, there's always the Colossus-of-Rhodes scale 2m welded pipe option. :) </div>
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This sketch will also be used to start estimates of materials cost for modeling and metal fabrication; adjusting for size variation of final materials.<br />
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Project and studio donations can be sent to <a href="http://www.paypal.me/bingorage">www.paypal.me/bingorage</a><br />
Some pieces for sale from #BingoRageStudio, linked-to at the top of the page.<br />
Thanks.<br />
:EricHoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-49219726169179371582017-02-23T13:59:00.000-05:002017-03-09T22:32:46.972-05:00Why Am I Doing #Canada150, and what is one of my best ideas, ever?<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u><b>Why Am I Doing
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Thank you for
taking a moment to check out my big idea for 2017, Our country’s
#Canada150 year. I call it <a href="http://bingorage.blogspot.ca/2017/01/sentinels-of-northwest-passage.html" target="_blank">“Sentinels of the NorthWest Passage”. </a></div>
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The working
design for the first piece is a cast bronze #Thunderbird (approx. 8
foot x 10 foot) with a flashing red navigation beacon light in the
#heart position, atop a reflective, polished stainless steel pillar
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The
second piece to be done in collaboration with a local/regional
Indigenous artist/community. My current plan for the second piece is to consult with representatives of that community and identify an artist to work with.</div>
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My initial thought
for the second piece is a Snowy Owl. I always liked the Inuit imagery
that were available to me, as a child. They are part of my awakening
to #art. [Thank you Grandma Edith and Grandpa Charlie and the
DEWLINE.] It is a great juxtaposition with my great #Bird from
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My process for choosing locations, considered as seen from Google Earth view:</div>
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a) Bare rock</div>
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b) isolation. Room for local growth (dock, hotel, gift shops...)</div>
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c) roughly located at navigationally significant “gate points” for major transit entrances/exits of the #NWP</div>
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d) available level ground at least 10 metres above current sea-level. <br />
Work towards saving the ice, plan for the worst; Should these pieces be placed to stay above expected sea level rise?</div>
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Please contact me if you are in
the Far North. Do you like this idea? This is my decolonial gesture;
my begging permission to impose upon the land. With my work. I offer
it as a vision of our #Indigenous vow to protect and advocate for
“the land” even if we are stuck in the inertia of “The
Greater-Society”. In this case, I advocate for the Greater Society,
as well as for the #Indigenous. We have mutual interests and long
history.</div>
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The desire to
travel the region, for pleasure and business is going to continue,
grow. The infrastructure of
Indigenous communities, often the only public
infrastructure in these areas, are incapable of meeting the needs of
the people there, now, never mind the impending trickle,
then perhaps flood of tourists, oil explorers, diamond miners, etc. Rather than building new towns
for tourists to visit and get their BrandX Coffee and fast foods,
under the Aurorae, finally finish the infrastructure of reservations
and Inuit villages to the expectations of Southern suburbs, so that
they have the infrastructure to host you and your RV/Cruiseship, plus
have eggs and espresso available.</div>
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That is my
big idea for #Canada150. I have a nonstatic post, <a href="http://bingorage.blogspot.ca/2017/01/sentinels-of-northwest-passage.html" target="_blank">below</a>, which is an
evovolving description, budget, timeline documentationing the
#SOTNWP project. Now, I would like to tell you about one of the best
ideas I ever had. :)</div>
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A few years
back, there was a certain piece of land that was being leased by a
NorthWestern Ontario town, from the province, or country, or local
#FirstNations. Doesn’t matter. Point is; the lease was up and it
was supposed to revert back to the local First Nations communities. I
do not know if the “ownership” of the property has been resolved,
yet, but it was in a state of mutual inertias, when I left.
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The property
seemed to exist in an uncomfortable legal grey area. The public infrastructure dwindled or was removed, before stewardship was supposed to be
repatriated. The garbage was still picked-up and the roads plowed;
campground and beach on life support. Jobs, inertia.
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This grey area,
however, looked like a potential “new Hong Kong” that I had heard
about in a TED talk, or something like that. “Experimental economic
zones” outside of local national laws, like the new economic zones
of China. The property is/was quite explicitly between Canada and the United
States; outside of provincial(?) Township or Indigenous
ownership. </div>
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So. My best
idea, ever, started out as the notion of having the federal
government declare the property A “Legal-Weed Zone”, (Edit: There's probably a better term for that.) including recreational, lodging, R&D and medicinal facilities, whose
stewardship and profits were to be shared by regional First Nations
and local townships as their neighbours prosper.<br />
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My vision was tainted, under the omnipresent pall of #StephenHarper,
also included the threat of circling law enforcement agencies funded
by civil asset forfeiture, but that is not the point, here, either.</div>
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My best ,
evolved version of the idea was even simpler. In the face of a few
trends/reasons:
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a) Under growing
economic demand, cultural demand, medical demand and legal reforms... Cannabis legalisations and decriminalisations are occurring all over
the world, as well as in Canada (supposedly).</div>
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b) The belated,
enduring need to fund First Nations and Inuit infrastructure is
coinciding with...</div>
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c) Canada’s need
to develop rural/Northern #Canada. First
Nations and local townships are necessarily linked, economically.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Give
control of the emerging economic resource, <i>Cannabis</i>, over to First
Nations. Entirely.</b></span></div>
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In short: If you
want to produce Cannabis for medicinal or recreational use, you have
to rent facilities on Native land, hire locals, be a good corporate
partner, etc., or license local commercial grow/distribution rights
from the “Regional Indigenous Cannabis Council Of Elders”, or
whatever.</div>
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Edit (March 9): See also, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/heres-what-indigenous-nationhood-could-look-like-in-canada-in-the-year-2167" target="_blank">#Canada2167</a>.<br />
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If you’re a
“real conservative”, then you want to give less taxes to
government and perhaps want government out of the “Weed business”,
for tax and morality reasons, maybe. You are living off trees, gold,
wheat, fish and oil. There is a new, impending resource sector that
is willing to fund what you don’t want to, give it to the
#Indigenous peoples; we will get our hands dirty and we will spread it around, better. (I go into greater speculative detail, in this <a href="http://bingorage.blogspot.ca/2013/09/the-once-and-current-canvas-and.html" target="_blank">prev.post</a>.)</div>
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Anyways. Nobody
responded back then, and time is getting short in #Canada. There are some major
legislatory and corporate gears grinding away, in anticipation for some announcement on #CannabisCanada this year. Give us the Weed, Justin.</div>
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Regardless, I would still like a few hundred thousand
dollars for myself and an Inuit artist partner (to be discovered and
named later) to design and create the first two monumental
sculptures, so that we can fundraise and beg for icebreaker ships,
solar power nav-beacon rigs and concrete to fall softly from the
heavens or NGO-space, or the federal government, for two installations, 3 years out. I would consider the
creation and installation of both pieces in that time period,
reasonable.<br />
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<b> Thanks.</b></div>
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Sincerely,</div>
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Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-27164671158522272452017-01-21T22:27:00.000-05:002017-02-28T20:48:26.681-05:00"Sentinels Of The NorthWest Passage" - A #canada150 project.<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(This page was updated, corrected, shuffled February 13, 2017 - 1930'ish PM EST)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Please use this page's "url", to link from
social media, etc.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://bingorage.blogspot.ca/2017/01/sentinels-of-northwest-passage.html">http://bingorage.blogspot.ca/2017/01/sentinels-of-northwest-passage.html</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Please
comment below and help me with this conversation. I am particularly
interested in hearing from other #CanadianArtists, #IndigenousArtists, about
contributing ideas, criticism and feedback; perhaps other installations, under the #SOTNWP umbrella.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Honestly... </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I had not heard about #Canada150, until late last year, but I've had
an idea in mind, for a long time, that I believe will resonate strongly with fundamental, current streams of Canadian consciousness, in relationship to "The North". Things such as:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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"Northern Sovereignty"</li>
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Global climate change</li>
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"Reconciliation"</li>
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Canada's immediate and future need to exploit the landbase and its
historic Treaty obligations, commitments, debts(?).</li>
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Indigenous contribution to "Canadian content" and
#CanadianCulture</li>
<li>-"Identity/Indigenous Identity/Canadian
Identity"</li>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> I will go into further detail, below. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am posting this as a working draft page, to flesh out the idea. Please forward this link and return to see what's new.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Thanks,</span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">:Eric</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><u>“</u><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><b>Sentinels
of the NorthWest Passage”</b></u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"> ... is
an idea/project to create and install monumental #CanadianIndigenous
sculpture at both ends of the NorthWest Passage, to welcome and
remind passersby, that they are entering <b>Canadian and Indigenous
territory</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"> In my imagination, the pieces will reflect the rising and setting suns and be lit at night,
functioning as a visual navigation marker. Eventually, such
installations could be installed all along the #NWP , all over the Northern Archipelago. <i>#SovereigntyMarkers</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"> In
light of the challenges of climate change, Canadian, Inuit and First
Nations territorial waters are going to be increasingly traversed by
foreign ships; those passing-through, some intruding and others
bringing tourism and other economic opportunities and cultural
challenges to “The North”.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"> I
may be an Indigenous artist, but I recognise that I am also a
“Southerner”, who grew up with a romantic notion of the Arctic and
its peoples. The project will seek to work with local people in
identifying appropriate locations for sculptural installation, the "story of the location" and as
recruiting ground for the authors of future installations, to grow
the size and impact of the “Sentinel” sites. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"project
description"</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> The first phase of my plan is to have 2 of my pieces installed, at both ends, within 3 years. I see the first piece having a "Visitor on a Quest, from the South" kind of feel, for the #canada150 year. A bronze #Thunderbird, blazing red heart; set on a gleaming pedestal, glowing in the first light of day.</span></span></span></span><br />
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My current plan for the second piece is to consult with local community and representative artists to develop a collaborative design</div>
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My initial thought for the second piece is a Snowy Owl. I always liked the Inuit imagery that were available to me, as a child. They are part of my awakening to #art. [Thank you Grandma Edith and Grandpa Charlie and the DEWLINE.] It is a great juxtaposition with my great #Bird from #TheSouth. :)</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> I see a prominent, barren hillside, apparently bare of plants, but studded with glinting treelike things, in the distance. As we get closer, individual sculptures resolve and invite scrutiny. This is a painted representation of a #ThunderBirdSculpture, set low in greener hills. :)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />* </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> For the third phase of #SOTNWP, I want to identify and help fund the creation of other installations by myself, local and Canadian-wide #IndigenousArtists to fill the other locations, eventually, covering the major entry/exit points of our waterway.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Have someone take over the project, eventually</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Fourth phase; individual installation sites become multi-installation sites, evolve.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /> I suggest 9 strategic locations, which could also function as visual navigational beacons and eventually tourist destinations;</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Symbolic Canadian Indigenous Sentinels, to watch and welcome.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I hope to gain local permission to create a permanent sculptural installation on their lands, from a distance, as a personal outreach for collaboration, from this Canadian; whom has always taken "the North", for granted. Much the same as most of us Southerners. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> Getting permission for a site installation and getting the first piece cast and paid-for would be a first year win. Actually getting it installed by the end of 2017 would takee some #canada150 voodoo. A reasonable goal is to have it installed by the end of a "project year" timeline, in 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> Some of the funding options that I am considering, are: art grants (of course, but months out. New CCA model looks promising.), crowdsourcing (Is this a "kickstarter-possible" project? , private/public donations, sale of existing artwork.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> There are 3 things that I am asking of whomever has had the curiosity to read, this far: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">a) Find out whose permission I need, to install a lighted, monumental sculpture at the 9 non-random points, listed in my blogpost, at the #Canadian Federal, Nunavut, and local Indigenous level. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> I'm thinking, that someone who loves this idea, in the Nunavut and/or NorthWest Territories governments... would be great to find.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">b) Find people who have large boats, crew and capability to install monumental sculpture in the remotest locations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">c) Find or remember money that needed to be spent on art; corporate/organaisation budgets often have mandated lines for art spending. There are ready to hang paintings and new sculpture in the studio, and I am working on project limited editions in 2D and 3D. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> The first thing the crowd can help me with is finding the right government eyeballs and juice to grant me a location. A location(s) , with a consideration to future possible installations on the same site as size consideration. Imagine sculpture parks alongs the #NorthWestPassage as the tourist attraction of the 22'rd century. Area, acreage... not too far from the water, a little altitude, electrical source installed and paid-for, to run the big red navigational light on my #Thunderbird. Why a T-Bird theme? It's a visitor from the South and the West, a familiar motif in my work, as well. </span></span></span><br />
