Yes it is my birthday.
Testing the post into the future option!
Real Estate developoments! Moves.
We are in the process of getting a new venue for the Horse Riding. We have a plan of moving ro a beautiful little valley site about 10 K past Tai Tapu – near the Blue Duck Café – (was Black Tulip)
To make all this happen we are selling two properties in Christchurch.
A 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom Apartment in Hagley Avenue its on Trade Me looks good.
We also have one in Nicholls Street in Shirley. It is for sale and for rent! Trade Me CRT
Kate and I have been working hard, to make sure we are doing the right thing. And yes, Parkhill will be a great place for us. I’ll post some picks up of this romantic new place!
The places we are selling have absorbed a lot of our time & energy they look good! They are priced very realistically, to suit this market.
Afghanistan – not a good war – gathering some info.
I am figuring out why the hell we, New Zealand is in Afghanistan. Why it seems almost secret that we are there. Why Obama wants to escalate the war. Some links in no particular order.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hallinan.php?articleid=13242
By any measure, a military “victory” in Afghanistan is simply not possible. The only viable alternative is to begin direct negotiations with the Taliban, and to draw in regional powers with a stake in the outcome: Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, China, and India.
But to do so will require abandoning our “story” about the Afghan conflict as a “good war.” In this new millennium, there are no good wars.
Look at this link if you have a good stomach for atrocity.
Phil Goff 2005 on why we are there – he calls it Peace keeping – sounds like double talk to me. The news today about civilian deaths.
I was hoping to find more from the Greens. Its all a bit stale, and the upshot is that our involment is a token. there is this. And Keith Lock’s original opposition to the war in 2001. And his comments on rebellion of the New Zealand SAS make interesting reading! Here, and here.
Ok, it may be that New Zealand can keep out of the worst of it, but it is there alonside an invader. The are complicit even if the SAS has rebelled. I wonder what the deeper story is – who rebelled, what do they say now?
Scoop has a recent Govt press release.
Gwynne Dyer: Afghanistan – A war won and lost London Journalist via the New Zealand Herald – also last years, but has some analysis.
Doing a bit of social networking
Circles
Lisa Rivas has written a great post about my work. Thank you Lisa.
She found some info I wrote about doing circles as a child. Thousands of small yellow circles they were. I was about 6. Day after day I did circles and coloured them yellow. I don’t colour them all the same, but I still do circles! As both images in Lisa’s post show!
Some collaboration with Lisa is brewing… watch this space. Also Note that I have updated my Artists links in the sidebar.
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Thinking about circles and the Zen of circles I got going on a few more. Did lots, saved two.
Circle
Larger Image.
Another follows:
Reflections: Blog & Gallery
Presenting my work is more on my mind right now than making it. Not as much fun, but presentation floats to the top, unbidden. I am thinking about both the world and online. I’ll focus on the latter.
I have changed the name of this blog to “Walter Logeman: Art” with the subtitle In this moment… My art Blog” the reason is clarity. It is still the same blog, I am still “In this moment…” and it is still, as it says on the About Page:
Nothing but art, artists, art talk, art history, art philosophy, pictures and projects. Most of my work and work-in-progress is on this blog.
The clarity seems right because I am working on a Gallery. If you go there now (as I write this) you will see it is heavily under construction.
With the Gallery I can post exhibits, and show work that is complete. Series. Simple. More stable. I sometimes refine an image I have already blogged as I present them to other sites. I will focus on quality.
You can sub to the Gallery in RSS and watch progress and then see updates as they happen including my fumblings. Better still sub to this blog’s RSS, I will announce all Gallery news here as well.
The first things to be shown there will be my Earth Crosses, of course. Next FLAX.
Psyberspace Podcast – Reviews & reflections on success gurus
A mix of stuff in this 35 min podcast.
Psyberspace Podcast 19 May 2008
Review: Digital Art Studio – Techniques for combining Inkjet Printing with traditional media Amazon
Reflection: “limited editions” in the digital medium.
Review: The Brief Wonderous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. Loved it. Amazon
Review: New Dimensions Podcast – Innovate Like Edison
This is followed by some thoughts about success gurus.
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Covers:
More Patterns
Plagiarism
Birds
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Blatant plagiarism from a William Morris postcard. The difference is that mine is all sketchy, and that there are a million of these on the card pattern.