Archive for May, 2008

artiodactyla camelidae

30May08

Today I am drawing camels, inspired by Picasso. Someone close to me likes camels and we are celebrating their completion of a big milestone.
So, congratulations are in order. You know who you are, well done!


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velvet faith

26May08

I am reading Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis at the moment; a book recommended to me. First, I find it interesting because of the literary style – it seems very “30 second commercial” type of language. The statements are short and to the point, and they don’t flow together. Not that the book is incohesive and [...]


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subversive continued

23May08

A comment yesterday got me thinking further than just “how would our lives change if we didn’t have personal cars”. Fae’s comment got me thinking – how much would we change as a society if we were forced to take communal transport? Whether that is mass transit, or subsidized carpooling…
Originally, I was thinking internally, as [...]


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hooray

22May08

Time for a change – I changed the theme today. Now it is a bit easier to read. I don’t like all the white, however, but the layout and text colors are good…


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subversive addiction

22May08

Here is a really interesting article from drive55.org about (North) American addiction to automobiles. I am presently sitting and thinking about how vastly different our society and culture would be without the personal auotomobile. What if individuals were forbidden from owning or otherwise possessing an automobile (of any sort)? What would happen to economy? How [...]


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news desk

18May08

I am back from an extended absence. I didn’t post for the last 2 months as I had a bunch of stuff going on that kept me from this site. Suffice it to say that it is now over and I hope to be putting my drivel back on this page in a more regular [...]


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