Last One...

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bike love

Alf Catolico Look-Alikes

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Cyan Onosson Look-Alikes

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Shoki Onosson Look-Alikes

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Edmonton Roadside Sign

Midnight Song

There's a couple new paintings on David Hallett's blog. He's getting married soon and there is a social in Winnipeg, where some of his work (and one of mine) will be sold in a silent auction.

http://www.davidhallett.blogspot.com/

For Carlos

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shameless self promotion

Me too!!!

My Turn....

Gus's Restaurant: Brooks, Alberta

Sorry for the blur...

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My Heritage

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Thanks to Sky I found this site. Sign up and see who you look like.

random

sometimes I am confused by the duct tape and greenuousness of this place and don't know where to classify the moment so I sit here and think I am.

by aloon,

at http://www.newwinnipeg.com/community/discussion/1445/1/blurbs-bumps-and-biliousness-/

Beaver Art

The Pill

The urine from these horses (near Pilot Mound, MB) is used to make birth control pills.

No wonder so many kids look like horses these days!

Wil at the Jazz Fest

Some of you might want to check this guy out. I originally saw him in Calgary a few years ago and recently again here in Montreal. Great performer. Here's a link to a good tune of his.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1403314602

Wil - Set time: 10pm
Jun 29, 2007 - Manitoba "Winnipeg Jazz Festival" in Old Market Square, Corner of Bannatyne & King St

Vilcus plug dactyloadapter

Problem: Create an adapter for sticking one’s fingers into electrical sockets.

Inspiring

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/thunderbird.html

Breakdancing for the Pope

I'm not sure why I find this so funny, but I do!

Check this Blog out!

Erratic Space

A Lethbridge artist named Don Gill is doing a GPS project at the WAG.

I admire the diligence with which he makes daily observations of the mundane.

Dru and I paid him a visit at the WAG a few week-ends ago. He's set-up a studio on the Mezz.

Has this been in the Press yet?

Guess Who??

What a bizarre coincidence! (or not???)

After reading the posts here about Clarence Tillenius, who do I run into today but the man himself? Recording at my friend Bob's house, it turns out that Mr. Tillenius is his good friend and next-door-neighbour.

But wait, it gets even weirder. He has met my grandfather, Robert Nero, whom I previously blogged about (click here). I've been working on songs here at Bob's for about 2-3 months now, and had no idea who his neighbour was until this weekend when I saw the recent posts on Clarence Tillenius.....

The world is a weird place!

I'm Back!!!!!!!!

I am now connected to the cyber world once again

Did I miss it?

Not sure .

Witches Hut

Anyone remember this place in Kildonan Park?

I always loved it as a kid.

Wedding Gift

This is a detail of a painting David Macri gave Shawna and I for a wedding gift. It was sitting in the sweetest of lights in my living room and my camera could not resist. Thanks again Macro!

Just Married!

South of St.Norbert

The Front of The Walker

The Red

In a slow, minor key

sometimes you dream
sometimes you lie

sometimes you lie awake at night
and wonder why

ooh
don't you know what you mean?

ooh, babe
where you been?

heh heh

Connections, etc.

image from:
http://www.wilds.mb.ca/

Funny how sometimes you see something, read/hear something, and suddenly the connection is made between several things that, up until then, had formed no connection in your mind.

Came across this image on the 'net today-- Clarence Tillenius, noted Canadian wildlife artist, backpacking in 1957.

Some of you may recognize the image from a bluemask dyptych?

We`ve "Necked"

ART

Moral realism: faith and understanding

To move in all directions qua knowing presents the imminent consequence of epistemic relativism: there appears to be no one single truth and a subsequent violence results in our thinking and in our being in the world.

The fact that we can extend outward presents an ontological imminence that cannot be denied: I believe.

Things more accurately contain a multitudinality in and of themselves, at once containing a singular essence that hinges in all directions in its relationality.

So what really is, is what is being known, regardless of how many ways it can be known.