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- #CanadianIndigenousArtists, partricularly #NWT/ #Nunavut #FirstNations and #Inuit, please spread the idea, if you like it, or at least warm to it.</div>
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- If you know the premieres of NWT, Nunavut, PQ... could you ask them to take a look at the map and see if any of those sites are kosher? Or have an intern do it, that kinda thing....</div>
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At the beginning of last week, I stopped in at <a href="http://www.wesleycloverparks.com/event/ottawa-equestrian-tournament-ottawa-national-horse-show-ottawa-international-horse-show/" target="_blank">Wesley Clover Equestrian Park</a>, after spotting the tent city that had sprung up. There are national-level equestrian competitions that have been going on for the last ten days, with a few more to come.<br />
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At that time, I ran into a couple guys getting ready to stain and finish a large log-style picnic table, with carvings and built-in shelter. It was awesome. :)<br />
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Thanks to the <a href="http://www.heritagelivinghomes.com/#!products/ch8j" target="_blank">Heritage Living</a> guys for telling me about it.<br />
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<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-19895009511759074572016-07-20T13:17:00.001-04:002016-07-20T13:17:51.006-04:00An open letter to the President of our Southern neighbours.Mr Obama;<br />
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It is with great trepidation that I write to you. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I know that all communications with the White House are probably scrutinised, closely. I know that all electronic communications are now recorded and screened and that by the simple act of writing to you, that I invite the malicious bureaucratic backlash of being placed on a no-fly list and having "local authorities" being notified of my "activities". This, however, is nothing compared to the risks of simply living in the war zones that you have authority over.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/531347/US-airstrikes-in-Syria-show-cruel-reality-of-child-victims" target="_blank">85 civilians in Syria</a>. "Uncounted" hundreds (thousands) in Afghanistan?<br />
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I really hoped that your administration would make change. I am certain that the world is now less safe, however, after the continuation of foreign policy, civil forfeiture, criminalisation of minorities and the poor, economic non-justice and protection of the rich, driven by corporate interests and the wealthy and the powerful, themselves. Justification of killing. Justification of creeping fascism. Justification of theft.<br />
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Efforts that require that much justification at the smallest levels, may not be justifiable, overall.<br />
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Is it too late for you to make some real changes? I understand that much of what you wished to accomplish has been stifled. The world could use some real change.<br />
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Sincerely;<br />
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:Eric C. Keast<br />
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[This comment will be published to my blog, as well, as an open letterHoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-80790920294761844762016-07-07T02:54:00.000-04:002016-07-07T02:54:43.746-04:00The Close and Desperate Stranger<br />
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How do you reconnect after 25+ years, from someone who seemed like they could have been a good friend, sharing interests and budding artistic ambition, as such young men, but only, truly, met once? After such a long time, and divergent histories, lives, loves, families and employment tracks :)<br /><br /> Usually; it is a thing like weddings, reunions, funerals and slow, distant death. But, that is a poor excuse; imposing obligation and “duty” on close strangers. <br /> People you like and don’t know.<br />
People you were supposed to love, but never got the chance.<br /><br /> So. You meet for coffee, agree on beer, instead. You talk. You amaze each other with informations and silences explained,<br />
or at least shared. <br /><br /> You talk film, you talk tv, you talk weather, you talk food, you talk death, then apologise.<br /><br /> You talk life, you talk music, you talk smoke, you talk beer, you talk letters, you talk grandpas and grandmas, you talk shop.<br /><br /> I love knowledge and would talk all night to delay tomorrow, but my friend must sleep.<br />I’m the close and desperate stranger today. Again. <br />A parent dying, far from home. <br />An emergent, satisfying, rural isolation’s eventual end, in the city.<br />
No more deer.<br /><br /> I love brothers in ways that can’t be repaid.<br /> The city is beautiful and I don’t hate it.<br /> <br />:Eric 07/07/2016<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-65611130695996455082016-06-21T01:08:00.002-04:002016-06-21T01:08:59.303-04:00#BingoRageStudio VS. #TheUnknownArtistOfGlowfair2016-<br />
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Hey there, new BingoRagers. This is the bad-language version of my #GlowFair2016. Parents can find safe version of the #publicart project video at <a href="https://youtu.be/XMpFaHN9ALQ" target="_blank">this link.</a> :) But; please stay and check out the weirdness, below.<br />
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From “behind not-quite-enemy-lines-more-like-behind quasi-symbiotic-relationship lines” at the <a href="https://twitter.com/GlowFair" target="_blank">#GlowFairFestival</a> <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b>? <i>{ERIC; get correct twitter citation.}</i>; #Ottawa, rather than the “front lines of...”, which would imply some legitimacy. The shocking truth, as it is being revealed to me, about #GlowFair2016 <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b>?<br />
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Or perhaps, the right question is not, what possible troubles and interests did I stir at GlowFair. The immediate question, is: How big a trouble did I just get myself in, with the neighbour?<br />
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I’ll type the short explanation, then fill in the rest, but maintain the right to my fresh recollection. I arrived back from GlowFair Festival; via QCH<b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b> Hospital, where I visited my Dad, for about 15 minutes (12:06?am should be on parking pass log), at about12:40 – 12:45 am.<br />
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The front door was locked at XXX CheerfulSardineLane, where I reside. I looked inside and saw light, but noone moving, the window does not permit easy viewing, but I wasn’t worried about the door being locked, although it is the first time I can recall being locked out. I rang the doorbell, the dog barked and noone answered. I thought that the voices I heard from the backyard were from our back yard. I entered our yard, by reaching over the gate arch, which is hard, but opened on 2’nd try. The noise was from two yards over, or next door. All I heard, at first were women’s voices. I entered the back door around 12:45 am.<br />
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The male neigbour arrived after 1 a.m.’ish? As I write this sentence, it say 1:53 am on my phone.<br />
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He said he was from (216? blah blah). Said he was really social, but blah blah, “two little girls”...<br />
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I had been listening to their music for half an hour or so, giving up on my archaic 32-bit former Vista <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b> box that Google <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b> refuses to make a Chrome <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b> browser for, now. Suck it you Linux <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b> box losers still trying to shake some worth out of that LomgHorn lapTop <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b>. Allegedly, I used beer and <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b> , after talking to my neighbour (other side) about his telescope, the moon and Mars<b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b> .<br />
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Anyways... after male neighbour with the smooth line of shit basically shut down a really awesome evening, warm, filled with stars, a full moon, the closest Mars in decades and Motley Crue<b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b> . WTF?<br />
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Instead of being as cool as I was feeling after the #GlowFairFestival, which was aaawesooooome. Yay (story, next.), I basically came off as a creeper next door that nobody recognised. I have been introduced to a “Txxxxy? From next door” a few times, but could not recognise her in the dark and she was either not there, or refusing to vouch for me in the sudden creepstink that smoothguy <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM) </b>was casting.<br />
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I pulled my shit inside and write this testimony, with mounting certainty about the coming break-in and appletini-waterboarding <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>(TM)</b></span>. Until then, let me tell you about Glow Fair 2016 {Eric! Research}<br />
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Okay. Right out in frontstreet. No smartassing around. No working some sorta old Ojibberish routine. Not with #MissLoontrout <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b>, The Crack-Penguins <b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM)</b> and Nanabush (public domain) breaking big... but, not quite at #GlowFair2016. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Okay. Here it is, no more e...I think that I just crashed the GlowFair Festival </span></b><b style="font-size: x-small;">(TM).</b><br />
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It went really, really well :) (after the deathmarch of the one to 5’ish holiday hours). In the cool light of evening I met with many people and was given the opportunity to discuss my art with some random folks.<br />
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I was set up, “off-Bank St.” ; not out of some standoffishness, just a sorta paracticality. I assumed that there had been a process and that, I had to miss it.<br />
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But I wished to participate in a #publicart event of this coolness magnitude. I abandoned the black foamcore painting that I had started the evening before, and dumpstered a sketch of some sort from the immediate neighbourhood and inititiated a collaboration with this unknown artist.<br />
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The sketch of a hand was made with a neon yellow ink of some sort, with some red marker. If you recognise it, please accept my sincere collaboration. :) <br />
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I’ll keep the vid short. I just dumped the pics from my phone. It was a really great day, overall. I made some new friends and I think that I impressed some folks.<br />
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I think that my setup traded traffic, for randomness and word of mouth. My new friend Liz really helped me out in the heat of the afternoon. Thanks, Liz.<br />
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As my contribution to the #OttawaGlowFairFestival, #OttawaPublicArt TM and #CanadianCulture; I crashed it in a loving way, behaved in an informative and rational manner and tried to not be a nuisance. I am a recycler and friend to small animals.<br />
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This video is a gift and a penance, but remember what happened to Caravaggio, after painting his gift and penance. :) <br />
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If I promised you a link to information about the ravishing <a href="https://youtu.be/4yYRi_6EwDI" target="_blank"><b>#MissLoonTrout</b></a> and her <a href="https://youtu.be/7CmhzPLxKb8" target="_blank"><i>tragic “procedures”</i></a>... She loves my #mixedmedia and gets my horrifying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch_%28film%29" target="_blank">#WilliamSBurroughs references</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozho" target="_blank">Nanabush</a><br />
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Eric C. Keast; early fishing indoctrination, circa 1972.<br />
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early iterations video.<br />
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<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-34776128443151837092016-06-20T04:13:00.001-04:002016-06-20T04:28:50.512-04:00A Shaman Story 001 #FoxMulder<br />
The following story was rewritten in the last week, or so. This is "draft05".<br />
An initial draft was posted to <a href="http://bingorage.blogspot.ca/2016/03/please-check-out-bingoragestudio.html" target="_blank">my blog (here)</a>, not too long after the relevent episode aired.<br />
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I will post my #GlowFair explanations, soon. :)<br />
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Detail pics of acrylic #painting on canvas:<br />
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"Miss LoonTrout Got A Crappy Boobjob. Mr. And Mrs. Crack-Penguin Pull Their Tired Old William Tell Routine. Nanabush Is Alive, And In The World." (2012 iteration)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">001 Special-Agent Fox Mulder ; Shaman.</span></b><br />
