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Mine under house, Garnets
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A few pictures:
An old silver mine under someone's front yard, found this while out looking for ... anyways, interesting.
A well encrusted lichen covered treefall...
And some of the hundreds of garnets I picked up from a nearby roadcut. The biggest is about a centimeter, the irregular shapes are the garnet still embedded in the schist. Buckets to be had, only need the time to pick them up off the ground...good training for my eyes. Now if only there was a way to monetize this...
Musashi Miyamoto
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I remembered the first film, the seaweed waving in the river, the parting on the bridge, like a film I'd seen a long, long time ago and didn't remember...it made me sad.
Maybe I didn't. Maybe I hadn't seen it all. The next two in the series, they're on their own, I've no recollection whatsoever.
It's Cambell's "The Hero's Journey", but in Japanese and some decades before he wrote it. It's "El Topo" without the Acid. It's genius, and in countless tiny things brilliant and without peer, it's that rare film (trilogy) - that hired a proper writer and director, and the results are clear...
Trout Lake
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The New Italian Waiter, the one that walked out after I left, friend of the Nephews, when he found out I was moving to BC had told me that "Trout Lake" was where it was at. By which he meant it was, according to all the drunken conversations he'd had with friends, the perfect place to ride out the Armageddon.
I hummed and hawed, "Sure" I agreed, and promised to remember it for future reference.
Turns out the place would be cemented in my memory for different reasons:
Link: http://www.revelstokereview.com/news/395025051.html
Note that these are "preliminary" results, and - remember Bre-X, anyone? Anyways, it pays to take these things with a pinch of salt. But I've been up around there, panned a few flakes, it's not hopeless...
John Kenn Mortensen
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AKA Don Kenn. Found him while searching for Edward Gorey, I like his style, needed some inspiration for some illustrations of my own. He's amazing. Find a few of his illustrations below (drawn upon post-it notes), with links to more at the end...
Unfortunately, this is the kind of inspiration a first year art student gets by visiting the Louvre or National Gallery and laying down his/her brushes forever. This is impossible to compete with. And, is it just me, or do a few of his illustrations look positively Japanese?
If you like his work, (and he's very, very good), follow the links below:
The yellowish background, btw, is because he draws these on post-it notes. Yep.
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