Descartes' doubt was thus not the best way to approach our deep questions.

Faith actually is.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much that he is out of danger?
- Thomas Huxley

Backstroke of the West

If you haven't seen this before, check it out (click on the picture). I couldn't stop laughing the whole way through.

Do not want!!!!!

In defense of the grammatically and orthographically challenged

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

I hope this works,

For the last 3 years I have been renting the gallery out for all ages music event. There literally has been over 1000 performances in the last 2 years on the small stage. The band 1920 seen here has brought a new edge the the gallery's image. Its a video so click on it!!!

Ducks

Just as I suspected...

Lone(ly) Tree

IMG_1557, originally uploaded by onosson.

This little tree has moved up to the number one position in 'most viewed' on my flickr page. I kind of like it too. I'll be heading back to Edmonton in about three weeks, so maybe I'll try to track this tree down again and get another shot of it.

Delimitation and Ranges

This really struck me today.

This supernova is the brightest in recorded history - over 5 times bigger than any seen before.

It is an anomaly in that with it's release, a black hole was not created. This is generally the case with supernovae and is the first observed example of this behavior.

I can only dream of being able to imagine the compression and crack of this giant.

It also reminded me of the Quitmoanez post, or rather the after discussion that ensued, to which, as yet, I am unable to really grasp.

This singularity is now chunked into two massive and separating forces and so with weak thinking I could say that it has shifted into two distinct things. Truly however, it is still part of it's originating source, what I call, the everall and therefore can not be represented in such a way. It is simply redefining itself within the whole.

This is what I thought...

Other thinkers please express.

The Fall Of The House Of Usher

I looked upon the scene before me -- upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain -- upon the bleak walls -- upon the vacant eye-like windows -- upon a few rank sedges -- and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees -- with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium -- the bitter lapse into everyday life -- the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart -- an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it -- I paused to think -- what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher?

- Today was the first time I have had the fortune of reading this short story. How wonderful it was.

The theory of ranges and delimitation: analogy and onology

One moves between things in an analogical fashion, and this in the ontological sense.

Analog as adjective, as relating to a signal represented by a continuously variable quantity, such as a spatial position or voltage for example.

As from the Greek 'analogos', or proportionate, this proportion, in its continuous variability, is onological. The moving of this proportion is onology.

For us, the being of a thing perceived is onological, becoming an analogy for other things, understanding by moving from thing to thing.

And the link between language and the world is one of analogy, but the relation of things in the world is one of onology. Inasmuch as language is onological, it is analogy.

And things are similar (if not dissimilar) in their relative ease of analogy, often along onological ranges.

It is easy to move from one thing to another if they are connected more proximally onologically, as opposed to more distally.

And the being of a thing is as much the position that it holds on such ranges as it is the positions that it does not hold, or the things that it is not.

A thing also exists as a range, and this can be understood discretely as a bell curve, namely this thing exists across the variability of potentiality represented under a curve delimited on both sides. What lies outside of the range, the thing is not. Yet also note that limits, at least mathematically, can never be reached. So while the thing is not the next range, there really is no separation between such ranges as one thing can never exclude the being of another. Again, this is simply an analogy for how things exist, a two dimensional curve defining what appears to be at least a 4-dimensional range. A good example, but now think of an n-dimensional range, and the delimitation on such a range, defining it, separating it, but by principle all part of it.

This is the theory of ranges and delimitation.

Don't Talk to the Poppy!

Taken from the Toronto Star:

The odd-looking – but harmless – "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology."

"It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire like mesh suspended on top."

One contractor believed someone had placed two of the quarters in an outer coat pocket after the contractor had emptied the pocket hours earlier. "Coat pockets were empty that morning and I was keeping all of my coins in a plastic bag in my inner coat pocket," the contractor wrote.