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A ...“I think that Fox Mulder, is a shaman, yo. He's been through some shit, but never got any, uhhh, training when he was young. He’s like one of those dickheads who take a stroll to the corner store and finds himself stuck in a horror of a universe with sentient, two-legged, two-armed, one-headed monstrosities chasing you around. That shit jangles the nerves, hard, like the spirits in your first tent....<br />
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... That boy sure coulda used a dose of the local botanical Ninjitsu... then, some prolonged, lucid dreamshitting; with, aaahhh appropriate orientation and training, of course.<br />
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... People think they can just drop ecstacy, channel a witch-doctor at the rollerdome rave and wear a fucking headdress, with sincerity. Think they’re fucking Geronimo’s ghost, but they’re smurf reruns ...”<br />
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b My cousin, Lefty, has some strange ideas about things.<br />
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Some folks say that he was going to be a medicine man, when he was young, “but, it didn't take...” or something. Any ways, if you’re hurting... ya know, for real, or not... He’s the kinda person you talk to.<br />
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But you gotta tell him the truth.<br />
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He can’t stand lies, because they warp the world around him, and he sees it dissociate in front of him, even as we live our confabulations,<br />
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a All my people are being pried from the Earth by advertisements, trends, social media, bad drugs, medicine, the dying of the living; instead of just acknowledgeing what is. The Milky Way is “no longer visible to more than 80% of North Americans”.<br />
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b If people have no way to personally confirm that they are suspended in a galaxy, amongst galaxies... Is it any wonder that some people don’t believe in the moon landing or “sciencey things” like human evolution?<br />
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a “In the latest episode of the X-Files, Mulder went on the shamanic voyage above the middle world, clouds and shit, thinking that he had taken “magic mushrooms”. He did not realise, at the time, that the new pseudo-Scully gave him a plac3b0.<br />
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Fox Mulder, he induced shamanic trance... “$6 bucks the hard way”*<br />
and traveled to the underworld; in a way that Carlos Castaneda failed to do.<br />
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b Carlos had been too concrete in his earlier thinking and refused to follow the dancing hankerchief across the chasm. The old man was -not- happy.”<br />
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* “$6 bucks the hard way” was the most obvious and oblique and obnoxious and late teenish sexual reference I could come up with on the fly. I feel that it is something WSBurroughs’ish or HST... Some beautiful bullshit bravado. :) :Eric C. Keast<br />
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a “Ayuh. He couldn't give in to the power. It’s much like trying to chase the underworld through vision, the first requirement is discipline. I am pretty sure he still called himself a Shaman, long afterwards. I do not know if he ever flew across the chasm, or not. <br />
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b There wouldn’t be a goddamn hankerchief to help him out, the next time; that’s for fucking sure.<br />
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a I dont remember, ever reading about it in his books, anyway. Ya know... he mave actually done it... eventually, out there in the desert.<br />
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I thought he had disappeared, long ago, but then he reappeared suddenly, online, with a history and pedigree that I did not remember. That’s a very shamanic thing to do; but my brain is ruined with whiskey rot, spiritocultural scarring, body neglect, memory extractions and sad premises; so is not to be trusted with those sorts of recollections.<br />
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b It’s true. Either that, or someone in the Castaned Estate called his own self, a Shaman, being the Ghost Writers’ collective stand-in ego, legally, for the real thing.<br />
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Ya know.... unless Carlos wrote it himself. Pretty sure he’s dead, tho ...”<br />
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a Fox Mulder?<br />
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b Castaneda.<br />
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a “Ahhhhh... Anyways; Mulder's vision finally puts him in the shamanic canoe. Perhaps the most real moment of his life...<br />
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b More real than the Lord Kimbo encounter?<br />
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a That’s a really good fucking question. A real WTF episode, that one, ya know.<br />
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Good call, hard to say.<br />
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Anyways, he’s face to face with the conscious soul of the reluctant terrorist... and he is paralysed with astonishment.”<br />
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b “Terence McKenna says that dying from astonishment is the greatest danger of the DMT flash.”<br />
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a “He sees the guy in his vision, right -spoilers- who's basically a stapled lump of meat surrounded by sniffer dogs and bulging suits “back in the real world”, but there, he can gibber, gesture, spaz and cry... and he does, real garbled-like... Mulder leans in; not quite eyeball-licking range...<br />
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b “Transdimensional, slash, astral-communication, without an established personal practice of the pursuit of internal peace, is hard. Unless you get the sort of psychic psychedelic injection, that William S. Ginsburg would invoke ; Justify his screaming, flying, gunslinger cum-stinkin’ teen-cowboy, barn-sodomy fantasies. That shit never hit the broader market, it was too... Middle Eastern, too Oriental... for the plebes. The aristocrats never gave it up, of course.<br />
Too expensive for the rest of us.”<br />
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a “Mulder comes-to, in the hospital, and not in the good way... and EVERYBODY... is on his dick!”<br />
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b “I don't think that means what you think it mea...”<br />
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a “EVERYBODY!... is standing on his dick!!”<br />
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b “Okay, take it easy. Well... that's different.<br />
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She's on my dick, or he's on my dick just sounds sexual; it can't be helped, they're vague and suggestive...<br />
But someone standing on your dick is painfully obvious.”<br />
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a “Mulder definitely got anal-probed at some time. He's been abducted by aliens... like, several times. And he spent... allottttaaaa time in Russian prisons.<br />
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It’s not a moral failing, you know. Prison love. Sometimes you gotta go along to get along. Like Lawrence of Arabia, you know: Smile and think of England.”<br />
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“That's got nothing to do with whether or not he's a shaman. Anybody can be a shaman. Not just perverts, victims and crazies.”<br />
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b “Well, I think that you need a certain amount of crazy. Real crazy, real natural-like. Not just ‘not being an asshole’ kinda crazy. That's not fucking good enough, nowadays.”<br />
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a “William S. Burroughs wrote of a man, disgusted with the way that the world had treated him and his retort was something like: You can't treat me like some greased and nameless asshole!...<br />
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That was beautiful and genius. It's a double entendre, without the component of innocence. It speaks to his debauchery and situational virginity; situational innocence, if not actual innocence.”<br />
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b “I don’t think that’s an example of a double entendre.<br />
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a No. It's a double entendre, without, the component of innocence. Syntactically speaking”<br />
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b “I don’t think that means. ”...<br />
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a So.... Everybody thinks that Mulder failed. The bad guys are winning and little blue-eyed children are dying, while he’s off packing fudge..<br />
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b “carrying freight”...<br />
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a ...for “Big-Shroom”.<br />
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b That’s right. Fox Mulder is a dirty mushroom-addict, at this point. Probably paying terrorists for mushroom fixes and clean piss (From young men farmed by a local Gamer Crew). That and running clown scams for the shroom cartel. The mushroom-backed, clown-whore racket has to be the dirtiest, lowest form of pimpetry known to man.”<br />
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a The polaroids, alone, will make you rethink having children.<br />
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b What. Wait. What, why?<br />
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a So’s they don’t grow up to run a clown-whore racket... Then it “all comes together”, of course. The brown guys get arrested. Like... all of them. In the hotel, the surrounding streets, the ice cream guy on the corner was arrested, and the nearest Koreatown was cleared out. I don't think he's banging Scully anymore.”<br />
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b “So... the metaphorical boat, the shamanic canoe, supplied real-world information?”<br />
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a “Yeah... Didn't you watch it?”<br />
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b “I think so. I'd still bang Scully. See her in that British mystery series about the buff, yet frustrated young scruffy Christian Greyish dude, whom is a serial killer and rapist?... she bangs everyone in that series. I bet she fucks him in the next season.<br />
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a “It was just a week ago. How can you not remember if you saw it?”<br />
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b Saw what?<br />
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a “The X-Files episode that we’re talking about.”<br />
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b “I don't have cable.”<br />
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a “Oh...<br />
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I bet that Mulder wouldn't be able to sleep, for days after that experience. His brain had been illuminated by the primal fire and vision and werehumans this season.... Well, one, anyways.”<br />
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b “Nah. Too grounded. He’ll be sleeping before the credits...<br />
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a “He's a secret agent, he flies all the time.”<br />
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b “You know what I mean. He'll probably cave in and join the cabal eventually...<br />
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a He could find a guide to show him the way through it all.<br />
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b I bet he smokes smokey-pole before the end of the series. Buys into the corporate probing of our collective anus, invests his RRSP and declare “depopulation is yummy!!!! Arrrggghhh!!! Thank you, Satannnnn....!!”.<br />
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a Whomever contracted the Georgia Guidestones says that we should stick to 500 million people to survive on Earth.”<br />
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b “Yeah. 500 million rich honkys, crackers, old boys and aristocrats. Ted Cruz is gonna wake up someday and be shocked to find he don't make the cut. Shit, they don't even want to take Bill Gates. ‘Is money’s too wet, still.”<br />
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a “I figure that Mulder has got to take the pledge, fuck a chicken carcass on video tape and kiss Geronimo's skull. Then they will make him Bishop of Padua or some shit. The Vatican will put some fucking discipline in that atheist.”<br />
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b “I like the new guy.”<br />
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a “The new guy?”<br />
<br />
b “Yeah.”<br />
<br />
a “... The pope?”<br />
<br />
b “Yeah.”<br />
<br />
a “You're such a victim.”<br />
<br />
b “The entire reason that we're here, is to save your ass.”<br />
<br />
<br />
a “Nobody asked you to... Wait. That’s not why we are here.<br />
I think that I asked for pizza and weed, actually. Where's the pizza?”<br />
<br />
b “I don't think that's relevant to our discussion.”<br />
<br />
a “Ah, Bro. Really?”<br />
<br />
b “I thought that you were dead.”<br />
<br />
a “Why? How!?”<br />
<br />
b “When I broke in, there was a definite whiff of rotten banana and santorum. Lots of it. Like the Banana Boat singer guy tried to dirty Sanchez a trucker at the Husky Stop and the waittress locked them in, turned out the lights and herded them to her dungeon under the fryers. I figured it was some sorta “pleasure accident”, like that guy from Kung Fu, so I finished it all. Where were you?.<br />
<br />
a There's nothing like the horrors of a dark, mossy, earthy stone and mortar basement. Dirt floor, roots, burrowing invertebrates, rot, filthy life and... unquiet.”<br />
<br />
b “Is that the place behind Theresa’s Minnow Shack?”<br />
<br />
a “Ayuh.”<br />
<br />
b “They got great nachos.”<br />
<br />
a “Yeah...<br />
<br />
b That basement is a portal into the underworld, but you really don’t wanna use it, unless you are already really fucked. But, if you have to, well... you are just more fucked, then.”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
a “The Buddhist monks of Asia were supposedly able to enter the shamanic underworld through physical discipline and deprivation. First Nations peoples of North america would starve themselves into vision and the underworld. Discipline. It’s all about fucking discipline. The discipline of laxative. The discipline of the lash. The discipline of pain. The discipline of dream & body. Flesh and bone. The discipline of warmed blankets, IV drip and the discipline of steel.<br />
<br />
The discipline of fist. The discipline of rope. The discipline of stone.<br />
<br />
Discipline of Pleasure.<br />
<br />
b “Bullshido. I remember trying to visualise my way into the underworld using techniques from that Micheal Harner guy. Harmer? No, I think it's Harner.”<br />
<br />
a “How did it go?<br />
<br />
b “ Not very good. I could enter the tunnel to the underworld, beginning with a distinctive crack in a certain cliff at the waterline; waves pounding me down into the tunnel, past the surface. But, most times, I couldn’t hold it. Too much reality weighing my brain down.<br />
<br />
When it does work, I lose the focus and control of my eyes. The thread of that discipline were severed for me by culturecide and sexy missionaries.<br />
<br />
I try and follow the path down, falling, flailing, tumbling. I fell into the Earth, burrowed down and could never stay the path. It spits me out as an irritant.<br />
<br />
No discipline. No faith.<br />
