Tag: art

Free 2007 science fiction swimsuit calendar!

Every year The Web Site @ the End of the Universe creates a free downloadable science fiction calendar. This year, it’s the swimsuit edition! (That’s Miss January at left.)

Disney is bringing back hand-drawn animation

This makes me happy.

Photo of the Day: Buddha Riding a Lion

At least, I think this is a Buddha riding a lion, mainly because when I Googled “Buddha riding a lion” I ended up here, which explains that “the mystical lion…symbolizes the guardian of Buddhist doctrines.” In any event, a very nice hand-carved piece, part of the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series. More …

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Photo of the Day: Scottie, Beaming Up

A slipware Scottish terrier, from the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house series.” The only notation on the bottom is England 83. I don’t know anything else about it, but he’s a cute little feller, ain’t he? What’s that? You were expecting something about Star Trek instead of a picture of a happy dog …

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Photo of the Day: Alabaster Orange

From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series: an alabaster orange in a really lovely alabaster pedestal fruit bowl, both bearing small labels proclaiming them to have been “hand-carved in Italy.” More photos here.

Photo of the Day: The Totem

From the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house” series, this tiny totem pole is labeled, “Made in Canada by Ellen Neel and the Totem Carvers – Kwakiutl Indians.” It may be one of the 5,000 tiny totem poles Ellen Neel and the Totem Carvers once made for the Hudson Bay Company. Then again, it …

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Photo of the Day: The Bear

From my new photo series, “Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House.” The bottom of this handsome bear says “Hand Carved by Kadian Crafts, Canada.” More photos here.

Photo of the Day: The Elephant

The first in an occasional series I’m calling “Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House.” This is the head of a brass elephant, obviously. It’s one of two, on marble stands, obviously intended as book ends. The question is, why is there a matching candlestick holder? Would you put it in the middle of a …

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Mount Rushmore

  A recent trip to the United States provided me with an opportunity to see Mount Rushmore for the first time in more than 20 years…and marvel once again at what is both a great artistic work and a marvel of technological ingenuity. The seed that grew into Mount Rushmore was planted by Doane Robinson, …

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The Dunlop Art Gallery

Every art gallery has its own personality, its own “feel,” which gallery goers construct inside their own heads through their reaction to the gallery’s physical spaces, the exhibits and how they are arranged, the text that accompanies those exhibits, and the gallery’s various programs. To me, the gallery with the most interesting personality in Regina …

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Donovan Chester: the fiery art and craft of raku

Pottery is a unique form of creative expression, one whose practitioners must be as well-endowed with technical savvy as they are with artistic vision. That’s particularly true of raku, the ceramic form practiced by Regina’s Donovan Chester. Don’s studio was the destination of the third Twilight Tour put on by the Mackenzie Art Gallery this …

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Wilf Perrault: playing with light

Wilf Perrault’s art is among the most immediately recognizable work by any Regina artist. His landscapes capture, not the countryside, but the back alleys of this city and others, alleys where trees, bushes, power poles, fences, garages, puddles and snow come together to create unexpected beauty. Until recently, Wilf created his art in a small …

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