Hospital Visit

A tonsilectomy for me. The first words gurgled out of my post operation mouth were "Good dream". Despite the body being incapacitated, not able to feel pain or breath, there was still a dream. I don't remember the subject of the dream or even falling unconscious for that matter, but when I woke up I was surprised to hear my torn voice. I said "Good dream", not realizing that the dream had happened during my tonsils being laser-beamed out of my throat. How could this be? While my physical body was being cut, my mind had the well being to make up an interesting and compelling scene for me to experience. Truely a wonderous thing. Next I slept for some time only being awoken by the occaisional flutter of some pretty Korean-nurse-fairy bringing me some sort of liguid. Like a nectar perhaps. The taste of blood and spoiled cabbage made me want the ice cream I'd heard so much about. But in my painkiller-drunk state, with the language already being an issue, I never got closer than cold rice gelly. Incidentally Korean hospital food is far better than that of the West. I got to see and smell all sorts of fresh (and prepared) vegetable (including hot-peppers), fish, grilled meats and savory sauces. Occaisionally I even touched them to my mouth to get a taste, but could never hope to swallow any of it. Back to the cold rice gelly.

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You're entering a world of pain...

"MARK IT A ZERO, SMOKY! YOU'RE ENTERING A WORLD OF PAIN!"

Red Riverbank

Open Studio this weekend

Hey cat's,

I wanted to let you know that I am again part of the In Plain View Winnipeg open studio tours that are happening this weekend.

www.inplainviewwinnipeg.com is our website and you can down load a map and the artist listings.

My studio - 221 McDermot Ave - Suite 56 will be open both Saturday and Sunday from 12-5 pm.


I'd love to see any and all of you out this weekend...Come and give me a hard time about my work - or give me a swollen ego...

Take care,
Ted

Bees

metatcubebw, originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Alert! Bees are mysteriously disapearing!
The bees leave the nest and don't come back, leaving the larvae to fend for themselves until eventually the queen is left all by herself.

Adding to the mystery: after the bees have gone, other animals like moths don't come to steal the honey. Nodoby can figure out why this is happening but it

it is happening in several countries of the world simoultaneously. Canada too. Some people think it's cell phones. Others pesticides, or maybe a fungus.

Einstien: If the bee disapeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left."

what year is this?

What's out there?

New 'super-Earth' found in space

The new planet is not much bigger than the Earth.
Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface.
The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.
Scientists made the discovery using the Eso 3.6m Telescope in Chile.
They say the benign temperatures on the planet mean any water there could exist in liquid form, and this raises the chances it could also harbour life.
"We have estimated that the mean temperature of this 'super-Earth' lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid," explained Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory, lead author of the scientific paper reporting the result.
'Is there life anywhere else?' is a fundamental question we all ask
Alison BoyleLondon Science Museum"Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth's radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky - like our Earth - or covered with oceans."
Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University, added: "Liquid water is critical to life as we know it."
He believes the planet may now become a very important target for future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life.
These missions will put telescopes in space that can discern the tell-tale light "signatures" that might be associated with biological processes.
The observatories would seek to identify trace atmospheric gases such as methane, and even markers for chlorophyll, the pigment in Earth plants that plays a critical role in photosynthesis.
'Indirect' detection
The exoplanet - as astronomers call planets around a star other than the Sun - is the smallest yet found, and has been given the designation Gliese 581 c.
It completes a full orbit of its parent star in just 13 days.

EXOPLANET GLIESE 581 C

Mass: Five times Earth's mass
Orbit: 13 days
Temperature: 0C - 40C
Distance: 20.5 light years
Constellation: Libra

Indeed, it is 14 times closer to its star than the Earth is to our Sun.
However, given that the host star is smaller and colder than the Sun - and thus less luminous - the planet nevertheless lies in the "habitable zone", the region around a star where water could be liquid.
Gliese 581 c was identified at the European Southern Observatory (Eso) facility at La Silla in the Atacama Desert.
To make their discovery, researchers used a very sensitive instrument that can measure tiny changes in the velocity of a star as it experiences the gravitational tug of a nearby planet.
Astronomers are stuck with such indirect methods of detection because current telescope technology struggles to image very distant and faint objects - especially when they orbit close to the glare of a star.
The Gliese 581 system has now yielded three planets: the new super-Earth, a 15 Earth-mass planet (Gliese 581 b) orbiting even closer to the parent star, and an eight Earth-mass planet that lies further out (Gliese 581 d).