<br />
Not enough history, anymore.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
a Tried it for years. Tried throwing chemicals at the problem, beginning with commercially available intoxicants.<br />
<br />
Started with high-dose nicotine. It found the path, quickly, but dissipated fast and was useless for sustained navigation. Found out later that making nicotine water from cigarette tobacco is a bad fucking idea. Don’t do it.<br />
<br />
I was determined to stick with plant medicines, preferably wild ones. But, even that felt like cheating.<br />
<br />
Smoking Labrador Tea that had been cured inside moldy pumpkins induced shared telepathy in a group but couldn't get you to the underworld. How are you supposed to fly, if you can't reach the underworld?! Sure, it made for stupendous circle jerks, but nobody was reaching Nirvana, that way.<br />
<br />
Dried banana peel was a bad joke until I found out about “wild banana”, but it was strictly for lucid dreamshitting.<br />
<br />
b That 80’s sitcom actor from “Broken House” is wrong about them bananas being “god's natural dildo”. They're actually a delicious little Chihuahua. By which, I mean, that some Indigenous people spent thousands of years domesticating and genetically nurturing little, starchy seedpods into delicious handlebars of chimpy goodness. As one does, molding wolves into four-legged chickens.”<br />
<br />
- Joint, whiskey intermission-<br />
<br />
I was never able to follow the path, all the way down.<br />
<br />
a Lucid dreaming escaped me. I hadn't dreamt a good sex dream better than the ones I had at 15. What the fuck was wrong with me? I tried drinking more, but that didn’t seem to help.<br />
<br />
I went camping for a few weeks, and once I was able to get away from television, I became a participant in my dreams again.<br />
<br />
I had become a viewer of my dreams. Watching my dreams and not being an effective agent in my own dreams, reduced to the viewer.<br />
<br />
I woke one morning and unzipped my tent, to dozens of loon pairs in the tiny bay. This was very unusual, Loons are solitary creatures who prefer one pair of loons per lake, but will make exceptions if the lake is big enough that they never, really, have to see the neighbours. They had flooded my bay at the end of summer. The air vibrated with their calls, the tent thrummed with my heat in the cool still air and I knew... I knew, that if I reached out and grabbed a strand of the energy in the air that it would rip me out the tent and I would fly. No big deal.<br />
<br />
I saw the Milky Way illuminate the horizon’s dark spiky silhouette across the bay and realised that I now possessed the ability to jump there.<br />
<br />
I watched a satellite tumble against the stars and could now reach out and smite it from the skies. The feel of lightning in your palms is something you get used to, fast, but if you don’t have technique, it will dislocate your arms from wrist to shoulder.”<br />
<br />
b “Did you reach out and grab the energy?”<br />
<br />
a “Nope. No point. I already knew what would happen and had the certainty of finally achieving mastery of the underworld and the power of flight amongst mortals. I zipped the tent up and went back to sleep... after the bears left.<br />
<br />
I don't think that Mulder claims any Indian blood. Unless he's part Navajo. The Navajo keep appearing in the X-files, for some reason.”<br />
<br />
b “That was because of Scully. Some dirty old Navajo fell in love with her and went to war with the smoking man and made love to her from the dead. The Navajo figure prominently in the mythology of the X-files arc.”<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
a You take back that “dirty ol’ Navajo” remark, sir. I’ll let you know that Floyd RedCrow Westerman was a gentleman, an artist and a real heavy.<br />
<br />
b That’s true. He was also an actor, you fuckstick. If Laurence Olivier could play Darth Vader, then Floyd could play a dirty old man.<br />
<br />
a “Navajos, no joke. They came stomping out of the North like a mongol horde and cleaned out the whole Southwest before the Spanish were wearing diapers around their neck and travelling the New World.<br />
<br />
I’m of the mind, sure, that they’re involved in that whole Chaco Canyon situation, too; either pooping in the fire, or sitting in the stewpot.”<br />
<br />
b “Did I just say that an old Indian man made mad ghost love to Scully?”<br />
<br />
a “Yeah.”<br />
<br />
b “See. Navajos no joke.”<br />
<br />
-cheesecake, tequila-<br />
<br />
a “Do you suppose that Mulder will quit the FBI and become a witchdoctor... selling sweatlodge fingerbangs, dreamcatchers and sage bundles out the back of a pickup?”<br />
<br />
b “I think the FBI has a pretty good retirement plan, even for official fuckups. Maybe he could try writing.”<br />
<br />
a “I think the X-file writers will have him going “totally off-grid”, eventually.<br />
<br />
b They already did; in one of those X-Files movies, where Scully is abusing some kid in the hospital and falling in with with a pedopriest.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
a Yeah, but, I mean, more like some Grizzly Adams Roswell nut, tripping on Amanita-Reindeer piss, dictating conspiracy-theory podcasts into an analog dictaphone, mailing cassettes out to a third party remailer, who mails them to a third-party uploader.<br />
<br />
I bet he's alot like the Californication guy after he lost his family in that DMT bongfire then goes “full Native” at the sorority camp.<br />
<br />
b “Never go full Native.”<br />
<br />
a Huu-hmm. Got that one right, brother.<br />
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b Did you ever hear of those white folks who hike up in the mountains, take strange dope, take off all their clothes, paint themselves glow-in-the-dark stripes, lube themselves up and run around the mountain trying to get abducted by aliens?<br />
<br />
a Ya. So?<br />
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b Futures and pasts shake and merge, separate and disappear in front of his eyes and we don’t see a thing. The world is in constant freefall around him, a torrent of spacetime and rarely aware minds.<br />
<br />
Most people think they know what the truth is, but all they know is relative truth. Relative truth is kinda like relative time and lightspeed; it depends on where you’re standing.<br />
<br />
Actual truth is real, however. He sees part of it, but says noone can see it all, even on video.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
a Just because humans spin overlapping and generally agreeing descriptions of an event, series of events, or the last five minutes doesn’t mean that you are getting the truth. Always watch the video and question the source.<br />
<br />
b What if there’s no video?<br />
<br />
a There’s always fucking video.<br />
<br />
Most people don’t “see”. They narrate their surrounding.<br />
<br />
When you see, you are less surprised, less anxious. The little voice in your head, in all of our heads, though, it is hard to shut off. Especially if you’re not really aware that it is not whom you are.<br />
<br />
Terence McKenna called it “The Logos” of the ancient Greeks. Sounds of human consciousnous still being forged, echoing through the ages through literature. You are not the little voice driving your car, flipping your burger and typing your spreadsheet.<br />
<br />
You. You have to live in reality. That’s your job.<br />
<br />
It’s the job of the whole lot of yous to get your shit together. You do not have an accurate picture of reality in your head. It’s kind of our job to be a little crazy for everybody else. It doesn’t work if someone hijacks the whole species’ awareness by design and all your sanity as some kinda bycatch.<br />
<br />
a You alls are muddying and shearing the world, at the same time, by spinning realities with your stories, your likes and your stupefactions.<br />
<br />
That is my job.<br />
That was my job.<br />
<br />
Does Shinto worship Marshall McLuhan? Google it.<br />
<br />
Fini<br />
<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-8999139969676145242016-04-18T20:10:00.001-04:002016-04-18T20:10:05.869-04:00Simon Schama and #BirdMosquitoHeartBattle art update, etcetera---<br />
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Canadian "hero" General Wolfe appears in Simon Schama's History Of Britain, Ep.11 "The Wrong Empire".<br />
<br />
It is refreshing to personal awareness to see your country from a different perspective. We, Canadians, Indigenous and otherwise, tend to think of Canadian History as emergence from oral prehistory, directly into Mercantilism and written history through the choices of local peoples. We see it as a beginning, but it was the end of a long series of wars with France, and the twilight of the British Empire in the Americas, but they left for India and did really shitty things over there, while their descendants continued doing shitty things over here.<br />
<br />
The geographic reality of the late 1700's: the French are nearly able to "box in" the English Empire on the N. American East-coast, by connecting the Mississippi Delta and then-unnamed St. Lawrence Seaway (Quebec); by way of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River. A line of military forts in the North, plus the Mississippi, itself, would be a North American <i>Hadrian's Wall.</i><br />
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England blew its wad and spent the warchest, the country's savings and future revenues to beat the French; the "crazy" attack on the Quebec cliffs and the Plains Of Abraham became inevitable under the realpolitik of the time. I was astounded to discover that <a href="http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/james-wolfe" target="_blank">General Wolfe is honoured in WestMinster Abbey</a>, with an awesome sculpture. A martyr for empire.<br />
<br />
The people that were here, already... Allies, to be cheated, at a later date.<br />
<br />
I first became aware of Mr. Schama, as the presenter of the BBC series: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama%27s_Power_of_Art" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><b>The Power Of Art</b></a>. Very inspiring and enlightening about art history and artistic striving. I like his voice, his writing and storytelling ability.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">#<u>BirdHeartMosquitoBattle</u></span><br />
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Acrylic #painting details #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa.<br />
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#pictographs #smokingmosquito #art <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marabou_stork" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">#maraboustorks</span></b></a> <i><b>#landscape</b></i> <span style="font-size: large;">#sex</span> #conflict #seeker #paishk #canoe #bullet #arrows<br />
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#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle, for sale at a #FirstNations artists page at #FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/groups/271035953157/permalink/10154133955143158/<br />
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<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-70186299402922721602016-03-29T19:56:00.000-04:002016-03-29T20:55:35.488-04:00Spring #ArtSale for office supplies; #BingoRageStudio.<span style="font-size: x-large;">---</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hey BingoRagers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Hate to be so crass, but I need some quick cash to buy office supplies for impending grant applications. Payment info. down below, and I will update with a couple more sale pieces. Pls share, thanks.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">:Eric</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">PS: <a href="http://bingorage.blogspot.ca/p/theroseofdamocles-detail-2016-eric-c.html" target="_blank">See, also</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> I am reducing "<u><b>LoonFightBlue</b></u>"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">(2016) canvas from $105.00, to $90.00; includes shipping, by mailing tube. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> This work has been detailed and clearcoated since first posted.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#LoonFightBlue #BingoRageStudio, Ottawa, 2016.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"Two Loons spar under twilight stars and planets." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Acrylic painting on loose canvas , unframed/unstretched - 11"H x 16"W.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b><span style="color: red;">Ottawa-only pickup or limited delivery special.</span></b> :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> I am reducing "<u><b>Return Of The Thunderbirds</b></u>" (2014-16) ; stretched </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">canvas from $550.00 to $300.00 ; for cash or CDN E-transfer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Irregular 6-polygon stretched-canvas. Acrylic #painting with papiermache fish relief, glass relief "thunderbirds" and pencil. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> You can view a former iteration of this canvas at my <a href="http://bingorage.tumblr.com/post/130011623222/reworking-an-old-canvas-return-of-the" target="_blank">tumblr page </a>(opens in new tab/window), as I was working on the piece in the new #Ottawa #BingoRageStudio. Summer 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Approx. 31"W x 22"H x 4" D.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#ReturnOfTheThunderbirds #BingoRageStudio, Ottawa, 2016. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: 16px;">#ReturnOfTheThunderbirds , detail. #BingoRageStudio, Ottawa, 2016. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: 16px;">#ReturnOfTheThunderbirds , detail. #BingoRageStudio, Ottawa, 2016. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am reducing "<b><u>12 Turtles</u></b>" (2016); stretched </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">canvas from $90.00 to $65.00.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Fragmentary #turtles surround one, resolved Turtle, in its darkness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Acrylic #painting on loose, clearcoated, unframed, unstretched canvas; shipped, rolled in a mailing tube. Approx. 18"W x 24"H.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#12Turtles #BingoRageStudio, Ottawa, 2016. #art #turtle <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">(CDN funds in #Canada, Email transfer in Canada preferred and priority; USD funds to USA and foreign. <b>USD and foreign orders necessarily take longer to ship. Thanks, in advance for your patience.</b> Includes shipping. "Square" card processing and PayPal accepted but take longer to clear.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Email erickeast@gmail.com, for availability info. <i><b>before</b></i> sending any payments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Miigwitch and Thank You.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">:Eric</span>Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-52603725198804008562016-03-28T01:40:00.002-04:002016-03-28T01:40:38.287-04:00In which, I suffer my first , ever, #ArtBattle loss. Lament Document Arise-<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#ArtBattle 377 Eric C. Keast, round 1 easel station.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Open letter to a new acquaintance</span>.<br />
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One thought about our food/gluten discussion last night, lead me to postulate a recipe idea for you. But, I have no idea if it will work, since I am too poor and lazy after suffering <b>my first ArtBattle loss,</b> to actually test it in the kitchen. :)<br />
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Instead I will post this letter on my website & see if anyone tries to cook it. www.BingoRage.com --- Anyways, I offer it to you. --- <br />
