Good fairies

Samantha Bryan became nicknamed 'Brain' during her time at Hereford College of Art.

Desire To Fly - Samantha Bryan from R&A Collaborations on Vimeo.

So many destinations, so little time!

I was talking to a friend from Texas last night and she wants to bring her kids here to visit. I started talking about all the places we could go and got a little carried away the rest of the night, imagining a bucket list of destinations I want to visit. 

  

  

   

Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park is 3 hours away! 

 

Craters of the Moon

Bruneau Dunes State Park, Idaho 

Paint what you see

Victor Higgins had a great view. 

New take of an old tradition

K.C. Hall was born in Bella Bella, in Heiltsuk Nation territory on the central coast of BC. He belongs to the House of Wakas and descends from noted Heiltsuk artist Chief Robert Bell. 

His work blends graffiti art with traditional formline (the term formline refers to the continuous swelling and tapering lines that unite design units in Northwest Coast Indigenous art. It is one of the most distinct characteristics of Haida two-dimensional and three-dimensional art, painting as well as carving) and Heiltsuk language and meaning to create a style of his own.

 

Clinton Work was born in 1975 in Campbell River, BC. He is of Kwakwaka’wakw descent. He began learning Kwakwaka’wakw art and history at a young age, studying early Kwak’wala language and applying traditional stories to his artwork in his childhood. During the 1990’s, he apprenticed with the Nanaimo-based artist Phil Ashbee, and worked with him to create a major installation for the Port Theater in 2000. In 2005, he trained with the Saulteaux artist Kelvin Thompson who taught him how to carve silver and gold. Clinton continues to create some of the most interesting and unique jewelry in the Northwest.

Next generation art?

I am not even going to pretend I know anything about AI or how the images are created. I follow many artist on Instagram creating them, it seems they use Midjourney AI. If I have the bandwidth, I might download and see what it is all about. 

Hilke Muslim  

Helen Breznik  

AI Next Generation 

Glamoph

These are not photographs or photoshopped. These are computer generated images with a list of requirements are visual parameters. I know, I am baffled too. 

The Midjourney Bot breaks down the words and phrases in a prompt into smaller pieces, called tokens, that can be compared to its training data and then used to generate an image. A well-crafted prompt can help make unique and exciting images.

 

Dinged out on Dunkers!

Weeks just floated by! My SIL has been here and we have been busy visiting, going places, with the girls, shopping. It was great having her here. We laughed a lot, drank hot chocolate and ate Trader Joe's DUNKERS until we were sick. We watched all the TV she doesn't get at home ... binge-watching. We took edibles (small doses) one night, that didn't turn out so great and have vowed never to do that again. She left yesterday and I came home and flopped down on the sofa. Murphy and I had a power struggle over who was going to take a nap there!

This morning I caught up with all of my political silliness that I neglected the last couple of weeks. And today I have a lot to catch up on being Jan 6th and all. Reading comments from the idiot citizens about how mistreated trump has been, j6 political prisoners and more nonsense. There is SO much to catch up on, the fortune teller on Jesse Waters, Trump's lawyer saying ON NATIONAL TV that Kavanaugh would let trump stay on the ballot, hearing speaker Mike owning up to the fact they want Biden of fail no matter what.

 

   

No one seems to get that I need this every day. To read it, to be reminded, not to forget, to remind others that we are in a war right now, a moral dilemma of the most urgent nature. I don't expect anyone else to rant on about it, I will gladly do it until trump is safely IN JAIL. But don't ask me to stop! (My kids don't understand). David understood completely where I was coming from and supported me. He couldn't rant on because of his position at the newspaper.

 

 

I have not really even gone through my Christmas treasures again since they were lovingly set in the bedroom. Time to clean, do dishes, TAKE A SHOWER, make returns!

I am thinking of crawling into bed later today with a Hallmark Crossword Mystery Movie.

 

Feeling small in a bigger world.