Gliese 581 is much cooler and dimmer than our own SunThe latest discovery has created tremendous excitement among scientists.
Of the more than 200 exoplanets so far discovered, a great many are Jupiter-like gas giants that experience blazing temperatures because they orbit close in to much hotter stars.
The Gliese 581 super-Earth is in what scientists also sometimes call the "Goldilocks Zone", where temperatures "are just right" for life to have a chance to exist.
Commenting on the discovery, Alison Boyle, the curator of astronomy at London's Science Museum, said: "Of all the planets we've found around other stars, this is the one that looks as though it might have the right ingredients for life.
"It's 20 light-years away and so we won't be going there anytime soon, but with new kinds of propulsion technology that could change in the future. And obviously we'll be training some powerful telescopes on it to see what we can see," she told BBC News.
"'Is there life anywhere else?' is a fundamental question we all ask."
Professor Glenn White at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is helping to develop the European Space Agency's Darwin mission, which will scan the nearby Universe, looking for signs of life on Earth-like planets. He said: "This is an important step in the search for true Earth-like exoplanets.
"As the methods become more and more refined, astronomers are narrowing in on the ultimate goal - the detection of a true Earth-like planet elsewhere.
"Obviously this newly discovered planet and its companions in the Gliese 581 system will become prominent targets for missions like Esa's Darwin and Nasa's Terrestrial planet Finder when they fly in about a decade."
The discovery is reported in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

**Taken from, news.bbc.co.uk

Venus 2

Venus

Anonymous Poem

I must have skimmed past this man's heartfire before,

searching for the taker of names,

but because only part of his memory was hidden,

I would never have noticed



- spam excerpt received on May 2nd/07.

May Confession

PICT0108, originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Well, that's it for Winnipeg, Im off to the bush for planting season tommorrow.

lament:
I feel a bit blue. Winter was kind of a bummer. And this last of fall was a bit
anti-climactic. Or is fall always this way? Only to lead into the explosion of the summer?
Whatever it is, Im glad to be going back to work. Back to the cold hard ground,
back to lifting and breathing. Away from the endless living and dreaming in either
the past or the present. The self-promotion, the vanity, the chasing of butterflies.
the unreality. The losing, the loss. The over-indulgence. The self-pity, the inaction.
the wasting of time, the endless searching and never finding. Away from The stubborness,
the forgetfullness, the self-loathing lows and unsteady all-too short highs. Away from The computer,
and the basement. Away from the tower. Away from broken hearts.

Towards the sun, towards the burning bush, the early morning, the hunger that is satisfied,
the thirst that is quenched, towards satisfaction, towards fulfillment, towards love
towards love. Towards laughing children, towards the fire because Im cold.
towards the light in my eyes and the eyes of others who I am pleasing
with a joke and with goodwill. Towards wholesomeness. towards the place
that I once was happy and towards the place that I am happy again now.
towards my friends and family and lover who have missed me after a long absence.
and towards who I miss.

Human language born from ape gestures

(How interesting that this came to my attention, and we were just discussing this here not too long ago...) From Cosmos magazine:

Human language may have evolved from the use of gestures by our ape ancestors, and not just from primitive vocalisations, according to a new study.

"The way they use gestures is extremely variable, especially compared with other forms of communication ... This makes gesture a possible candidate for symbolic communication in our shared ancestor."

Facial expressions and vocalisations, on the other hand, are more stereotypical, and are though to be largely instinctive and reactionary in apes. Gesture appears to be more under conscious voluntary control – much like human language, write the authors.

... speech itself is a kind of gestural communication, made up of gestures of the tongue, larynx and lips. "My guess is that gestural language became more facial and less manual as our ancestors usurped the hands for other activities."