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For a breadlike food option, perhaps there is a way to make a savoury "pancake", or crepe, with non-gluten flour.<br />
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Instead of sweet ingredients, use preferred flour (nut?), egg(s), olive oil, baking powder, seasoning and mix to pancakeilike batter, but slightly thin and oily.<br />
Let it sit and thicken.<br />
Pour batter in small (?) size,<br />
add cubed, steamed vegetables/etc.<br />
Cook to brown underneath and flip. Savoury vegetable pancake.<br />
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Additional options: milk in batter, cheese in add-ons, dressing for "syrup"?.<br />
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I think that keeping the veg. pieces small would help it cook all the way through the bottom, flipping it while the top is still uncooked, but gelled. :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Still Fishing Crankbait, Slow Current" AB377-1-2 #ArtBattle #Ottawa March 2016, Photo from sister Holly :)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A message for -and open letter to- Art Battle</span>,<br />
to be posted shortly at my #BingoRageBlog {www.BingoRage.com}<br />
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Hi there AB. I was in my first ArtBattle -<a href="http://artbattle.com/painter-info-ab377-ottawa/" target="_blank">AB #377</a>- last night and really loved the whole experience.<br />
I do have a suggestion that may actually be a benefit to both artists and #ArtBattle. :)<br />
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After my painting round, I spoke with a bunch of people about badly wanting to resolve the piece, a bit more.<br />
Somebody mentioned that if it sold, she couldn't see why the customer and artist couldn't arrange to have more work done on the piece. Interesting thought. :)<br />
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I am writing, because I am offering to finish my unsold AB canvas, on my own blog...<br />
so long as the customer spends at least $200 (plus shipping, outside of Ottawa) to <a href="http://artbattle.com/contact-us/" target="_blank"><b><i>purchase it from #ArtBattle</i></b></a>. I also address what mistakes I made and how I will win the next one. :)<br />
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Buy it, as is, for less, of course; or spend more and request that it remain, as is, in the original "Art Battle State". However the patron wants.<br />
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I am suggesting that potential customers spend at least $200 (Ottawa area, $200 + shipping, elsewhere? Whatever AB policy, is.) for me to resolve the work entitled "Slow Fishing CrankBait, Slow Current" [Round 1 of AB #377, don't have the number handy.] and they contact #ArtBattle to make the purchase, same as any other AB purchase inquiry; except, perhaps, for an evolved payment structure for an artist-generated sale and artist-arranged service for #ArtBattle.<br />
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If the art had an "opening bid" of $50 at AB#377, and I offer to "finish it" for a $200.00,<br />
then I suggest %75 ($150.00 for the artist); #ArtBattle gets twice as much than a $25 cut of the <br />
"suggested worth" of a canvas in storage and unsold.<br />
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Once the sale is made, then #ArtBattle is no longer responsible for<br />
fulfilling the finishing of the work, because that is an arrangement between<br />
buyer and artist, made offsite.<br />
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I believe that more AB work will be sold as more are being generated and that your organisation can<br />
give money to more of your participants, through making this option available to your artists and clients.<br />
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Of course, the corporate thing to do, would be to hoover up the extra sales without spreading more money around.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
:Eric C. Keast<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/eric.keast/posts/10153318938416809" target="_blank">Video of the moments before and the start of #ArtBattle #377</a>,<br />
link goes to FaceBook.<br />
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Next time, I will waste less time. :)<br />
Thanks Peter Purdy and crew.<br />
Congratulations to winner Stephen Shugar.<br />
{I will update this post when I find official announcement.}<br />
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The finished(?), and slightly soggy piece.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>What Went Wrong?</u> (In which, I suffer my first , ever, #ArtBattle loss.)</span></div>
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I couldn't believe it, when I received an invite to the next Ottawa #ArtBattle in my email, just a little while ago!! </div>
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I was elated and also scared shitless. I'm not a very outgoing person, so the prospect of high-pressure painting, live, in front of a "big-city" crowd was threatening to blow my reality gasket. I've painted murals and canvases in front of schoolkids and Main Street small-town, #FortFrances, Ontario, vicious punkrock junkies and inner-city hippies, stoned paintballer hicks and pranky college bros. But no timed, results-oriented, LIVE performance in front of artsy crowd and the threat of local celebrity.</div>
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I already decided to start with a crankbait painting, because I had finished a commission of a pair for a friend, not too long ago.</div>
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At that time, I had knocked out a quick study, before, as well. Of course, I took a couple days to do it, here and there. I often work on more than one piece at a time and divide up the work if drying needs impose or burnout threaten. :)</div>
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As a basis for the live, event painting, I decided to make my first 20 minute, timed painting, the night before. Honestly; I didn't want to "plan" a painting. It didn't feel quite honest, but it was reasoned to me that an honest reading of the rules clarifies that there is no thematic challenge offered in this version of #ArtBattle, therefore, no improvisational demand. A plan of action for your paintings is implied. OK.</div>
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I also needed to try a 20-minute painting challenge to experience it and feel how much time it took to make a simple composition.</div>
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My initial canvas. I just sharpied an 18" x 24" border on my thin plywood "easel" in the #BingoRageStudio:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#ArtBattle 377 study 01. #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa 2016</td></tr>
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My first try was a mess for a couple reasons, and beautiful for the wrong reasons.<br />
I loved the transparency, but knew that would disappear on a white canvas.<br />
The tape edge makes great edges for presentation, but lose image real estate. I cut the lip off my crankbait by not taking the tape off at the right time. I liked the tape diagonals but thought they would glare on a white canvas.<br />
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2'nd try (Sorry for the crummy pic):<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#ArtBattle 377 study 02. #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa 2016</td></tr>
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Smaller #crankbait, bottom rig instead of diving cast-retrieve/troll. Lakeweed and horizontal lines taped at water/air horizon and "river bottom". Only one main element in this image, however. The time spent taping may not have been worth the effort, in hindsight, after the battle.<br />
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3'rd 20 minute study:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#ArtBattle 377 study 03. #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa 2016</td></tr>
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Total, unfinished disaster. In my defense, I had nobody to call out time for me. And, too much time spent brushing the background. I put a sponge in my pocket and picked up a better one at the Art Battle. Perhaps the unfinished 3'rd study helped put me in a looney frame of mind, however.<br />
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This is my first, under-the-lights, live #ArtBattle painting"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: 16px;">#AB377-1-2 "Still Fishing Crankbait, Slow Current". #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa 2016</span></td></tr>
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I was shaking like crazy, and using a sponge let me make a fast, wavy blue background and get my hands dirty; settled down. I finished the general crankbait, fast. I used my initials chop to make "fishey things in a school" and then set a loon against them. I filled time and canvas with sky, stream and landscape, while trying to think... what to do? ...how to finish it?<br />
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It was then I made my biggest mistake. It must have been the five minute mark or less; I decided to add a third character instead of detailing what I had. The little sunfish with the big tophat is edgeless. The loon is undone and the little fishey things buried. I overreached. I nearly froze before the end and the piece feels badly unfinished.</div>
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I am still happy with it. :)<br />
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If I were to resolve "the painting that should have been",<br />
maybe it would progress something like this....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: 16px;">#AB377-1-2 "Still Fishing Crankbait, Slow Current". #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa 2016</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Revised "Still Fishing Crankbait, Slow Current". #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa 2016</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Revised "Still Fishing Crankbait, Slow Current". #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa 2016</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Revised "Still Fishing Crankbait, Slow Current". #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa 2016</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Revised "Still Fishing Crankbait, Slow Current". #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa 2016</span></td></tr>
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So... if you would like to purchase the artwork known as "Still Fishing Crankbait, Slow Current" #ArtBattle canvas number AB377-1-2 and have me make something like these changes, plus or minus....</div>
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contact #ArtBattle #Ottawa and pay at least $200 for it.<br />
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Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-80970409957263337302016-03-18T18:30:00.001-04:002016-03-19T00:57:42.175-04:00Short Story about Fox Mulder; Shaman. Other stuff.---<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My response to a Reddit post about religion:</span><br />
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One evolutionary explanation for the emergence of monsters and spirits into human consciousness is a logical consequence of the "theory of mind" present in several animals, but greatly expanded in humans.<br />
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Being able to model what others might be thinking is a cause of modern paranoia, but also the basis for plenty of cultural development. Early on in our evolution, however, a particular heuristic (mental shortcut, subconcsious) produced a sort of "false positive".<br />
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Let us say that two apemen are sitting around a fire, 2 million years ago. Both hear a sound beyond the light that could be the wind, harmless game, or a serious predator.<br />
One apeman always ascribes "agency" (bad actor and intentions) to the noise and runs away, while apeman 2 always brushes it off as the wind.<br />
There is no consequence to apeman 1 running away and pissing himself because he fears something that does not exist, beyond primordial embarassment.<br />
Apeman 2, however, faces the prospect of being eaten when he is wrong and no longer contributing his DNA to the genepool.<br />
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Therefore, belief in a "spirit world" develops from pantswetters who do not get punished, reproductively, for running from nothing.<br />
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While the preceding paragraph seems like a complete dismissal of the "spirit world", there is an odd feedback, by which this path leads to an "underworld". Oddly enough, this week's episode of the X-Files ("Babylon", S10E05) is a great illustration of the Shamanic Journey.<br />
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Here's a first draft (two guys; a & b) of something currently called:<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u> "Shaman Story" March 09 First Draft 2016</u>.</b></span><br />
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a “I think that Fox Mulder is a shaman... He's been through some shit, but never got any training.”<br />
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b My cousin, Lefty, has some strange ideas about things. Some folks say that he was going to be a medicine man, when he was young, “But, it didn't take...”, or something.<br />
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a “In the latest episode of the X-Files, Mulder went on the shamanic voyage, thinking that he had taken magic mushrooms, not realising that the new agent bon-Scully gave him a placebo, but he induced shamanic trance, 6 bucks the hard way, and traveled to the underworld, just like Carlos Castaneda tried and failed to do, seein' as he was too concrete in his thinking and refused to follow the dancing hankerchief.”<br />
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b “Ayuh. Couldn't give in to the power... I am pretty sure that he still called himself a Shaman, after.”<br />
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a “Anyways, Mulder's vision finally puts him in the shamanic canoe. Perhaps the most real moment of his life, and he is nearly paralysed with astonishment.”<br />
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b “Terence McKenna says that astonishment is the greatest danger of DMT.”<br />
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a “He sees the guy, spoilers, who's basically a lump of meat surrounded by sniffer dogs back in the real world, but here, he can talk... but Mulder is too amazed to make sense of it.”<br />
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b “Transdimensional communication without internal peace is hard.”<br />
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a “So, Mulder comes to, in the hospital, and EVERYBODY, is on his dick!”<br />
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b “I don't think that means what you think it means.”<br />
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a “EVERYBODY is standing on his dick!!”<br />
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b “Okay, well, that's different. She's on my dick, or he's on my dick just sound sexual. It can't be helped, they're vague and suggestive; but someone standing on your dick is painfully obvious.”<br />
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a “Mulder probably got anally probed, at some time. He's been abducted by aliens and spent time in Russian prisons.”<br />
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b “That's got nothing to do with whether or not he's a shaman. Anybody can be a shaman.”<br />
