Spiderman 3 Review!

This is probably what you feel like you "really" did for two and half hours at the cinema...

Beautiful Baby Blossoms Broadcast Budtime!

Don't stop runnin'
Don't stop gunnin'
Live yer life as a spring has sprung.

It's spring time y'all!

Revamped PEI Hall Table Entered Into Year Of The Craft Juried Exhibition!

The PEI hall table is the product of my final months at Rosemount Technical College. It is the veritable measure of what you have learned after 14 months of teaching and what you can give to the art. Our final projects were conceived, drafted and crafted without direction.

"Here's your wings! Now fly!"

I drafted the plans on the airplane to and from Germany. Jerome wanted me to see some Christmas Markets. Shortest trip ever; like two days. But that plane with a six hour window till Frankfurt gave me focus, and the stewardess took a shining to me and kept bringing me Sleeman's.

I threw in little challenges like mortise and tenons on 45 degrees for the leg and rails. The whole things is quite strong but a skin and bones frame. All dovetails were cut by hand and the legs shaped on a bandsaw and belt sander which was like sculpting wood.

The top is walnut veneer with PEI inlaid in the top in the same veneer. PEI is contrasted solely by the opposing direction of the grain. I always loved the shape of PEI and it suits the long narrow shape of the hall table.

I love this table. Mainly because I made it and thought of it. It is my first real piece of personally created furniture. Iexpressed my artistic ideas and worked my logic.

The paint job is a result of reading about Wendy Marayuma a wood worker artist who has incorporated a lot of colour into her wild creations. I figured if she can paint Mahoganny, I can paint Poplar. I wanted Island colours the Rust colour is obviously for the cliffs of PEI and the blue is ocean and sky. I put on a layer of Red and Then Blue. The I took sandpaper and steel wool and "distressed it", meaning to make it look like it is old, antiqued. So the Rust peaks out from under the Blue. Before distressing happened, the Blue looked like hell. It was practically Teal or some sick colour. Everyone who saw it thru up in their mouths a little. You can see in the below picture. The antiquing really made her look y though. y. The jurying is taking place for the next few days there are prizes and then if they like your piece it is put on exhibition at the Eptek Centre in Summerside for the summer.

Chosen Dog of Ancient Legend Found: Bears Strange Birth Mark Resembling Atlantic Province Island.

Gus, a frappy, frothy, puppy-wuppy, is a very special dog. Special not only because he is a fun loving fido but because he bears the marking of the "Chosen Dog of PEI". Clearly visible on the back of his mane is a white shape resembling Prince Edward Island. The rest of the tireless tail-wagger is primarily rust coloured adding further suspicion and hysteria to the discovery. It should be noted that being the Chosen Pooch of PEI is merely a titular honour. The mongrel has no special powers, will not raise PEI out of its troubles but may visit it some time in the future to pee on its trees, play in its oceans, and sniff Island dog privates.

Boisterous Brunet Brethren Bring Blissful Buzz To Barren Bar!

2 34 oz of beer
1 Irish car b-mb
1 Dr. Pepper Shooter
More beer
Rum and Coke
3 Rev's
The whole clan
The Velvet Underground

Nights like that are once in a blue moon!

We buried her to the hilt. Thank God I didn't call anyone at 3 in the morning.

Best Friend Now Published Best Friend!

My BFF Troy Little has recently been picked up by IDW publishing for a hard cover version of his graphic novel Chiaroscuro. The serendipitous turn of events came about when Troy contacted his comic inspiration and closet-Feminist Dave Sims, creator of Cerebus, for a foreword to his hard-won book. Mr. Sims wrote a thesis on why he wasn't going to do it and published Troy's Letter and his response to it on his blog, The blog and mail posting. Dave gave Troy a lot of praise but felt that Troy needed to establish himself first and then associate himself with the dirtiest of the dirties of the comic world, lest Troy hinder his comic book future. Fair enough Mr. Sims has tons of comic book street cred, he supported himself doing comics. He also has some very stauch beliefs about "the ladies" and this gets him into a lot of shit. He's allowed to say what he wants we live in a free country. Once Troy gets established (2nd printing) Dave will reconsider writing him a foreword. That's totally cool, something else to be hard-won and I believe Troy will get there cause he's hardcore. Regardless, Mr. Sims published response on his blog garnered the attention of IDW president and Cerebus fan Ted Adams. Teddy received a pre-copy of Troy's book, liked what he saw and contacted Mr. Little to talk. The rest is history. Troy now has to pick out cool things like ink and paper stock. Hooooweeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! Those are probably some of the sweetest decisions to make, like what kind of ice cream do you want. Anyway I am proud of Troy, wish him the best, and am completely inspired to go out and meet my artistic fate. The book is intriging and we should all go out and support this emerging artist. Check him out at www.meanwhilestudios.com.

Woebegone Sea Dog Finds Shelter In Siren's Song!

Delayne Corbett's 2nd Place winning sculpture, "Catch of The Day" captured my imagination. It's been a long four weeks laddies. The sculpture contest went off without a hitch. The theme was PEI and we had a lobster, a kitchen party, St. Dunstan's Basillica, a Viking, and a boat and mermaid. The Sculptors had 3 days and most worked through the night warmed only by passion of the art and cinamon schnapps.