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a “Well, I think that you need a certain amount of real crazy, real natural, not just being an asshole. That's not good enough.”<br />
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b “William S. Burroughs wrote of a man, disgusted with the way that the world had treated him and his retort was something like: You can't treat me like some greased and nameless asshole!... It's a double entendre without an innocent component.”<br />
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a “So, everybody thinks that Mulder failed and the bad guys are winning, then it all comes together and all the brown guys get arrested... I don't think that he's banging Scully anymore.”<br />
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b “So, the metaphorical boat supplied real-world information?”<br />
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a “Yeah. Didn't you watch it?”<br />
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b “I think so. I'd still bang Scully. See her in that British mystery series, she bangs everyone.”<br />
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a “It was just a week ago. How can you not remember if you saw it?”<br />
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b “I don't have cable.”<br />
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a “Oh... I bet that Mulder won't be able to sleep, for days. His brain has been illuminated by vision and werehumans. Well, one.”<br />
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b “Nah. Too grounded. He'll be sleeping before the credits... and never fly, again.”<br />
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a “He's a secret agent, he flies all the time.”<br />
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b “You know what I mean. He'll probably cave in and join the cabal eventually. I bet he smokes smokey pole before the end of the mini-series probe of our collective anus and declare depopulation is yummy.”<br />
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a “Georgia guidestones.”<br />
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b “Amen, brother. You're feeling me.”<br />
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a “I'll never love you the way that you want me to. Whomever contracted the Georgia Guidestones says that we should stick to 500 million people to survive on Earth.”<br />
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b “Yeah. 500 million honkys, crackers, old boys and aristocrats. Ted Cruz is gonna wake up someday and be shocked to find he don't make the cut. Shit, they don't even want to take Bill Gates money. Too wet.”<br />
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a “I figure that Mulder has got to take the pledge, fuck a chicken on video tape and kiss Geronimo's skull. Then they will make him Bishop of Padua, the Vatican will put some fucking discipline in him.”<br />
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b “I like the new guy.”<br />
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a “You're such a victim.”<br />
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b “The entire reason that we're here, is to save your ass.”<br />
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a “Nobody asked you to. I think that I asked for pizza and weed, actually. Where's the pizza?”<br />
<br />
b “I don't think that's relevant to our discussion.”<br />
<br />
a “Ah, Bro. Really?”<br />
<br />
b “I thought that you were dead.”<br />
<br />
a “Why? How?”<br />
<br />
b “When I broke in, there was a definite whiff of rotten bananas and santorum. Lots of it. Like the Banana boat tried to dirty Sanchez a trucker at the Husky Stop and the waittress locked them in and turned out the lights and brought them to her dungeon, under the fryers. There's nothing like the horrors that you can imagine in a stone and mortar basement, dirt floor and ”<br />
<br />
a “Is that the place behind the Minnow Shack?”<br />
<br />
b “Ayuh.”<br />
<br />
a “The Buddhist monks of Asia were supposedly able to enter a shamanic state through discipline. The same sorta thing is claimed for the Bullshido of twentieth-century Chinese film. And, the Hong Kong cinema, of course.”<br />
<br />
b “I remember trying to visualise my way into the underworld using techniques from that Micheal Harner guy. Harmer? No, I think it's Harner.”<br />
<br />
a “How did it go?<br />
<br />
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<br />
b “ Not very good. I could enter the tunnel to the underworld, beginning with a crack in the ground, past the first guards. When I lose the light of my eyes, however, and have to follow the path down, falling. I could never stay the path. No discipline. Tried it for years. Starting throwing chemicals into the mix. Started by experimenting with nicotine. It found the path, quickly, but was useless for sustained navigation. Even that felt like cheating, but I was determined to stick with wild medicines. Smoking Labrador Tea that had been cured inside a moldy pumpkin induced shared telepathy in a group but couldn't get you to the underworld. How are you supposed to fly, if you can't reach the underworld?! Dried banana peel was a bad joke until I found out about “wild bananas”, that celebrity is wrong about them being god's dildo, they're a delicious little Chihuahua.”<br />
<br />
- Joint, whiskey-<br />
<br />
I never was able to follow the path down. Lucid dreaming escaped me. I hadn't dreamt a good sex dream better than the one that I had at 15. What the fuck was wrong with me?<br />
<br />
I went camping for a few weeks, and once I was able to get away from television, I became a participant in my dreams again. I had been watching my dreams, not being an agent in my own nights, but a viewer. I woke one morning and unzipped my tent, to see dozens of loon pairs in the tiny bay. This is very unusual, Loons are solitary creatures, who prefer one pair of loons per lake, but will make exceptions, if the lake is big enough that they never see the neighbours. They had flooded my bay at the end of summer, the air vibrated with their calls and I knew... I knew, that if I reached out and grabbed a strand of the energy in the air that I would fly out the tent and finally reach the end.”<br />
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a “Did you reach out and grab the energy?”<br />
<br />
b “Nope. No point. I already knew what would happen and had the certainty of finally achieving mastery of the underworld and the power of flight amongst mortals. I zipped the tent up and went back to sleep, after the bears left.”<br />
a “I don't think that Mulder claims any Indian blood. Unless he's part Navajo. The Navajo keep appearing in the X-files.”<br />
<br />
b “That was because of Scully. Some dirty old Navajo fell in love with her and went to war with the smoking man and made love to her from the dead. The Navajo figure prominently in the mythology of the X-files arc.”<br />
<br />
a “Navajo's no joke. They came stomping out of the North like a mongol horde and cleaned out the whole Southwest before the Spanish were wearing diapers around their neck and travelling to the New World.”<br />
<br />
b “Did I just say that an old Indian man ghost made love to Scully?”<br />
<br />
a “Yeah.”<br />
<br />
b “See. Navajo's no joke.”<br />
<br />
-cheesecake, tequila-<br />
<br />
a “Do you suppose that Mulder will quit the FBI and become a witchdoctor, selling sweatlodge fingerbangs and sage bundles?”<br />
<br />
b “I think the FBI has a pretty good retirement plan.”<br />
<br />
a “I think that thewriters will have him go totally off-grid, like Grizzly Adams, tripping on Amanitas and reindeer piss and dictating his visions on a top-50 “Itunes” (Copyright, TradeMark, Registered) podcast. I bet that he's alot like the Californication guy after he loses the suit and goes “full Native”<br />
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b “Never go full Native.”<br />
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fini<br />
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---<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Papier mache element of #ReturnOfTheThunderbirds , acrylic #painting #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa. 2016</td></tr>
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<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-26019809540831152502016-02-09T01:44:00.000-05:002016-02-09T01:44:05.038-05:00In the valley of Zika... and super villains---<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">[From my response to a Reddit post.]:</span><br />
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The *<i>Abreu Report</i>* article links to an **<b>Oxitec</b>** page [which you can vet, here](<a href="http://www.oxitec.com/health/our-products/aedes-agypti-ox513a/">http://www.oxitec.com/health/our-products/aedes-agypti-ox513a/</a>).<br />
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I remember that the Gates Foundation had planned to attack malaria with sterile male mosquitoes, at one point. I thought that the malaria efforts had been in Africa, but assumed that if Oxitec were releasing sterile males in South America, then it was another anti-malarial effort. A quick look at their site says that the South American release targeted/ the mosquito responsible for a large share of **<b>Dengue Fever</b>**.<br />
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I'm not sure what conspiracy, I am supposed to presume, given this info., because I have been avoiding the inevitable Zika speculation. Given the context, I presume the implication is that:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Evil Corp. creates frankenskeeter to spread timebomb virus, while tiny heads distract abortionally-compelled 'Murican sheeple, at behest of surprise super villain...</blockquote>
<br />
I admit the strawman; I fashioned him from the heat of these insinuations. By the time that I finish this response, perhaps someone will have posted a clear, civil explanation of the supposed villainy.<br />
<br />
I reject my own straw for the following reasons:<br />
a) The genetic modification of the male mosquitoes is a mechanical contraceptive, not a "frankenskeeter species"<br />
b) The idea is old, it was a plot point in a 1980's thriller novel. (I think it was "The Swarm".)<br />
c) Developing the genetic reproductive tech for malarial battle, then switching to the Dengue vector species makes sense, since the manipulation doesn't kill the mosquito and isn't disease-specific, so there is less evolutionary selective pressure against the tech than antibiotics and pesticides.<br />
<br />
The final implication of my presumptive Zika straw, is that the virus was "built into" these mosquitoes (or some other vector {thank you slidey goalpost}). The "weird" part of the Zika conspiracy headlines that I skimmed, was that the microcephaly story is a cover. wtf?<br />
OfHoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-55287881109149424032016-02-03T01:09:00.002-05:002016-04-06T15:58:46.504-04:00Bird Mosquito Heart Battle-<br />
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Greetings BingoRagers.<br />
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Tonight, I am researching the history of the current project in the studio-docket;<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"<u>Bird Mosquito Heart Battle</u>" (2013-2016)</b></span><br />
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<i>[Formerly: "tablecloth canvas" (2013) & "Bird Amphibian Heart" (2013-2015)]</i><br />
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This work, other paintings, beadwork jewelry and other stuff will be on sale at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/976670299080119/" target="_blank"><b>Goddesses of Love Valentine Craft and Psychic Fair in Support of Animals in Need</b></a>. (Facebook event link) <b>1-5 pm, February 6, 2016</b>. Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Ave., Ottawa, Ontario.<br />
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Tablecloth dropcloth; July 2013, Studio ChezZzorhn, Fort Frances, Ontario.<br />
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"Tablecloth Canvas"; August 2013<br />
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January 2016; Ottawa, Ontario.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle #BirdAmphibianHeart January 2016 - BingoRageStudio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle #BirdAmphibianHeart January 2016 - BingoRageStudio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle #BirdAmphibianHeart January 2016 - BingoRageStudio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle #BirdAmphibianHeart January 2016 - BingoRageStudio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle #BirdAmphibianHeart January 2016 - BingoRageStudio</td></tr>
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EDIT: April 6 iteration of #BirdMosquitoHeartBattle. Vegetation added and more resonances, in the landscape.<br />
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<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-37213266484213004162016-01-21T23:02:00.000-05:002016-01-21T23:09:17.495-05:00I have videosTrying to figure out how to make money out of my online presence and art documentation. Figure out my google ads and youtube ads; turns out that I have been neglecting my intellectual property, but am starting to iron out my resources.<br />
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Here; no ad-revenue for me on the first video. Documents the process of a work that closely echoes a fave motif of #NorvalMorriseau:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric C. Keast & #LoonFamily (2010?) #BingoRageStudio</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>"Miss LoonTrout Got A Crappy Boobjob. Mr. And Mrs. Crack-Penguin Pull Their Tired, Old William Tell Routine. Nanabush Is Alive, And In The World"</u></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#MissLoonTroutGotACrappyBoobjob... (detail, 2011) Eric C. Keast #BingoRageStudio</td></tr>
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<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-11652941933439877612016-01-20T22:25:00.001-05:002016-01-20T22:25:30.764-05:00The New #BingoRageStudio<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#BingoRageStudio #FortFrances (My favourite, doomed studio stool) and the #CranePowwowDancer in the #studiodocket</td></tr>
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This used to be my setup, on the side of the road in #FortFrances, NorthWestern Ontario. </div>
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It was a chill way to work on my art, get outside and make a few bucks from the occasonal tourist.</div>
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Since moving to #Ottawa, Ontario -capitol of #Canada- I haven't been able to make a cent "on the street", so to speak. In fact, the few times that I tried it, was petrified of being arrested or harassed by the police. There are many -and different types- all over the town. The locals are adept at "actively ignoring"; a skill of the delusional, writ large. It's like seeing cognitive dissonance made flesh.</div>
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So; I have tried to ramp up my online visibility. Sharpen and refining old interests... writing again. Trying to describe my work more, explore it with words. Share better.</div>
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Now seeking patronage; if you know someone who needs art, please forward my name. Miigwitch.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PS: If you work in the <b><span style="color: red;">#Ottawa area</span></b>, I can visit your office and offer a selection of canvases and beadwork jewelry for display/sale. Just need a chair/table(s?) and restroom access. Electricity and wifi a plus (for credit card payments).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peyote-stitched beadwork #bracelet. Glass, Bone, Nylon, vintage button.<br />Eric C. Keast #BingoRageStudio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lg. Men's Choker; Horn, Bone, Shell, Ceramic, Glass, Leather, Hempcord<br />Eric C. Keast #BingoRageStudio</td></tr>
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Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-64154208818371116362016-01-19T18:08:00.001-05:002016-01-19T18:08:39.774-05:00A Large Bird Rides What? Back in the #studiodocket.<br />
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From my <b>twitter</b> account (@bingorage) (reposted everywhere) , :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/shovelmask?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="text-decoration: underline;">ShovelMask</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;"> back in the </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/studiodocket?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">studiodocket</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/paint?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">Paint</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;"> on </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/papiermache?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">papiermache</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/antler?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">antler</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;"></span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/hardware?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="background-color: white; color: #627aad; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;">hardware</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bingoragestudio?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">BingoRageStudio</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ottawa?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">Ottawa</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/sculpture?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #627aad;">#</span><span class="_58cm">sculpture</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px;"> </span><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/mask?source=feed_text&story_id=10153181590161809" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="background-color: white; color: #627aad; cursor: pointer; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 12.88px; text-decoration: none;">mask</span></a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#ShovelMask back in the #studiodocket. #Paint on #papiermache #antler #hardware #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa #sculpture #mask</td></tr>
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Acrylic #painting on loose canvas, about 20" square+. Another distant #future or #past.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#BirdRidingGiantSlug December 2015 Eric C. Keast #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">#BirdRidingGiantSlug December 2015 Eric C. Keast #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa Some scratch and pencil added</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#BirdRidingGiantSlug (detail) December 2015 Eric C. Keast #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa</td></tr>
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<br />Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-60757486444024227392016-01-18T19:51:00.001-05:002016-01-18T21:58:48.931-05:00Prehistoric Man and #TheRoseOfDamoclesI have been commenting on many Reddit and FaceBook threads about Human evolution and global peopling, with a focus on the New World; my Indigenous people and culture.<br />
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My general proposal is that all of our primal, human stories and archetypal themes reflect incredibly ancient interactions between peoples, the global environment and "the other". War, flood and Monsters.<br />
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<b>(N.B.: Some of my numbers and facts are pulled from the cesspool of my vast general knowledge, quick/sharp reckoning and may not be entirely fact-checked, but will be ballpark and in the correct direction, generally. Please feel free to suggest rational corrections/updates. I will insert corrections and updates in green bold. Thanx.)</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">"<i><span style="font-size: large;">Nature: New archaeological evidence has dramatically pushed back the accepted earliest human occupation of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to more than 100,000 years ago – 60,000 years older than previously thought."</span></i></span></b><br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , "lucida grande" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.1692px; line-height: 27.3846px;">Aren't we only 100,000 years old as a species?"</span><br />
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Don't more modern views, see those "archaic human species" as having been quite on par with "modern" humans, instead of primitive versions of it? Neanderthals used tools and theres some evidence of ship building, their brains were also larger than that of the homo sapiens (ofc, size =/= complexity) and its now thought they were on par with homo sapiens in most aspects.</div>
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Im guessing all those "archaic" human species were as evolved biologically as Sapiens, but less resilient/lower birthrate which made them extinct while mixing with sapiens that migrated into the regions? Know of any good, modern, sources of info? Sadly this is a slow field and a lot of information is rather outdated.</div>
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Edit: Also evidence of burial rituals and having used fire, had art and were able to speak. The neanderthal, that is.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 19.1692px; line-height: 27.3846px;">The terms "archaic" and "primitive" reference humans that were separate species, anatomically distinct, older and no longer present. They were as "evolved" as us, physically. Homo Erectus/Ergaster emerged nearly 2 million years ago, but for a million+ years only made one tool, the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe" target="_blank">hand axe</a>". It's thought that they gave rise to the archaic humans (in Africa, Asia and Europe), one of which became us (in Africa). Neanderthal seem to have "invented" body adornment (beads, jewelry, bodypaint) and new stone tech, but not visual art (that I know of). Since we interbred with at least a couple archaic humans (DNA evidence in our genome), it is likely that there was cultural exchange of some sort. There is plenty of evidence for cannibalism in both directions, as well. It seems that our own lineage only developed representational art 30 000(+?) years ago and that contact with Neanderthal may have spurred their late cultural development in western europe. Archaic humans were probably not incapable of physically maintaining a population, but were forced out by slow expansion of humans and failure to adjust to changing climate and food sources. The amount of new fossil evidence (especially from Asia) is constantly changing the story of our past. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 27.3846px;">As an aside, I think that much of our monster lore comes down to us from those times when we shared the world with the "<a href="http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-floresiensis" target="_blank">little people</a>" (Floresiensis), "<a href="http://www.livescience.com/467-gigantic-apes-coexisted-early-humans-study-finds.html" target="_blank">BigFoot</a>" (Gigantopithecus) and "the other" in general (boogeyman, "wildmen", etc.).</span><br />
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"The Rose Of Damocles"</div>
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I probably had another, dumber working title for this piece before working on it, again, this week. While preparing myself, mentally, for my sister's birthday party; I added a bunch of bold blue rain strokes to the canvas, one of which "hung" over the female(?) figure's Jackhammer-head as she is about to be smited-with, or offered, a rose.</div>
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The male((?) figure sports this season's latest #fishhead.</div>
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Whom, attacked who? (Or, is it "Who, attacked whom?". I'm fairly certain that I use the word correctly, in the world. hmmm A squirrel...)</div>
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Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-50767341600210882372016-01-16T08:57:00.001-05:002016-01-16T09:12:08.652-05:00Hey There<br />
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I know it's been awhile, but I have been focusing too much attention on social media, lately. Too many conspiracy discussions lapsing into anger. I can't tell the trolls from the true believers and I am thinking that the entire internet is becoming a video game; highly fractal and beguiling.<br />
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:) "that way", as they say, "lies madness..."<br />
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So; in order to redeem the time <strike>wasted</strike> <strike>spent</strike> invested online, I will bring you the best of them here to help reclaim my own online space... stop giving it all away. I think that I shall call these segments...<br />
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Posted to Reddit, January 16'th, 2016 Original post entitled:<br />
<i><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>"Why does the universe have order?" - Need help answering this question.</b></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">In the last 70 years, math and science have discovered that the "order" which they saw within the universe is not the result of a "clockwork" that could be reset and run again to produce the same results. The universe was actually unpredictable and unrepeatable; the perceived "order" arising from chaotic behavior in simple systems and equations. If we were able to "rewind" the universe to an early state, it would not make the same universe we see today. There is no guarantee that humans would be here, either; our galaxy might not even form again.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">The thing about chaotic systems, though, is that they produce great complexity from simple rules and the closer you look, the more complicated it gets (please reference a good <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEw8xpb1aRA" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0079d3; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mandelbrot set video</a>, here).</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">So; the Earth, life and our brains are actually extremely fine, complicated iterations of the multiple rules that the universe runs on (law of thermodynamics, evolution, etc.). A weird implication of the multiverse theory is that many universes may stall or collapse, depending on variables like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant" target="_blank">fine structure constant</a> which is ridiculously exact and would produce cold or carbonless stars, if much lower, or higher. Weirder still, is the idea that abstract things like the laws of physics "crystalise out" of the homogenous high-energy states after a big bang.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">If we rewound the universe back far enough, there is no guarantee that gravity would work the same. If you can bend your mind around that , then the </span><span style="color: red;"><em style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px;">weak</em> anthropic principle</span><span style="color: #222222;"> shouldn't upset you.</span></span></blockquote>
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"BrontoDuck Preens" (2015)<br />
Eric C. Keast<br />
BingoRage Studio, Ottawa<br />
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Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-73225359437525414312015-02-21T20:22:00.000-05:002015-02-21T21:09:38.704-05:00Invoking a new podcast from the cinders of this long, f#*@king winter. (With sock puppets)-<br />
Friday, February 13, 2015.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>NSFW elements.</b></span></span><br />
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Hey folks. This is an attempt to document a little history and create a sample podcast outline based on the experience of the #ZzhornAndBingoRageShow (minus hashtag and bad spacing), <br />
with reference to the current “Occasional BingoRage”podcast and plans for the as-yet-unnamed new show. <br />
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<u>"Bird Amphibian Heart"</u><br />
Acrylic painting on canvas; 2013 - 2015<br />
Collaboration between <a href="http://www.zzorhn.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Zzorhn</a>(blogspot link) and <a blank="" href="http://www.bingorage.tumblr.com/" target="_">BingoRage</a> (my <b>tumblr</b> link; Eric C. Keast)<br />
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This is the point at which our collaboration ended, as Z. left to pursue his acting and writing in T.O.<br />
I continued to work on the canvas for a couple years, off and on.<br />
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September 2013<br />
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February 2015<br />
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<b><u>Invoking the podcast.</u></b><br />
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In the beginning; I was a visual artist and dabbler in all things public. I consider these audio podcasts and video podcasts to be sculptural in nature; raw, improvised images and thought are being shaped, live and recorded in the fourth dimension, in video. <br />
{N.B.: Watch Videodrome. Freak the fuck out.} <br />
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That seems to be the trick of it... staying in the moment. Knowing that there are eyes and ears on the other end of the camera, without being overwhelmed by them. <br />
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I have much material to edit, already, but it's time for me to create new work. <br />
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Ever since my previous podcast collaborator left town, I have busied myself with the hands-on stuff of painting, beadwork, mask, photography and documentation. <br />
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There were a few “Occasional BingoRage episodes, documenting the painting process of a couple different canvases. Interesting stuff, for sure, but short on puppetry. <br />
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In order to expand the format :) , I have been on the lookout for potential podcast collaborators. I may have found one. <br />
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I have to find out if the cadet has stage fright, or some violent tendencies I need to account for. Otherwise I'm nearly solid on a broadcast space and internet connection. <br />
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I want to get back to the basic recipe of the early podcast, then continue to build and evolve a new show, going forward. <br />
Here's an old audio version of the early "Zzorhn and BingoRage Show". Please send complaints to twitter, @bingorage<br />
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<i>(Order optional...) </i><br />
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The show would usually start with: a) a cheesy, short, topical skit... with minimal costume. <br />
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Then an b) “Introduction”, where we had a short dumb routine, where dingbat-partner, Z. mangles my website jingle and I slander his work.<br />
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c) “News”. Each of us, would try to be responsible for choosing and presenting a few news items of recent/relevant concern. <br />
We endeavoured to be responsible for rudimentary study of topics, in order to form a half-assed opinion about news items we presented.<br />
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d) Sometimes we would write other short, topical outlines for skits to fill the middle, or write a more detailed outline for an overall “themed-show” (Like the “zombie apocalypse” episode.)<br />
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e) Sock puppet improv. I did most of this, but with: collaborator's suggestions, occasional guest puppet, “crowd questions for the puppets”, etc. <br />
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f) Pre-made videos, slideshows, animations to fill time, intermission.<br />
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g) Podcaster solos. <br />
It seems easier to fill time in a comprehensible manner, when speaking to another person and responding to their improv cues. <br />
Filling time by yourself can suck, unless some preparation is taken ahead of time. The podcaster solo is one of those circumstances that is much easier, if you actually take the time to prepare something, in order that you may not have to stand on bullshit. <br />
Unless your bullshit is generally strong. <br />
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The podcaster solo allows one collaborator to get up and take a piss, have a strong drink, mainline some caffeine, etc. <br />
Remember to set time rules for solos ahead of time.<br />
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You have to keep on eye on your podcast collaborator; <br />
in case they are in the grip of strong drink and running off to "make a costume change", when you know that they're barfing in the neighbouring room and muttering to themselves, with their beady, darting eyes.<br />
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h) Art presentation and review. <br />
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i) Movie/tv review/discussion.<br />
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j) We used to hit the button in mid-action and just cut off the broadcast without warning. <br />
Perhaps some sort of “Last words” thingie is needed. Then, Credits.<br />
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<i><b>Proposed outline for Pilot episode of new podcast:</b></i><br />
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- <i>Opening titles.</i> <br />
Build titles joke on "no-name-yet" podcast? <br />
Slideshow of K. and E. pics in background. <br />
Begin broadcast of opening titles, no recording usually, for half an hour before. <br />
[This is the last chance to make sure that your $39.40 of audio equipment and 16-year old laptop are functioning correctly. Don't even look at the camera, once it's seated, aimed and focused.]<br />
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Stop broadcast and switch to episode title card in the broadcast software. <br />
Restart and renew broadcast, with recording and episode card.<br />
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{Switch to camera one on the lucky tripod<b>*</b>.}<br />
* The "lucky tripod" has tried to destroy me on several occasions, but has yet to succeed.<br />
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- We could do some sort of cheesy, two strangers collide story. Sock puppets? <br />
Do you have sock puppets? Play the drums? We could do a “Bing and Bowie” thing; with you on the drums. Other suggestions?<br />
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- <i>Intro.'s: </i><br />
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Some artist bio./ resume/ mailbag/ online presence info.? <br />
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- <i>Discussion... </i><br />
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.... of online media consumption from different perspectives? <br />
Do “younger people” consume non-music audio and video podcasting differently from old farts? <br />
Is podcasting only for people who remember radio? Is this a real question?<br />
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- <i>“BingoRage Filthy Sock-Puppet Theatre”.</i> <br />
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New collaborator to invigorate the filthy puppet storylines and expand the range of their consciousness???? <br />
(Time may vary.)<br />
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- <i>“News”.</i> <br />
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Each collaborator picks a few news stories to present and argue about, being responsible enough to have formed an opinion after having done at least a pretense of investigation. Discussion ensues.<br />
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- <i>Art/movie/tv review and discussion... <b>but, smart</b>.</i> <br />
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I have several new canvases to choose from.<br />
New collaborator plays accordion.<br />
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Usually agree upon titles, weeks before.<br />
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- <i>Podcaster solo 01:</i> <br />
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(At least five minutes. Longer, if needed. Can move to suit.)<br />
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[Podcaster #2 leaves the stage, chugs straight whiskey and lights a nicotine inhaler. <br />
Podcaster #2 stares at podcaster #1, onscreen, knowing that some people are watching because she is a cute chick:]<br />
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“I have been thinking about naming this podcast the “cute chick podcast”, but I would have to be “cute chick #2”. I don't know if I could stand that in my own podcast. <br />
We'll come up with something better... Better get back in there, my time is nearly up.”<br />
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Podcaster #2 enters stage to start his rant.]<br />
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- <i>Podcaster solo 02: </i><br />
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(At least five minutes. Longer, if needed. Can move to suit.)<br />
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[Podcaster #1 leaves the stage, chugs straight whiskey and lights a nicotine inhaler. <br />
Podcaster #1 stares at Podcaster #2, onscreen, knowing that some people are watching...]<br />
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“... <b>because of his stupid, retarded sock puppets! </b><br />
I want to call it the “stupid, retarded sock puppet podcast”, but that might offend some people. <br />
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[Podcaster #1 tears apart the office]<br />
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Where's the blow?!!! <br />
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(Yelling) Where's the fucking blow you promised me!!<br />
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[Podcaster #1 continues breaking shit and downing the last of the liquor. <br />
She roars and grabs a broom, strides onstage and starts beating Podcaster #2. <br />
Live. <br />
Screaming. <br />
There should be some blood. <br />
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Podcaster #1 gets up and goes offscreen, screaming allegiance to some dark, evil Blood Goddess as Podcaster #2 expires. <br />
Broadcast jumps to black.]<br />
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- <i>Closing titles.</i><br />
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We totally “Blair Witch” the ending. <br />
Or, we do something else. <br />
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I think that an hour is a good minimum, for a show.<br />
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<u>"Dirty Puppet Theatre -"1984""</u><br />
(In which a certain collaborator was too timid to use "BingoRage <span style="font-size: large;">Filthy</span> Puppet Theatre" in his YouTube title.) :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Adult material; not for the kids.</span><br />
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Z. and Eric interpret the 1983 movie version of Orwell's "1984".<br />
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<u>"A Plague of Penguins"</u> - Eric C. Keast<br />
Acrylic and beadwork on canvas. October 2013; in-progress.<br />
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-Hoka-shay-honaquthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126349532788870390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9846785.post-5753441484807008892015-02-14T05:57:00.000-05:002015-02-14T05:57:56.934-05:00Transformation: Blank canvas, Sewing Elf and Daikaiju Killer. (2009 - 2015)-<br />
March 2009.<br />
Originally, this canvas was started with an olive'ish green background, and then a sketch of a thread spool taking up a substantial portion of the image area. By the end of this stage, I had added the needle, thread and button, as well as some geometric planes in the background.<br />
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April 2009<br />
Button, spool and thread details. Sewing Elf appears.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwD5xb5Qtspen6LGvTQ3K7garyoMXGPg94cal5iK8cpjPByf8LrGGTNazG4_VhEqaxe5BDWrwW1gS9gvgCo8k9cBjCWS72-7O_pJaiomKAVKoNyeLIiDa5AIO3WjPGl2IHN8ZtwQ/s1600/spool+canvas+14.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwD5xb5Qtspen6LGvTQ3K7garyoMXGPg94cal5iK8cpjPByf8LrGGTNazG4_VhEqaxe5BDWrwW1gS9gvgCo8k9cBjCWS72-7O_pJaiomKAVKoNyeLIiDa5AIO3WjPGl2IHN8ZtwQ/s320/spool+canvas+14.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0ZzRFKfnTOuBTlZ35HMo-lBnz2wt2HuKL_ExYe-mPlPRnp7Yq558F0W81NZVCjMCoglNCWjhlT3Z2e4bHY70pVbcAibaXzl_LvwkD8v2ksnJN8vWMxUzjU0YrwsMxvRWUdE5wg/s1600/spool+canvas+16.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0ZzRFKfnTOuBTlZ35HMo-lBnz2wt2HuKL_ExYe-mPlPRnp7Yq558F0W81NZVCjMCoglNCWjhlT3Z2e4bHY70pVbcAibaXzl_LvwkD8v2ksnJN8vWMxUzjU0YrwsMxvRWUdE5wg/s320/spool+canvas+16.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Zo6VltBElfquf9li_FFtzNasB4yYL83rPhNG9krj9uISx4k6TxwKmbkDrOYxpTBSw6z0fCmj8Q7t96i-BFDkYxHoZ_GnDJKs3GiX-pKK167B8TbLg6bMYrmnEUOX1wnsYoQcvw/s1600/spool+canvas+19.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Zo6VltBElfquf9li_FFtzNasB4yYL83rPhNG9krj9uISx4k6TxwKmbkDrOYxpTBSw6z0fCmj8Q7t96i-BFDkYxHoZ_GnDJKs3GiX-pKK167B8TbLg6bMYrmnEUOX1wnsYoQcvw/s320/spool+canvas+19.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA4QVCoQRKMY7FOAFkn0PtpnBfPCVwFjqaIu5km9_ChT6ALNfSuFjG_r6khZGrSUdTAl75atcvPUS-20A3jlG6R6o-LnUhgY-fIKJFKU0qlommKHgVKdMJ9dmt-bAzjScORxHtgA/s1600/spool+canvas+22.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA4QVCoQRKMY7FOAFkn0PtpnBfPCVwFjqaIu5km9_ChT6ALNfSuFjG_r6khZGrSUdTAl75atcvPUS-20A3jlG6R6o-LnUhgY-fIKJFKU0qlommKHgVKdMJ9dmt-bAzjScORxHtgA/s320/spool+canvas+22.jpg" /></a><br />
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November 2012<br />
Beadwork added; Mizhepezhou emerges with paint and beads.<br />
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February 2013<br />
"I Paid Flanagan!" This phrase was added to the composition after I listened to a <a href="http://smodcast.com/channels/tell-em-steve-dave/" target=_"blank">"Tell 'Em Steve Dave" podcast</a>, wherein a known curmudgeon and confirmed freedom-hater, Walter "Inky" Flanagan<br />
was complaining about his fans not buying their Xmas package and probably downloading it illegally. I bought their stinkin' Xmas package, and I'd do it again! <br />
Anyways... That is why I painted "I Paid Flanagan" on the canvas. Not really relevant to the other subject manner, though; is it?<br />
Maybe, this is where the composition starts to fail.<br />
Fucking Flanagan.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Untsp0bDv0fUyvrUfZ4UGNOeN2BqfYJxzvjU4Lvihzmcn1OTGxl9LQJCh62qaWxidQja-IeeNlW7uxyJOuKByAE0xF0rYWu7zBL55xJstQT67AwdI4Z9QUkMyIAldPIaaUuQUg/s1600/SewingElf-IPaidFlanagan_February13_2013_002.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Untsp0bDv0fUyvrUfZ4UGNOeN2BqfYJxzvjU4Lvihzmcn1OTGxl9LQJCh62qaWxidQja-IeeNlW7uxyJOuKByAE0xF0rYWu7zBL55xJstQT67AwdI4Z9QUkMyIAldPIaaUuQUg/s400/SewingElf-IPaidFlanagan_February13_2013_002.jpg" /></a><br />
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November 2013<br />
Dark. So dark.<br />
Flanagan excised, second Mizhepezhou and Orange Roughy appear.<br />
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April 2014<br />
Moon and die appear.<br />
Composition vibrates strongly.<br />
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May 2014<br />
Canvas continues to shake, composition begins to disintegrate.<br />
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Kaiju Killer, June 2014<br />
Sewing Elf becomes Kaiju Killer.<br />
Rotate 90 degrees, add teeth. See the eye in Mizhepezhou's gut. The Daikaiju's upper jaw follows the line of the thread. The spool's left half becomes muzzle. Daikaiju acquires burning building by the end of the session.<br />
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Bold yellow strokes define Daikaiju and embody the (Dai)Kaiju Killer.<br />
Kaiju Killer gets a headdress.<br />
Sewing Elf is gone.<br />
The breath weapon is already implied; some sort of energy-ball.<br />
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Kaiju Killer, July 10, 2014<br />
Kaiju Killer's big right mitt is powering up.<br />
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December 2014<br />
Daikaiju goes green.<br />
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Daikaiju Killer, January 2015<br />
Kaiju Killer rightly becomes Daikaiju Killer.<br />
I read in an article that the Japanese word "Kaiju" meant "monster" and that "Daikaiju" meant "giant monster" and was more appropriate to Godzilla and the kind of monsters that I have started to toy with. Thus, the name change.<br />
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In order to make the beast look less reptilian, I add Cthulic tentacles and Wolfen crown.<br />
Fire erupts in the Daikaiju breath-weapon.<br />
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Daikaiju adds a bus to his collection.<br />
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February 2015<br />
All that is left of the original composition is the six-sided gaming die, at the point of rotation.<br />
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Daikaiju has acquired 2, or 4, new eyes; he is not a reptile. <br />
His fireball is glorious, from a purely aesthetic view and not burning boots-on-the-ground Daikaiju-realities. Nice bracelet.<br />
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Daikaiju Killer is counting off a boxing combo. Do we really want our superheroes to still be in boxing class? I think he came from a nearby powwow.<br />
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Why did the #SewingElf have to die? I'm not sure. All I can tell you, really, is that he wasn't cooperating.<br />
Mizhepezhou are proof to the whims of men; don't worry about them.<br />
Sewing supplies are insanely cheap nowadays, and it's a skill that everyone should learn.<br />
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The daily ritual of reviewing, rebuking, sharing, sparring, vying-for on "social media" seems to have drained my blogging will. Has it really been a year since my last post?<br />
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Fortunately, it has not drained me of my artistic impulse. I produced and sold many new canvases this year, updated some older canvases that have been sitting around for a while and did some collaborative work with Zzorhn (In Abstentia). In addition to creating a new format of beadwork that I make (the choker/double-up bracelets), I think that I have nearly perfected my peyote-stitch, beadwoven, button and loop clasp. Most of the stock is new, but I still see previous generations of bead tech on my blanket. Treacherous, flat little colonies of beads that could be better served as the basis for some bead soup.<br />
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I'll add some observations, etc., later.<br />
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